re: Tommy T at the NW AR TDC ....

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wasn't inferring that it was a problem for me, just the old man. Honestly we didn't really have the cash for it and I was surprised to see games in LR really.

It is roughly 300+ miles from where I grew up to Fayetteville. The few times I did mention it to him I got the 'wtf are you talking about' look.

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So Dad could pool the money for t WarDUMP?

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First post from a long time lurker

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Of course someone from the portion of our fan base who is still living in the past makes an arse of himself.

Tuberville is becoming one of my favorite former coaches, mostly because he's a good interview and he'll refreshingly shoot straight instead of relying on the typical noncommittal PC coachspeak that you see so often from the coach-turned-commentator crowd.

He was on Finebaum's radio show not too long ago and was asked about Butch Jones at Tennessee. Instead of saying something like "well Butch is a great coach and he'll turn it around," he said something to the effect of "Tennessee is a good job and he needs to start winning football games, there's no excuse for them to be this bad or soft." He said something similar about Bielema not long ago either.

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Not sure if Tuberville knows this, but the current coaching cadre of the SEC includes Bret Bielema, Butch Jones, Kevin Sumlin, Barry Odom, Will Muschamp, and Ed Orgeron.

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Even then, Petrino led us to our best years in the 21st century and he certainly didn't have a murderer's row of talent in retrospect. Dude just outcoached everyone else.

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Arkansas needs to play a game in Little Rock. Don’t regionalize your team. If you start cutting people off it makes it more difficult.”

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Arkansas isn't the little hillybilly bumpkin state that it used to be. It's no longer full of a bunch of backroads that isolate the corners of the state. Also, people all over the state can catch the Hogs on their damn cellphones now a-days. It ain't like folks are needing to huddle around the transistor radio to get a decent signal so they can listen to their Hogs play.

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“You have to understand it starts with defense in the SEC. That’s why most guys who have success have been defensive coaches.”

“If you don’t have a physical defense… You’re going to have to outscore people, and eventually your offense isn’t going to show up.”

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Ask Florida how that's been working out for them. They've experience the flip side of the coin: if you can't outscore people, eventually the defense isn't going to show up. At the end of the day, you have to have an offense in this league that can put up points along with a defense that can generate turnovers.

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Ask Florida how that's been working out for them. They've experience the flip side of the coin: if you can't outscore people, eventually the defense isn't going to show up. At the end of the day, you have to have an offense in this league that can put up points along with a defense that can generate turnovers.

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I think a major thing that is overlooked is you have to be physical on both sides of the ball in this league.
It doesn't really matter what type of offense or defense you run but you must be physical. And yes it is possible to be a physical spread team especially at the point of attack which is where it matters.

I just come here to try to keep up with things. I don't get a whole lot of information in Central Louisiana and not spending money pay sites. Matter of fact I had to reset my stuff this month so I could even post. Y'all some paranoid people.

I miss the old WMS. Games were awesome there. Little Rock games aren’t what they used to be though and Fayetteville games are better than ever. Tommy may be partly right about one thing. Arkansas doesn’t corner the market on fans like it used to in central Arkansas and that will get worse over time. Little Rock will eventually get behind a local team whether it be UALR or UCA. The U of A doesn’t need the whole state like it did in the past so it will be okay.

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I miss the old WMS. Games were awesome there. Little Rock games aren’t what they used to be though and Fayetteville games are better than ever. Tommy may be partly right about one thing. Arkansas doesn’t corner the market on fans like it used to in central Arkansas and that will get worse over time. Little Rock will eventually get behind a local team whether it be UALR or UCA. The U of A doesn’t need the whole state like it did in the past so it will be okay.

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They games aren't what they use to be because the meat of the schedule hasn't been played there since the completion of lights in DWRRS and I-540.

When Ford was here, the "big" games were still being played in LR, Bama, Auburn, etc.

Nutt faced the "big" portion of SEC wins in his career there playing Ms. State, LSU, Kentucky, and Carolina, all the while jacking of central Arkansas claiming it to be "great".

Petrino thought of and spoke of LR as being a road game, he wasn't in favor of it, but he wasn't going to upset the apple cart over it either.

Bert being Bert doesn't like giving up a home game to play in front of 30K fans that are still pouring into the stadium midway through the first quarter and leaving midway through the second half because getting drunk on the golf course is the event of the LR games, not the actual game.

Fact is LR has no one but themselves to blame for losing the games. Same as San Diego, St. Louis, and soon to be Oakland have found themselves no longer with football. LR was asked to upgrade WMS, instead of actually renovating the locker rooms and modernizing the stadium as asked, they added new carpet and a new press box and called it done because they thought they were entitled to games, the big games on the schedule, every year.

This forward thinking also cost them a shot at hosting a bowl game, just as it cost them FedEx, CAT, and several other business opportunities over the years.

They seem to have forgotten LR wasn't even the popular choice for the location of the state capital, the people chose it to be Roseville, AR in the river valley, logic of having the capital centrally located is the only reason why it is where it is. Fact is ever since the boundaries for the state have been defined the people within have had a preference for the Northern and Western part of the state, the rest is there because the politicians said it had to be there.

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You're right. They're Florida A&M, Alcorn, etc...

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wms couldn't sell out Georgia in 2014.

I can't wait for little rock u to start up a football program just so the people of little rock can show the rest of the state how well they can they fill up a stadium and support a program.

Over/under will be 10k for the inaugural game.

Little Rock isn't what it used to be either..... it's worse.