It seems that sufficient Arkansas followers watched Ken Burns’ new documentary, “The American Revolution,” to get into the spirit of demonstrating on the streets.
After experiences early Sunday morning indicated that Arkansas was set to rent Ryan Silverfield as the following head coach of the Razorbacks, a small group of UA devoted — about 30 individuals, per Little Rock’s KARK 4 Information — obtained collectively on the Jerry and Gene Jones Household Scholar Athlete Success Middle on the campus of the College of Arkansas to protest the rent.
Followers introduced indicators that stated “Hearth Yurachek”, referring to Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek and wore paper luggage over their heads in the course of the small “protest” that ended simply earlier than 1 p.m. CT Sunday.
Why are Arkansas followers upset?
On Wednesday, a report from Arkansas radio host Trey Schaap indicated that Alex Golesh was set to turn out to be the following Head Hog. However on Sunday, Golesh was employed by Auburn. The announcement of Silverfield’s hiring at Arkansas got here shortly after it was reported that Golesh was going to be employed at Auburn.
Silverfield had a decent 50-25 document at Memphis in six seasons, however not like Golesh, who needed to rebuild a South Florida program that received 4 video games from 2020-22, Silverfield was handed the keys to a Memphis program that hadn’t received fewer than eight video games since 2013.
Throughout Silverfield’s time at Memphis, the Tigers by no means made the AAC championship sport. In his final season in Memphis, Silverfield did handle to beat the Razorbacks 32-31 on Sept. 20, however regressed to 8-4 after profitable 10 and 11 video games, respectively, in 2023 and 2024.
Silverfield has but to show that he can resurrect a program, which is what he’ll be tasked with doing at Arkansas. The Razorbacks have not had a profitable season in Southeastern Convention play since 2015 and have not received double-digit video games since 2011.
