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  1. I definitely thought Thompson looked like the better QB Saturday. You could tell he has more experience finding the soft spots in the zone and his running ability seemed like it added a lot more of a threat.

    However I don’t think you should give up on Card just yet. His OL did him no favors and his second start coming against a well-respected DC like Odom who can disguise coverages well is a tough break. Matt Corral last year threw six interceptions against Odom’s defense but was one of the better QBs in college football the rest of the year once he gained some experience. Other than the fumble (which was really just unfortunate) he protected the football which is what you want from a young QB. He made good decisions on those 2-3 deep balls that will probably be completions later on in the season when his nerves settle down.

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  2. 12 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      He is a 5'10.5, senior,  3 star linebacker starting over another 3 star linebacker.

    ...who was a runner up for the Burlsworth award last year as the best former walk-on in college football. It doesn't make any sense to refer to high school ratings over actual production at this point. Do you do that for JJ Watt too? lol

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  3. 53 minutes ago, jinx said:

    Past performance isn't indicative of future results, but Arkansas hasn't won more than 4 games in a season since 2016. I mean, they didn't just suck last year, they have sucked for quite a while. Sure they may be improved this year, but they aren't going to the playoff.

    I could see this team being similar to the 2014 Texas Bowl team the last time we played. Sure it finished 7-6 but it was obvious they were better than the Texas Bowl - lost to Alabama by one point, beat the shit out of Ole Miss and LSU, lost to A&M in OT, lost to then-#1 Mississippi State by 7.

    Not a great team by any means but finished #10 in the country in total defense and with a little more luck and better coaching would have finished with 8-10 wins.

    Our team last year actually won more SEC games than that 2014 team did.

  4. 9 hours ago, Thatguy said:

    Also, for those saying we don't have enough talent. The linebackers in the picture for Arkansas are 2 star 6'1 225lb Hayden Henry#27, and 3 star 5'11 235lb Grant Morgan. There is nothing special about these guys. WE were the ones fucking up. It had shit to do with how good they were.

    Morgan was an all-american last year. His high school rating from 6 years ago is pretty useless at this point lol.

    He's starting over a guy like Andrew Parker who had offers from Texas and a lot of other big time schools...experience means a lot sometimes.

  5. On 9/12/2021 at 6:35 AM, CurlyDumps said:

    I have no idea about this Arkansas team. Pittman seems to have made good coordinator hires. But I do know that Chad Morris results from two years ago don’t matter, and how they looked for 3 quarters vs. a team they had little interest in beating (Rice) also means fuck all in college football.

     

    Exactly. No idea why people think seasons from 2+ years ago mean anything when rosters are so different from year to year under a different coaching staff. It's not really Arkansas' fault that the SEC decided to replace easy wins on the schedule last year with two top 10 teams like Florida and Georgia to make the record look worse than it should have been. We ended up in the same bowl game as TCU. We weren't the worst team in the SEC last year like some keep spouting and I'd argue we would have ended up with the same (or better) record as Ole Miss if we had their schedule, who was getting top 25 love all preseason for some reason when we beat them last year.

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  6. On 9/12/2021 at 12:44 PM, WinningIsHard said:

    That logic only works for Arkansas apparently. Oh and their fans aren’t arrogant at all, they wouldn’t dare take the time to sign up for another teams message board to be super cool and talk a massive amount of shit. Only horn fans do dumb shit like that.

    I mean most of us were just defending our team lol. We weren’t the ones making 42-7 score predictions.

    Alabama was the only team to beat us by that margin last year. If last year had been a normal schedule, we would have had a chance at 7-6 after the bowl game. That’s not outstanding or anything but people keep acting like this is a 2-10 Chad Morris team when logically you’d expect a team to improve in a coach’s second year.

  7. 10 hours ago, Chad said:

    I've become numb to losing the last decade. HOWEVER, I absolutely loathe losing to a bottom feeding team with a fan base full of cocksuckers like Arkansas. Know what's really sad? The aggy have beaten these bottom feeders 9 games running. Arkansas is the KU of the SEC, they went two years without a single conference victory losing to teams like San Jose St, Colorado St and North Texas. All gas and no brakes my ass, I want to slap the taste out of any cuck that was spouting that nonsense all off season from a fucking fraud of a coach hired with a 46-35 career head coaching record.

    I just don’t understand why people reference games from 2018 like 3 years isn’t an eternity in college football. This is an entirely new and different roster and coaching staff. Arkansas obviously wasn’t going to stay Chad Morris bad forever.

