re: It truly is astounding how bad of a shape bret Bielema left arkansas in

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Unfortunately for Arky big uglies are something they do not produce in state so how they chose to resolve this will be interesting.

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We used to. One thing that Arkansas churned out, in addition to quality RBs, was a surplus of talented Linebeasts. Not so much today.

Partly it is simply bad luck. Little Rock has fallen on hard times when it comes to football and while NW Arkansas is growing like a weed it hasn't made up for LR being in the dumps. As football goes in Little Rock so football goes at the University of Arkansas for the most part.

Partly its a system problem. Arkansas is the birth place of the HUNH spread and a ton of the big High School programs here run some variant of it. With that has come a decline in O-Line production. After all, you don't really need a great O-Line to run the HUNH at the HS level. Sadly... you do in the SEC.