Expectations Are A Bitch

There are three letters that, around this time of the season, start to dominate the conversations of both professional and amateur college football analysts alike: B-C-S.

The first Bowl Championship Series rankings of 2008 were released on Sunday.  For most Arkansas football fans, however, it was an announcement that went mostly unnoticed.

And that’s understandable.  When your team isn’t winning enough to be listed among the ‘elite programs,’ you’re really not too interested in keeping up (at least at this point) with those schools who are on top.

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Better The Devil You Know

As a Razorback fan, you would have to be living under a rock to not hear or read about some of the national media debate going over the last 36 hours on the professional character of Bobby Petrino.

In fact, if you didn’t know better, you might think some of the media actually believe he is the devil incarnate.

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Why Houston Dale Had To Go

I worked with a guy once who would routinely remind me often that, “there’s no such thing as coincidence.”  I was never able to prove him wrong.

There are two major ‘coincidences’ that led to Monday’s ‘resignation.’

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Houston Nutt Resigns As Razorbacks Head Coach

Hogwired.com: Houston Nutt Steps Down as Razorback Football Coach

Following 10 seasons, 75 victories and seven bowl games with an eighth bid coming later this week, Houston Nutt has stepped down as head football coach at the University of Arkansas, he announced at a press conference on Monday.

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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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Perhaps It’s Time To Move On

po·lar·izing - 1. to divide into sharply opposing factions.

And depending on your ‘faction,’ that headline could have two very different meanings.

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