MIZ DGB!!!

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

...slams it, and takes a job somewhere else.

Haha. Yeah. Could happen one of these days, and that's a major fear I have. I'm not going to lie: I love the mother****er as my coach despite his checkered past. He's a complete OCD, type-A genius. I'll hate his ass if he leaves us, though. I'm not sure he will. I just don't know if he'd get the same satisfaction moving on to some "big program" and having success there as he does out of taking a second-rate program like Arkansas and making it competitive as hell. I could be delusional though.

I'm sure a few bad years at Arkansas could have him looking for greener pastures. That Walton/Tyson/Jones money sure does spend good, though.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Haha. Yeah. Could happen one of these days, and that's a major fear I have. I'm not going to lie: I love the mother****er as my coach despite his checkered past. He's a complete OCD, type-A genius. I'll hate his ass if he leaves us, though. I'm not sure he will. I just don't know if he'd get the same satisfaction moving on to some "big program" and having success there as he does out of taking a second-rate program like Arkansas and making it competitive as hell. I could be delusional though.

I'm sure a few bad years at Arkansas could have him looking for greener pastures. That Walton/Tyson/Jones money sure does spend good, though.

I don't see Arkansas as a second-rate program. It wouldn't surprise me, though, to see him get lured to somewhere like Texas when there is an opening.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

I don't see Arkansas as a second-rate program. It wouldn't surprise me, though, to see him get lured to somewhere like Texas when there is an opening.

When you listen on talk radio today to people justifying the recruiting class, people were recalling the days when were were competing against schools like UTEP, SMU, and Tulsa for recruits. This recruiting class, despite being a "bust," is the 3rd best in the last decade, and the two in front of it both came under Petrino. You've got to understand that Arkansans have a chip on their shoulder because they have little man syndrome. The entire state is constantly dismissed (not just in athletics) as being backwards, inbred, poor, etc... While among ourselves we think it's pretty funny, and we are thankful in some ways (especially up here in Fayetteville) that the joys of the state are undiscovered, we also get defensive after a while. We make jokes to outsiders about it (at church camp in Texas, we'd tell other kids that we had to buy shoes to leave the state because we all go barefoot back home), but we still have a chip on our shoulder and want credit. That's why so many Arkansans are so ****ing earnest and wacky online, imo. They take sports seriously because it's about more than sports to them.

As for him getting lured to Texas, I suppose that could happen. I could be totally misreading him, but I think he has everything he wants here: total control, huge bankroll for facilities, and a place to really put his stamp on as "his" school. Anywhere else he goes, he's going to be a footnote or just another "great" coach. At Arkansas, he can be THE GREAT coach. Of course, that's all assuming we continue to ascend and compete year after year. Like I said, a few bad years could certainly sour the milk.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by NewChief

When you listen on talk radio today to people justifying the recruiting class, people were recalling the days when were were competing against schools like UTEP, SMU, and Tulsa for recruits. This recruiting class, despite being a "bust," is the 3rd best in the last decade, and the two in front of it both came under Petrino. You've got to understand that Arkansans have a chip on their shoulder because they have little man syndrome. The entire state is constantly dismissed (not just in athletics) as being backwards, inbred, poor, etc... While among ourselves we think it's pretty funny, and we are thankful in some ways (especially up here in Fayetteville) that the joys of the state are undiscovered, we also get defensive after a while. We make jokes to outsiders about it (at church camp in Texas, we'd tell other kids that we had to buy shoes to leave the state because we all go barefoot back home), but we still have a chip on our shoulder and want credit. That's why so many Arkansans are so ****ing earnest and wacky online, imo. They take sports seriously because it's about more than sports to them.

As for him getting lured to Texas, I suppose that could happen. I could be totally misreading him, but I think he has everything he wants here: total control, huge bankroll for facilities, and a place to really put his stamp on as "his" school. Anywhere else he goes, he's going to be a footnote or just another "great" coach. At Arkansas, he can be THE GREAT coach. Of course, that's all assuming we continue to ascend and compete year after year. Like I said, a few bad years could certainly sour the milk.

Petrino is a douche and Arkansas uses shady tactics.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Petrino is a douche and Arkansas uses shady tactics.

Sure thing Pelini.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Sure thing Pelini.

All it took to get Tevin Mitchell was a job for his mom.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

All it took to get Tevin Mitchell was a job for his mom.

Ahh. I see you have some personal butthurt in this. I didn't even realize that we'd stolen a prized precious Husker recruit. Maybe all it took to steal Tevin Mitchel was to be relevant in the current college football landscape.

And yes, I'm still annoyed by Husker fans due to the douche I argued with at the first of the season who assured me Arkansas would suck in 2011 because Mallett was our whole team and losing him would wreck the program. And he assured me that he was from Nebraska, so he LIVES college football and knows what he's talking about.