Arkansas 44, Ole Miss 8

Comments

1. OwassoHog says:

   October 20, 2007 at 5:00 pm

   Surprised by the outcome… makes you ask the question – where have you been Razorbacks?
2. BlindHog says:

   October 20, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Where has this team been indeed? These guys would be 7-0 and number 2 in the nation. The first time this year we have answered the bell and played 60 minutes. Add getting a team ready to start the year to developing a QB as Dale’s skills yet to be developed.

   I want to know who was calling those plays. My money is on Tim Horton.

   Of course that is just one. There is a half a season yet to play. But, if Reggie can get this defense to play this well and lay off the blitz a little (its obvious they play zone much better,) and Dale will let Tim go ahead and call a complete game plan we may be in store for another return from the dead trip to the Cotton Bowl.

   BUT, if he saves his job, how much longer do we go on with this also ran, wait until next year, BS? Another 10 years?
3. GonzoHog says:

   October 21, 2007 at 8:54 am

   Great win for the Hogs, but as we all know, it is 1 win out of 4 SEC games. It doesn’t “right the ship”, so to speak, but it does give encouragement for the rest of the season. I still haven’t figured out how Houston always seems to find a way to kill this team in the early going. I was listening to how Kieth Jackson was commenting on the fact that the Hog’s DBs have done a 180 since the Bama game. They are actually playing the ball now, while before, they weren’t even looking for it. I also thought Casey Dick looked much more like the QB I was envisioning before the season started. Also, the play calling was much more open. The only play call I thought was a little predictable, was D-Mac up the middle on 1st down. This seems to be an automatic play on 1st down, no matter what the field position is. No matter how you look at it, it still seems like a wasted season, considering we had a chance to win the other 3, if this team had been properly prepared. I am suprised to see a score of 44-8 on an Ole Miss team in Oxford, but at the same time, I am overly cautious as well. I hate to be a complainer, but as history has shown with this coach, the late start has alway’s lead to mediocraty in the end. We are in the process of fighting for a bowl appearance, enstead of winning an SEC West championship and going back to the SEC tital game. I will always root for the Hogs, but this coach has proven to me he will never take this team to a BCS bowl game, much less the National Tital Game. I would love to see the Hogs win the rest of thier games, but it won’t change my mind about this coach. We’ve seen the majority of 10 years playing slightly above .500 football. This year should have been different with the talent level we have now, but lousy play calling has once again been the downfall of this team in the early going. Look for this to happen again when the game is on the line. I’ll bet money we play not to lose.
4. DMON(HOG IN LA) says:

   October 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

   It was Ole Miss, there was suppose to win this game, but we all thought there was a chance they would lose. Let’s see we play Florida Atlantic or International some college just above High School Football and then South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and LSU. Le’s see how warm and fuzzy everything is going to be then. There is going to be alot of coaching changes in the off season, I sure us finishing 4TH in SEC West doesnt mean it was a good year.
5. Defense Wins Championships says:

   October 23, 2007 at 10:46 am

   I would like to thank all of you who participated in the negativism this past year. You have done a superb job of assisting in running talented commitments off. You are not going to like the results in the future but you have earned it.
6. darrell(Hog in LA) says:

   October 23, 2007 at 4:44 pm

   DWC, Kale Pick is from Kansas, he is seeing his home state school’s offense be more dynamic and his chances of developing his talent are much greater than coming here and handing the ball off to someone for four years, give me a break. I would like to think we are doing a public service besides let’s wait and see after the season what happens.
7. Defense Wins Championships says:

   October 23, 2007 at 6:40 pm

   Pick has shown in previous comments that I have read out of Kansas that he is a mature young person. Why not take Pick’s words for what has unsettled him and that is the negativity that he has picked up on? He would be very naive to not look at the negative junk generated by a few disgruntled fans who have been spilling their venom-laced mouths for months. These are the same type of people that all of us have to work with on occasion. Who in their right minds would want to play for loud, thankless fans who think they know more than the coaches Thankfully, in the workplace these people are replaced unless they work for a character-challenged supervisor or manager, and in that case they too will be eventually replaced. What we are witnessing is exactly what we have in society as a whole…a total breakdown of common courtes and respect. Unfortunately, ever team has them but ours chose a very poor time to vent their venom…right at the exact time that the team was experiencing success.
8. darrell(Hog in LA) says:

   October 23, 2007 at 7:23 pm

   Exactly! and why are the fans second guessing the coaches decisions and play calling? Maybe he heard Nutt makes statement’s like “I told the offensive coordinator to open up the playbook and let it go” in WEEK 7! or watched the game against Auburn in which he called 3 running plays even on third and 7 yards to go, perhaps he researched and didn’t see any playmakers on the roster and none exactly committing to Arkansas in 2008. You think high school football players are concerned about what fans think to the point they would be discouraged about attending a university. I guess that is why Joe Adams is going to Southern Cal because the Arkansas fans are negative, not to mention the three other native Arkansas roaming SC campus(Williams, Mustain, and Green). I think Mr Pick did his homework.
9. GonzoHog says:

