Texas Bowl championship belt!

[redleg]

Bret Bielema had the 2014 Texas Bowl championship belt buckle trophy made into an actual boxing-style championship belt! Very cool!!!  :razorback:
The Longhorn fans  on the Orangebloods boards are NOT happy! hahahahaha!!! 

[HogWall Jackson]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

[Ragnar Hogbrok]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

Dude.  Get a life.

[Richard_white]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

It meant more for those players and coaches.  And it certainly should mean a lot to all of us who bleed for the Razorbacks.

[hoggusamoungus]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/bret-bielema-shows-off-leather-texas-bowl-belt-152443238.html

[BearsBisonsBoars]

I love it! That game sure meant a lot to me. Not sure how any other Hog fan could feel differently, honestly.

[TrueBlue]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

Just wow.

You don't seem like much to boast about either, but here you are. 

[TOM "tbw1"]

I love it! That game sure meant a lot to me. Not sure how any other Hog fan could feel differently, honestly.

They can't.

[hawgmasta]

If Texas and Arkansas were both winless and we beat them like that I would beat my chest! Was an awesome game with true razorbacks playing.

[Arctic Hog]

I love it! That game sure meant a lot to me. Not sure how any other Hog fan could feel differently, honestly.

Agree.  This was the most excited I've felt about a game since the '77 Orange Bowl.  And yes, I know the Hogs have had some great games in between but this one felt so good after the 2012 debacle.  What can I say, I'm a fan. 

[hoghearted]

I love it! That game sure meant a lot to me. Not sure how any other Hog fan could feel differently, honestly.

Made me pretty dadgum happy. Not sure why anyone would try to trivialize it.

[popcornhog]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

In a vacuum, sure. But it sounds like you haven't been paying much attention over the past few years if that's your take away from last season.

[Pigsknuckles]

That game was the best possible opportunity for positive exposure that we could have had following two dismal seasons, and we made the best of it. How can anyone here discount the importance of that game to the morale of our program, and fan base? (Rhetorical)

[oldhawg]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

In a few short years no one will know anything about this Texas team except that Arkansas beat them 31-7 in a bowl game.  And that is all that counts.  Without looking it up, what can you tell me about the the Texas team that Arkansas beat 38-28?  Must have been a bad longhorn team for the Hogs to score 38 points on them?

[Doug]

Ut oh, Hogwall Jackson isn't happy with the belt.

Better send it back and ask for a refund. Fire Jeff Long. Fire Bret Bielema. Fire Mike Anderson.

Bring back Houston Nutt as AD. Dickey Nutt as MBB. Danny Nutt as CFB HC.

Dude, seriously... this isn't about you. It never was. After struggling for nearly three years, these players earned every bit of the accolades they got. It's a good damn thing that your mindset isn't running things.

Turn in your fan card. You're not deserving of it. Stuff THAT into your damn pipe and smoke it.

[rljjr]

The poor little Texas guy got bent. Well he better get used to it. I watched the Longhorns spring game and if it is possible they are worse than last year. Terrible across the board. Oh, and as for the article, we were never in the Southwestern Conference. Not that facts matter.

[DownTownHawg]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

Being born and bred here, there is nothing I can't think of better than curb stomping texas in a bowl game to end the year . I don't care what our record is and I'm sure there are a lot of people who feel this same ....

Woo Pig

[redbarn]

Ut oh, Hogwall Jackson isn't happy with the belt.

Better send it back and ask for a refund. Fire Jeff Long. Fire Bret Bielema. Fire Mike Anderson.

Bring back Houston Nutt as AD. Dickey Nutt as MBB. Danny Nutt as CFB HC.

Dude, seriously... this isn't about you. It never was. After struggling for nearly three years, these players earned every bit of the accolades they got. It's a good damn thing that your mindset isn't running things.

Turn in your fan card. You're not deserving of it. Stuff THAT into your damn pipe and smoke it.

