re: Done with Bielema

You're nuts. He made the right call there. Wasn't his fault the defense couldn't stop us getting points after that. They'd have never stopped us if you turn it over there.

Got no love for Bert but get real.

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Most of the best players on the field he recruited.

I could careless if he sucks his thumb if you recruit and win.

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Which begs a couple questions... should he have jumped in to his system so quickly from Day 1, or at least used some spread concepts given the players he had to try and win one or two to build some recruiting momentum? Let's face it 0-8 in conference play is bad. There have been lots of bare cupboards and they don't go winless in conference. And my second question... recruiting. How do you expect to win without Texas recruits? You currently have two Texas commits, and the kicker Texas A&M is most likely going to steal. When you talk about building a "long term" approach, are you just going to randomly choose areas to recruit and not build pipelines? You can come up with a million ways for Arky to build a long term success plan. None of them will lack the Lone Star State if they even half way decent.

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He's been bitched about for taking chances all year, now he makes the correct call and it's executed as perfectly as it can be, and you want to bitch. More than a damn inch, as well.

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But at the point what did Arkansas have to lose? You ended up losing anyways because his playing not to lose philosophy back fired horribly. You can't play not to lose and expect to win close games.

When you replace a CEO you don't work with the old system you implement your foundation and use a timeline for success. Our time line is three years. Year one was very ugly but year three could be very pretty.

Arkansas went to the BCS and SEC Championship games on Arkansas talent. Go back and look at our studs then the majority was from Arkansas. Texas talent is for depth to actually win the SEC and is needed but we aren't OSU with 70 kids from Texas on our roster.

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There have been lots of bare cupboards and they don't go winless in conference.

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Arkansas' first year out of 110 years to go winless in conference. I'm highly not worried this becomes a recurring theme.

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When you talk about building a "long term" approach, are you just going to randomly choose areas to recruit and not build pipelines?

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No. Dallas. OSU and Arkansas only have a 45 mile difference to DFW. One has a lot more money, stadium size, fan base and an SEC label. There isn't an excuse if you ask me otherwise you just aren't a good salesman.

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You can come up with a million ways for Arky to build a long term success plan. None of them will lack the Lone Star State if they even half way decent.

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Change decent to championships. History already showed it happens.

Punting = the right call. Allowing brand new QB to sit comfortably in the pocket while dropping 7 into coverage = bad call

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Punting = the right call. Allowing brand new freshman QB missing the #1 receiver to sit comfortably in the pocket while dropping 7 into coverage = bad call

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This I can agree with.

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Also, in 2010 when Bama was down to Arky, Saban blitz the shite of them and ended up with Kirkpatrick getting a pick and we scored and won the game.

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Arkie was ahead, not behind. The team that's behind rarely plays prevent.

And you should only play prevent when you're down 2 or more scores late.

Simplified.

Nutt (decent coach, decent Arkansas recruiter, bad out-of-state recruiter) = SEC Championship games.

Petrino (great coach, decent Arkansas recruiter, bad out-of-state recruiter) = BCS Bowl

Bielema (good coach, decent Arkansas recruiter, ?) = ?

Do you see the pattern.. When Arkansas had great homegrown talent with a great coach we went to the BCS. When Arkansas has great homegrown talent with a decent coach we went to the SEC Championship game.

What happens when Arkansas has a good coach, good Arkansas recruiter and good out-of-state recruiter? We don't know yet but we will find out.

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You ended up losing anyways because his playing not to lose philosophy back fired horribly. You can't play not to lose and expect to win close games.

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I really hope you're just trolling.

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And I would argue what Oklahoma State is doing is far superior than what Arkansas did when they peaked in their arse pounding at the hands of Ohio State. They have built an incredible system suited to the talent around them. A long term foundation for success.

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Hmm.. Did OSU do that by firing coaches every 3 or 4 years? I have no idea what Ohio State game you're referring to considering it was one hell of a great game and it was a BCS bowl this decade we've been to unlike yourself.

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Maybe, but sometimes these things are hard to live down. 77-0 is still frequently mentioned and current recruits were 5-6 years old when it happened.

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I do not think a single recruit at Texas A&M cares what Oklahoma did to them many years ago with a different staff and conference.

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So if Bert strikes out again in DFW for 2015 recruits, will you concede that there is reasonable concern?

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So he gets only one chance in his first year here? Good luck building anything with that criteria.