This is the most painful Selection Sunday in a long time

'Tis better to have been teased and pained than never to have been teased at all. Maybe???

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Im tired of getting embarrassed. I'm taking a year off for sure

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None of my business, for sure. But, for sure, I can't keep my stylus still. Ok, you do that, and what if most or even a large group did what you say you're gonna do, for sure? If you're truly a fan, how does that help your program, how does that attitude of yours, etals, help Billy Wayne Layne in Coonpecker Point, Arkansas want to stay and play for the Hogs instead of going to the Aggys and eating beef instead of pork, having cool boy cheerleaders, etc? Duh, it doesn't, for sure!
I remember listening to the Tigers on the radio, (pre tv), we had some pretty good years in the 50's, Natl champs in 58 and some exciting times. But, do you not think that there was some torment through several years and cycles? Of course there was. We had plane crashes, deaths of coaches, recruits going out of state, anything that could go wrong, did.. Everything comes and goes in cycles, even and especially fans like yourself. Honest question, does your team have to be successful for you to be a fan? If so, I suggest you get away from sports,,, cause nothing lasts forever, ask George Steinbrenner, Joe Pa's family, etc. C'mon, man!
Be proud of the past, hope that things that are happening now are giving y'all opprutunity to be proud of the future,, or just get off the pot, for sure.

Hmmmm, public hangin' on Main Street in Jonesboro might be fitting? Free, no admission to attend and the public is welcome , byob..

Heck, I'll admit, for 1 day in November and a few series days during baseball season, I do not like the hogs, but I don't talk near as bad about em as that "Arky fan" feller!!

piggilicious, I keep seeing a feather when I read your post..

Agreed, if we're being totally honest this isn't a tournament team and we saw that throughout the year. Couldn't close against Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, barely beat Vandy and State on the road, and proved that we don't belong in the tournament by losing to Carolina in a must win scenario.

When we beat Kentucky in Rupp I still didn't think we were a tournament team, and when Lunardi had us in the last 4 in I was shocked. This Kentucky team just isn't that good, and our win against them was blown out of proportion.

Before Kentucky we were HOPING to make the NIT, unfortunately all the fair weather fans jumped on the bandwagon and got unrealistic expectations. Case in point, the OP of this thread.

This team is like the first Nolan squad once he had his core and Sutton's was not having to be relied on. You could see the direction he was taking the program, but recruiting was "struggling" until he signed his first McD's AA.

Another parallel is the amount of McD AAs who are coming in "groups" that Arkansas has a legit shot at getting in the 15 and 16 classes. Nolan signed two in one class (Day, Mayberry) from local areas (Memphis, Tulsa) and that is when the program really started picking up momentum.

Arkansas is likely to produce its own McD AAs in the next two classes, at worst likely 4 of the last 5 years at that point would have produced a McD AA, something that has never been done by the state. The state did produce some in the 80s, but hit a huge dry spell after Corliss.

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Not just a tourny team, but a 4/5 seed and maybe even higher with a little luck.

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Let's just worry about getting IN the tournament first

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We need to get these in state kids

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If not them, equal from elsewhere.

I get why a kid from Arkansas would want to go to Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Kansas, etc. if given the opportunity right now, all those have the reputation as being a "NBA factory", obviously it is because they always have and get top tier talent the NBA will want, but kids see it as an easier path if they go to those type schools.

We would still be on the first four out like today if we would have beaten USCe. Fact.