re: The Houston Nutt Expectations Myth debunked.

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Arkansas had one All-SEC caliber player at each level of their defense that year.

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And they were a top 25 team.
3 players can't make a defense.

Ole Miss probably has 7 or 8 players on defense next year who will be drafted.

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Are you illiterate or Ignorant?

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I wasn't responding to you frick nuts.

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And they were a top 25 team.

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Mostly because they beat LSU.

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3 players can't make a defense

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Usually players shine because of the defense as a whole. The fact that the coaches voted three Arkansas players on means they were at least decent, as a unit.

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Ole Miss probably has 7 or 8 players on defense next year who will be drafted.

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I was never trying to argue that Ole Miss isn't more talented now than Arkansas was then. I don't believe that is true. Ole Miss is more talented.

I am just disputing this idea you are putting out there that Nutt actually won 8 games with a bunch of nobodies. He had some players.

In my mind, Nutt did his job against everybody but Kentucky and Tennessee that year....although that Auburn loss at home, where the talented offense managed only one score, had to be disappointing as well.

The fact is that Nutt got his teams up against the LSUs and the Alabamas of the world, but then couldn't keep them focused against lesser teams.

That team played to the talented level of the opponent, which is a sign of bad coaching. They played over their heads when outmatched, but they played poorly when they were the favorites.

Guess what? Ole Miss is a favorite now. Welcome to Arkansas' pain.

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I was never trying to argue that Ole Miss isn't more talented now than Arkansas was then. I don't believe that is true. Ole Miss is more talented.

I am just disputing this idea you are putting out there that Nutt actually won 8 games with a bunch of nobodies. He had some players.

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I'm not saying that he won 8 games with nobody's.
I'm saying the reason that he didn't win 10 or 11 games like a lot of people thinks he should have is because he just had average talent everywhere except the backfield, and shitty talent at the most important position.

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I'm saying the reason that he didn't win 10 or 11 games like a lot of people thinks he should have is because he just had average talent everywhere except the backfield, and shitty talent at the most important position.

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Well if the expectation was 10 or 11 games, he didn't meet that expectation did he? He could have beaten Alabama. He could have beaten Auburn. He shouldn't have lost to Kentucky (could say the same for us, I know).

10 games was possible that year. A good coach could have gotten them there. Nutt didn't.

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Well if the expectation was 10 or 11 games, he didn't meet that expectation did he? He could have beaten Alabama. He could have beaten Auburn. He shouldn't have lost to Kentucky (could say the same for us, I know).

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10 or 11 games was the Arkansas expectation.
He did what the national media expected him to do.
Sure he traded some losses against teams he should have beaten for wins against teams he shouldn't have. But every team does that.

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Auburn, Kentucky v. LSU

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Three teams that were on par if not better than Arkansas that year.

A lot of things have to come together for Nutt and Ole Miss to make it to Atlanta. I do not see it happening but it could.

I don't give a rat's arse about Houston Nutt. He is not our problem anymore. Best of luck to Ole Miss with him. End of discussion.

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