Arkansas Coach Gus Malzahn Says ” I’m Houston Nutt’s Puppet”
Gus Malzahn is a semi-successful SEC Offensive Coordinator. And by Coordinator, I mean he shakes a lot of hands and does a lot of standing around holding a clipboard. So much so in fact, that his players call him “The Puppet”. I didn’t know what that meant exactly until after the interview. I couldn’t resist sitting down with Gus, an Author, a Videographer, a master strategist and tactician to pick his brain. Two questions into the interview, I was already regretting my decision.
El brujo:
You’ve made a quite name for yourself in the High School Football world. What has made you so successful?
Gus: I make it a point to be a knowledgeable observer of a dynamic sport and I try to stay focused in this competitive landscape.
El brujo:
Not sure what that means, but ok. What do you think is the most important thing for a high school coach to make the transition to such a key and pivotal position in the uber-competetive SEC Conference?
Gus:
A dynamic coach must be able to harness their human capital to nurture a high performance winning culture. Without reactive synergy, they’re dead in the water. At Arkansas, most of all, an offensive coordinator is better seen and not heard. Coach Nutt has asked me to keep my mouth shut and really just stay the hell outta of the way. He is afraid that I am going to hurt myself or worse, hurt a player.
El brujo:
Of course he has. Watching you on the sidelines, one can see that you just might be in over your head. In your opinion Gus, what makes a good leader?
Gus:
I think that I am a good leader. I can see the 360 degree view at all times and always find the critical path to outpace the quagmire of sea of change. Do you think it shows that I am clueless during the game? I virtually have no input into the game preparations and Coach Nutt acts like he doesn’t hear or see me.
El brujo:
I don’t think you answered my question. Maybe you did. Whatever it really doesn’t matter. Tell me how do you approach recruiting and coaching?
Gus:
Easy. I just leverage Arkansas’s core competencies to productize our talents. The Mustain Recruitment was my best and only effort thus far. But, how could I screw that one up, the kid was my quarterback after all? Coach Nutt really felt not even I could not screw the pooch on that. Sure Mitch got a bit antsy because the Tebow kid was getting all of the publicity, and really it came down to my personal relationship with Mitch that kept him home. I will say that I was nervous; Coach Nutt threatened to fire me when Mustain started looking around but his trust in my ability left me feeling all warm and glowing on the inside, you know like the Purina High Pro Glow?
El brujo:
Productize isn’t a real word.
Gus:
It is now. But we can circle back to that later. It’ll be a win-win action item for both of us. As an example, Houston Nutt needed my quarterback, Mustain. So, he hires me as his coordinator and I give him Mustain. Win-Win. Sure, I don’t do much, but I move around, carry this play chart (looking over his “chart” I realized that it contained his Ipod music playlists) and flash gang signs at the players and nobody is the wiser that I have no idea of what I am doing.
(Notice the first song on his playlist?)
El brujo:
I would remind you that I am running this interview – GUS. Now, how has technology changed the way that you coach?
Gus:
Technology is a shifting paradigm. Without scalable, cross-functional deliverables, most schools find themselves in the hot seat. Technology is mission critical. Just look at my highly successful Offensive Philosophy: Hurry Up No Huddle Beta and VHS Videos; I think I sold over 150 tapes the last 5 years. (Based on Gus’s uncertain employment “situation”, We linked his books and video from Amazon.com)
El brujo:
Does that mean you think it’s important?
Gus:
Soup to nuts psychographic peer review. Did you get it? The Soup to Nuts? Houston’s Nutts?
El brujo:
Fuck yeah, I got it you fucking simpleton. It was a yes or no question. Here is one you can answer: Is it normal to find your cousin attractive?
Gus:
That’s an out of the box proposition that will generate buzz and find the right influencers for my coaching services after Mustain graduates. I am afraid that after Mitch leaves Arkansas, Coach Nutt is going shit-can my ass. And the cousin thing? If she’s hot? Absolutely.
El brujo:
Now you’re just saying words.
Gus:
Core operating initiatives are right sizing executive planning alternatives.
El brujo:
Godammit! Just answer one fucking question with a real answer! You can’t, can you?!! YES or NO. Just try it.
Gus:
Thank you for onboarding me to dialogue with you. It was an impactful bio-break.
El brujo:
GRRRR. Goodbye.
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You fellers think you are pretty funny. Making fun of our high school coach?
