Sam Pittman comments on change at Arkansas

The seat had heat before the season ever started. Now, with his Arkansas Razorbacks losers of three-straight games, head coach Sam Pittman is facing increased questions about his status and potential changes to the program. 

Saturday, in front of sell-out, striped-out crowd inside Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Arkansas was humiliated by visiting Notre Dame, 56-13, in a game that somehow wasn't even as close across its final 35 minutes as that final score might indicated.

The Irish, who entered the contest at just 1-2 with losses at Miami and home against Arkansas's fellow SEC resident, Texas A&M, turned their 14-10 second-quarter lead into a laugher by outscoring the host Hogs 42-3 during the game's final 38-plus minutes.

After the game, the embattled Pittman was asked multiple times about the potential for change within his Arkansas program. Fans loudly and often booed to voice their displeasure with the Razorbacks in what stats showed was one of the four-worst losses all-time for the home team in the nearly 90-year-old home stadium.

"I mean, A., I understand. I get it. If I was a fan, I'd be mad at me, too," a morose Pittman told reporters. "I'd be frustrated as hell with me. But, here's what I'll say, as long as I'm the head coach at Arkansas, I'm going to fight my butt off to get the guys out there and how long that is ... it is partly up to me because of what we put on the field. 

"But, that's not my call. And if I'm worried about that all the time, I won't be able to do as good of a job as I possibly can. But, I will say this, if I was the fans I'd be mad at me, too. Hell, I'm mad at me, to be perfectly. honest."

Additionally, Pittman was asked about potential personnel changes -- both on the field and to his coaching staff -- in the aftermath of the team's third-straight loss but the single-worst defeat of Pittman's six-year tenure at Arkansas. The 43-point blowout-loss eclipsed a 38-point loss to Auburn two years ago and a 37-0 loss at then-No. 2 Georgia three years ago. 

"Possibly. You know, I've got some time to think about some things and, uh, possibly," said Pittman.

He was asked again moments later by a reporter in the post-game press conference about changes to staff or the lineups. The Razorbacks are off next weekend before trying to halt their three-game losing skid at nationally ranked Tennessee. 

"I don't know. Let me see ... let me see ... the game got over, what, 20 minutes ago?,'" Pittman said. "Listen, we owe it to everybody to put the best product out there. And, so, there's a lot of things that come in play with that."