I'm sure the grass isn't greener, that is why Kodi and Ziemba went to Auburn, Ryan went to Michigan and Mitch and Damien left for USC. Three pretty good quarterbacks in there passed on Houston. Wonder why? He has never developed one that is why. We will never compete they way we want with a Bus Driver at QB.

Granted, we finished in the top ten but we somehow managed to follow it up with a 5-5-1 record the next season.

Again, I'm not saying I don't wish for more; I just point out that the expectations being expressed here are 30 years out of date.

I also seem to remember Hatfield's play book being option right, option left, option up the middle. Holtz, I'm a little more fuzzy. It's been too many years.

Yeah right. Like we were sailing along just fine prior to HDN. We’ve either got some young posters here or some senile posters here.

Quick, somebody tell me how many conference championships Arkansas has had since Frank Broyles stepped down as Head Coach? In the last 30 years, how many?

THREE Dammit. A whopping three conference championships!

Look, I want Arkansas to compete for championships every year just like everybody else, but the expectations being scribed here are ridiculous.

If all things were equal, Arkansas would win a conference championship once every twelve years. All things are not equal. Let’s take South Carolina, Ole Miss, Vandy, State and Kentucky out of the equation. That brings us to one championship every 7 years. Therefore Houston is three years overdue. You expect two SEC rings? Who’s not going to win? Bama? LSU? Florida? Tennessee? Auburn? Georgia?

Let’s look at Divisional championships. Again ignore Ole Miss and State. That means if everything else was equal, we should make a Championship game appearance every four years. That means Nutt should have been twice – Hmm. You want it more frequently? Who are you going to move down the bracket? LSU, Auburn, or Bama. Which of those teams has less of a winning tradition than us?

Look, you want Nutt gone . . . fine. But let’s drop the delusions of grandeur. Please point me to one season since Frank Broyles coached, just one, where Arkansas had a better football program than what HDN has built.

Ship not right my arse. We didn’t even have a ship before Nutt got here.

None of that describes where we are with this pee-wee football or poor recruiting. It is a mess and has been since Dale stopped coaching and started relying on politics.

Does Arkansas have more 2- and 3-star recruits than Auburn? Yes. But our defense showed up the other night and played a hell of a game. Has Herring made the defense better? One might say yes, but answer this question. As much of a gamble as a blitz is compared to going for it on fourth down… during how many game-winning (or losing, if you look at if from the d-side) drives have we blitzed this year? I count three.

As much as we want to think it, Arkansas is not a traditional powerhouse when it comes to football. While we may be competitive each year, it takes a few years to reload the talent that we sometimes happen across. Last year, with the class from Springdale and Malzahn, it appeared that we were headed in a direction of year-in and year-out compeating for the SEC title.

Then something happened towards the end of last season. I've heard story after story that says Nutt was calling all the plays during our last three games. Is it any wonder why Malzahn left for, gasp, Tulsa? Is it any wonder why Mustain and Williams left for USC? No. With all the turmoil and stories that came out of our camp over the past year, it's no wonder why Burns and Ziemba wanted to get out of the state.

I don't blame David Lee for his "play calling." Because he's not really calling the plays. What I do blame him, and the entire coaching staff, for is seeing week after week someone saying, "we weren't prepared." What do you mean you weren't prepared?

Lee is definitely the fall guy here. But I'm off the Nutt ship now. I want to start fresh. Enough hard-headedness is enough. Poor Dmac, no heisman for you.

Let's hope the team can right the ship and surprise some of us with our remaining games.

DWC and the rest of the apologists are the same ones picking us 11-1 and winning the SEC. The crap never stops on the field or off.

This is a very average team that should have never been hyped. So much more could have been done to help this team win but of course that can not happen with this staff. I thought the O-line would help the defense get established but it is now our biggest weakness. That is saying a lot with our recievers but we really don't need them except to block as long as Dale is calling the plays.

It was obvious a few weeks ago. This is the 2005 team reborn. With coaching they could make a bowl. Without it they won't.

1. Don't start those jet engines just yet to fly DLee out of here. He is the sheep not the herder. Is he completely out of his league, yes. Is Houston pulling all strings, also yes. Cut off the head….

2. Those who think HDN will right the ship need to have their heads examined. He is sub .500 in SEC play since he's been here. He has only won 2 bowl games of 7 in 10 years, and he has won no SEC championships. The ship has not been right since he got here. With the facilities we have we should compete every year, not every 3-4 years. Mediocrity is for the Missisippi schools, not Arkansas.

I won't attempt to point out the things most of us see that you don't. You make some good points but I don't share your belief HDN will "get the talent in place again". We will just have to agree to dis-agree I guess. You view things one way while a growing number view them another.

Again, it is good to hear from you!

Yes, Defense does seem to have a propensity to commit penalties at the most damaging time. Sometimes, that is just youth. Auburn was the annointed one this time around. HDN has had an outstanding career beating Auburn…this of course was not one of those years, although HDN's team with his no star, one star, and two star recruits (for the most part) played Auburn with their 4 and 5 stars and Auburn has had year after year of so called top recruiting talent. Factor that in and you see what an outstanding coach that we have at Arkansas. He deserves our support!

However, most important of all is the fact that HDN has turned around the dismal graduation rate of his recruits. That is what they go to college to do…graduate. And I think that with White being our top educator surely agrees. HDN should be retained if for no other reason than his recruits graduate with a far higher level than previously was being done. Our former basketball coach reportedly almost had no graduates, but one player (Johnson with Atlanta) was quoted as saying that if his coach had been encouraging them about grades as much as he gave them H…for their play, they would have done well. Very few college players are able to make a career out of their sport, whereas if they concentrate with the encouragement of their head coaches, they can get that degree to upgrade their life in the future without the aid of the sport.

Go, Hogs, Go! Beat Ole Miss!!