  8. 17 minutes ago, Tommyd said:

    Correct me I'm wrong. The last time that goal posts were torn down at Fayetteville was when #1 Texas was beaten. This means more than just a game for Hog fans. 

    It was 1999 Tennessee

  9. 1 hour ago, ElChupacabra said:

    You're too good to eat at a Texas Roadhouse? Come to NWA and go have dinner at Colton's steakhouse and you'll be salivating at the thought of TR.

    Has to be better than Saltgrass Steakhouse. Wasn't impressed with that either really. All chain steakhouses kinda taste the same to me though.

    I'm partial to Twin Peaks but daisy dukes are nice for a change of pace. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, Snacks said:

    So...  Do how much do we know about the offense Briles is running at Arkansaw?  Is it the same they ran at Baylor and UH? (I assume so). Has Ark executed that offense?

    Against Rice there were more traditional option plays than what we saw last year since Jefferson is a better runner than Franks was. But other than that it’s pretty similar to his past offenses: simple route tree, easy reads and lots of misdirection.

    Not sure how much Briles hid against Rice, I was surprised there weren’t hardly any deep balls when Jefferson is a better deep ball thrower than he is on the short and intermediate routes. We also didn’t see any RB screens when they worked pretty well last season.

  11. 5 minutes ago, ousux said:

    None of the special events are a 5k walk/run for charity or any other physical activity.

    Shocked I tell you..

    Hell walking up the hills around campus is exercise enough 

  12. 7 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    Is that the game where Orakpo mashed their QBs into a fine powder and snorted it on the 50 yard line off of Bobby Petrino's desicated corpse? 

    All I remember from that game is a true freshman Tyler Wilson getting concussed multiple times way before he was ready for college football, then missing the rest of the season with "mono" and eventually getting that season of eligibility back.

    Dude started his college career with that and ended it with John L. Smith 😂

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  13. 1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

    I really can't believe their starting DT will be effective a week out from an appendectomy.

    Saturday will be two weeks but it is pretty soon. Might just have him in on obvious running downs.

  14. 9 hours ago, Wizard-of-hogz said:

    Drive into the parking lot by Baum-Walker field - while you're there, check out that state-of-the-art facility, with it's brand spanking new Baseball Development Center - no one else in the country has anything close to it...it's so new they are just moving into it, so have not yet released a post-opening walk-through video.  But this animated fly-through will give you an idea).

    Those lots are about a mile - probably a little less - South of the Football Stadium, so you ought to be able to get into them relatively easy unless you pull up 30 minutes before the game.  From there, you can catch shuttle busses to and 9after the game) from the stadium, if you don't want to walk.

    It’s exactly 1.4 miles haha - just walked it last weekend. You will need a mask if you plan to ride the shuttle though, fair warning.

    12 hours ago, Enchubben said:

    Dorian Gerald with 0 tackles and 1 QB hurry? That guy is the highest graded run stopper?

    He did a good job at setting the edge against Rice and letting others clean up running plays. But the thing is this is about his 3rd season ending injury - he usually plays the first couple of games each season and then goes down for the year. Terrible luck.

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  15. 30 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    As you can see, there is not a ton of parking around the stadium. Anyone going to the game should be prepared to hike to get to the stadium. Also, Arkansas drivers are not as bad as Oklahoma drivers but they are close so look both ways crossing the street. And, lastly, when you go into a bar on Dickson get the free wristband that allows you to walk to the next bar with a drink in your hand. Without one of those you're looking at a PI and if Baker can't outrun the Fayetteville police I doubt many of you old heads can. 

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    If you get there early enough you can park across from Baum Stadium for free and take the shuttle to the football stadium as well. It fills up quickly though.

    They’ve got this new festival outside the stadium now called Hogtown on game days that has various food trucks and a huge TV playing other games with live music, etc. Something to pass the time with when waiting for the game before entering.

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  16. 27 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    I haven't tried Herman's or Hugo's yet but JJ's is always solid and I wasn't a fan of the Catfish Hole. If Catfish is going to be in the name it should at least be good. I thought Flying Fish in Bentonville was better catfish. I'll have to try The Rail sometime. You're the third or fourth person that has mentioned their wings.

    Yeah I think a lot of Catfish Hole people just go there for the atmosphere and since it’s where the coach’s show/recruiting visits are held. It’s a staple but there are better places now unlike there were 20 years ago.

