A Boy Named Sooie: Another One Bites the Dust
What's that smell?
I tell you what: Grobe was dissuaded by something he saw on the hill, same as Altman. I was so glad that he wasn't Tommy Bowden that I was willing to settle. He would have been a transition guy.
This isn't about money or recruiting territory or fanbase or whatever other limits outsiders want to throw our way. This is about people. I'm not sure who the bagman is, but somebody's repeatedly gumming up the works. Whether that somebody's in the BOT, the Broyles Center, or the Chancellor's office, this shit stinks.
Now, I'm praying we can pick up a Venables or a Muschamp. I'm still interested in Leavitt, but, because of his history of sticking with South Florida, I think he's far-fetched and may be a waste of our increasingly precious time. All the big game seems to be out of sight.
Long's managing to keep a tight lip until right before he levies the offers, but I'm not sure I can take another ESPN update with the word "spurns" in the headline.
This isn't about money or recruiting territory or fanbase or whatever other limits outsiders want to throw our way. This is about people. I'm not sure who the bagman is, but somebody's repeatedly gumming up the works. Whether that somebody's in the BOT, the Broyles Center, or the Chancellor's office, this shit stinks.
Now, I'm praying we can pick up a Venables or a Muschamp. I'm still interested in Leavitt, but, because of his history of sticking with South Florida, I think he's far-fetched and may be a waste of our increasingly precious time. All the big game seems to be out of sight.
Long's managing to keep a tight lip until right before he levies the offers, but I'm not sure I can take another ESPN update with the word "spurns" in the headline.
Comments
Pretty soon we'll be down to reggie. I do believe that a lot of folks up there on the hill do deserve to be bitch slapped up side the haid.
Posted by: ArkansawTravler![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/rockcandy/nav-commenters.gif)
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December 6, 2007 11:54 AM
My favorite fantasy best-case scenario for the U of A athletic department:
The Razorbacks don't find a coach, and the whole athletic department folds, de-taching from the university and going corporate, so that they'd become the Wal-Mart Razorbacks or the Tyson Hogs.
Those private companies would run and fun the programs, make the profits and be responsible for the detention facilities that many of the players should occupy.
We'd quit pretending academics and athletics are interrelated, and focus on things that really matter. People who obsess about this and center their existence around a football program would get a real lives, and we'd quit worshiping those who run fast and throw well.
Seriously, people? Football? No wonder Arkansas is nearly dead last in the nation for things that really matter.
Please take the pig accoutrement off your clothing and automobiles, and de-brainwash.
None of this is important. Please grow up. It's a game.
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December 7, 2007 10:09 AM
Yeah, that is wonderfull idea. Lets just completly cut the athletic department and become a purely academic school. Tuition would rise faster than the price of crude oil under the leadership of a Yale(academic school) graduate. Half of the students at UA would not be able to afford to get the outstanding education that our state school provides. I suggest that you check the numbers and see just how much money the athletic department brings in to UA. I almost forgot. Those boosters that you were talking about also donate quite a bit of cash to UA. That sounds like an ingenious fantasy, but next time keep it to yourself.
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December 11, 2007 09:07 PM