Amen Bear

[TeufelHog]

CBB studied, and is very aware of, Hogs vs. Horns football history.  This was a great marketing/media ploy to keep the "rivalry alive."  Piss'em off and sear the memory of the 2015 Texas Bowl win in your "rivals" minds.  Well played CBB, well played!

Until we meet again "Horn Fans" the bragging rights are ours!::

[Sir Oinksalot]

The Shag bowed down I'm guessing...

[Choctaw Hog]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

I'm guessing the players accomplished more in that one game then you have your entire life.  So, go tell them it "means nothing more........".  Trying to minimize other's accomplishments .  It's what losers do.   

[GolfnHog]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

You are no doubt the reason that your family drinks

[Hawgzinbowlz]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

_______________________________________________________________________________________
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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You sir, are not a Hog Fan.

" WOO PIG "

[LRRandy]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

boy did you get raked over the coals. Some wounded souls got their feelings hurt. It was a 7 win season folks. Hogwall was just putting it in perspective.

[Choctaw Hog]

boy did you get raked over the coals. Some wounded souls got their feelings hurt. It was a 7 win season folks. Hogwall was just putting it in perspective.

Not all 7 win seasons are the same.  Put that in perspective. 

[BearsBisonsBoars]

Ut oh, Hogwall Jackson isn't happy with the belt.

Better send it back and ask for a refund. Fire Jeff Long. Fire Bret Bielema. Fire Mike Anderson.

Pure gold.

[MissippHog]

boy did you get raked over the coals. Some wounded souls got their feelings hurt. It was a 7 win season folks. Hogwall was just putting it in perspective.

Stuff it Randy, we're not buying it.  Hogwall is just peeing in everyone's cheerios.  He isn't offering perspective. 

[(notOM)Rebel123]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

There's an anthill in my yard. Maybe you'd like to come over this weekend & burn them with a magnifying glass?
Geez.

[LRRandy]

Stuff it Randy, we're not buying it.  Hogwall is just peeing in everyone's cheerios.  He isn't offering perspective.

what about what he said wasn't true. It was a horrible Texas team. It was a third tier bowl game. It was a good win. The team did get extra practice. A cathartic experience for razorback nation to be sure. A bridge to much better things I have no doubt. All in all. Not a very big deal. He put it in great perspective.

[theFlyingHog]

boy did you get raked over the coals. Some wounded souls got their feelings hurt. It was a 7 win season folks. Hogwall was just putting it in perspective.

I grew up with a guy that was a big buckeye fan. He was a d-bag too

[PonderinHog]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

Here's your sign.

[Anybody]

I am still smiling.  Zero stress and great FUN from the opening kick to the final gun at the bowl game. 

GO HOGS 2015 !

[MissippHog]

what about what he said wasn't true. It was a horrible Texas team. It was a third tier bowl game. It was a good win. The team did get extra practice. A cathartic experience for razorback nation to be sure. A bridge to much better things I have no doubt. All in all. Not a very big deal. He put it in great perspective.

Given what this program has been through, it was more than a "good win."  That game carried much more significance than that.  Like I said, IMO, he wasn't putting anything in perspective.  Just simply downplaying what we did to close the season.  It's pretty typical of HV though.  As soon as anyone posts anything positive you have a couple of "realists" pop-in to "keep things real." 

[lefty08]

what about what he said wasn't true. It was a horrible Texas team. It was a third tier bowl game. It was a good win. The team did get extra practice. A cathartic experience for razorback nation to be sure. A bridge to much better things I have no doubt. All in all. Not a very big deal. He put it in great perspective.

He said worst Texas team in 50 years Randy, that's not perspective

[jgphillips3]

Well, after that game, many national media thought we may have been the best or second best team in the West, especially at that point in the season, so I think it means quite a bit...especially for national respect.

