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My bad. I'll go drink a cheap beer as punishment.

I'm only talking about football here. I grew up elsewhere and moved to AR the summer of '92. I wasn't here for history before 1992 so my opinions are based from then on. The first game I saw as a new fan was a loss to The Citadel.

92: utter crap, 3-7-1, though we did beat Carolina, Tenn and LSU and tie Auburn
93: tasty mediocrity, 5-5-1, though the record books say 6-4-1 due to "winning" against Bama by putting up 3 pts to their 43
94: more crap, 4-7, beating nobody of consequence
95: hints of football, 8-5, tainted by skull-fricking in SEC champ game and bowl failure
96: nothing to see here...move along, 4-7
97: lather, rinse, repeat...4-7, ending with fourth straight loss to LSU
98: new hope, 9-3, after 8-0 start we're geek who thought we'd get the prom queen until she kicked our teeth in. Bowl failure
99: so-so, 8-4, does at least end with Cotton win over Texas
00: crap, 6-6 and ends with yet more bowl failure, this time to freaking UNLV
01: tasty mediocrity continues, 7-5 with yet another bowl loss, to Oklahoma in Cotton
02: flatter to deceive, 9-5, classic HDN ending with another SEC champ skull-frick and bowl loss...to Minnesota in Music City
03: batting .667 is fun for the whole family, 9-4 after 'huge' bowl win over Missouri in Independence
04: time for a 2-year pass, 5-6...moving along
05: still passing (but not on field), 4-7, and 70-17 is all that needs to be said
06: get used to late slides, 10-4, but 'finishing' with losses to LSU, FL in the SEC champ, and Wiscy in the Cap One
07: how is your unflavored oatmeal, 8-5 and utter embarrassment in Cotton against Missouri
08: take your lumps, 5-7, new coach and new players
09: hints of hope, 8-5, but squeaker of bowl win against ECU uninspiring
10: tainted sweets, 10-3, nice improvement and no need to rehash; we all know about the failures

So what picture does this paint? It's certainly not a record that indicates we've arrived, are elite, or guaranteed of success. On the whole it's mediocre at best. We've never won the SEC or a BCS bowl, let alone a modern MNC.

As a fan who lives in the town where the school is and gets to follow development, I think I see things that give hope for better success. Guarantee? No. I fully realize the football giants against whom we compete. But if I didn't have hope then I wouldn't bother being a fan. So I go into 2011-12 eager to see how things go. I can't predict when but my hope tells me that one day we'll show we belong by doing more than having a good game or a good year here and there.

Just to clarify. I'm male. Life partner is wife, who is female. 20 years and counting.

Article this morning doesn't really say one way or another but hints about possibility Evans could stay on staff. He's the only one from Pel's staff still working here so far.

Paper said Rotnei actually requested a release before MA was hired. Long told him he had to wait to speak with the new coach. Don't see how that can be Mike's fault since Rot didn't know Mike would be the coach when he asked to be released.

Going from uncertainty to certainty changed their mind.

Know opologeez kneaded hear. Eye waz jist gessing & ansering ur kwestun. Eye mayk mysteaks two.

Get your resume in. Hogs looking for three asst basketball coaches:

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On an unrelated note, I picked the wrong fricken business.

Basketball. Team. Coaching. Search. Un-derail.

Happy birthday pioneer and belated to you Marty. Glad you survived the ordeal. I can't quite remember back that far. Methuselah was on my high school basketball team.

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After the press conference.

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And with Arkansas you need to wait two days after the presser to know that we've actually hired a coach. :altman: