Arksulli
| Favorite team: | Arkansas  |
| Location: | Fayetteville |
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| Registered on: | 8/21/2014 |
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re: WilliamTaylor21 vs. LSUFreek
Posted by Arksulli on 5/20/25 at 4:21 pm
I have heard about, spoken in hushed terms, LSUFreek but I missed his prime on here. I like Willy, and he can uncork some real home runs from time to time, but there is a difference between a legend and someone is really good.
You can't replace a legend. We're never going to have another Carolina_Girl for example.
You can't replace a legend. We're never going to have another Carolina_Girl for example.
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1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.
The danger of being a lightweight fighting heavyweights. Mary was a devout, and I do mean devout, Catholic in a region that had embraced the Protestant faith.
Mary never met a conspiracy she wouldn't join, an unpopular stance she wouldn't endorse, or an opportunity to mess with people far more powerful than her.
To make matters worse her principal opponent was Elizabeth the Great. A monarch that out matched every royal in Europe and by sheer stint of willpower stabilized England when it was in danger of slipping into yet another disastrous civil war.
Add to that Elizabeth would kill you in a heartbeat if she thought you were a danger to her rule. Not paranoid ruthless like Stalin, but a very pragmatic ruthless. She would give you just enough rope to hang yourself... and than make damn sure you were left hanging.
Lizzy, for a variety of reasons, partly political and partly an unwillingness to remove Mary due to their family connection (cousins, though the two never met personally) treated Mary very well during the imprisonment in England. But Mary just couldn't step away power or restoring the Catholic faith to dominance. Even her strident defenders can't deny her constant attempts to meddle in Scottish politics and her clandestine correspondence with France.
Of course Elizabeth knew all about the letters to France. She used them to smoke out some rebellious nobles and then, tired of Mary's actions, sentenced her to death. I suspect she might have still let Mary live but frankly Mary was expensive as hell to maintain in the splendor she demanded.
re: NCAA Softball Tournament Regionals - May 16-18
Posted by Arksulli on 5/18/25 at 11:12 am
Yeah, the weather in our areas is going to be iffy.
re: SEC Outdoor Track and Field Champions - Georgia Women - Arkansas Men!
Posted by Arksulli on 5/16/25 at 4:16 pm
I miss the days of this being the "Arkansas Invitational" where we got people ready for the inevitable National tile run. Our women are in decent shape but the men... phew.
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/12/25 at 3:17 pm
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We did, but 2012 was the first year I was old enough to remember scores.
But you got to reap that loss back. That's a good thing.
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/11/25 at 6:01 pm
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I’m an A&M fan…
Ah, my apologies. Didn't y'all have a 77-0 loss to Oklahoma around then?
Not trying to rub it in. Yeah, 59-0 to the Tide stings. But at least y'all avenged it a few years later. I'll take that.
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/11/25 at 11:13 am
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Few people thought he would be a great coach at Arky but even fewer expected him to be 45-19 to Western Kentucky kind of terrible.
What is shocking is... the score wasn't shocking back then. We went into the game expecting to be beat down, at home, by Western Kentucky. Not even John L. Smith having a season long nervous breakdown was as bad as the last year of Chad Morris... and his first year wasn't a cakewalk either.
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/11/25 at 11:10 am
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The 59-0 debacle against Alabama in 2014.
Err.... 2014 Arkansas lost to Bama by a point. 14-13.
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1940 German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.
The danger of assuming the war will go exactly like you planned... see Russia invading the Ukraine as a modern example.
The French did not want to fight the second World War on their turf merci beaucoup. So they would wall off most of their border and lure the Germans into fighting them... in Belgium.
The problem is that the French were so blatantly obvious about what they were going to do the Nazis had plenty of time to develop a plan to capitalize on the French movie.
Lure the French (and the small BEF, almost all the ground units Britain had in the European theater) into Belgium, and then cut through the Ardennes Forest and "pocket" the cream of the French Army and all of Britain's.
Which is exactly what they did. To make matters worse the French generals were past their prime. By which I mean they made Biden and Trump seem like 30 year olds. They were unable to adapt to new German tactics... until younger French generals were elevated to replace them. By then it was too late, even though the tactics the French developed then were the ones the Soviets, US, and British would use to maul the Nazis later on.
re: Did the #1 preseason aTm aggies just lose 2 in a row to 0-24 Mizzou
Posted by Arksulli on 5/11/25 at 8:33 am
The Aggies are bad neighbors, plan and simple. They should have helped Missouri make it even easier to fire their head coach, not give them some wins to create the illusion of "progress."
