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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Who was the coach before Danny? Hatfield?