In honor of Arky week, let's look back on what would have been

Lol how far we have fallen since

That game also brought us this classic moment.

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Had you guys won, I think we'd be looking at a very different Arky

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I doubt it. They could've gone undefeated and won a natty in 2011 and Petrino is still getting fired that spring. You don't survive banging a former volleyball playing subordinate and a neck brace wearing press conference.

They still would've had interim John Smith in 2012, and they likely still hire Bilema in 2013. Its not like that hire was looked upon as a bad one at the time.

In this hypothetical, Arkansas needed to have Petrino wreck that motorcycle the day after that hypothetical BCS championship and have time to bring in a top name before the spring.

He could have survived.

His reputation did him in.

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dorm playing video games. So the team was shook up and Petrino uncharacteristically showed a heart and was obviously in his feels. That's why he was pissed at Les for running up the score. It was a shitty weekend for Hog fans for multiple reasons.

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Les really didn’t run up the score though. It was a close game going into the 4th quarter.

Petrino is a notorious piece of shite who probably didn’t give two fricks about the player and was more pissed off his team got beat straight up during his biggest coaching moment ever and a shot at the national title on the line

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They were a very good but not great team.

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Honestly they were probably the 3rd best team in the country that year. They just had the misfortune of having the top 2 teams in their own division that beat the crap out of them. And the BCS had that dumb rule where you couldn't have more than 2 teams from the same conference in BCS bowls so the Sugar Bowl was a weird Virginia Tech/Michigan game.

Which speaking of that, how's this for a butterfly effect? If LSU and VT don't play in 2007, let's say they each play another rent a win instead. Sean Glennon plays the whole year. They benched Glennon for Tyrod Taylor after LSU pushed their shite in but got hurt a few games later and Glennon finished the year and still won all their games including the ACC CG rematch with Matt Ryan's BC. In this scenario Tyrod Taylor preserves his redshirt, and is eligible for 2011 and provides the offense to beat Clemson and they go undefeated. Also in 2007 LSU doesn't have head to head over VT and instead VT avenges the BC loss and makes the natty over LSU. VT plays Ohio State in the 2007 natty and LSU in the 2011 natty.

Instead they just got BCS appearances where they lost to Kansas and Michigan with Sean Glennon and Logan Thomas as QBs in those games

It's the same thing that happened in 2008 in th big 12. Between Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas tech. Everyone beat each other but Oklahoma went to the ship. And Florida drubbed them.

It’s sad that we are talking Arkansas vs LSU in September.

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they likely still hire Bilema in 2013. Its not like that hire was looked upon as a bad one at the time.

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The exact opposite. He had Wisconsin absolutely rolling and in constant contention for rose bowls. And I mean real contention for rose bowls, not simply winning the west contention for rose bowls.

I thought he would do the same at Arkansas and that he would create a punishing running attack that the SEC was seemingly trying to move away from. That didn’t happen though and I’m not quite sure why.