Dan Enos had been on the offensive side of the football as a coach for about 25 of his 30 years as a college football coach.
Accordingly, the packages he ran as offensive coordinator were chock full of plays. Per Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman, there too many plays, in fact. The shrinking of the playbook is likely what will change most now that Enos has been relieved of his job, replaced by Kenny Guiton, who is shifting from wide receivers coach to quarterbacks and will take over play-calling duties.
“We’re trying to eliminate some of the volume that we have offensively,” Pittman said. “Obviously it was important that we stayed in-house so we wouldn’t have a lot of terminology and things.”
Pittman believes Arkansas can get things trimmed over the course of the next week-and-a-half before its next game against Florida so that the Razorbacks will give themselves a chance to still reach a bowl. Arkansas needs to win all four of its remaining games to reach .500, the qualification mark for bowl eligibility.
“We’ve got to give our kids a chance to win,” Pittman said. “It just seems that nothing never came easy for us this year. We’ve got to do some things differently. One of it is cut down the volume that we have.”