re: Special teams and defense blew this game

We always have an excuse to fold. No one ever wants to step up.

Same poorly coached, soft arse team. Looked just like Bert.

We haven’t made a defensive adjustment since Ole Miss.

I don’t know about that.... I don’t know if that was poor coaching as much as want-to only takes you so far.

Question - how many of our defensive recruits are going to move the talent needle next year?

Recruit like you fricking mean it and you’re willing to win or at least be a competitive threat for a change.
There are only so many Burks who are Razorbacks no matter what.

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It isn't Sam's fault that he got the short end of the stick inheriting this team.

Sam is a lot better than we have before but I'm not ready to get on board just yet.

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Pittman is the right guy to stabilize the program. I think he’s going to be a high floor low ceiling type of coach.

How could he not when the expectation isn’t even to beat Mizzou?

It seems like defense has been regressing for a while now. Are they just tired or what?

That is a good question. But it is a combination of people from just a season ticket holder to a large booster that want to make a change. Yes ultimately the powers will have to make that decision but fan input does help and we just didn't have enough of it for many years.

I was a season ticket holder for almost 20 years but after the Missouri game in 2016, I was very angry and Jeff Long made some stupid comments a bout the game on twitter. Some hog fans said that Bert should be fired. But Long danced around the questions and instead added more fuel to the fire.

Then it happened again with the Virginia Tech game. But I decided after so many years that I would drop my season tickets. I was so tired of flushing thousands of dollars worth of my money in a toliet. I decided that I would never again buy season tickets until the University of Arkansas decided to take football more seriously.

I still go to the games but the Sam Pittman hire got me warmed up to the idea of buying season tickets. But I'm not ready yet because I'm still skeptical.

Yes but all it takes is for them to put a little more effort and make better hires. All three of those schools have not. Research and evualuation is very important to hiring and that individual being a good fit at the school.

Bert was a good hire on paper but he was a terrible fit here. He was an alcoholic and just never had the fire to be successful.

Chad was a very lazy hire. He was in over his head here but he should never been hired in the first place.


We should expect the people at the top to make competent hires but they have not in football for 30 years.

30 Years is a long time and enough evidence of the incompetence and lack of care at the top. We have no excuse of why our football teams have been so bad and the same with basketball.