Sam Pittman is confident in interim OC Kenny Guiton’s abilities as a play caller.

Arkansas’ head coach spoke with reporters at the SEC’s weekly teleconference Wednesday following the firing of Dan Enos on Sunday. He spoke about Guiton’s promotion from WR coach to interim OC/QB coach in length.

Here’s what he had to say:

“I think Kenny’s ready. He obviously knows the offense,” Pittman said. “He’s more knowledgeable than even what I thought in the run game. Obviously I’ve been in every meeting. I stepped out of the one that I was in now to talk to y’all, but I’ll go right back to it, so I’m trying to help in every aspect I can in the running game. We lost our spirit on offense and we’ve got to get it back. I think Kenny has a great rapport with the kids and he’s very knowledgeable, and I think the kids believe in him, and that’ll make us play better right then and there. We obviously have to block them better and do things like that, but we also have to have the enthusiasm to do that and I think that’s what he’s bringing to our offensive staff.”

Pittman continued…

“But he’s ready for it. More importantly than that, he believes that he’s ready for it and the players believe that he’s ready for it. So I think it’s been, I go back to Auburn last year and ‘Cadillac’ going and him becoming the head coach and they beat A&M and they beat Western Kentucky, they played Mississippi State real tough, who was a really fine team on the road.”

Guiton has been with Arkansas since 2021 as a WRs coach. The former Ohio State quarterback has also coached wide receivers at Houston and Louisiana Tech.

Arkansas is on a bye this week and draws Florida in Week 10.