Arkansas Blog

Hey, Max. We can't all sit around on our ass and pontificate from your glass tower (wait, its not that big) in Little Rock.

When is Ernie writing your next hit piece?

How many head coaches are going to get the UofA to query them just so they can bleed a few thousand (or hundreds of thousands) out of their institution to not take the Arkansas job?

Of course the UofA comes off looking like the ugliest of wall flowers but that can't be true--King Frank has declared that the UofA job is just about the top of the profession.

And so it goes...

Joe Gibbs......?

My dog could have given a better answer to the NIE question, and he sleeps through half the news.

What difference does it make to the voting public if candidates know anything about the world, nations and leaders? Only one of the last four presidents had any grasp of geography, history and world cultures and he was impeached and the other three lauded by similar idiots. It makes no difference when it comes to electioneering or in running this country, apparently.

And....today is Pearl Harbor day and probably many of the candidates don't have a clue unless told by their staffs.

John White is a liar.

In fact, he's a lying sack of shit.

Anyone disagree?

yes, i'm slow sometimes (but not for a pagan-smoker)

it has taken over 35 years, but after watching and listening to Huckabee last night, i now, finally, have some understanding of how black people must have felt when George Wallace appeared on their tv screens.

a most disconcerting mixture of fear, anger, and resolve.

but, as MH raised only $22,000 yesterday (per mikehuckabee.com) perhaps i should relax? HELL NO!

I expect Huckabee to dance around on this and spin, then when he is asked again later he will say it is old news and has already been dealt with.

That is what Clinton did with bimbo eruptions and travelgate and George W did it with his AWOL in the guard.

That is what happens when one side devises a successful trick and then everyone else uses it.

Remember how the "flip-flop/waffle house" label torpedoed Kerry? Well now the Republicans are using it against each other.

Often in history one army developes a winning strategy or weapon and then it gets improved and used back on the original developer.

say, what does STFU stand for?

nevermind. just heard. Shut the %^^& up. I should've gotten that easy one.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Has anyone considered that King Frank may be behind this whole farce - a plan to make Long and White look stupid and ultimately get them fired and take his old job back (AD, not coach). Wouldn't that be something if true. Ole Frankie has been around a long time folks and you gotta figure he would like nothing better than to get even with these whacko's up on the hill. (Caveat: if Frankie was the architect of such a plan, that would not necessarily mean that Long and White were not in fact stupid).

Certainly this "nobody-wants-to-coach-UA" movement will lead on to better things, which it will, like
being a top-notch University, getting all sorts of 'green-grants' when the Demos return our government back to some form of sanity. Who knows, they may even scrape up enough money for a good stem cell research facility once the hallelujah nutcakes are outed from Pennsylvania Ave.

Chancellor White and Coach Broyles will end up just fine. Recall what John Huston said:
"Time dignifies all things; politicians, old buildings and whores."
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I don't know Dr. White and certainly don't know whether he is a liar. I do know Harry King's reputation and his reporting jibes with the assertion that

(1) White had the power and perhaps the will to buck the Trustees' plain desire (and perhaps plans) to send Nutt packing, so that White could have backed up his offer to stand with HDN for a miserable final season next year; and

(2) If the Trustees trumped White, it would put the school in danger of being in the "lack of institutional control" category if sanctions again threatened.

On Nov. 27 King wrote

That point {the fractured fan base] may have been driven home Saturday during a meeting with White. The chancellor probably told Nutt that if he wanted to stay, he would "get in the trenches" with him - a phrase White used Monday - but that the criticism would not subside.

It is likely that White then made it clear that if Nutt resigned, he would be given deferred compensation and other money he would have received if he had stayed until 2009. It's possible that Nutt interpreted that to mean that the university wanted him to resign because it was not in a position to fire him.

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As to whether Dr. White had the power (which is not to say the will) to defy the Board King wrote (Nov. 15):
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All that aside, note this: "Boards should delegate responsibility for the conduct and control of the athletics department to the institutional chief executive."

That quote is from a statement on Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics adopted three years ago by the board of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. That might sound like some ivory tower group sticking its collective nose into athletics, but the NCAA and the AGB are partners in the NCAA's efforts to promote greater accountability for college and university athletics programs.

In fact, all board members at schools in the NCAA's top division are supposed to read and sign the AGB statement, and I'm certain that a copy has been provided each of the 10 people on the UA board.

Under another section of the AGB statement, there is this: "Boards should not be directly involved in the process of hiring and firing coaches or other athletics department personnel."

The AGB report is one of three items cited by an NCAA subcommittee looking at who should be in charge of athletics at a particular institution.

That subcommittee quotes the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics as saying that trustees must "insist that the president is in control and must support and defend the president."

It also cites NCAA bylaws which say that the institution's chief executive officer is responsible for the administration of all aspects of the athletics program.

"Thus, it is the responsibility of the trustees, in exercising oversight, to ensure presidential control," the subcommittee said.