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July 11, 2008

NUTT: TIME TO GO

Houston Nutt must be cool if, when you bring up the most painful thing to happen to him in his professional life, he just keeps chatting along and doesn’t even flinch when you bring up a harebrained fourth and short call.

Listen to the interview here, where Nutt does not say GIGGITY! once or say anything vaguely crazy. He does call Michael Oher “a beautiful guy,” though.

Damn right, coach.

Filed under: Blog Buddies, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Southeastern Conference, crazier than sack of weasels by Orson Swindle

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28 Responses to “NUTT: TIME TO GO”

1

Allahver Fist says:

Oh god, Swindle’s calling the Hawgs again.

July 11th, 2008 at 10:29 am
2

them oklahoma says:

I wonder if Coach Nutt lemsday’d all of the scholarship players from the High Mighty Emperor O Reign of Awesome (brought to you by Hummer)?

July 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
3

sonofsamford says:

I’d be interested to find out what Arkansas fans think about this whole Nutt thing.

July 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Rick Shaeffer's Stylist says:

#3, I don’t think Arkansas fans can stomach listening to the refuse that spews forth from his mouth for long enough to give you an opinion of this interview. But from what I’ve heard, he basically got a blowjob on air with none of the so called Arkansas media so much as asking a tough question about the events that took place over the past couple of years.

October 25th can’t get here soon enough. I wonder how much damage a D Cell battery can do when thrown from 25 rows up.

July 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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Orson Swindle says:

@4: Ask any Philly fan. They have charts and measurements and shit for that.

July 11th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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yoyofutbawl says:

Like Nick Saban, I don’t have the time to listen to the whole interview but what is this crap about how bad the program was when Danny Ford left? He’d won, what, two SEC West titles in 5-6 years plus left OL’ GIGGETY with pretty good talent that should have walked away with the SEC West his first year.

Plus, I’m gonna gripe at Honey Pie & tell her to sell her Bancorp South stock.

July 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Adam says:

yes, #4 is right… as an arkansas fan, i had to turn off that drivel very quickly…

July 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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EireHog says:

#6, Ford won 1 SECW title, solely because Alabama was on Probation.

That ‘boatload’ of talent had managed back to back 4-7 seasons, 3 consecutive losses to a post-death penalty SMU, and 4 conference wins in 2 years.

People who want to criticize Nutt usually get off on the wrong foot by glorifying the Ford era; it was even worse than the Nutt era, in every regard, though, and they tend to undermine a very strong case that Nutt is the ultimate scumbag with flawed football history.

July 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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Last Dragon says:

Hell I kept resetting it at the 1:00 mark just to hear that damn song.

July 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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yoyofutbawl says:

8

Much appreciated, thought he’d done better than that. Off to Gaffney to ogle the Giant Peachoid.

July 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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Havok says:

I am so glad the worthless pile of garbage left and moved to Oxford…and she took her used car salesman husband with her.

July 11th, 2008 at 11:46 am
12

jebus says:

Is it wrong that I’m looking forward to Ark/Ole Miss as much as any other game this season? Like, I want to go to the game.

July 11th, 2008 at 11:49 am
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soldierhog says:

#8

Nutt had a combined 5 conference wins in 2004-2005, including a HOME loss to VANDERBILT. The difference between Nutt’s regime and Ford’s was that Nutt wasn’t fired when he should have been, while Ford was.

Also, get your info straight before you decide to comment on others being right or wrong…Ford’s Hogs won the SEC West outright in 1995. In 5 years, Ford won the West outright once. In ten years, Nutt won the SEC West outright once. If you are wondering where the “won the West only because Bama was on probation” came from, check out Nutt’s 2002 Hogs…Nutt loves to claim that title. Arkansas finished in a 3-way tie for second place. Nutt actually claims a title for a year when only two teams in the division finished worse than his.

To clear the air, here is the tally.

Ford – 5 years coached, 1 outright SEC West title, 2 winning records in conference, cupboard left full
Nutt – 10 years coached, 1 outright SEC West title, 3 winning records in conference, cupboard left bare.

