Has Stan done enough???

[Mr. Porkleone]

did this save his job or will the last 5 years be looked at....

[cal34]

I think they should keep him

[Mr. Prozac]

Ahhhhh. The $64,000 question.

[Hogtropolis™]

I think they should keep him

+1

[carhog]

We are winning in spite of stan not because of him

[Hog Fan from Camden]

One more win, I think!

[polandhog]

he's here.  rumor is it was announced we would play the NIT with stan as coach had we lost.........

[Boner]

I think he's won enough to not be fired and have a coaching search.  Ifa top coach actually wants the job, and we know that, then we can still let him go.

But I don't see us firing him without 100% knowing a top coach would be replacing him.

[longtimeHogfan]

Personally, and I am by no means an expert, I think he could be as close to the precipice as I've ever seen any coach, anywhere.  The team is showing more chemistry than they have all year and they're jelling at exactly the right moment. 

One more SECT win could see them make it into the big one and even a loss, now, with some other 'bubble' teams helping out, we still might make it. 

If we manage to make it to the dance, even if we were to go one and done, I think Stan stays another year.  If we don't, he's at the edge....too close to call.

[football17]

y'all, he still has to make the NCAA tournament. The NIT stuff means nothing. Lose tomorrow and he's still likely gone. He may be anyway regardless.

[Hollywood_HOGan]

did this save his job or will the last 5 years be looked at....

this probably did not save his job for sure but if BG and BS dont say yes, then coach Heath will still be here.

If we win tomorrow i think he deserves to keep it.

[ChrisD]

Stan is on the verge. Fact is he was 5 years away from being qualified for this job when he got it. 
If we keep him, I am sure we will be good next year, and he will have a basis for a great recruiting year. I have this feeling that he is about to make a serious run of about five years that will rival anything we have seen so far at Arkansas. JMHO no facts,

[Hogpuddin]

Stan is on the verge. Fact is he was 5 years away from being qualified for this job when he got it. 
If we keep him, I am sure we will be good next year, and he will have a basis for a great recruiting year. I have this feeling that he is about to make a serious run of about five years that will rival anything we have seen so far at Arkansas. JMHO no facts,

I agree with Chris D.  Stan was still a rookie head coach with one year's experience when he came here.  I think that he will only improve (what else can he do?).  We should keep him with this talent at least one more year.

Now had we lost.....

[hogfan47]

 Yes he has for one more year.
the last of his contract if i am not mistaken

[slopinhogs]

no if he beats Miss ST. tomorrow his contract is safe.

[AFWarrior83]

Really how is it that Heath can get canned for recruiting top classes and having wining seasons, and Nutt stays after finishing towards the bottom of recruiting and never wining any big games in 9 years? Does Arkansas just feel that bball is more important to win than football? I don't keep up with bball as much as football myself. I just don't understand how Nutt gets to stay if not for his lousy job performance, all the BS that happened this winter....

[ChrisD]

Lets take a Nutt Break Please!!!

[M6]

I hope they do look at the last 5 years. Remember those first 3 years when the seats where empty. Remember the downward spiral that Nolan team was in when he left us. Stan was the only fan cheering for the hogs back then. He keep working and working. He keep cheering and recruiting for the hogs. He put this team back together. Don't pretend he's done nothing to this point. His first job was to turn it around. His second task was to get back to the NCAA and we did. Now we look to be going back again. He's done enough in the first 3 years to get another year.

[Porquemada]

Yes he has for one more year.
the last of his contract if i am not mistaken

2011.

[HairyHog]

I'm jumping off the Fire Stand Wagon.  Even if we don't make it to the NCAAT, he deserves another year for the way he has coached the last 4 games.

