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Posted on 8/6/25 at 5:23 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:55 pm to Rockbrc
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That’s a nice rig
Thanks !! I bet its going to be expensive to fill.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 4:57 am to OK Roughneck
Morning all
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:16 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:58 am to Rockbrc
Good morning.
So. Today I found out that Arkansas missed out on having Bear Bryant as our football coach on two occasions, not just the one everybody remembers.
1952 and the "Bear" is sick and tired of Rupp stabbing him in the back on a daily basis at Kentucky. He's looking for an out and he has the perfect one in mind... a place that had already hired him once to be the football coach, Arkansas.
Arkansas, famously, had signed the then up and coming young coach Paul Bryant to be the head coach when World War II broke out. Bryant joined the Navy for the duration of the war and Arkansas football went straight into the toilet.
Bryant, a native of Arkansas, loved the state and liked the idea of being top dog in Arkansas (then a solid supplier of talent) and cherry picking Texas. The only hold up... he wanted to be AD as well as football coach.
Partly because he didn't want to run into the same troubles he was having at Kentucky but mostly for extra money. The problem being Arkansas had an AD, John Barnhill. In an attempt to sweeten the pot the Stephens family offered Bryant stock in their oil and gas business. Bryant strongly considered the offer but turned it down.
A decision he would later regret because in today's money that stock would be worth 100s of millions of dollars.
He hung on at Kentucky for another year and then fled to Texas A&M. Arkansas kept Barnhill, who quietly built the foundation for Razorback sports. Broyles gets all the credit but it was Barnhill who built the system that Broyles eventually got to run.
So. Today I found out that Arkansas missed out on having Bear Bryant as our football coach on two occasions, not just the one everybody remembers.
1952 and the "Bear" is sick and tired of Rupp stabbing him in the back on a daily basis at Kentucky. He's looking for an out and he has the perfect one in mind... a place that had already hired him once to be the football coach, Arkansas.
Arkansas, famously, had signed the then up and coming young coach Paul Bryant to be the head coach when World War II broke out. Bryant joined the Navy for the duration of the war and Arkansas football went straight into the toilet.
Bryant, a native of Arkansas, loved the state and liked the idea of being top dog in Arkansas (then a solid supplier of talent) and cherry picking Texas. The only hold up... he wanted to be AD as well as football coach.
Partly because he didn't want to run into the same troubles he was having at Kentucky but mostly for extra money. The problem being Arkansas had an AD, John Barnhill. In an attempt to sweeten the pot the Stephens family offered Bryant stock in their oil and gas business. Bryant strongly considered the offer but turned it down.
A decision he would later regret because in today's money that stock would be worth 100s of millions of dollars.
He hung on at Kentucky for another year and then fled to Texas A&M. Arkansas kept Barnhill, who quietly built the foundation for Razorback sports. Broyles gets all the credit but it was Barnhill who built the system that Broyles eventually got to run.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 11:58 am to Arksulli
I've never heard all of that, wild.
Bryant of course passed away 40 years ago, but Paul W. Bryant Jr. is similarly worth hundreds of millions, as Bryant Bank has over $1.5 billion in assets.
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in today's money that stock would be worth 100s of millions of dollars
Bryant of course passed away 40 years ago, but Paul W. Bryant Jr. is similarly worth hundreds of millions, as Bryant Bank has over $1.5 billion in assets.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 1:02 pm to Arksulli
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"Bear" is sick and tired of Rupp stabbing him in the back on a daily basis at Kentucky.
This is a wildly untrue urban legend
Posted on 8/8/25 at 5:08 am to kywildcatfanone
Morning all
Posted on 8/8/25 at 5:53 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 8/8/25 at 6:56 am to Rockbrc
Mornin mane
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:07 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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mane
Is that his nickname?
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:39 am to Summer of Jimbo
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Is that his nickname?
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:10 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:08 am to paperwasp
Posted on 8/8/25 at 10:40 am to 1BIGTigerFan
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:09 pm to paperwasp
Evening All 
Posted on 8/9/25 at 5:37 am to OK Roughneck
Good morning
Roughneck, we are back to needing rain
Roughneck, we are back to needing rain
Posted on 8/9/25 at 5:41 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 8/9/25 at 8:58 am to kywildcatfanone
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