re: The Real Reason Arky Fans Hate Hootie

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yea and Petrino is moving QB's to TE. Petrino is moving Lb's to DE and back to Lb, and back to DE again. Nutt moved one WR, to DE and he went on to be the #8 over all pick in the 2007 nfl draft. Arkansas is a program that will have to do stuff like that to compete b/c you aren't going out and consistantly getting 2 or 3 SEC caliber defensive ends per signing class.

I'm not impressed with the way Petrino runs his program. I'm not impressed that the best player in the state is favoring NUTT over PETRINO right now.

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1) Petrino moved one QB that Nutt had offered to TE. He honored the scholly Nutt offered, or the kid would never have been playing QB at Arkansas. It's mind-boggling he offered him over Wilson.

2) Petrino has bounced Tank Wright between DE and LB. That's it. Tank is one of those hybrid guys with no true position. He'll probably play both this year...maybe standing up out of his stance and shifting back to LB or walking down on the line.

3) Nutt moved countless WR's to DE, DB's to LB, and DE's to DT, etc. I can remember Anthony Brown for one....yes, one of them worked when Jamaal Anderson blew up and was a great DE. But banking on recruiting a 6'2'' 205 lb WR and making an SEC lineman out of him is a horrible recruiting strategy, and one Nutt loved.

4) Dyer isn't favoring Nutt over anyone. From the horse's mouth it is AUBURN in the lead, with Ole Miss and Arkansas tied for third.

What you should be impressed with is that it won't kill our program if Dyer doesn't come to Arkansas. Why not? Because Petrino doesn't build his program around the once-ever-five-years-Arkansas-produces-MJ or DMAC program like Nutt did.