re: I'm done with Bert

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The SEC is a pretty bad league. It wasn't then.

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Wut? The SEC has been much better the past 4 years than it was when Nutt was coach.

Whenever Bert was hired, I stated he would be in between dale nutt and Petrino in wins. I still maintain that is about where he is at in coaching talent, and what he is capable of doing here.

Jeff Long is happy though. He has a nice coach that isn't a meanie and makes the Broyles complex so happy and rainbow filled.

ETA: Long is a carpet bagger, and I question his priorities in regards to having a truly competitive SEC football team. I believe his ideals with the balance of academics and athletics more aligns with other conferences.

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We will lose to MSU, and quite possibly to Mizzou as well.


This team is soft and has quit

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Maybe MSU but not Mizzou.

Is Les was coaching LSU we'd have won last night. Coach O deserves credit for motivating them coming off a tough Bama loss.

Still gets back to recruiting. We can't afford to be as weak as we are at LB and OL. No way in year 4 we should be scrambling to fill those positions.

Top to bottom the west has never been this tough.

The league as a whole had more parity back then, but now it's the west and everyone else.

Ken Hatfield has the best winning percentage of Arkansas coaches.Every year you could sit down and pencil in 8-10 wins easy.The problem was we rarely beat Texas or any quality out of conference opponent.


He went to seven bowls and lost six of them.

Now we are in the toughest division in college football and play bowl teams nearly every week with lower rated players than most those teams.

Until we recruit in the top ten consistently this is where we are, with the occasional big year.
No coach has been able to recruit like that in our program's history.It seems to be the nature of the beast.

I like Bret and hope he hangs around awhile.It wouldn't bother me to change the dc though.

That's just it man look at tennesee and texas. They've had some down years and yeah, the guys they've got now probably aren't gonna work out, but you know in the bott of your heart they're gonna be back on top one day just like Michigan finally is because they aren't settling for safety, they're willing to hire a few duds and have seen shite seasons to find the one guy who's gonna take them over the top because 7 -8 win ceilings aren't acceptible there. They aren't complacent which is what many of our fans are right now and so they will settle with 6-8 consistent wins with beilama. I'm just not gonna do that. I witnessed what petrino did I saw us go toe to toe with alabama, lsu, auburn (yes I think we played well against cam actually) and Ohio state and 2010 and I know with the right coach we can again. Idk, maybe it's just because I didn't grow up a loser that being an average Joe isn't good enough for me, but that's the way I see it.

If Petrino had stayed, we most likely would be calling for his head by now.He just happened to domino with talent after his first year

Quick fix coaches are good for the short term, but generally peter out.

I do like that tcu coach though.

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If Petrino had stayed, we most likely would be calling for his head by now.

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No. Petrino might be a prick, but he's also a Top 5 coach that demands excellence (on the field) from his players and coaches.

I'll say again. Petrino would have had the 2 Allen boys and would have recruited receivers well enough that our offense would always be one of the top in the league which would make us very difficult to stop. Not saying we wouldn't have Years like 09 where we lose a lot of shootouts but we would almost always be in the game and 5he years where we had a decent defense we would win a lot of games. I believe in 14 when we went to the Texas bowl had we still had Petrino we would've been in the playoffs. Those were mostly his recruits and our problem wasn't defense it was scoring under Chaney which I don't think we would have had a problem with under Bobby p