For much of the last couple years, Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman has drawn regular comparisons to Mike Anderson from Razorback faithful fed up with the team’s shortcomings.
As the team again and again tripped and fell into the pavement, the complaints came steady as a drumbeat:
“Sam is simply Mike 2.0.”
“He’s done his job bringing the program back from the John Pelphrey/Chad Morris depths. Now it needs to go to the next guy.”
And, of course, this golden oldie:
“He’s too nice.”
Pittman’s still pretty nice, of course. In the aftermath of Arkansas’ enormous home win over then No.