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/11/25 at 8:29 am
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era or pun intended?
Very much intended. Chad Morris was the bubonic plague of Arkansas football.
re: Why do I get the feeling we’re going to drop a game to Mizzou?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/10/25 at 10:39 am
There comes a time, and I hate to admit it, where you need your conference foes to help you out and get rid of a coach.
re: Worst beatdown you have ever seen your team take?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/10/25 at 10:32 am
Everything from the Chad Morris error. Oh sure, we had Houston Nutt's complete collapses against USC, but everything was a deluge of crap under Morris. I don't think the program has recovered. It may be another decade before we really do. That is how bad those two years were.
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1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
True, no BS, story time. My great grandfather owned the major bottling company in the Memphis area. He was approached by a growing company that offered him 25-50% of their company (depending on how much he put in) if he would bottle and promote their product. He turned them down.
It was Coca Cola. We will skip over how he lost all his businesses and stocks during the Great Depression.
Oh! And I just finished a coke with my lunch.
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1429 Joan of Arc breaks the English siege of Orleans.
After being appointed leader of the French Army (many suspect the French King was looking for a scapegoat) Joan of Arc went on an absolute tear.
And she pulled it off because she didn't know what she was doing. Back then warfare was either lightning fast raids designed to kill helpless peasants or slow, ponderous sieges. It could take weeks, sometimes months, just to move an army a distance that could be covered in two days at a brisk walk.
Joan, not knowing how things were supposed to be done, went with the logic of "if it takes us two days to walk there then we attack in three days." Her forces appeared like a bolt out of the blue to the stunned English. Helping matters was the fact that her subordinate commanders were exceptionally skilled... but overly cautious since bold attacks earlier in the war tended to be disasters.
Her boldness would, eventually, come back to haunt her when she was captured leading an attack on fortified position. Fortunately the French King... err... well actually he encouraged the English to get rid of her since he was jealous of her immense popularity. After several weeks of rape and torture the English burned her at the stake as a witch.
The first step is always, always, to stop the bleeding. That means a change of head coach. Ideally you want a proven program builder, but nothing wrong with settling for someone who's had some level of success at this point.
re: Deifel doing what Dave Can't.
Posted by Arksulli on 5/4/25 at 3:04 pm
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The games do matter. I just listed all the series they’ve won since last losing a series to OU, almost two months ago.
It is also SEC softball. The level of difficulty in the conference makes SEC football seem like you're playing on easy mode.
re: Real OT official meme thread.
Posted by Arksulli on 5/4/25 at 3:01 pm
I'm going to guess Amsterdam. Which also has a public whore section of town. If the SEC OT was going to go anywhere... I'm just saying boats, prostitutes, beer, and weed pretty well applies to everyone here.
And they historical stuff you can see while you are enjoying all those other things.
And they historical stuff you can see while you are enjoying all those other things.
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1626 American Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
In true American style the tribe in question didn't actually live on the island. They just crossed over to forage every now and then. Living the dream 150 years early.
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1929 Audrey Hepburn (Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston), actress, later U.N. special ambassador.
Rank doesn't always have its privileges. Hepburn was part of a minor noble family and grew up across Western and Central Europe. However, with war threatening to break out her mother decided the safest place was Holland. They had stayed neutral in the first World War and had maintained excellent relations with the Germans.
The mother, I am sorry to say, choose poorly. The Netherlands fell early and as the war heated up the Dutch went through their own special hell. They produce a lot more food than you think... which meant they got the privilege of having almost all their produce taken from them. The Dutch, Hepburn among them, slowly began to starve to death.
Hepburn never fully recovered from war time malnutrition and despite being a vibrant Hollywood star was privately in poor health for the rest of her life.
re: What was the most disappointing season for your team in your lifetime?
Posted by Arksulli on 5/3/25 at 10:26 am
As an Arkansas fan there are too many of these, across too many sports, to even narrow down to a top 5.
The good news is that even being on the SEC OT board won't cause me to spend any time in purgatory. The Hogs have already put me through the torments of the damned.
The good news is that even being on the SEC OT board won't cause me to spend any time in purgatory. The Hogs have already put me through the torments of the damned.
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