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  1. 1 hour ago, utee94 said:

    Exactly this.  Everyone looks like a towering giant from the bottom of Mississippi State's shoe.

    Could have at least picked a team we didn’t beat or finish ahead of last year lol

    1 hour ago, chase25 said:

    It’s your first sellout in 4 years, color me shocked at who that sellout is against. You routinely play these BIG games yet you sellout against Texas and not Alabama? Seems odd 

    Eh, part of it is because this is the first year since then we have somewhat of a hope for a bowl game. No one was going to show up to watch a Chad Morris team no matter the opponent.

  2. 59 minutes ago, Speedway said:

    The rivalry between Texas and Arkansas may have cooled over the past thirty years since the hogs left the old Southwest conference.  So my recommendations may be outdated and overblown, I don't know.  However, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

    So, I would strongly recommend not leaving a personal vehicle with any Texas identification (licenses plates, registration sticker, TxTag, etc.) anywhere in Fayetteville next Saturday unless your insurance is up-to-date and your deductible is low.   Rent a vehicle with non-Texas plates and buy the extra insurance.   Needless to say, when your vehicle is left unattended, any evidence of being associated with the Texas Longhorns should be removed.

    Additionally, I would not let anyone I cared about park and walk to Reynolds wearing Texas Longhorn gear or Burnt Orange colors.  Take a taxi and get dropped-off at the gate.   After the game is over you won't be able to get a taxi so pre-plan a pickup right at a stadium exit.  Traffic will be bad, so don't expect your pickup to be prompt.   I would not leave the stadium until all the crowd clears out.

    The area immediately around the stadium should be pretty much safe for anyone wearing Burnt Orange Saturday night.  But walking any distance from Reynolds to your vehicle (parking) will make Columbus look like Vacation Bible School.  Especially if the locals have the "scat" juice ready to be tossed on Texas fans walking from the stadium after a Longhorn victory.  Be safe and good luck going to the game in Fayetteville.   I suspect you are going to need it.

    There are so many more transplants in northwest Arkansas now than there were back then I don’t think it’ll be that bad like it was in the old days. Half the student body has Texas plates.

  3. 15 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Treylon Burks is a very good player who had a very bad game.

    Catalon and Morgan are excellent defensive players.

    That's kind of it though, arky will be amped, but they aren't very good

    Trelon Smith is a very good RB but he’s tiny and probably can’t handle a huge workload consistently. The #1 CB Montaric Brown is one of the better corners in the SEC but #2 CB is a weakness. DL has some depth and will rotate a lot of guys but no one really stands out as that guy you need to double team.

    Ketron Jackson is going to be a really good player at WR eventually but as a freshman it will probably be later in the season before it starts to show. Same thing for a couple of talented 4* freshman RBs, AJ Green and Rocket Sanders, not sure they’ll play much Saturday but should eat into Smith’s carries if they progress like we expect.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Yeah the Arky QB played a lot better in 2nd half.  The natives got restless though... 😋

     

    The boos were actually because we decided to run the clock out with 45 seconds left before the half instead of trying to score. Fans got spoiled of Petrino going for the throat any chance he got and don’t like being so conservative. We could have at least tried to get into FG range but a lot of coaches do the same thing I guess.

  5. 2 hours ago, Don Johnson said:

    Ridgeway had an appendectomy last Saturday. I still doubt he’s good to go though. 
     

    Pool is a terribly overrated LB.  Grades out poorly every week. Makes All SEC due to high tackle numbers. Morgan is legit though. 

    Pool played with broken ribs all last season but yeah for every good play he makes he also misses a ton of tackles. 

  6. 6 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    That's a fair assessment.  Arkansas was a solid 8/9 win program that would garner interest from legitimate coaches.  The last 10 years have been embarrassingly bad football to the point no one wanted the job last time, although Pittman has been a pleasant surprise.  Throw in that half of the student body is from somewhere bedsides Arkansas and the home crowd might not be as hostile as you think.  They'll have an extremely rare sellout and be somewhat loud but that's about it.

    Most of that half is from Texas though. The Arkansas game atmosphere has been terrible since about 2016 since we’ve sucked so bad but when it’s packed it can get really loud. Jalen Hurts and Greg McElroy both said it was the loudest stadium they played in.

    7 hours ago, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

    I made the trip in 2004. That was a hostile home crowd that night. One of the best feelings in sports is walking out of a stadium as a visiting road fan and your team won. 

     

    Took me a long time to get over that Matt Jones fumble late in the 4th.

  7. 2 hours ago, tejas60 said:

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    I actually wanted TEXAS to go after Van Horn when Augie retired got shitcanned.

    DVH is Arkansas through and through, having played in the SWC I’m sure he feels a certain way about Texas. But then again Muschamp coached at Florida as a Georgia grad which is weird to me too.

    He actually just got a statue named after him outside our new baseball performance center - “The Van Horn Hog”

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  8. 20 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Catalon is an awesome Safety -- had at least 1 interception and several tackles while I was watching the Rice game.  

    Him on defense and Treylon Burks on offense are the ones to watch. Burks had a shitty game against Rice but Mel Kiper has him as the #12 overall player in next year’s draft.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Arkansas football fans seem to be getting more capable of reasonable discussion if the 14 in your username and my memories of previous interactions in the early 2000s and being near them in the '80s as a child are at all accurate.

    Going through the worst decade in our history after finishing #5 in the country and subsequently firing the coach after a motorcycle ride has humbled us all haha.

    We’re more apathetic about football right now than ever while season ticket sales to basketball and baseball are breaking records. Never would have thought our football program would reach Vandy levels in my lifetime but after the Morris era it’s hard to be optimistic.

  10. 4 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Surly has consistently overhyped Arkansas as an opponent. The cognitive dissonance of expecting to whip a better ULL team while looking at Arkansas as a huge obstacle is really something.

