Make me a mod or do your fricking job

A lot of hot piss around these parts lately.

Literally we just witnessed one of the best bowl game coaching jobs of our lifetime. We were a 2.5 point favorite against a highly motivated team and we were missing a ton of players. We dominated up until the fumble with under 3 minutes to go. The fumble was unlucky and the onside kick recovery was unlucky. It was unlucky they even called it a fumble.

Instead of using any semblance of rational thought and recognizing the great coaching job for what it was and enjoying the win, we have absolute idiots on here bleeding all over the board.

THIS IS THE *SECOND TIME ARKANSAS HAS EVER WON BOWL GAMES IN BACK TO BACK YEARS.

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Literally we just witnessed one of the best bowl game coaching jobs of our lifetime. We were a 2.5 point favorite against a highly motivated team and we were missing a ton of players. We dominated up until the fumble with under 3 minutes to go. The fumble was unlucky and the onside kick recovery was unlucky. It was unlucky they even called it a fumble.

Instead of using any semblance of rational thought and recognizing the great coaching job for what it was and enjoying the win, we have absolute idiots on here bleeding all over the board.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ARKANSAS HAS EVER WON BOWL GAMES IN BACK TO BACK YEARS.

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Pretty good points.

One thing I'll say is that the onside kick wasn't just bad luck. That was poorly played. But understandable with how many guys we were missing

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For the aforementioned reasons, I just did not have expectations going into this game.

Everyone here suffers from battered fan syndrome. That is simply part of the Arkansas fan experience.

We need every bit of momentum and positive development that we can get. Coming here and posting threads titled "frick our head coach" only undermine every bit of that. In what world can you expect loyalty from players when you are making a public display like this?

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We were missing so many starters and scholarship players that before the game, basically everyone was predicting a loss. Some were even predicting a blowout loss because we were missing all our players and Kansas just "cared more".

Turns out that gaining that big lead was the worst possible thing for fan morale around here

It makes no sense. We should be more pissed at the dumbfrickery from the refs than anything. We were missing about 30 scholarship players we started the season with, something like 10 starters not including Rocket.

It's a minor coaching miracle we were competitive in this game to begin with, a pretty big coaching miracle that we dominated 90% of it with scrubs with no experience.

We just have a higher proportion of "FARR EVERYBODY!" tards around here, since our poster base is a little smaller. We have like 30-40 regular posters here, so when 5 of those are the type that hate the world even when we win, it makes it seem like those voices are louder and more common

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Turns out that gaining that big lead was the worst possible thing for fan morale around here

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A macrocosm of this was Petrino hitting the asphalt.

It created a mythology of expectations that were not based in reality.

I do think that the 12 team playoff will be a net positive for Arkansas. At minimum, we will have more opportunities to build capital by getting on the field with mediocre b1g teams.

Blowing a 38-13 3rd quarter lead with 8 minutes to go is "great coaching"? JFC. Chad Morris did a number on people.

The point is this team has won some games in spite of some consistently ridiculously bad coaching decisions. And then lost some they had absolutely no business losing.

Sam and his staff deserve some credit for recruiting some pretty damn good players, and Briles for calling a damn good game but there were some ATROCIOUS mistakes that have plagued this team all year.

1) Had we lost, and we were 1 play away from doing so, it would have been a collapse on the level of Bert against VT which essentially got him fired. So not sure the uproar in folks being pretty pissed.

2) The punting game was absolutely absurd. There were 3-4 punts under 40 yards last night. How is that possible?

3) The onside kick. I don't care if you have 1 legged walk ons out there, its kiwanas football to catch the effing ball and sit on it.

4) The timeout management. What on earth was he doing sitting on 3 timeouts with 5 seconds left in the game? We didn't even sniff a FG with the ball, 3 timeouts and a minute to play. How is that possible?

You can't make some of this stuff up and its not crazy for fans to be pissed and discuss it vs shite pumping our team as "Liberty Bowl Champs".

It's as if he's getting more inept as time goes on vs what we hoped would be growth and adaption as he gained experience.

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but if we had turned it over or something fans would be bitching even more.

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those are the true idiots who should be disregarded. People who are “conservative” in sports are idiots. You should never change your gameplan. You should have a plan of how you call a game when it’s tied, when you are down by 1 score, when you are down 2+ scores and when you are ahead by 1 score, 2 scores and 2+ scores. You should never sit on the ball before the 4th Q. If you do, you’re asking to let them back in it. The goal of the game is to score and unless you’re up 40 or it’s late enough that you can end the game by kneeling 2/3 times, you should do everything in your power to score. Stop worrying about what MIGHT go wrong, have confidence in your players, scheme, coaches and just go for the fricking throat

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don’t know frick about shite

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I miss Ruth

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