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I never rejected the Missouri rivalry, I think you're the most natural rival we have at this point.

The problem with teams like Arkansas is we have no power conference in-state rival to have built all this storied history with. Arkansas, Missouri, and LSU are the only three SEC teams who don't have that, and LSU is a charter member of the conference, so they have a lot of backstory with a lot of teams. So for us it becomes teams we share a border with, or "what team has pissed us off the most recently," and the problem with that one is if you're not consistently competitive, the team you're pissed at doesn't take you seriously. Back when we were in the SWC our hatred for Texas could be taken more seriously. Then we stopped playing them regularly and football fell off a cliff.

The football series between Mizzou and Arkansas has become lopsided, but the game is basically always settled by one score or less. We just keep coming out on the wrong side of it. You don't really care about baseball, and you keep fricking up basketball hires the same way we keep fricking up football hires, so basketball isn't as fierce of a rivalry as it could be.

There are a lot of similarities between us and Missouri, though. And ARMOgeddon is the coolest rivalry name in the conference, even if the competition itself is usually a slap-off between two barely functional retards.

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But as far as titles go, Alabama baseball kicks Arkansas baseballs fricking arse.

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We have the same number of national championships?

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I think Arkansas is the last sleeping giant,

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We've always had a terrifying upside in baseball and basketball, if we could only learn to get out of our own way. Football, not so much. Arkansas football struggled for political reasons a lot of people outside the state don't see, so the backyard pool of talent isn't really there. And in the age of NIL this should theoretically be less of an issue, but we've made it beyond clear that we have no interest in ponying up the money, and the fan base has no interest in hitting the misguided administration where it hurts. We're no more a sleeping giant than Nebraska is anymore. We ARE better than struggling to go to consistent bowl games, so at this point my only explanation is we're somehow infested with double agents.

Any team in Texas or Florida failing to emerge or remeerge is a lot more fascinating than Arkansas: failure to launch, imo.

I can't decide if Roll Tide is especially fitting or especially insulting in this case.

The 9 seed actually went 4–0. They got it as wrong as they possibly could.

What is tRant's fascination with this guy? I truly get the collective melt everyone had over Lane Kiffin because he's a legit threat to bring another NC to Baton Rouge, but Will Wade is just... pretty good for their basketball standards. He's like Dan Mullen at MSU.

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NC State is expected to make a competitive offer

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I can't believe they didn't take the low hanging fruit here.

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Most of the ignorant Arkansas masses should celebrate another day alive since the vast majority are obese, smoke cigarettes and various other chemicals, drank Currs lite, and generally go through life passing genital
warts to their immediate family members via scissoring.

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There has to be a more efficient way of telling us you're a fig and your team sucks.

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So I take it you have Arkansas below those two schools since they don’t have a championship.

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Sure, why not.

I've thought most of the year that we were a second round team, but lately I'm feeling optimistic for a little better.