re: To all my Arkanas Razorback fans.

Troyt37 if the rosters coming back for 2010 shape up about the way I think they will I think Ole miss has about a 60% chance to win that 2010 game. Ole miss will still be very strong in the D-line, very strong in the running game, very strong in O-line,

well, about the only place they are going to be rebuilding is Quarterback so that's a game "Hootie" will just run over us.

If we can keep Alfred Davis, DD Jones, Bequette, some of those guys healthy and bring in a couple decent juco's (which unfortunatly we'll have to b/c Petrino struck out at D-line this year) then we have a chance. Otherwise, I think Hootie treats us about as bad as he did mississippi state all those years.

He's been pretty cocky about it on the radio . Talking about how Ole miss was easier to recruit too. and when he talks about the good teams it's always Bama and LSU, no mention of ark.

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If we can keep Alfred Davis, DD Jones, Bequette, some of those guys healthy and bring in a couple decent juco's (which unfortunatly we'll have to b/c Petrino struck out at D-line this year)

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Returning DL , the ones with stars were recruited by BP and stars indicate their rating out of HS

Colton Nash ***
Jake Bequette
DeQuinta Jones ****
Chris Berezansky
Patrick Jones
Ryan Calender
Robert Thomas
Lavunce Askew ***
Zach Stadther ***
Ryan Calender ***


2010 DL commit

Jeremiah Jackson ***



I suppose you could say that five out of 50 players recruited is striking out at a position , IF you're used to Houston Nutt recruiting where the philosophy is focus on one position need and sign 15 guys for that position and pretend like the other positions don't exist for that year, BUT when you're trying to recruit to an overall plan and have consistent depth at EVERY position and when your predecessor left you nothing at the QB,WR,and DB positions, you have to focus differently.

You are quickly proving that your football knowledge is as slim as Nutt's chances of every winning a national championship.

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Talking about how Ole miss was easier to recruit too

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Misspelled form of to aside. I would have to agree, OM must be easier to recruit to because the buffoon pulled in the 18th best class in the nation in 2009, something he never managed at Arkansas, the problem for him is that Bobby Petrino pulled in the 16th best class in the nation at Arkansas, destroying Nutt's cover story that 22nd or so was the best Arkansas could ever do.

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when he talks about the good teams it's always Bama and LSU, no mention of ark

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Proof of both his stupidity and his tackiness. First of all, every other coach in the SEC acknowledges that BP is building a winner in Arkansas, but not Nutt he's gotta get his little jibes in. Second of all, do you hear a areal professional coach that has also moved from one SECW team to another, Nick Satan, making stupid and childish remarks about his former team? No of course not. This is just more Nutt arse clownery.

Enjoy him.

OH PS

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then we have a chance

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Stop even pretending. It's very disingenuous, at least have the balls to root for your team, err coach.

Yeah, because True Frosh belong on the field. in regards to your Askew assumptions. I'm sick of arguing with someone who blindly assumes that a program is doomed because one man is no longer the head coach of a particular program.

You've made mention of power run games, but I really question you're knowledge of such things. Tell me how your dream offense works.

with Askew when he had his arrest they had a weight listed for him at about 270 or maybe less. By now I would think he would be a little bigger. I believe he was listed lighter than he came in at and he's a 5+ 40 so he's not gonna play end. One of the writers was on the radio saying he didn't have a very good spring.

My dream offense works with

I don't want to bash him either. I just do not think we are gonna match up favorably with a strong running game in the next couple years.


My offense for consistant championship level football toughest to defense is basically what Petrino does. Mixture of the power-i with play action pass, 2 wide out sets up to 5 wideout sets in multiple formations. Some spread 2 back, some spread 1, some spread empty backfield. Some shotgun, roll-out, bootleg, drop back etc. I've read that Petrino can run the same play out of 13 different formations. But, I think there is a real fine line between being too complex for college kids compared to what you'd install in the pros b/c the pros do not have classes and homework to keep up with and there's only so much these kids can learn.

I doubt we'll ever see Petrino at his absolute finest b/c the offense is too complex. But, make no mistake he is as good as it gets. There were a ton of busted plays last year where multiple people missed assignments.

now you're sounding less like an idiot while still not accomplishing the end goal. The offense isn't a system that can be properly run in the first year to those whom aren't familiar with it at all. This year will be a better gauge on the complexity of the offense. I'll be interested to see what a line that has been taught to do more than zone block can do.

As for seeing it at it's best? if Louisville can run it why not an SEC team?

blackrose it looks to me like he's struggling to recruit the kind of pass blocking linemen he wants right now. MOst of the good ones he has had on campus this spring immediately committed elsewhere after the visit. Cam Feldt went from a solid verbel to soft. I'd guess if he gets into a quality senior year he'll go after a Big12 offer. Jordan Rainey has no other offers so I'm not sure what to make of that other than Arkansas might be the only place that knows about him.

Arkansas as a state has historically been a run first highschool state. I guess the 7 on 7 tournaments and Gus Malzhan advancing the way he did lead to more passing and more spread in Arkansas highschools. I think it's a pretty easy transistion in highschools b/c defenses are pretty much nonexistent anyway. My highschool was a running team forever, tried to install the spread a couple years ago, it crapped out and they went back to the wing-t in the middle of the year. I know we aren't talking about 100% spread but Petrino has a much more complex scheme so he's going to need better caliber linemen then Nutt had to run what he wants and win. If Petrino decides he needs to stay in a more conservative ground game to survive, then I hate to say it but Nutt did that as good as it can be done.

UA has traditionally recruited it's instate linemen pretty well and redshirted them and developed them into solid players by year 3,4,5. It appears Petrino is trying to go another route. Who knows if a drop back style will hold up against the front 7's of the mighty SEC but if I had to make a bet on it i'd bet it never comes close to living up to what Arkansas fans think it will. It hasn't worked for Spurrier so far at SC and I see no reason why it would work well here.

I think Ark needs to be a running smash mouth team that doesn't take alot of chances downfield. IF they can adopt the approach "get to the 4th quarter with a chance to win" I think they can remain competitive. Petrino is already saying that at 09 media days and when he was first hired he wanted to "attack the field and score everytime we get the ball"
Those philosphies contrast.

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