I was personally more angry that he ran off Damian Williams than Mustain. I think Mustain would have ultimately been a better QB than C. Dick was, but under Nutt's system (much like Saban's) a QB is a game manager and really can't make many mistakes and that pointed more towards Dick than Mustain.

I also think he was pressured into hiring Malzahn when he didn't want to, but our offense looked pretty sweet under his command and went back to the old smoke draw or run up the middle stuff as the season went on.

I think Nutt was a good coach for us at that time, he brought us up a bit in name recognition from the horrible 90s, but had also reached his apex. I wanted him gone, but didn't "hate" him until he signed up with Ole Miss. That really took the polish off the many years of "loving that helmet." Not to mention I was sick of listening to his post game interviews where every player that did something was "special" and every time a bad play was called he "really wished we could have that pass back." He also never really much cared about recruiting at any position other than tailback and offensive line and allowed the defensive recruiting to basically turn into an Arkansas high school all-star team with random sprinkling of talent from other states with family connections to the program.

So, in summation I didn't "hate" him as our coach, but wanted to move on. I started "hating" him when he did the same thing at Ole Miss as he did here (inherit lots of talent, have a huge first season, try to calm down huge expectations of his second year). Now I am waiting on the rest of what he did here to happen there (not come close to meeting those expectations and throw a few people under the bus to explain it all).