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I honestly don't care if our players make good grades (as long as they're eligible obviously), are "good" people, run into trouble with the law, etc. College football is a business. If we're concerned with that then we're in the wrong conference.

i would not take it this far.

I'm one of the lucky african americans whoose family takes education extremely seriously. I have a degree, my mother has a masters degree. People who have an education, do not understand just how much of a drawback it is to not have an education. Not even so much because of the money you make but just the way you approach life, morality and ethics.

Most African Americans in the state of Arkansas, are not afforded the opportunities that I have been. It's one of the things i do like about bert; His kids graduate, and he turns young boys into young men. They start careers when they leave. It's important to me that we don't use and abuse kids and they aren't at the university for 4 years then working at Jimmy Johns or running pimp services like that one guy that played for Arkansas's basketball team because they don't have any better opportunities.

And if the day comes where it becomes apparent to me that the only way we CAN win a national championship is to recruit said players, I would be at peace with not ever winning a national championship. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

With that said, running a successful college football operation and giving people from around the state or outside of it, who otherwise would not have an opportunity to afford higher education and turning those kids into young responsibility adults doesn't have to be a one or the other deal. It's a logical fallacy to suggest that young men who have the ability to act as responsible young men can't play football. It's why Al Ferguson at Parkview is so successful. outside of beard's little incident, name one player that played for parkview that has ever ended up on the wrong side of the law. Furgerson doesn't fricking play that and if you can't behave like a young man, you will not play. Period. When My cousin transferred from Jacksonville to Parkview I could see a distinct difference in how seriously he took his academics and just how he handled himself in general. '

My gripe with Bert is not that he targets uncommon players. My gripe with Bert is that he's fricking lazy fat frick that uses the uncommon montra to half arse recruiting. For instance, Crockett that went to Mizzoui, I can understand not wanting him at RB but that kid is a freaking player. You trying to tell me he couldn't help out in the secondary after a redshirt year? Bert should have been on him like white on rice trying to get him to be a hog and convert him to a cornerback. But no we just sign 17 recruits and call it a day.

I think Bert CAN be the man for the job but as of now, i don't think he is.

I like that

- he believes in himself
- he doesn't recruit character problems for quick fixes
- good coaches like working with him
- when he feels like it, he's a dynamic recruiter
- his wife is hot (seriously she's hot as balls lol)

I don't like that

- he's a man of much talk and little action
- He holds himself accountable, yet never changes things
- He's kinda lazy honestly.. and more than anything I think the team has started to adapt that lazy mentality
- He's too loyal and cares too much what people think about him. He doesn't have that ruthless streak that petrino or saban has.
- More than anything I think the message that he preaches, which is basically if you're a good person and do good then at the end of the day, everything will be okay, which is honestly, in my 33 years on earth not what I have precieved, and to be frank, especially if you're a non white person in america. In the real world, you either do what you are supposed to do well, or the person who employees you will find someone who will. In the real world, nice guys don't necessarily finish last, but the guys with the best results finish first, not the ones with the best manners.

If Bert is willing to get off his arse, get in shape (seriously bro your weight is a fricking problem you can't possibly have the amount of energy I, gets on a stairmaster for 1 hour a day and can play basketball all day long at age 33), get to work I think he is the man for the job. His laziness is my biggest knock on him. He's very bright and very capable. he's not hungry. I mean, he's obviously hungry lol but you know what i mean.

If he's not winning to put in the world to make arkansas great again, find someone who is. The sad thing Gus was that guy. He wanted it. He wanted it so fricking bad.