Acting Like A Leader

Here’s the situation:  You’re asked to provide an overall ranking of SEC basketball coaches based on coaching skills, leadership, recruiting and potential.

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A Year Of Change

The year 2007 is in its final days and my traditional period of reflection has begun.

The drama that consumed the last few years of Houston Dale is over — traded in like a 10 year-old car that ran okay…but had an interior that smelled like old gym socks.

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McFadden Wins Camp And Walker Awards

Hogwired.com: Darren McFadden Named Walter Camp Player of the Year

After a regular season in which he gained a school-record 1,725 yards on the ground and led the Southeastern Conference in rushing, Arkansas’ Darren McFadden was honored with the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award.

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So What Did You Really Expect?

Who wants to coach at some place on the rebound?  Face it…we have issues.  The divided and empowered and fickle fan base will not become happy and unified anytime soon.  They’ve had too much practice being difficult to each other.

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Houston Nutt Press Conference - 11/25/07

Hogwired.com: Houston Nutt Weekly Press Conference — LSU Game

Nutt: “We had some little preliminary discussions and we have some more coming this week. We’ll wait until that time to see what comes out of it. Again, right now, I’m excited. Chancellor (John A.) White and Coach (Frank) Broyles want me here. They want me to stay and that’s a good feeling and I’m excited about that.

“(The prelim discussions) were just with Chancellor White right now. Jeff Long was still at the LSU game and he had relatives there, so we’ll wait until this week, about mid-week when he gets back, and have some more formal discussions.”

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August Contract Ex-Tension

So we all learned Sunday that Houston Dale has a contract extension in the works.

Arkansas coach Houston Nutt is to get a one-year extension of his contract to 2011, athletic director Frank Broyles said.The final wording of the extension is still being developed, but Nutt and Broyles said there are no vexing issues to overcome.

“It’s a done deal,” Broyles said. “It’s been a done deal since December as far as I’m concerned.”

Nutt said that with players working through fall drills, he’s not thinking about his contract.”

I don’t worry about it because it’s football season and I’ve got blinders on,” Nutt said. “I just know that the extension is going to happen and it’s a good thing.”

“I knew it back in December, January, whenever it was,” Nutt said Saturday. “But your nose is on the grindstone. You have blinders on. You don’t worry about it.”