Why not? Out of the box hire

[HVHog]

Venables as Head Coach and Norvell or Morris as OC?  Pay the HC $4M and the OC $2-2.5M and have a great team of recruiters versus all the emphasis in one guy.

[JONAS]

Norvell or Morris will not come to be a coordinator.

[rzrbackramsfan]

Venables as Head Coach and Norvell or Morris as OC?  Pay the HC $4M and the OC $2-2.5M and have a great team of recruiters versus all the emphasis in one guy.

Sounds good!

[Arkansas Fan]

I'd take Norvell as HC and OC with Venables as DC and pay him 1.5 mill and gets to choose the other defensive staff.

[go hogues]

So make a guy who's never been a HC the boss and the guys who have been...his subordinates?

TF do you guys come up with this stuff?

[Hogarusa]

Hahaha, super idea

[qbrew]

I doubt Norvell would move from a head coach on the rise, to an OC  on someone elses team. And I would think a HC would want to choose their own staff.

[NotSoFastMyFriend]

Venables as Head Coach and Norvell or Morris as OC?  Pay the HC $4M and the OC $2-2.5M and have a great team of recruiters versus all the emphasis in one guy.

The crack pipe - drop it.

[redeye]

I doubt Norvell would move from a head coach on the rise, to an OC  on someone elses team. And I would think a HC would want to choose their own staff.

Unless he really wants to be the Arkansas coach one day and is willing to wait his time.

I think it's more likely we'd see Morris as HC and Venables as DC, because they're close friends and Venables may want to move closer to home.  Morris even lived in Venables house for a while.

[HVHog]

The subordinate thing happens all the time in all different levels of coaching.  Still would cost less than what we were going to pony up for malzahn.  Venables has been on 5 NC staffs, ive read.  I would imagine he's qualified.  Lets do something noone else is doing.

[ShadowHawg]

Jimmy Dykes was an outside of the box hire.

[HVHog]

Norvell has only been a head coach for 2 years.  Enos did it and doubled his pay in the process.  Can't say Norvell wouldn't also for the right $, plus he wants to be here.

[deedster84]

I'd take Morris as HC and his friend from Clemson, Venables, as DC. Morris has the HC experience and that would leave Venables with only the defense to worry about and not the politics of HC'ing.

[ricehog43]

Jimmy Dykes was an outside of the box hire.

Jimmy Freaking Dykes

[redeye]

The subordinate thing happens all the time in all different levels of coaching.  Still would cost less than what we were going to pony up for malzahn.  Venables has been on 5 NC staffs, ive read.  I would imagine he's qualified.  Lets do something noone else is doing.

I wouldn't say no one else is doing it.  Off the top of my head, Dabo and Smart were assistants at Alabama and Herman was an assistant at tOSU.  Everyone has to get their start somewhere.

[HogPharmer]

Unless he really wants to be the Arkansas coach one day and is willing to wait his time.

I think it's more likely we'd see Morris as HC and Venables as DC, because they're close friends and Venables may want to move closer to home.  Morris even lived in Venables house for a while.

I think they could probably both afford their own houses now. Regardless of any positions taken.

[redeye]

I think they could probably both afford their own houses now. Regardless of any positions taken.

Yea, I imagine they're doing okay... 

I actually got that wrong, though.  Morris sold a house to Venables, but they probably never actually lived together.

[HOGINTENNESSEE]

Well this was stupid

[HogPharmer]

Well this was stupid

As most things are on this board.