   October 24, 2007 at 9:57 am

   DWC: It is premature, at best, to say the negative fan base at the U of A is running off recruits. Have you not noticed that Jerious Wright (WR), and Kale Pick (QB), are representing a possible future passing game at the U of A, that this coaching staff has failed to use to any effectiveness this year? Wasn’t it stated by Houston Nutt that David Lee was the one who mainly recruited these kids by promising a new pro-style attack? So what have they witnessed this year? Where’s the future? Where’s the big promise that convinced them to commit? You can blame it on the fans all you want, but facts are facts, and this coaching staff has proven they are sub-par when preparing a team for a season. You don’t convieniently pick Ole Miss to open up the offense, after going 0-3 in the SEC, against some of the better teams. The proof is in the pudding, and the recruits see it. Besides, Pick didn’t know his home state team would turn out as good as they have either. Winston Guy is also taking another look at his home state. Why wouldn’t he? Look at what Kentucky has done this year. If you can stay at home and win, then most will stay. If there is no future in staying at home, then most will move away. Houston Nutt has proven that he will not run a staff of coaches that are committed to opening up the offense. Call me negative, call me sour, tell me I have a bad attitude, or what ever, But don’t piss down my back and tell me that it’s raining, and everything will be better tommorrow. That’s called reality!
10. darrell(Hog in LA) says:

    October 24, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    Well put Gonzo! National Signing Day isn’t until February so he could change his mind again who knows.
11. Defense Wins Championships says:

    October 25, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    This is typical. What we have here Gonzo if no one agrees with you then you get in the gutter with the gutter talk. Basic Freshman classes would greatly assist you in increasing your vocabulary.
12. D A in MTN HOME says:

    October 26, 2007 at 3:38 am

    DWC: I SEE YOU HAVE BOUGHT IN TO HDN’S NEW SEASON BS. I GUESS AFTER THIS WEEKENDS GAME AGAINST FIU, THAT YOU ALONG WITH HDN WILL BE PROCLAIMING US NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. WOW! WHAT A GLORIOUS SEASON 2-0 AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.OH, I’M SORRY, FOR A MOMENT THERE I WAS CAUGHT UP IN THE NEW SEASON THEORY,BUT THEN I REMEMBERED WE STILL HAVE 4 MORE CONFERENCE GAMES TO GO. WHICH I BELIEVE AT BEST WE WILL GO 1-3 AND BE IDENTICAL TO THE SEASON BEFORE THE NEW SEASON STARTED. WHAT A MIRACULOUS TURN AROUND. OUR PLAYERS DESERVE BETTER FROM THIS COACHING STAFF. OUR LOYAL FANS THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BLAME KNOW THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH TALENT ON THIS TEAM TO BE A 6-6 TEAM. IT IS NOT OUR FANS FAULT THAT WE ARE LOSING COMMITMENTS, IT IS THE WAY OUR PROGRAM IS BEING LED. IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE IN OUR COACHING STAFF,AND YES IT IS POSSIBLE WE COULD STRUGGLE FOR A WHILE UNDER A NEW COACH, BUT THEN AGAIN IT COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF ARKANSAS BEING NATIONAL CONTENDERS. ONLY TIME WILL TELL.ONE THING IS FOR SURE,GETTING RID OF HDN AND HIS YES MEN(DAVID LEE) WILL BE THE TRUE START TO A GLORIOUS NEW SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13. GonzoHog says:

    October 26, 2007 at 8:04 am

    DWC, If your suggesting I have a split tougue just because I’ve got enough since to see Houston Nutt for what he really is, then your previous post of Houston being such a great coach is even more redicules to me now than what I had origionally thought. I don’t change my mind to apiese anyone. Not you, or anyone else I have ever disagreed with on this blog site. If Houston deserved the benefit of the doubt, I alway’s gave it to him. If he deserved the ridecule, I gave it to him. The one problem I had with other bloggers this past year was the fact that they were making such a big deal out of the Mitch and Gus ordeal. Knowone knew the real story behind it all, but went ahead and made outlandish comments out of thier own personal hate for Houston. Even then, I stated that I believed he waited too long for an OC to come in and take over the play calling, but gave him the benefit of the doubt for going 10-4. Never once, have you ever heard me say I thought Houston Nutt was a great coach. Never once, have you ever heard me say Houston is a great recruiter. He is probably a better recruiter than HC, but that isn’t really saying a whole lot, since he’s only decent at best. What we have here DWC, is if everyone doesn’t put on this big “happy face” about our current HC debacle, like you do, then thier talking “gutter”. I wonder DWC, with all of the attitude talk you confidently throw at anyone who doesn’t want Houston Nutt to be here, where would your company be if your own personal performance was only good about every 3 years? What if your best year was your first year because you took advantage of someone else’s tools they convieniently left for you. You were good again the next year, but not quite the same. You stunk in your 3rd and 4th year, and was “fair to Middlin” in the 5th. The 6th year you were off and running again, but layed an egg somewhere in the middle, only to finish halfway decent at the end. The 7th and 8th year stunk once again. In the 9th year, your supervisor began to put pressure on you to get outside help, so he hired you an assistant to help you make better decisions. This lasted late into the year, but stubborn ways soon caught up to the relationship. You brought it to your assistant’s attention that another assistant would be brought in to help, who was more in-tune your work philosiphy, even though the previous year was a much better sucsess compared to others. This was not acceptable for the sucsessful assistant, who felt disrespected and unwanted, so when he left, some of your workers, who had hired on at the time of his arrival, quite. This left you holding the bag, once again, and way too stubborn to see it. Your 10th year is underway now, and your back to “fair to middlin” , AGAIN! It has now been realized, by most, that you are not the man for the job. Sorry about the vocabulary on the last comment. I get carried away when people refuse to see reality.
14. TipsterHog says:

    October 26, 2007 at 8:22 am

    Okay guys…I think everyone has gotten their ’say’ and made their point. Let’s move along.

    And cut out the personal attacks immediately. That won’t be tolerated here.