[Hog in MO]

For the first time I can remember in Stan's tenure, this team didn't fold in a tight game at the end.  Time after time, we've watched them fold when they had a chance to pull out a close one, but not today.  I don't know if this is a turning point - I've been fooled so many times before that its hard to get over my skepticism.  I think Stan might have saved his job today - at least for one more year. I'm still undecided on whether he's going to be able to take the program to the level we expect, but I'm rooting for him.  At least I can say I'm excited about basketball for the first time in a while. 

[dmac_iz_kin]

no. in case you hhave not been watching this season Heath is a terrible coach. Those boys started playing after they learned he was gonna be gone next year. I hope to God Heath steps aside on his own b/c Ptb are too stupid to get rid of him ,even if he makes the tourny

[tmorph84]

DO you guys forget the 8000 fans we had for the miss. st. game at home this year. Donn't try to tell me that he is on the verge of a mystical run after a freakin four game winning streak! If Bill Gillespie wants the job Stan is out.

[mbgrulz]

i refuse to let 4 games influence a decision that has built up for 5 years.

[hoggystyle78]

IMO Stan deserves at least one more year, 20 wins, good recruiting classes, and the man just screams class, a wonderful ambassador for the UofA. KEEP GOING STAN, ALL THE WAY TO THE NCAAs BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :razorback: :razorback: :razorback:

[N HOG]

I can't imagine ANYONE calling Stan Heath into a room and telling him he's fired while watching Dale walking carefree down the hall to his office in his velvet jump suit and straw hat.

[rbbarker]

Yes...I'd like 2 see what he does with his seniors...

[Dugann]

I don't know even if we make the ncaa atm don't know if he stays but i do think that regardless if he is fired he just got him self another good job somewhere.... think that he has done.

[dmac_iz_kin]

IMO Stan deserves at least one more year, 20 wins, good recruiting classes, and the man just screams class, a wonderful ambassador for the UofA. KEEP GOING STAN, ALL THE WAY TO THE NCAAs BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :razorback: :razorback: :razorback:

Attendance has constantly gone down b/c of Heath.  its not about 20 wins or good recruiting its about building a 19,200 seat arena and having 5k people in the stands when you use to sell out every home game

[N HOG]

IMO Stan deserves at least one more year, 20 wins, good recruiting classes, and the man just screams class, a wonderful ambassador for the UofA. KEEP GOING STAN, ALL THE WAY TO THE NCAAs BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :razorback: :razorback: :razorback:

Aren't you supposed to be on the radio now, Chuck?



Attendance has constantly gone down b/c of Heath.  its not about 20 wins or good recruiting its about building a 19,200 seat arena and having 5k people in the stands when you use to sell out every home game

[CheeZ_PuFF]

one more win and Arkansas is in Big Dance

[Hogpuddin]

i refuse to let 4 games influence a decision that has built up for 5 years.

You should be a football PTB on "The Hill." 

[Mr. Porkleone]

was a nice summary of bud walton over the stan years....Has gone for sellouts to 14K average...

I think Stan is graded on that, and not what happens tomorrow.

Lose and Stan's out...

[tmorph84]

Imagine what we could do with Bill Gillispie at the helm next year, Bud Walton would be rockin!!!

[NuttinItUp]

Yes he has done enough., Did you even see the game today???!?

[Immensehog]

It's done.

He's here another year, and we'll be having this same discussion when we are
a bubble team next year.

What are you gonna do?

[go hogues]

Even if we get to the big dance and lose to a Bucknell-esque team, what has ANY of this proven?  I hope they take a long hard look at whether they should retain him or not.
Regardless though, I am one proud Hog fan tonight.

[tmorph84]

We'll be talkin' about how we could have gotten Gillispie when we had the chance.

[mbgrulz]

i refuse to let 4 games influence a decision that has built up for 5 years.

You should be a football PTB on "The Hill." 

i guarantee you that we'd be looking forward to seeing what a new football coach could do with DMAC, and wondering who we were going to hire for basketball if i were up there.

[Hogpuddin]

i refuse to let 4 games influence a decision that has built up for 5 years.