  17. 19 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    There's uh....not much. Pretty decent wings at Foghorn's. Take a short drive up to Rogers and you have Longhorn Steakhouse, Ruth's Chris, a bunch of chain taco joints like Fuzzy's, Tacos 4 Life, Torchy's, Chuy's, etc.

     

    I gotta hand it to Oklahoma. At least they have decent food there. When we first moved to Arkansas we tried all the local recommendations and were thoroughly disappointed. Especially Doe's Eat Place in Bentonville. That is supposed to be the good steakhouse in town. It's not. Unless you like your ribeye overcooked and sinewy

    I would probably go to Herman’s, Hugo’s, Hammontrees, JJ’’s or The Catfish Hole (catfish is meh but hushpuppies are good) before a lot of the chains. Haven’t been to a lot of the others people like but I do prefer downtown Bentonville restaurants to Fayetteville as a whole. The Rail in Rogers has by far the best wings IMO. I’ve heard the Doe’s in Fayetteville is better but haven’t been to either.

    I don’t expect Texas fans to go to Herman’s out of spite but threw it out there anyway.

  18. 2 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    They’re somewhere between like fifth and ninth best depending on how the year shakes out. Sixth to eighth being kind of the midpoint there.

    OU, ISU, TCU, and OSU will all be better, that’s pretty uncontroversial.

    KSU will probably be better but they run that QB so much he might be hurt by the last week of the year. I don’t see much reason to believe Arkansas is any better than ULL. Let’s go 50/50 with the last two and call that five better teams, getting us to sixth. They’re definitely going to at least be in the same tier as KSU/ULL, along with Tech and West Virginia. So depending on how each of these teams progress anywhere from fifth to ninth is possible, probably at least sixth. They’ll need three conference wins again to get to a bowl and Tennessee ain’t walking through the door - Georgia is. A birth game is hardly a foregone conclusion.

    They’re better than Baylor, Kansas, and Rice (though maybe not that much better than the latter lol).

    ISU and OSU really struggled in their first games too, that's why it's so hard to extrapolate one game into the whole season lol.

    Really wish our bowl against TCU wasn't canceled last season it would have been a good barometer.

  19. 6 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    I'm pretty sure the family that owns it is actually from Texas, too. But, then again, so is Lincoln Riley and we've all seen his skills on the que. 

    Their burnt ends and collard greens are really good. They actually have a concession stand at the stadium this year but it wasn't nearly as good as the restaurant.

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  20. 12 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    Also, might want to compare Arky and TCU stats when it comes to winning percentage, bowl records, last conference title, pretty much every statistic that measures the success of a program. 

    I know you're from Arkansas and can't read very well so I'll give you a quick breakdown:

    TCU beats out pork aggy in just about every single metric. 

    You're welcome. Now run along and get back in line at the chicken plant, kid.

    I would hope so considering they were in a G5 conference for 15 years

    8 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    Last time Arky played TCU they managed to score one whole touchdown in four quarters of play and lost 28-7.

    After beating them the year prior

    16 minutes ago, ElChupacabra said:

    The funniest thing about you piglet fans is you've been perfectly okay with being your conference's doormat. Hell, Misery even had a more successful season since joining the SEC than arky has had. The reason "Texas is back" is even a thing is because Texas was at the top of CFB and lost their way. Piglet hasn't been at the top of ANYTHING in a long, long time. 

    Name your last conference title. 

    Name your last national championship in any of the three major sports.

    Name the last time you were even in contention for either of the above. 

    I'll wait.

    In contention? Three years ago.

  21. 30 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:


     

     


    Man, I feel for you.

    When you have to caveat your special teams improving with "other than two punts" blocked/shanked, it really says you had nowhere to go but up.

    I think Charlie Strong once had multiple extra points blocked in a single game but couldn't figure out how to fix it. You never realize how valuable basic ST execution is until you have a team that sucks at it.

     

    Yeah Pittman gave our ST coach Scott Fountain a big raise to come with him from Georgia but other than his recruiting our fans aren't real impressed with him thus far. We were dead last in the SEC in nearly every special teams category possible last year and had multiple illegal formations on punts throughout the year. Of course the excuse last year was we would have guys out with COVID at the end of the week and we were forced to put guys on special teams that hadn't practiced there, but every team dealt with that. For the most part we didn't even try to return punts and had a walk-on DB back there (who actually played at Lake Travis) because he could fair catch them well.

    It's so bad that we're using scholarships on both a punter and a long snapper in the '22 class after using one on a kicker in '21.

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