Oh yeah, Nutt’s era was WAY better.

July 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:

13

Who was the coach before Danny? Hatfield?

July 11th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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Nuttin Butt Oxford says:

Thank God for Mississippi…………Houston Nutt has too be the dumbest SOB in Div 1………that being said the hogs paid $3.5 million to get rid of the idiot, and the rebs paid him $2 million to come to Klan Heaven…………now some would say that the used car dealer from Little Rock has to be a sly bidness main………but I say he has the best agent in football………….his next gig………Alaska selling ice……….

July 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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Patrick Willis' Club Cast says:

I’ve lost count on how many times this has happened. Should we bother telling the Ark fans they are embarassing themselves or just sit back, watch and pretend it’s low-budget midget porn? (Is there such a thing as high-budget midget porn?)

I suppose these virtual Ozarkian mobs are going to pop up every time the word Nutt is mentioned until Oct. 25. Then, they’ll shut the fuck up (hopefully).

July 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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Yellow Tail Swine says:

Jesus Christ, Orson.

That interview was posted on my favorite interwebs feral pig conversation place yesterday. I still haven’t listened to it.

So, these statements are based on info I obtained second hand.

1.) That host is a complete moron and doesn’t know jack shit about sports.

2.) Most Arkansas fans hate him now for going to Ole Miss so quickly.

I do find it really odd that even though Nutt is at Ole Miss now, he can’t shut up about Arkansas. If that doesn’t piss off Colonel Reb’s crew, nothing will.

July 11th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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EireHog says:

Ah, SoldierHog, how quickly one can draw out the irrational Nutt-haters, rather than the folks that can piece together the real reasons to fire Nutt.

Nutt shouldn’t have had the opportunity for his last two years- he should have been fired after his second poor year– but he absolutely *never* endured anything like the Ford era, in terms of losses and embarassment in SEC play.

Nutt improved on Ford in SEC play during his tenure by over .120 pts in WPC, and in overall win pct by .160 ; these are real and statistically significant differences; if Petrino were to make a similar jump in program performance, we’d be talking about a coach who easily out-performs the likes of Tubberville, Saban, and on par with Urban Meyer.

As for the ‘bare cupboards’, that’s extremely subjective at best. What All-SEC caliber players did Nutt inherit, exactly? None were named on the preseason All-SEC team, whereas Petrino does stand to inherit at least the returning Remington Award winner. We know exactly how many players off of the Ford recruited teams ended up on NFL rosters for any amount of time whatsoever- 11. Until Nutt’s last class leaves Fayetteville, it isn’t possible to make an objective evaluation of that data.

Blind Nutt hatred is what kept that scumbag in Fayetteville so long; the inability to martial reasoned arguments, and the willingness to fly off the handle and claim that the Nutt era was some kind of ‘New Dark Age’ on the Hill only lends strength to the mis-perception that Arkansas fans were off their rockers in their anti-Nutt revolt, and why people continue to have skewed visions of the program even now.

July 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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Captain Hog says:

I could only stand so much, and it wasn’t even to do with Nutt. Tommy Smith, the host, is a fuckstick and should get off the air.

July 12th, 2008 at 3:14 am
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Yellow Tail Swine says:

People who compare Nutt to Ford are people who forgot how the program was in shambles after the Jack Crowe Era.

Say what you will about Danny Ford’s lackadaisical in-over-his-head attitude, but he brought the program back a little respect, where it had none when he got there.

Don’t forget, Nutt’s best year at Arkansas, in terms of win percentage, is still 1996 — a team in which Ford recruited every single end, back, tackle and guard.

Ford just couldn’t get over the hump.

July 12th, 2008 at 4:26 am
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Yellow Tail Swine says:

1996=1998
I think that’s the only drunken error I made.

July 12th, 2008 at 4:27 am
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rebel84 says:

I really get a kick out of all the internet Hog fans that pop up every time a reference is made to the name Houston Nutt. You could create a porn site named dedicated solely to ejaculations in Texas and name it “Houston Nutts”, and you’d get thousands of hits from all parts of Arkansas in seconds.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. All you Hogs with your internet savvy would be better served spending your time stalking your new coach. There is a pretty good chance he’s meeting with Kevin White about the Notre Dame job as we speak. If you don’t keep close tabs on your new guy, you may not even have a coach by October 25.

