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• 1. The End of an Era | Razorback …  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  [...] that was ugly (but not at all unexpected). I was hoping for a build-on-it-for-next-year type of moral victory [...]

• 2. reasonrules  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm

  Let’s get busy recruiting some good guards for years to come. Congratulations to Darrian for being one of the few to continually get better throughout the year. Before this year, I thought in my friends words he was a terrible waste of height.

• 3. Walking on Sunshine  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Man, that was over before it even got started wasn’t it?

  How ’bout our good friend Roy Williams…really a class act….waited till less than 3 minutes to go before pulling his starters (up 35). Made sure they topped 100 before doing so.

• 4. Ward_Hog  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm

  Hard to beat anyone that shoots nearly 70% from the field. They actually shot better in the second half. I am with Reasons, let hit the recruiting trail! Congrats to Coach Pelfrey for getting a little more out of these seniors than his predecessor. Go Hogs Go!

• 5. Small Trough « Hawg Blaw…  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  [...] Jump to Comments The Hoop Hogs Hang it up for the season (and 6 carrers at UA)…UA-77 UNC-108. The Expats say it’s the end of an era. And the Diamond Hogs lose the rubber game of the [...]

• 6. husker1  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm

  Most coaches pull their starters when the team that is behind pulls theirs. Roy was willing to play 1st string against 1st string until the Razorbacks has enough.

• 7. GonzoHog  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm

  UNC was a lot better than what I thought. I was impressed with how disaplined and consistant thier defense was throughout the game. They never let the Hogs get any kind of a rythem going for any more than a minute throughout the entire game. They execute smart offense with tenatious defense for 40 minutes. Say what you want about pulling starters with 3 minutes to go, but Roy Williams is no dummy. That will make them better as they run deeper into the tourney. Williiams know’s if his team run’s into a Kansas, UCLA, or Memphis in the Final 4, he may need those same players for the full 40. It’s not like he didn’t use his bench along the way anyhow. NC play’s as a team, and they go pretty deep to boot. I honestly don’t think there’s a better team in college basketball right know. Ty Lawson is the fastest PG out there, and Tyler Hansbourgh is simply the best big man in the game. They have plenty of talent to surround them, and never take a play off. Wait and see if this team doesn’t win it all. My money is on them.

• 8. Carolina Hog  |  March 24th, 2008 at 7:39 am

  “Get yourself a man my man” was what Larry Johnson told Nolan back on 1991 and those words kept going through my head yesterday. As mentioned here by others its time to fill the stable. At least we won a game. Its setting the bar low to be happy about that but that’s where we are and its good to have Coach P at least exercise that demon in his first year. Now its time for fans to have some patience because we’ll have to take a step back now but I think in 3 years we’ll be back to getting in with a decent seed and looking for more than 1 win.

• 9. Useless Hog  |  March 24th, 2008 at 7:44 am

  Completely and utterly impossible for NC or anyone else to evaluate NC based on this Arkansas game. This one was all on the Hogs; can’t tell how good NC is because the Hogs were so horrible. The bottom line has to be that the guards were and have been completely outclassed against better competition. Ervin and Beverley spend virtually all of the clock dribbling laterally and never really penetrate. When we pick for Ervin, he hesitates enough to allow the opponent to switch on him, thereby eliminating Ervin’s driving lane and any advantage gained based on the pick. Will be good to see some new guards who, hopefully, Pelphrey believes can play at this level and actually create plays. Unfortunately, we lose all our big men, thus 08-09 will likely be a rebuilding year. Hang in there and in two or three years Pel should have things going.

• 10. Sactown Hogs  |  March 24th, 2008 at 11:31 am

  There are no moral victories and as for something to build on for next year, half the team was seniors. This will be forgotten in two weeks when UNC wins the championship.

  The Hogs were beat the minute the finished the Indiana game. They knew they had zero chance to beat UNC and so did all the Razorback fans. If you believed they did then you were either lieing to yourself or didn’t watch Razorback basketball at all this year.

  This year will be the stepping stone to bringing Razorback basketball back to respectful program. The next couple of years will be fun to watch. Go Hogs.

• 11. Mike in Magnolia  |  March 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am

  Useless Hog: I find it very intereseting how people watch the same game and come up with differnt analogies of what they saw. Personally I didn’t think that our guard play was that bad. And I hope you don’t think I am slamming your opinion because I’m not. I just had a different persective on the game.
  This game was over in the first 5 minutes. NC would have beaten every team in the NCAA yesterday. I don’t believe they shot that well because we played that bad. We had hands in their faces most of the game. We did miss early shots that we usually make and that was the difference. It’s ok to admit that you got beat by a much better team. An yesterday we did. It was obvious that we are know where near were we have to be to compete consistently at this level.
  I do believe as most of you that it will take 3 to 4 years to get to the place we can compete consistently. One must remember that after Dean Smith retired how long it took NC to get back to where they are today.
  I also thought Coach Williams did nothing wrong in not putting in his bench earlier than he did. You are playing for a National Title and in this tournament anything can happen and he realized that. I would hope Coach P would do the same thing.
  I am still glad that these seniors are through. It has been fun and frustrating to watch them. But time has now come to turn the page.
  GO HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 12. DieingHog  |  March 24th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  I thought the difference in the game yesterday was the same as the Georgia game. NC came out and played consistently throughout while we came out and played how we played all year. We hope our defense forces them to miss shots while our offense is out and then we make a run but the difference is there offense was just hot yesterday just like Georgia when they beat us so the runs on our end meant less because they never went cold.

• 13. seth  |  March 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  I said a lot of the same thing here — but am wondering about post-game quotes. I really want to know what Williams said to Pelphrey as they shook hands. Anyone know that?

• 14. Reason Rules  |  March 24th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  I believe he said one of the two. Take a beating like a good dog should. Or, I wouldn’t have recruited any of your current players.

• 15. GonzoHog  |  March 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

  I bet it went something like this: “we couldn’t have shot that well any other night of the week” I think the final score isn’t indicative of the kind of team you have, because your much better than that”.

• 16. The Ties That Bind | Razorback…  |  April 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm

  [...] this weekend in San Antonio, the Tar Heels haven’t caused us any real March angst. Sure, there was the blowout nearly two weeks ago, but any halfway sober-minded Hog fan knew that was a real [...]