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Yeah, that's part of where I was going with it. With a few exceptions, Arkansas has rarely been a fertile recruiting ground. Either you run something like Bobby did, hoping to just cover defensive and line issues with offensive firepower or you get overwhelmed. And, as cardboardboxer said, he wasn't recruiting well from the beginning. Kind of a missed opportunity, given the chaotic ups-and-downs of the Texas schools next door during his tenure

Houston Nutt was a lot more one dimensional than people assume Bert was. Nutt recruited a lot worse too. I'm glad we have an offensive minded coach now, but the premise that Arkansas "needs" offensive firepower to succeed is a myth. Bert's problem wasn't recruiting. Aspects of his recruiting and his roster management were bad, but the problem was Bert. He actually recruited better than anyone has at Arkansas in the rankings era. You claimed the SEC adjusted to his "style." The problem is we resembled the type of team people associate with Oinky one time in five years, and he Berted his way to 7-6 with that group. Otherwise, I would cackle when announcers would say things like "Bret Bielema's tough, physical ground game" because we were the antithesis of that. We were soft as wet toilet paper for the majority of his tenure here and fielded some of the worst defenses in college football history.