Arkansas Sports

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basketball was incredible

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Was it?

We lost three games in November and were never ranked again. A mediocre mid major handed us our arse at home, we nearly lost to a terrible Stanford team and then Memphis punked us. Forget excellent, that’s not even acceptable. The season sucked from day one.

I think baseball will be fine, DVH doesn't care about the SEC tournament at all. I expect them to make it to Omaha.

Let baseball play out. We're 33-3 at home.

We'll be favored against anyone anywhere with HS starting. Beyond that it'll take luck to win it all but we have as good a chance as anyone.

I blame Frank Broyles. He wanted all sports to be competitive and started building facilities to make it happen. Without his effort we could be comfortably, or not, sitting in a sunbelt type of conference without the headache of trying to be the best in the country.

Darned him to heck by golly.

Well even the first 20 years In the sec we were competitive, made the sec championship game a few times and were ranked more times than than not. The difference is we’ve hired shitty coach after shitty coach.

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Arkansas would still struggle had they stayed in the SWC.

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Arkansas struggled from 1990-1997 because ford and Crowe sucked. Then from 1998 to 2012 Arkansas only had 3 losing seasons and still won at least 2 conference games every year. But then we hired shite coaches again and the results showed. It’s funny how Arkansas lack of in state talent and small recruiting footprint seems to only affect the coaches that suck. Maybe if we don’t make a shitty hire we won’t have shitty results.

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Pointing fingers at ourselves for being poor little Arkansas is not the way to approach it.

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and it’s just not fricking true which makes it worse. We were one of the top 25 most ranked teams in the AP poll before 2012. And although there’s a lot of SWC years in there it also included 20 years in the sec, some of which we really struggled because we had bad coaches. But another 15 year run where we did okay. Even though most people would agree the coach we had most of those years wasn’t some coaching savant either. Plus the people who love to talk about how the only reason we won in the SWC was because of how weak the competition was needs to tell me which former SWC conference member would we have consistently beaten the past decade with the coaching staffs we’ve had? Does chad Morris or bert consistently beat tcu? Smu? Baylor? Houston? Obviously not A&M. And if memory serves bert was 1-1 against tcu and Texas tech, the last one embarrassing him in a year where he even won 4 or 5 sec games.

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Arkansas would have struggled to beat TCU, SMU, Baylor and Houston. Arkansas lost plenty of games to helpless SMU back in the 90s. Arkansas lost to them when they won the 95 SEC West title.

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this is my point. Just being in the sec isn’t why we’ve sucked the last 12 years. It’s not the lack of recruiting, it’s the shitty coaches. If it was really just because of the conference we play in being too dominant, we wouldn’t also be losing to San Jose state, western kentucky, north Texas, Rutgers, liberty, Toledo, etc. Not having elite talent doesn’t help but those teams didn’t out talent us, they just didn’t have a buffoon roaming the sidelines making the most important decisions.