The University of Arkansas has announced the hiring of SMU coach Chad Morris to coach the Razorback football team. He'll be paid $3.5 million a year (compared with the $4.2 million made by sixth-year coach Bret Bielema) and be eligible for other incentives in the six-year contract.
The on-line sports world has concluded that SMU football coach Chad Morris is going to be the next football coach at the University of Arkansas and that an announcement is expected today.
ESPN says Bret Bielema's severance for firing as Razorback football coach could approach $11.8 million, for a total of more than $19 million in potential guarantees to him, fired Athletic Director Jeff Long and Bielema's assistant coaches.
Here's the Saturday night open line. And, to no one's surprise, Bret Bielema was fired minutes after the Hogs' season-ending loss to Missouri as the head football coach.
The expected change in leadership of the Razorback football team comes with the usual financial complications — both reaching a deal with the new coaches and settling up with the old ones.
The news at the University of Arkansas isn't about where the Razorbacks play football but who will coach them and who will lead the athletic department.Change is coming.
Razorback football coach Bret Bielema announced today that quarterback Cole Kelley had been suspended indefinitely following his arrest over the weekend on a DWI charge.
Cole Kelley, the Louisiana native Razorback quarterback who saw limited playing time in the Hogs' loss yesterday in Baton Rouge, was booked into the Washington County jail on this morning and charged with suspicion of driving while intoxicated.