"Arkansas can't out-Bama Bama or out-Lsu Lsu"

Yea with Auburn and Alabama doing what they are, it won't matter what style you play.

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Posters who believe that Arkansas can't be successful playing the same style as Bama and Lsu, why do you believe this and why do you think it matters?

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It's pretty obvious that statement isn't true about LSU so I'm not really sure why they're included in that statement.

We couldn't beat Bama with the best passing game in the SEC either so I don't really think they're going to be our measuring stick.

I think Arkansas can be successful playing the same style as Bama and LSU. I just think that unless there's some recruiting revolution at Arky, there will always be a significant talent differential which will cause Arkansas to lose against Bama and LSU most years. But that is NOT to say that you can't be successful over-all. Sometimes being the SEC West is a curse because it's so competitive.

I didn't see the clip, but I think it's more on the lines of you can't beat them with power running style football. They can run it because of their players and the rest of us don't have that type of talent. I love the power I. But in today's game, you can't run it without elite talent.

You will try to play smash mouth run-first offense.

LSU and Bama have 10x the talent and 10x the defense and play a similar style.

Petrino was successful because he played a completely different style that offset much of the talent disparity.

1. As competitive as the West is, Arkansas will need to beat Bama or LSU, sometimes both, to ever go to Atlanta again, if that is your goal.

2. If you run the exact same style as Bama/LSU, you need the same style of players. Bama/LSU will always cherry pick the best recruits who fit the system Arky is trying to run.

3. Texas is loaded with high end spread style recruits who are currently choosing teams like Baylor. Arkansas could tap into that 7 on 7 circuit more if it ran an exciting offense.

If you define success as somewhere around what Mullen has done at MSU, you guys will be happy with BB.

Reality really stings...doesn't it stone-head..lol at the 0:8 SEC swine !

On a continual basis, I don't believe Arkansas can out-Bama Bama or out-LSU LSU.

Ya get a Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hillis in the backfield and then, yeah Arkansas can match Bama and LSU.

But, when is Arkansas gonna load up an offensive line and a backfield like that again? Is Beliema recruiting, and signing, those type players?

He still gets credit for the lines he put together at Wisky, but he's just started at Arkansas and, no matter how many former Badger/NFL players you put on a promotional piece, there still is no guarantee that what worked at Wisky will work at Arky.

With the recruits Arkansas has gotten in the past, they set up on a five year cycle. Roster gets loaded with experienced seniors and they get good. Graduation/NFL hit and they go back down and start over again.

Can Beliema even continue this? Petrino's pecker knocked everything off track at Arkansas. Will Beliema return to this pattern or improve it?

I do think shifting the LSU game into mid-season will be a significant change for this series. This game has been so crazy and unreliable. I would expect a different approach with it moving from the last game.

So running a smash mouth offense against two of the teams in the country that run it the best. You don't think you'd need to beat them at their own game to win the conference?

Also look at the gap in recruiting. If Arkansas wants to be successful in the smash mouth they need to get Little Rock and Pine Bluff recruits back in the schools. That area has pretty much dropped off in D1 athletes compared to what they used to be.