Hog Fans:

[AUChizad]

Looks like Petrino's making quite a difference.
This is the team that beat LSU in their last game?

[Ogre]

Looks like Petrino's making quite a difference.
This is the team that beat LSU in their last game?

In all fairness to our Arkansas bretheren, Petrino is not coaching the bowl game.  Reggie Herring (DC) is the interim coach.

[AUChizad]

Oh, I'm a tard.
Still, that was one ugly game.

[Ogre]

Oh, I'm a tard.
Still, that was one ugly game.

Agreeance on all points.

[Skip]

Unbelievable game.

Somebody took a payoff.

[CCTAU]

Unbelievable game.

Somebody took a payoff.

It did look like DMac was trying to just get out of there without an injury. He did not seem to give any extra effort after he was touched. Sad. Felix Jones looked better.

I wonder if Mizzou watched the AU game to see how to stop DMac?

[Godfather]

Unbelievable game.

Somebody took a payoff.

[Jumbo]

He wont by a Phantom 28's wont fit.

[Hogwally]

Definitely a sad effort.  You could tell from the beginning they didn't have their heads in the game.  Same thing happened at Tenn.  It's a shame HDN wasn't still around to be blamed, that's where most would've pointed the finger.  I guess the coaches have some responsibility, but the players just flat didn't show up.

[AUChizad]

It's a shame HDN wasn't still around to be blamed, that's where most would've pointed the finger.  I guess the coaches have some responsibility, but the players just flat didn't show up.

This is more or less what I meant by my original comment about Petrino making a difference. What I should have said was not having Nutt making all the difference.
I think you made that guy a scapegoat big time. Not that I thought he was a world beater by any means, but you guys acted like he was Corky from Life Goes On. Looks like your team just blows.

[CharlieHog]

This is more or less what I meant by my original comment about Petrino making a difference. What I should have said was not having Nutt making all the difference.
I think you made that guy a scapegoat big time. Not that I thought he was a world beater by any means, but you guys acted like he was Corky from Life Goes On. Looks like your team just blows.

Why shouldn't he be responsible? He recruited the team didn't he? He hired the assistant coaches didn't he?

[Saniflush]

Why shouldn't he be responsible? He recruited the team didn't he? He hired the assistant coaches didn't he?

He woulda called the same plays brotha.

[Razorhawk]

It was an odd situation with assistant coaches coaching the game.  Some of those assistants have already accepted employment at Ole Miss, which might lead one to believe a slight conflict of interest, or at the least a lack of interest.  The other assistants were probably more concerned with finding future employment.  Not exactly a recipe for success.

All the while Petrino was out recruiting, trying to get some talent to Fayetteville. 

Personally, I wish that when Nutt bolted to Ole Miss, we would have dismissed all the assistants that were moving on to Oxford and done the best we could without them.  Not sure how the results could have been any worse.  (Oh, and I said this at the time, not just after the Cotton Bowl.)

[Hogwally]

I guess my point was that coaches, even more so than quarterbacks, get too much of the credit or too much of the blame.  Regardless of who was coaching, the players didn't have their heads in the game.  If HDN was still the coach, that would have been blamed on him when ultimately it is up to the players to show up ready to play.

[CharlieHog]

I guess my point was that coaches, even more so than quarterbacks, get too much of the credit or too much of the blame.  Regardless of who was coaching, the players didn't have their heads in the game.  If HDN was still the coach, that would have been blamed on him when ultimately it is up to the players to show up ready to play.

It's the coaches job to make sure the players show up.

And Arkansas lost the game because Missouri was a better team.

[Hogwally]

I got started writing a big dissertation on my thoughts about coaching and motivation, but decided to nix it.  We'll just have to disagree.  I bet if you ask the players, they know who's fault it is they showed up flat.