How much longer until you give up on the football program?

I'm never giving up in that I'll always be a fan, but I've just adjusted expectations and only get too invested in sports we are serious about winning

The Hogs have never won a single game of any significance in my lifetime, and I was born in 1970. I can't help but think how blessed I am that the Razorbacks are the biggest misery and frustration in my life. In the end, it's all about your expectations. If you want to play games that matter to college football and perennially have a top 15-20 team, you probably should adopt Free Shoes University.

I have family that was born and raised in Arkansas, but are LSU fans, I guess because they think the football team they support is a reflection on them, and they can't see themselves being associated with a mediocre team that has a decent year once every 4-5 years.

The problems with the Arkansas program are too numerous to mention. We have the wrong kind of rich people in this state. We have the wrong kind of people running the athletic programs, and we have the wrong kind of fanbase for a program that struggles to compete in the best conference in college football.

Have I already given up? Maybe. I prefer to think that I have learned the realities of college football, and realized that it would take a miracle for us to compete at the highest levels with any consistency. So I will do what I have done for the last 40 years, which is celebrate when we play well and jump up and beat someone who actually has a chance to play games of significance, and bitch when we lose to teams we should beat. But I will always be a Razorback fan and could never contemplate supporting another team because being their fan is easier.

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So how much longer to you stay loyal to the clown show that is Arkansas football?

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It would take some sort of Penn State-like shenanigans coming to light for me to abandon Razorback football.

Even then, I wouldn't adopt a new team. I'd probably just give up college football in general.

I did during Morris. Never came even close to back.

Basketball dwarfs it for me and baseball to a lesser extent.

My name is etched in that sidewalk so I’m never “giving up” on it because it’s too much apart of my DNA.

However, I’ve definitely adjusted my general expectations, and my emotional and financial investment accordingly. We gave up our season tickets during the Bert era and only make about 1 home game a year (if that), and the losses don’t hit nearly as hard anymore.

I’ve opted to invest my time and dollars in other sports where we are or can be nationally competitive, namely basketball and baseball.

I'll never give up on any Razorback team regardless of the sport.

58 years of being a Razorback fan, alumni, and booster. I've never contemplated cheering for any other Team.

I stopped giving much of a shite at the end of 2016 when Bert didn't get fired. I had a brief fire at the end of 2017, but then I saw we hired Morris and that was basically it. I still talk football here and there out of habit and when there's an interesting discussion to be had, but I've said it in multiple topics: let Pittman stay for ten years or whenever he decides to retire. He's a good guy anf this state deserves no better than his performance. If we make a hire that, for better or worse, says we care after he's gone, maybe I'll have my interest piqued a little again.

I keep up with Deion Sanders as a project to still stay interested in CFB,but of course I have no emotional attachment to Colorado.

I still care about the Hogs, just not Hot football. Despite dropping the ball here and there, we still care about baseball and basketball, and we're in the hunt for something significant come postseason, usually. That's all I ask for as a fan: a reason to stay invested and for just the CHANCE at a significant event.

The last football game that I remember truly caring about was Auburn in 2020. That one stung.