There may have been a bit of deja vu for SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey during the Little Rock Touchdown Club's luncheon at the DoubleTree Hotel on Tuesday.

When the New York native previously spoke at the organization's weekly meeting in 2019, the University of Arkansas' football program was going through somewhat of a transition. Fast forward six years, and the school is again in the middle of a similar shift.

"Chad Morris had just been fired eight days previous," club co-founder David Bazzel said to Sankey, referring to his prior appearance at the gathering on Nov. 18, 2019. "So you came in and then three weeks later, Dec. 8, 2019, Sam Pittman was hired. So here you are again, and we have a fired coach and an interim coach. So I don't know if we should not invite you back again or what.

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