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It's almost as if Bobby Stoops handed lil Lincoln the keys to a healthy program or something. Similar to the dude taking over at Michigan, Riley never had to rebuild anything and didn't even have to introduce himself to current players.

The Bert problem in a nutshell at Arkansas. Bielema had a heck of a pedigree on paper. Rose bowl appearance, Big 10 titles, consistent big win seasons. It was like we were stealing him from Wisconsin!

And... it turned out that Barry Alvarez was not only the guy who had built the program that Bert got to coach, he was also still the guy running that program and we weren't getting Barry Alvarez. We also overlooked the many rumors coming out of Wisconsin that Bert was a problem drinker and average game day coach.

So we got Bert. The worst coach to last 5 years in Arkansas history. Followed by Chad Morris, the single worst coach in Arkansas history. Pittman is probably going to go down in history as being a thoroughly average at best Arkansas coach but considering what he was handed I can work with that. At least whoever replaces him won't have had the program burned to the ground.

If USC isn't careful they could find themselves falling into that trap. Because they only keep the good PAC 10 teams on their schedule and add in a bunch of decent to really good Big 10 teams.