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Pittman spoke with ESPN’s Holly Rowe about his time at Georgia during the Broyles Award ceremony on Thursday. Pittman, who earned semifinalist status for the award with the Bulldogs in 2018, spoke highly of his time in Athens and what it meant for the rest of his career.
“I loved every second of it. It gave me an opportunity to see things that I hadn’t before like, you know, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl and the national championship opportunity to go there. I hadn’t ever experienced that before,” Pittman said. “Kirby is a great coach and gave me an opportunity to go over there. And then, because of that, I was [given the] opportunity to be the head coach at Arkansas.
“But, you know, it’s just like all these guys here. I’m indebted to Kirby because of what he was able to do for my career.”
Kirby needs to become Kirby Corleone and make Sam an offer he can’t refuse.
Like, now.
Play it again Sam! The door is open!!
Rick Pitino “Dat guy ain’t walkin’ back troo dat door”‘
Sam’s coaching career is sleeping with the fishes methinks….
Only his head coaching career is dead (and it was unexpected that he even got a head coaching job when he did). I’m sure that he could get an O-Line coaching job if he wanted one. The only question would be…does he want one?
IIRC, speculation was when he left UGA was he would retire after the Arkansas job was over. He had supposedly bought a house on a lake out there.
I’m thinking that was the retirement plan all along. Big HC contract at a place he was never going to last more than a few years anyway…or wanted to…then go fishing.
As long as Jimmy Sexton and contract buyouts exist, this will always be the plan unless you are just uber passionate about the program you’re running.