Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A vast range of goodness

Since everyone is ringing in on Nutt, I'll take the contrarian stand...
1) He's a good coach at a sh***y program with sh***y fans
2) Those same sh***y fans have turned on every good coach that didn't suit them. For an example, see Ken Hatfield
3) The SEC is a thousand times better than the SWC and expecting an SWC-style record in the SEC isn't realistic
4) Arkansas has still been to more bowl games than any other SEC school in the last nine years.
5) Most college coaches have said that Nutt does more with less than any other college coach and all fear what he could do at a name-brand program.
6) No matter who Arkansas hires, if Nutt does leave, will be a long-term coach. The only coach who would satisfy the Malzahn cultists is Malzahn, and offensive genius my ass, way to win with Barry Lunney's offense. So the program or Program as Scotty Faldon prefers, will be left in absolute shambles if a coaching change happens this year. It could be a Mississppi State-style disaster, a hole the 'Dogs still haven't escaped.


And as noted by someone else, this weekend looks like some fun. This all begs the question as to what games Master Dishongh picks for the pool...

Some fun games this week:
Thursday
No. 2 Boston College at No. 8 Virginia Tech

Saturday
No. 6 West Virginia at No. 25 Rutgers
Mississippi State at No. 14 Kentucky
No. 9 (tie) USC at No. 5 Oregon
No. 11 South Florida at Connecticut
No. 9 (tie) Florida vs. No. 20 Georgia
Ole Miss at No. 23 Auburn
No. 15 South Carolina at Tennessee
No. 1 Ohio State at No. 24 Penn State
No. 18 Cal at No. 7 Arizona State

Also, is this a bad sign for Boston College as it prepares for Virginia Tech?

BROOKLINE, Mass. — On a recent afternoon, Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.
The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.
"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."
Notify the neighbors: The turkeys are spreading through suburbia. Wild turkeys, once eliminated in Massachusetts, are flourishing from Plymouth to Concord and — to the surprise of some wildlife officials — making forays into densely populated suburban and urban areas, including parts of Boston, Cambridge and, most recently, Brookline.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/23/turkeys_take_to_cities_towns/

3 comments:

Pool Jones said...

Wow, you speak the truth, my friend. I haven't seen it put so well anywhere else.

Anonymous said...

You haven't seen it put so well anywhere else??? #'s 4 and 5 are ridiculous statements. No in the SEC have been to more bowl games than the Hogs in 9 years? How about Florida, Georgia AND Tennessee? And other teams have been to the same amount of bowls as Arkansas over the last 9 years. Also, how can you make a statement like "Most college coaches have said that Nutt does more with less..."? I only remember one coach saying something similar to this and it was supposedly said by Saban when he left LSU. This is crazy.

LDavis said...

Matt's statement says a lot about himself. Seems to let everyone spoon feed him his beliefs and never questions it. If you are going to make bold factual statements, provide the evidence. I do agree with statement #1.

Arkansas
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/120306adb.html
Jan. 2007 Capital One Wisconsin
Dec. 2003 Independence Missouri
Dec. 2002 Music CIty Minnesota
Jan. 2002 Cotton Oklahoma
Dec. 2000 Las Vegas UNLV
Jan. 2000 Cotton Texas
Jan. 1999 Citrus Michigan

UGA
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/122805acf.html
2004 Outback Georgia 24, Wisconsin 21
2003 Capital One Georgia 34, Purdue 27 (OT)
2002 Sugar Georgia 26, Florida State 13
2001 Music City
2000 Oahu Georgia 37, Virginia 14
1999 Outback Georgia 28, Purdue 25 (OT)
1998 Peach Georgia 35, Virginia 33

Florida
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/120306adv.html
BCS Championship Jan. 8, 2007 Ohio St TBD
Outback Jan. 2, 2006 Iowa W, 31-24
Peach Dec. 31, 2004 Miami Fla L 10-27
Outback Jan. 1, 2004 Iowa L, 17-37
Outback Jan. 1, 2003 Michigan L, 30-38
Orange Jan. 2, 2002 Maryland W, 56-23
Sugar Jan. 2, 2001 Miami Fla L, 20-37
Citrus Jan. 1, 2000 Michigan St L, 34-37
Orange Jan. 2, 1999 Syracuse W, 31-10
Citrus Jan. 1, 1998 Penn St

Tenn
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/120306aco.html
Outback Jan. 1, 2007 Penn St TBD
Cotton Jan. 1, 2005 Texas A&M W, 38-7
Peach Jan. 2, 2004 Clemson L, 14-27
Peach Dec. 31, 2002 Maryland L, 3-30
Citrus Jan. 1, 2002 Michigan W, 45-17
Cotton Jan. 1, 2001 Kansas St L, 21-35
Fiesta Jan. 2, 2000 Nebraska L, 21-31
Fiesta Jan. 4, 1999 Florida St W, 23-16