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

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.