Well, I don’t think you are funny
also, i just want to say what everybody already knows…razorbacks is the best.
all true hog fans just need to hold the rope, and we will get what we deserve. gus is the man, and he will lead us thru the wilderness and into the promised land as our dearly beloved broyles did – they are cut from the same cloth.
the obvious problem is that houston nutt is gay. am i the only one who can see this?
please stop saying arkansas can go undefeated! i can’t breathe!
there is is no i in team…and everyone needs to know that” – no, but there is is an ewok in teamwork. just remember that
we must protect our house! give Gus a raise!
go Puppet go
i just stumbled across this sight this morning. it’s great to see that the real u of a fans have some where to go so that we can show our feelings. it seems that i cannot agree any more with each one of the postings here. i’m sick and tired of what seems to be the whole college football realm being against the hogs. we have set the bar so high in this league, it seems everyone has turned against us. it seems like no one remembers our victories and only point out the losses. i dream of the day…….when the alum and boosters get tired of this crapand we turn this ship around and get back to where we should be right now…..in the #1 spot in the polls….bcs, coaches, ap, harris…….laundrymat in Little Rock……
one question: are all hog fans as illiterate as the ones posting here? i guess they’re more interested in “history” than reading and writing.
Gus is the best fourth quarter playcaller in northwest arkansas i’ve ever seen
Mitch Mustain
Don’t drop the ball
you guys are right on. Gus is f’ing great and we f’ing love him.
It is so small I can’t read anything but the headlines. How can I correct this?
Glad to see that a fan of an opposing school has this much time to ridicule a classy coach.
Gus is gonna get us there. we just got to hang in there a few more seasons and we’ll all see the geniusness he really has
I bought me those videos. Candles KY and Gus
Can you post his playlists? I want to hear the same music gus hears
Hogs! look up, your redemption draweth nigh! we still have hope! remember coach gus once said, “eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.” now that’s the attitude i’m talkin’ about! let’s quit fightin’ among ourselves. forgive the hog traitors. support coach gus. who cares if auburn was better. who cares if coach gus used to sniff jock straps. he’s paving the way for all ncaa coaches to follow his example!
Gus’s got the right bloodlines. he kinda reminds me of Broyles. our problem is Nutt…i mean, our top 22 are better than everyone’s. Mustain is a winner, man. he lays it on the line every saturday. just give gus time. he’ll overcome all this adversity and have us right back where we belong, on top! i think all them folks calling in to try to get rid of houston are just a bunch ofhorns who are scared of gus. everybody knows with a daddy like his, he’s got to be a great coach.
You Arkansas people are really weird. This is not even one of our better pieces
i say we give him another extension….to make sure we don’t lose him. when you get a coach like Gus, you have to do whatever it takes to lock him down for years to come. let’s make sure he stays until 2025…and even beyond! Because his books and videos suck, he can’t feed his family off of shit
just think how many championships we’ll have by then if he’s still here and continues our climb upward to the top of the college football world.
Guswill bring the hogs back to the glory years of our father and grandfathers. Sure we may not be a player nationally any longer but by God we almost had a bunch of National Championships years ago…just like the Bama, Vandy’s and Colgate’s and Army’s all of those teams use to be great centuries long gone.
I for one do not have a problem with Gus’s gold chain, tube socks and shorts, or f-bomb’s on tv. He is a Malzahn, a springdale kid…he is a natural winner.
The internet is wonderful until you see bullcrap like this. Florida has a butt whupping coming in about four weeks. After we take care of Tenn, Ms St. and LSU.
There’s just no way Gus Malzahn would say crap like that… Nutt and Malzahn actually have a very “special” relationship, something some people can’t stand.
I call bull shit on that crap… Gus Malzahns influence is all over this offense, and some are just too thick headed to see it… Gus is happy here and he wasn’t hired just to get Mustain.. That is typical of another fan to think, it’s just too easy.. It’s pretty pathetic if you ask me.. I’ve never heard Malzahn make comments like that so I call BS….
Can I get a copy of Gus’s Ipod playlist too? Here is my email:
Hawgnutz@oink.com
Thanks man
You Arkansas fans are dumb-asses. We make these things up, it is a FAKE interview. Geez, you are almost as bad as Tennessee Fans…almost
Hey Gus, We just scored again, sooie you fucking pigs sooie!!!
Hey Pigs, Thanks for helping me win that trophy last year
It’s all my fault. I suck. Hold the ball Mitch, hold it tight
I think Gus has the potential to fight back in the fround.
Hold it real tight!
