Published on: 5th October, 2009
It's old home week in the Ozarks this Saturday, with Auburn invading Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Auburn first-year offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn will be only a few miles from the site of his high school coaching stomping grounds. Receiver/Wildcat quarterback Kodi Burns, a graduate of Fort Smith Northside—less than two miles from my ...Published on: 1st October, 2009
Much of the talk about this week's Arkansas-Texas A&M game has centered on the historical angle of the old Southwest Conference rivals. The chance to renew an old rivalry at a neutral site for a ten year series, especially in the hotbed for high school blue-chippers that is north Texas ...Published on: 30th September, 2009
The Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas A&M Aggies first met on the gridiron way back in 1903 when the fledgling Arkansas football program was only nine years into its existence. The UA team was still known as the Cardinals as this was six years before Hugo Bezdek's "we played like a wild bunch ...Published on: 27th September, 2009
In the fall of 1992, Arkansas was a little over two years removed from the departure of a coach who was viewed as successful by many fans. This coach's last game as the Head Hog was a loss to a neighboring state school in the Cotton Bowl. This coach was under fire ...Published on: 25th September, 2009
In the aftermath of now Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt's departure from Arkansas, the national media and most of the SEC media portrayed loyal Razorback fans as pitchfork carrying, delusional morons for "running off the best coach they ever had". "Why, they ran off a loyal coach and replaced him with ...Published on: 21st September, 2009
Arkansas talk radio stations and Internet message boards have been busy since the Hogs' 52-41 loss to Georgia Saturday night. The most common comments are bemoaning the Hogs' lack of defense, many calling for the ouster of defensive coordinator Willy Robinson. Free Willy to Razorback fans is not another sequel to ...Published on: 20th September, 2009
Okay, I was wrong in picking the Arkansas Razorbacks to beat Georgia 35-31. To that, I plead guilty...with an explanation. You see, in making that pick, I was under the assumption that the Hogs' defense would be much-improved, and that UGA quarterback Joe Cox would resemble Joe Blow more than Joe ...Published on: 9th September, 2009
It is unusual, to say the least, for college football teams to have a bye week so early in the football season. UA Athletics Director Jeff Long reportedly searched high and low for an opponent willing to play this weekend. It would have been preferable to take the week off later, ...Published on: 7th September, 2009
Against a football FCS division team picked to finish seventh in a nine team Missouri Valley Conference, the Arkansas Razorbacks were something like 37-point favorites to win their opening game against Missouri State. The Hogs covered that spread, not that I care about betting lines, winning 48-10 with a school record ...Published on: 5th September, 2009
If there was any part of the Arkansas Razorbacks that struggled more in 2008 than the special teams, it was the defense. The Hogs "D" yielded 170.8 rushing yards per game, 375 total yards, and a whopping 31.2 points, all good for 12th in the defensive oriented SEC. In fact, the ...