Another Question Added to Mix with Reported New Coach

National reports of Razorbacks hiring someone nobody knew about has folks scrambling

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — If anybody had the name of Ronnie Fouch among the likely candidates to be the new wide receivers coach, I don't recall seeing it. Like everybody else, it was a scramble to see just who this guy is to realize we obviously don't know much.

He was Bobby Petrino's co-offensive coordinator at Missouri State. Under Petrino, that is probably more of a way to provide a title to justify a little bump in salary. It's hard to see anyone having that much influence over the offense under him, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's managing the room and teaching technical stuff if you had to make a wager.

Fouch was an offensive analyst at Louisville when Lamar Jackson was winning the Heisman Trophy, and reading about it, he was probably just a buffer to Petrino. Exactly how close any analyst can get to developing a Heisman winner is anybody's guess. Fouch was an unheralded back-up quarterback at Washington who transferred to Indiana State.

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None of that is intended as a slight. The best coaches usually weren't the biggest names playing at a position. 

There is nothing in Fouch's background I can find showing he's coached wide receivers directly, although he did coach tight ends at Florida State for a year. How important that is does leave a question, though. Especially with already a lot of questions at that position and no obvious No. 1 guy to catch passes from whomever ends up throwing the most.

That's the way things are going to be nearly everywhere on this Razorbacks' team. Until they line up against Oklahoma State in the second game in September, we aren't going to have any substantial answers. A lot of hope is pinned on what Petrino has done. The view here is that's probably going to continue.  

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