Arksulli

State is baaaaddd. But, unlike other teams (Arkansas), they still play hard. You don't want to let them hang around. If it is close in the 4th quarter they can absolutely knock you off.

They are going to swing for the fences if you don't shut them down early. The bulldogs have exactly zero to lose and quite a bit to gain.

Not the greatest news source. But...

Yeah. Qatar effectively owns a lot of the right wing and extreme left wing media. And have ties to some big time colleges.

We have basically sold our media to Russia, Qatar, and China. Right, left, or solidly in the middle. And they've bought our colleges step by step as well. Blame whichever President lets you sleep at night but we, as a country have failed to keep this from happening.

The women staged a very late rally to force OT and then shutdown UCA. If we can keep our young players (someone hand Musick some NIL) and build up talent we should be a really good team. This year is going to be rough, we play in an insane conference and we not only have a lot of new players, we're doing a fairly radical cultural rebuild.

We're going to run and gun a lot. If we get hot we can make some teams miserable but I suspect we're going to take some tough losses this year.

Bonnie Deas has a shot at being fantastic, but that could complicate things because she's already got pro offers. Going to be an interesting, albeit rough, season.

Since Pittman was fired Petrino has lost 4 games.

The Vols featured us turning the ball over 3 times and Green getting sacked 5 times. Despite this being Petrino's handpicked offense with his players... not his fault. Clearly God miracled a loss for us.

A&M we lost a shoot out. I'll actually agree, not his fault.

Auburn. Sigh. We turn the ball over 4 times in the 4th quarter and lose to a team in a dogfight to be worst in the conference. Even though Green had a complete meltdown it wasn't Petrino's fault despite admitting he never addressed Green's faults in the off season.

Moo State, the worst team in the SEC... before beating us. Our offense essentially disappears in the 4th quarter, didn't we gain like 15 yards? Petrino has a temper tantrum on the sidelline and the team falls apart. Well, obviously the refs were out to get us and Petrino was just lulling Moo State into a false sense of confidence, he just lost track of the time left in the game. Couldn't be his fault.

We have three games left against three teams that have some issues. Be nice for the greatest Arkansas coach since Hatfield to win just one of those games.

Yes, Bobby is an offensive genius. But you know what? I'll say it again. I don't care if we score 35 points a game. I care if we score 3 points when we have to have it. We haven't done that.

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Just wait til that committee forces an auto HBCU bid into the bracket. Not kidding, either.

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HBCU teams play at the FCS level and most are lucky to hang on to their spots there. They aren't even guaranteed a spot in the FCS playoffs. Their big thing is the Celebration Bowl between the winners of the MEAC and SWAC.

If you are worried about them making the FBS playoffs you have some deep seeded issues that you need therapy for.

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1. Yes, but can OC Kirby Moore do it???

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"Therein lays the rub" as Shakespeare wrote.

This needs to be a Drinky called game. An "Excuse me while I whip this out" instead of going with what his OC calls. Go all in on this one.

Unfortunately Missouri won't make the CFP (though if they win this game...) so this is the entire season. Beat A&M. Whip a top 5 team. You do that and close out the season strong (and Arkansas is on life support so you should) and you're a top 15 team going into next season. Much easier to get donations and players then.

Missouri is playing with house money now. If you lose, well the season is pretty well set for a decent bowl game. If you win, however, you've got some mojo going forward.

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If any of these SEC schools who just fired their coaches were serious about winning, they'd pony up the money and hire him tonight.

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We aren't getting Cignetti anywhere else unless someone spends just obscene levels of cash. He's in his mid 60s, he's got a very comfy cushion right now, and even if he doesn't win a Natty if he keeps this up they'll build statues of him.

Right now he's building generational wealth for his family at a school with deep pockets that has suddenly decided they want to splash the cash on his sport.

I think Missouri can do it.

I see you've given this some... thought.

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We drove across Texas in March and I can verify that it is very full. Dallas starts north of Dallas and stops south of Austin. The beautiful countryside has been turned into a sea of rooftops now.

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Ugh. Remember when you could drive down the Florida highway and actually see beaches instead of poorly made hideous looking condos?