Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

U of A takes the phrase “Blowing your Nutt” to new levels.

Help please! The closest thing to a national football championship in Arkansas was a 1965 Cotton Bowl victory against Nebraska when the players still wore leather helmets (sort of) and Nixon was around. Things were as screwed up then as the BCS is now and sportswriters twisted that win up enough to convince all the folks here in Arkansas that they had actually won a national championship. Just because the Razorbacks are among the bottom feeders in the best football conference in America doesn’t mean they absorb football tradition, talent and become a magnet for major recruits. We have actually had morons on sports radio here reason that since Arkansas beat LSU, that they should be considered for a higher National rating better than 46th behind Appalachian State, who was able to do something Arkansas has never done in football, beat Michigan.

How about this as a great summary of how things are here: “Arkansas is a complete tragedy. Arkansas can’t do anything right. Arkansas couldn’t even fire the intensely fireable Houston Nutt, who bumbled around for years — losing winnable games and alienating blindly loyal fans — and still was begged to stay.

This is how bad Arkansas football has become: Houston Nutt took a paycut to leave … for Ole Miss.”

Link for those who give a rats ass: http://sportsline.com/columns/story/10521564

This being my token college football post is not meant to inflame the people here who have blind devotion to a less than mediocre sports program, but to simply state a fact: Arkansas is NOT a college sports powerhouse. They do however have a great agri department.