July 12th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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EireHog says:

A Rebel fan talking smack to Hog fans?

Somewhere, a shoe is going unshined because of your time spent badmouthing a program that has owned yours for a very long while.

This is why Hog fans don’t talk smack at Florida– they’re aware of the need for some humility.

July 13th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
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nutt is not a smart person says:

I’ll be the first to tell you there are some hog fans who care way too much about houston nutt. I honestly get really tired of hearing about him and wish some of them would quit being so curious about how life at ole miss will be. That being said, yall do not have a coach that is good enogh to hang with whats around him: Miles, Tubberville, Saban, Fulmer, and Croom. Because of what coach O recruited yall will have a couple midly succussful years, but after that….

July 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
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soldierhog says:

To 18 -
“Blind Nutt hatred is what kept that scumbag in Fayetteville so long; the inability to martial reasoned arguments, and the willingness to fly off the handle and claim that the Nutt era was some kind of �New Dark Age� on the Hill only lends strength to the mis-perception that Arkansas fans were off their rockers in their anti-Nutt revolt, and why people continue to have skewed visions of the program even now.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I believe I offered numbers and historical fact and corrected YOUR mistakes. That means you can’t come back with “cause I said so” as an argument to counter what I said, and then try to claim I can’t martial a reasoned argument. Pointing out the facts does not lessen your credibility as an able debater, but emboldens it. Please have facts and not feelings the nest time you decide to question my ability to form a rational and cogent argument.

July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
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EireHog says:

#25 – at least half of your original argument is speculative, and you have your own share of incorrect facts (Danny Ford didn’t have 2 winning conference seasons; he went 3-4 -1 once, — if you give him credit for a game that he lost 43-3 to Alabama but was later given by forfeit, then you are grasping at straws to make Ford look respectable,[albeit 4-3-1 still not being a winning record] and 6-2 once, while winning the divisional tiebreaker over Alabama). The truth of the matter is that Ford was abysmal.

Combined, Ford went 16-24-1 in SEC play, even giving him the benefit of the Alabama Forfeit. That’s absolutely atrocious next to Nutt’s 42-40 in SEC play. The comparison gets even wider when you go outside of conference play.

The plain math is evident; ask any football fan, if they had to endure a down period in their program, would they rather be a .390 program, or a .512 program in Conference Play, and you’ll *never* hear anyone ask for the .390.

The Ford Era was good only in comparison to the Crowe Era.

July 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am
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Erik says:

“Somewhere, a shoe is going unshined because of your time spent badmouthing a program that has owned yours for a very long while.”

I never knew there were so many anger sports douche bags in Arkansas.

shit, the Ole Miss Arkansas series stands at 24-29. Not exactly ownership by any standard.

Plus, the hawgs should be forced to forfeit the Matt Jones era due in part to performance enhancing drugs. ( cocaine + 7 overtimes = victory)

July 14th, 2008 at 10:35 am
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rebel84 says:

Rationally, most outsiders would put Arkansas’s football program at probably 7th in the SEC in potential. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU would all come before Arkansas historically and currently. Can we agree on that? If you’re able to take an objective look at your program, you’d agree with that. You’re no longer in the SWC, where you were one of the top 2-3 programs.

I’ll give you that your program stands slightly above mine, with South Carolina, MSU, Kentucky, and Vandy bringing up the rear in the SEC historically and in terms of potential.

So you’re 7th out of 12 teams. That means that just over half of your games over time are going to be against schools with a better program. Given that, don’t you think that a .500 record in the SEC or close to it is pretty reasonable, or at least about what you should expect over an extended period?

That’s just reality. Given my program’s history and position in the conference (I say it’s the 8th best program), consistently finishing around .500 would be pretty good, especially if it included the occasional season where we competed for a championship.

July 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am