re: I'll take this painful loss over a blowout

The 2016 year was going just fine until the Missouri and Virginia Tech loses. That is when the collapse really began. No excuse losing those games after double digit leads. Bert would be 9-4 and 4-4 in the SEC. He probably would have survived the next year.

Then Jeff Long made some comment on Twitter that integrity was more important than wins and I gave up my tickets because if the school didn't care a bout winning and just wanted my money then they would no longer get anymore free money. Bert should have been fired. But Long was such a coward.

Bert was lazy and didn't have a care for this school here. It was merely a business but because he didn't try hard enough, he got fired. Sam is the opposite and the first coach since Ken Hatfield that actually cares a bout the University of Arkansas. It is effort and perseverance that are lost concepts in football today but Sam is teaching this guys the old school way of football.

I think this team would beat the 2016 team because they displayed poor effort just like the Auburn disaster. That team was fragile like Bert and Sam would pull a victory.