Arkansas' plans

Late last night we communicated with two representatives of Arkansas and this morning we have spoken with coaches involved in this process. Based on those interactions we feel highly confident in the following.

Discussions with Garrick McGee have ended. Representatives told us that Jeff Long has made the decision that having a full process after the season was better for all parties involved....adding that asking any current head coach to take this position at this time wasn't the right thing to do. 

Arkansas will stay in house, appointing one of their current assistants as interim head coach for this season. 

Arkansas has their Spring game on Saturday and then their assistants are on the road on Monday. Based on what we were told last night and the timing mentioned here, we're speculating that the announcement of the interim will occur at or after the Spring game (possibly as late as Monday; but we don't think they'll wait that long). 

Sources we have spoken with tell us that contrary to what others might be saying, the players and coaches have been quite focused this week and the staff feels that they have had an excellent past week of practice. The staff is very supportive of the decision to remain with an interim coach for the season and, as we told you days ago, is already considering possible candidates to fill the open assistant spot.