[rickm1976]

That game was the best possible opportunity for positive exposure that we could have had following two dismal seasons, and we made the best of it. How can anyone here discount the importance of that game to the morale of our program, and fan base? (Rhetorical)

Exactly right.  Some just don't get how big that win was to cap off last season.  We proved we have turned the corner with a win over our historically greatest rival and nemesis.

[DeltaBoy]

Cool to see it was made about 30 minutes southwest of my house.

[Pig in the Pokey]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

ummmm, NO! Hell to the No. We BROKE RECORDS against them that have stood forever. The have NEVER been gangbanged quite like that in a century and a half of football. They are Texas, and it was in the TEXAS bowl. They wanted that game bad. They quit before it was over. They wanted to go home to their mommies. They ran off the field like Kevin Love. That was a landmark win in the ARKANSAS vs texass rivalry, dude, and don't you get it twisted!!!

[Pig in the Pokey]

comments are rich!!!

here's one i liked-
john 1 hour ago 0 0
As a badger fan, I am coming to think that Brett Bielema is not as dumb as I thought he was.
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Monty 15 hours ago 2 3
One can only hope Arkansas and Wisconsin meet in a bowl game next season.

Considering the linemen Bielema has assembled on both sides of the line, the Hogs would stomp a mudhole in the Badgers and walk it dry.

[Sivad]

Championship Belts are pretty cool.

[Justifiable Hogicide]

Woo Pig!  :razorback:

[supersaint]

The Texass jabronies need to shut up and know their role. I smell what CBB's cooking. He went to Texas to kick butt and chew bubble gum. He ran out of bubble gum.

[The_Iceman]

Ut oh, Hogwall Jackson isn't happy with the belt.

Better send it back and ask for a refund. Fire Jeff Long. Fire Bret Bielema. Fire Mike Anderson.

Bring back Houston Nutt as AD. Dickey Nutt as MBB. Danny Nutt as CFB HC.

Dude, seriously... this isn't about you. It never was. After struggling for nearly three years, these players earned every bit of the accolades they got. It's a good damn thing that your mindset isn't running things.

Turn in your fan card. You're not deserving of it. Stuff THAT into your damn pipe and smoke it.

This is what I pictured when reading this:

[jrulz83]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

[immahog]

I love it Woo Pig

[thirrdegreetusker]

This was done with good intentions but means nothing more than an Arkansas Teams with a Losing Conference Record beat one of the worst Texas Teams in 50 years 3rd tier Bowl Game. It was a good win for us with some added practice time. Our players got some good additional experience but hardly anything to Boast about.

Some perspective. At the end of BPs second season, we had to go OT to beat East Carolina in a bowl.

At the end of BBs second season, we stomped one of the historic college football power programs, in their own home state.

[Hollywood_HOGan45]

I like it.

That Texas bowl is the best thing that could have happened to our football program that season.
Coach B knows that we don't have the tradition of SC, Michigan, Texas, Bama, Ohio State etc etc. He is building this football program his way and trying to create excitement for this football program.

Downplaying this game/season would be a kick in the groin to the kids who suffered through some horrific losses and came back to set records vs Ole Miss, LSU, and Texas.
First time in the HISTORY of college football that an unranked team recorded back to back shutouts vs ranked teams.

I bet a HUGE part of doing this was for recruiting especially in Texas.
Coach Bielema is building the Razorback football brand brick by brick. The Texas Bowl win was a really big springboard for this football program no matter how bad Texas was.

[Tequilin' Time]

Beating TexASS is beating TexASS!  period, end of story, nuff said!

I enjoy it thoroughly every single time

carry on

Woo Pig!

[hawkhawg]

I'm Bret Bielema! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun! And Texas Bowl Champion"

[thirrdegreetusker]

First time in the HISTORY of college football that an unranked team recorded back to back shutouts vs ranked teams.

How can that be? Hogville say BP "top 3 coach" or "best coach we will ever have". So he must have done that kind of stuff two or three times a month.