I received this message from one of our contributors. He was threatened by an internet bully by the name of RazorBlast:
“do not ever post a message like that again..that was the most moronic post i have ever read..that was something that only folks with a extremely low IQ would post.”
Our response to this tuff guy is Fuck you pal, tongue our balls and blow it out your ass.
Clint Stoerner
Thanks for the stumble and the ball
In response to number 34, college football fans take this stuff seriously. If you post this stuff and aren’t prepared to receive an email or two from Arkansas fans that can’t take a joke, then don’t post it.
RazorBlast sounds like some of the homers we have around here though. I think some of em would actually take a bullet for Gus or Mustain.
BTW, if you want a really funny guy to “interview” from Arkansas, go with Casey Dick, our other QB. I’m sure you’ll have no problems coming up with material on that one.
Oh we are used to the SEC fanbase. We had some excellent shit on our old blog
“screw”ston nutt=arcuntsaw weirdness
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Check this link
http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/the-big-east-conference-plays-bubblegum-football/
hey if Houston Nutt is gay does that mean they can play in the toss the salad bowl? i think that’s about as close as they will get to a bowl game this year. even the weedeater bowl seems like a slim possibility at this point. in fact maybe they should start a new bowl in Little Rock and call it the Springdale bowl sponsored by Gus’s old school. The pigs can play Hoover High school. that should be a good match up. they may have a tough time selling out so they could sell advertising on the back of their jerseys. i’m sure McFadden can get chico’s bail bonds to put their logo on the backs of their jerseys.
two guys walk into a bar, one says give a me drink. the other says…umm…i forgot the rest of the joke, but Houston Nutt is gay.
This is the GAYEST site I’ve ever seen in my life!!!! Are you guys really tired of your own lives that you have to make shit up to stay amused? Get a fucking life!
Sara, did you need a copy of Gus’s IPOD playlist too?
Please go to Florida State – Please bring back the glory to the Seminole Nation and bring that great QB with you.
Coach Malzahn and Mustain transferring to FSU would not be tolerated by the Seminole Nation because their character and values might elevate the morales and ethics of that “great” university. Fuck you too Miami! I think you both should be put inside a pet taxi and duke it out!! Oh Yeah one more thing; The ACC SUCKS………..funny how adding those power teams from the Big East greatly enhanced the strength of the ACC……not. Now they know what it’s like to go to Duke and be content with a victory. Don’t get me started on Wake Forrest. What a fucking joke. The winner of the ACC deserves to play Hawaii. I think we all know who would win that game……….
I can’t wait until Miami plays in Boise Bowl or whatever crappy bowl we got invited too. ANyone see how far the Canes program has come this year? We rock!!! Did I mention that Tennessee beat Miami a couple of years ago? And Tennessee owns the overall series 2-1?
you want to say something El Bitcho?How’d you like to go home and tell your mommy that a simpleton from Arkansas just gave you the country ASS-WHOOPIN of a lifetime.
Davy Crockett? That is your best effort?
Thanks FISH FOR THE NICE FUMBLE, STUPID DICKHEAD. I was watching at a local bar rooting for Arkansas..
Destin, I am 92 miles from you, not that it matters. Was fish on the same weed as the Gator DL?
I’m a Razorback fan.. and I thought that piece was funny as hell…
Some people really need to remove the corncob from their ass and find a sense of humor..
Thanks Hog,
http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/college-football-blogger-awards-lwsboise-state/
Mama knows best
In a news release in December, the mother of Arkansas quarterback Mitch Mustain – Beck Campbell – yielded to Razorbacks coach Houston Nutt’s authority when it came to coaching the team.
“It was agreed by all parties involved that the head coach has the valid right to determine the direction of the program and the manner in which the team would develop,” she said in the statement.
What brought about this concession?
Less than a week after Arkansas wrapped a 10-win season with an appearance in the SEC Championship Game, parents of three Razorbacks freshmen apparently weren’t satisfied.
Malzahn is headed to TU, where he won’t be hogtied by Nuttsack and his freaking Murray St. Mafia. I can’t wait until a few years from now when he’s calling plays in a BCS bowl and Nutt is still fumbling around wondering how the decade passed him by without an SECC or a BCS bowl to speak of.
Tell me what the heck is going on in Fayetteville. I have been a hog fan forever and what is the story on the cell phone calls to the news reporter and Houston? What does that have to do with him being able to coach a football team. I would really just like to know what is going on, I live in Georgia and I don’t have access to the local news.
stacy
BTW, do you work with senior military officers?
http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-frank-broyles-legacy-continued/
i have not laffed this hard in a while!!!
