Like any fan, all I can say is that I hope so; Pelphrey is already the second coach we've had since Nolan Richardson's departure. Actually the third, if you count Dana Altman's one or two day tenure.

I just really don't know. We were fortunate to have a couple of really good coaches (Sutton, Richardson) who were at Arkansas at the high point of their careers. This was over the course of twenty-odd years. Those guys each had "systems" that simply worked. Eddie's in-your-face man-to-man defense was something you could count on, Nolan's "forty minutes of hell" looked like chaos, but it wore the opponent out, time after time. And they each knew how to recruit the players that could get the job done.

I look at the coaches we've had since Nolan (Pelphrey and Stan Heath), and I don't think there's any one thing they do particularly well. I hate to say that, but that's the way it seems to me. Like most fans, I'm tired of waiting for "next year." The sad thing is, the fan support isn't 1/100th what it used to be. Winning cures that, of course. We'll see how it goes.