You should be a football PTB on "The Hill." 

i guarantee you that we'd be looking forward to seeing what a new football coach could do with DMAC, and wondering who we were going to hire for basketball if i were up there.

You would have my support.

[ark30inf]

was a nice summary of bud walton over the stan years....Has gone for sellouts to 14K average...

I think Stan is graded on that, and not what happens tomorrow.

Lose and Stan's out...

Yeah, I think the bar is probably higher for the PTB than it is even for us fans.  Its all about the money and the only way he keeps it is if they think what he is doing RIGHT NOW will put butts in the seats. next year.  NCAA win will probably be enough I figure.

[mbgrulz]

i really have a feeling that we are going to be easier to appease than the PTB on stan. they have obviously started the ball rolling, and they will be disappointed if they have to stop.

i also think JFB really wants to finish on a high note. he wants to be remembered for bringing in 3 coaches who all went to final 4's. he wants to end on doing something the fans like instead of the whole HDN debacle.

[jolicious]

My take (for what it's worth):
Keep him.  I don't know what's he's done or said, but he's got the young men confident in EACH OTHER.....  They are finally playing like a team.  He's got the talent on the floor, and is now getting them all on the same page.  It's coming together.  And, I really believe that next year is when we cut the "Big Nets" down.

[hogninja]

First of all, we all have to agree that the first 2 years were a wash.  Not his fault, not our fault, just too bad.  In the last 3 years, we could possibly be in the NCAA tourney in 2 of those IF we get in this year.  SO, in light of HDN having a 2 year pass in 04 and 05, If we give SH a 2 year pass on his first two years (not his fault), then how can you retain HDN after last years debacle when SH has acted in such a class manner EVEN AFTER the LEAK that is still not verified by the sneaky hill crowd?  It just burns my A$$ that there is a deliberate and most visual "double standard".  God bless the fact that we are getting a new AD (I still praise his accomplishments), maybe there will be a new sanity to the madness I see now.
I just hope that the "burn and salt" attitude this year doesn't destroy the entire program. :razorback:

[HoggusMaximus]

After all the ups and downs this season I will be the first to admit that I was ready for Stan heath to be fired.... but after seeing the emotion those players left out on the coart and how hard they played for that man I say let him keep the job.

[owl]

For what it is worth----   Owl believes we should Keep Stan and Boot the HUTE. SECT emotion make me  just plain proud to be a Hogs alum.Hute makes me feel  and 

[OKC]

I kind of think if the line was drawn at "make the tourney and save your job" then they should stand by that. Now saying that, I am rooting for stan to save his job. In the back of my mind though, i keep thinking that it's going to be more of the same next year but with a little bit better players...yeah, so basically i'm torn but I always seem to pull for the underdog.

[Pork Twain]

Not until he can at least win one game in the NCAA.  I am tired of the Hogs being an also ran...

[hawgsav1]

I agree. However, this was supposedly a slightly rebuilding year and the bar was drawn for heath to make the tourney and I agree that if the bar was set there then he should be allowed to stay. I don't support Heath and I haven't done so for a little while. I DO support the Hogs and regardless of whomever is at the helm so I must say, I felt good today despite stan. i unequivocally will always support the Hogs. That being said I think that Arkansas needs to get to at least 21-22 wins to get into the tourney, which means a win over MSU and possibly in the SECT title game is necessary. 

[George S. Pigton]

Well, I think this team is winning for Stan, not because of him.  That being said, if he makes
the Tourney, they have to keep him.  If that is the deal, they need to stand by him just like
the did Nutt and his two year pass.  Now, I think he actually needs to win one in the tourney
to keep his job but, I'm sure that is wishful thinking.  It seems that last year they were so
happy to just make it they had no emotion against Bucknell and I'm a little worried about that
today.  If they lose today, not a sure thing that they are in just yet.  Need a win today.

Maybe some other Big-10 team will fire their coach and think Stan has done a wonderful job
here and take him away.  That would be best for everyone!