Although the UA’s football program is currently plunging deep into the “abyss”, Baylor’s Coach Matt Rhule is an example that the UA can turn it around with the right hire.
Matt Rhule had a pair of 10-win seasons at Temple including a victory over PSU. Once hired at Baylor, he went 1-11, 6-6 to currently 10-1 with an overtime loss to OU.
Granted, Baylor has a ton of local D-1 talent available which Arkansas doesn’t have and Baylor doesn’t compete in the SEC West. But Arkansas is the only Power Five school in the state of Arkansas and can recruit with the lure of playing in the SEC.
Bottom line, as Baylor’s Matt Rhule has proved, the right hire can bring the UA out of the abyss and back to prosperity.
Big 12 is a good conference. More competitive top to bottom than the SEC West which has LSU, Alabama, and then everyone else. Heck, even Alabama has zero top 25 wins this year.
A whole lot of that has to do with them playing the upper half of the SEC. At the end of the year every conference will have a .500 composite record for conference games.
Except for us & Vanderbilt, every SEC team has a winning record against non-conference competition. And even we & Vandy have .500 records against non-conference competition.
Baylor has been good, but I’m skeptical of just how good. Baylor did not play any power conference teams out of conference this year, and the Big 12 has a losing record against other power conferences. I think that is why you see Baylor middle of the pack in the playoff rankings despite being a one-loss team.
Regardless, Rhule gets credit for an incredible turnaround. Most seem to think his next stop is the NFL.
Clearly facts are too much for your inflated opinion of the SEC. Obviously it is a great conference, but to say that it is so much better than the other P5 conferences is just silly.