GHG
sucks
We made a Huge Mistake letting Gus go to Tulsa, We Screwed him from the start, We made him Obey us, Me and my Nutt’s! Now some asshole is interviewing their -1″ Penis in Spanish, and saying that it is a real interview? The Facts are Me Coach Franklin Broyles and my Cronie Coach Houston Dale Nutts! Have given a very Talented Offensive Coord the Shaft, Once Again! Houston and I should be tried and Found guilty of being Total and Complete, Hard Headed isiots, Unwilling to accept the truth, No Matter How Obvious! Please Sentence Us to Life without Control over the U of A Program, Let us serve our Time at the U of Texas, and we will bring the Program of Texas to New Lows……….
Thanks , Your Ole Buddy!
Franklin Broyles
and his Wife Houston Dale Nutts…..
houston dale nutts
I’m serious.. hold it reallly tight
So if gus goes to a major college and is the OC for a natl championship team, and if Williams and Mustain dominate at USC (like they have this entire past year on the scout team), will anyone regret that we let a natl championship group slip through our fingers? it’s ok, it’s entertainment so we should want to win and have the best players. I’m looked at bad now for being glad Nutt is gone and I looked bad to some of you when i kept crying for matt jones to never play qb and get at the wr position. You know, have a future NFL first round draft pick wr at an unheard of 6′6″ running a 4.4 40yrd dash with next to perfect hands and moves. And at the same time to have our former bench warming razorback qb who could’ve broken hog records with his rocket arm and great speed. The guy who is now an nfl starting qb for the Minnesota Vikings. But we ran that guy off to a pathetic conference where he could dominate weak athletes like himself right? Don’t forget us running away Mr. Jackson and also Mr. Cherry. Cherry who also went on to play back up qb in the nfl though never seeing the field at Arkansas.
That’s what we’re talking about with Mediocrity. Winning 8 or 9 games in a season, loosing sec championships, never going to bcs bowls, when we could’ve/should’ve/would’ve won a national championship(s) and at least 2 sec championships with the caliber of players we had recruited. Says nothing about Houston being a bad man, just says that he didn’t play the best at the best positions. Good luck to Houston at Ole Miss, but everyone just needs to sit down, shut up and watch bobby petrino win an sec championship and eventually a natl championship. can you imagine our razorbacks going to a bcs game? get ready because petrino doesn’t need to plant a tree, it will happen quickly. look at his recruiting this year. He started so late and already has the qb from Michigan transferring to Arkansas (who by the way was the #2 qb recruit in the nation behind some kid from Springdale the same year. What was his name? That kid who only wanted to be a razorback since he was 6 years old growing up in NW Arkansas watching the razorbacks every single fb game just like you and me as kids with our families. Didn’t he dream of wearing a razorback jersey that had his favorite number 16? Man, I had a dream once he came to Arkansas and went 8-0 as a true freshman in the SEC. But I know that was just a dream because we would never bench a true freshman who had a flawless record. I also dreamt that we let some guy go for $1000 more bucks a year to a school where he led a team this year to be the #1 offense in all of Div I football. I even dreamt he was at the university of arkansas and our staff refused to let him call plays any longer after he dominated the #2 Auburn tigers with his amazing calls. Then in the dream all of these people started saying that his play calling style wouldn’t work with our great running backs even though he designed some offensive set for a guy named Darren McFadden. It was scary, but again I know it was just a dream because the hogwild offense was not made by Gus for McFadden but rather used for McFadden later. The truth is Gus Malzahn at Springdale Highschool had some blue chip athlete called D. Williams that would run the same offensive set lining up at qb. the same set that made dmac even more famous and successful. Of course there’s nothing wrong with a coach using another coach’s play as long as credit is given where credit is due).
Well, now those former homegrown AR boys are on their way to success away from the university that they once loved so much. They were like prophets rejected in their hometown to us die-hard hog fans. Well, good luck razorback fans who wish you were still in the state and wish you were appreciated for your abilities. May your countless successes be great although you don’t get to fulfill your dreams at the university of your initial choice.
sincerely,
Mr. Wayne Gordon
Smile people. even when you have to eat your humble pie. because in the end you are and will always be a hog fan. Even when USC dominates with our players.
whomever come up with this make believe interview, i hope you lose your legs in a accident. i actually wasted 5 minutes of my evening reading this shit.