    Yes, it will be loud and hostile. It’s loud and hostile every road game. All of the history can’t change that Arkansas is garbage. PK is going to embarrass little Briles and Texas is going to win comfortably. If Texas loses, they’re garbage too.

    I’m not sure you can definitively say ULL is better. Sure they went 10-1 and had a great win over Iowa State but also won most Sun Belt games by 7-10 points including 2 points over Georgia Southern and OT against Georgia State. Arkansas wasn’t a great SEC team last year but still won 3 SEC games, probably would have fared much better in most of those games than ULL did against their schedule.

    That said it won’t matter if Arkansas shoots itself in the foot with drops and penalties again like that dreadful first half against Rice. Lots of P5 teams seemed to struggle yesterday, not sure if it was just being vanilla or what.

  11. 4 hours ago, OWLVIS said:

    We had our chances,, poor play call on a 4th down 3Q, hd it gone differently couldve changed things

     

    And wrong QB in the second half

     

    pigs offense is shit

    It was a weird game. First half I was thinking we’d be lucky to win a game all season but then we ended up covering the spread. Treylon Burks had the worst game I’ve seen him play with several drops.

    Depends which team shows up next week I guess. First half team then Texas wins by 50 but if the second half one does then it may be competitive.

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  12. 8 hours ago, TexasFan21 said:


    Not sure why Hornsby hasn’t touched the field yet.

    They both seem to be in the same boat of being better runners than passers.

    Briles needs to call more plays to use their legs, trying to make Jefferson sit in the pocket and throw didn’t work. Offense was putrid in the first half but 31 unanswered points eases things a bit I guess.

  13. 3 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

    yeah, I agree with your point. Winning this game and Arky is very important for perception and recruiting. If we lose, all the headlines and talk will be about how we paid $1.5 million to lose to ULL, it’s the same old Texas, and Seven Win Steve will start getting used again. We need to win the Arky game badly too since we’re headed to the SEC. it would not be a good look to lose to the last place team in the SEC West. 

    Technically Mississippi State was the last place team in the West last season.

    But I get your point lol. Seems like both Mississippi schools are getting more preseason pub than Arkansas even though Arkansas beat both last year.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Droopy said:

    Dad Brain: My daughter's surgery was 2 years ago, so they may have increased recovery time. That being said, I'd still be leary, as a parent, to have my kid out there taking on big ass OL with the possibility of one of them falling on my gut. 

    Fan Brain: That pussy better get his lazy ass out there and play his ass off for 1.5 quarters until his gut explodes in service on my favorite team!

    Question: Would you rather him play in this game but be lost for several games after or hold him out of this game and have him available for the rest of the season?

    Well we play Georgia Southern the week after so probably wouldn’t need him (knock on wood) but after that is Texas A&M. It’s a good question. Since he transferred from FCS we still don’t really know quite how good he is yet. With how much DL rotate I’d probably lean toward saving him until he’s 100% but that may change if we start getting gashed on the ground in every game.

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  15. 6 minutes ago, Droopy said:

    I could see 10 days for MLB but I'd be shocked to see a CFB player out there in that time considering the potential for falls, hits, and even just the use of his core just playing the game. I would think 2-3 weeks is the minimum, but we'll see. 

    9/11 would be right at two weeks. It's definitely a faster recovery time than it used to be and a lot less invasive but you'd think it would be an easy target for OL to try to hit. Sounds like they expect him to give it a shot though.

  16. 1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    "last decade", how cute

    I mean, if USC was doing that based on making the CWS when recruits were in diapers then it would be pretty cringe.

  17. 5 hours ago, Eugene11 said:

    Semantics….Seems like a big word for arky 

    I’d also venture a “huge” leap and say a player holding a sign after advancing vs being plastered stupidly all over the stadium when you haven’t won shit are not the same.  
     

    maybe it was to big of a word after all. 

    Arkansas had advanced to Omaha plenty of times in the last decade, which is what earned the program that moniker to begin with. When that picture was taken MSU hadn’t won anything more than Arkansas had as a program to that point.

    Doesn’t really seem like something to get riled up about either way lol

  18. 1 hour ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    That sounds believable.  Jefferson was less than 50% passet last year.  Jump on them early and make Jefferson and/or Hornsby have to comeback on us by passing which will lead to sacks/ints.   Sounds good to me.

    Yeah Jefferson is never going to be a guy with a 69% completion percentage like Franks had. I expect to see a lot more RPO and running the ball with the occasional deep shot to Burks. Would be nice if someone like Jaquayln Crawford or Ketron Jackson could step up and fill the void left by Mike Woods leaving for OU.

    KJ didn't have a very good completion percentage against Missouri in his only start last year either but still had 300 all-purpose yards and 4 TDs. Of course Missouri's defense gave up a ton of points toward the end of the season so not sure what to make of it.

  19. 2 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Hmmm…so definitely sounds like he’s out for the opener and will be questionable for Texas 

    No one really seems to know. He hasn’t practiced in about a week though. Some think he’ll be back for Rice but we’ll see.

    Starting RB Trelon Smith has also been dealing with turf toe. True freshman has been getting first team reps in his place. Going to be walking on eggshells over the next few weeks.

  20. 40 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

    Anyone have any dinner recommendations for Friday?

    Hugo’s on the downtown square has good burgers. Doe’s is good for steak. Herman’s is a Fayetteville staple with a little bit of everything. The Catfish Hole has really good hushpuppies and a good atmosphere on game weekends. Hammontrees is “gourmet” grilled cheese for something a little different. And then Wright’s BBQ is the best BBQ in the area.

    Those are the places I’d look into off the top of my head, there are others depending on what you’re in the mood for.

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