Not true. He coached at Arkansas 5 years and didn't get it done. That will never be a ****** job. If you think Iowa State is looked at as a better job than Arkansas you are crazy. Now that does not mean they can pull any coach out there. It's not Alabama or Ohio State but it's a damn good job. Guessing Wisconsin fans were not thinking it was a good enough job to rip their coach from them at the time.
Arkansas is an OK job. Maybe the years of sucking have tempered expectation, but considering what Nutt accomplished there and the immediate pressure to get rid of him while still being good is ridiculous. Completely unreasonable expectations and delusion.
It's great that they are the only Power conference team in the state. It produces decent talent, but compared to the South and SEC it's definitely on the low end of the spectrum. They also need to figure out new recruiting territory. They were able to maintain their DFW and East Texas territory for a long time after leaving the SWC for the SEC because they were good. Now that they've sucked for years and are so far removed from that region in terms of conference affiliation those regions have dried up for them and are owned by the Big 12 and LSU.
So Arkansas could be a good job, but someone's got an uphill battle.
Bottom line, Campbell has "outgrown" jobs like Arkansas and MSU. Who's a better candidate as a young coach out there if you are a destination job in college football? If he wants a top 10 job in CFB, he'll be able to get it when he's ready and an opportunity opens up in the next few years, and he can do it straight from ISU. Maybe he'd want to go to a place like MSU or Arkansas, but it would be because he wants that as a destination, not because he has to do it in able to get to one of the blueblood job. So in the meantime, why go try to rebuild Arkansas or semi-rebuild MSU? For at least the next two years ISU is better positioned to win their conference than either of those.
