CBB has already taken us somewhere we have never been in the SEC

[Bacon_Bitz]

Since Auburn kicked our butts to start the 2014 season, the Hogs haven't lost a game by more than 13 points in 25 games and counting

The last time we went this long being that consistently competitive? 35 games from '87 Miami to '90 TCU without a loss of more than 14 points

[Positive Pete]

Yep, moving in the right direction

[3kgthog]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

[hog.goblin]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

so the 1 point loss in O/T to Ms St last year is equal to the 53 point loss to USC?

no thanks

I would rather win, and I don't want to have a goal of losing by X points, but how you lose matters

[jdlew]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

Really...Wow man that's heavy!!!

[LRrazorback]

Since Auburn kicked our butts to start the 2014 season, the Hogs haven't lost a game by more than 13 points in 25 games and counting

The last time we went this long being that consistently competitive? 35 games from '87 Miami to '90 TCU without a loss of more than 14 points

I'll preface my devils advocate quote by saying, I wasn't in favor of the CBB hire, however I like the direction of the team and of course I hope CBB succeeds here in making us relevant again.

My devils advocate comment- I think it was Bill Parcells who said,"losing by 10 or more points means you have a personnel problem, losing by 10 or fewer means you have a coaching problem."  Hopefully we don't have a coaching problem.

[HoggieStyle]

Welcome to Razorback football. Measuring success one 13-point-or-less loss at a time.

[onebadrubi]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

When you walked in to what CBB did at Arkansas, this is saying something. If you don't think so, just go asked LSU if they liked getting blanked by the hogs

[hawg IQ]

Since Auburn kicked our butts to start the 2014 season, the Hogs haven't lost a game by more than 13 points in 25 games and counting

The last time we went this long being that consistently competitive? 35 games from '87 Miami to '90 TCU without a loss of more than 14 points

BB continues to bring Arkansas along...also learning curve about SEC football.  I have a sneaky little suspicion hog might be better than projected this fall. Reasons being better defense, also offense will perform better than expected.  Coaches now know what is needed to win in SEC.
  Enos will have good game plans ready...Anderson will improve offensive line. the problem might be depth. Injuries could change everything.. anxious for fall.

[Pig in the Pokey]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

idiot statement, man, and not true at all. To win you must first be competitive.

[greenEGnHAWGS]

I'll preface my devils advocate quote by saying, I wasn't in favor of the CBB hire, however I like the direction of the team and of course I hope CBB succeeds here in making us relevant again.

My devils advocate comment- I think it was Bill Parcells who said,"losing by 10 or more points means you have a personnel problem, losing by 10 or fewer means you have a coaching problem."  Hopefully we don't have a coaching problem.

While I get what your saying...good coaching can take a "10+ point loss personnel team" and get the most out of them in which they lose by 1 instead of 14. Yes,  W's are all that matter, but numbers don't always tell the whole story.

[Pig in the Pokey]

I'll preface my devils advocate quote by saying, I wasn't in favor of the CBB hire, however I like the direction of the team and of course I hope CBB succeeds here in making us relevant again.

My devils advocate comment- I think it was Bill Parcells who said,"losing by 10 or more points means you have a personnel problem, losing by 10 or fewer means you have a coaching problem."  Hopefully we don't have a coaching problem.

maybe relative to a smaller conference or the old NFL but it is hogwash to say that in the SEC West.

[LZH]

I think it was Bill Parcells who said,"losing by 10 or more points means you have a personnel problem, losing by 10 or fewer means you have a coaching problem."

That's good...

[ricepig]

I'll preface my devils advocate quote by saying, I wasn't in favor of the CBB hire, however I like the direction of the team and of course I hope CBB succeeds here in making us relevant again.

My devils advocate comment- I think it was Bill Parcells who said,"losing by 10 or more points means you have a personnel problem, losing by 10 or fewer means you have a coaching problem."  Hopefully we don't have a coaching problem.

Yep, and he's slowly replacing those problems......

[jkstock04]

Prob has a lot to do with our style of play and slowing the game down.

[Bacon_Bitz]

Prob has a lot to do with our style of play and slowing the game down.

Maybe but we got whooped plenty good the first year CBB was here before he had s chance to start building things his way

[Bacon_Bitz]

Welcome to Razorback football. Measuring success one 13-point-or-less loss at a time.

Cutesy comment. You want to go back to regularly having 50+ hung on us?

[HOGINTENNESSEE]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

This is his most postive post ever

[factchecker]

I do think the reduction of blowout losses is a small sign of improvement.  However, I am more excited about the fact that we were able to perform well in clutch moments and win close games in the latter part of last season.... especially after our disastrous start of bad losses and injuries to key players. 

The 4OT vs. Auburn and #4and25 were big moments for this team last season.  Don't forget the fact that we were able to win 3 sec games on the road last season as well. 

Here are the videos from the aforementioned big moments:

[Gonzo]

Cutesy comment. You want to go back to regularly having 50+ hung on us?

Kinda curious when you think that timeframe may have been?  I like the job BB is doing and hope he has great success on the hill, but his teams have given up 50 or more 4 times, and 40 or more 8 times, in 3 seasons. His predecessor, to whom I presume you are referring, gave up 50 or more 3 times, and 40 or more 5 times, in 4 seasons. BB's defenses - 25.66 pts/game, predecessor - 25.33 pts/game (improved in pts/game each season). Reality often doesn't mesh with the popular myth.


Go Hogs!

[JIHawg]

Great point OP, but it does bring the Negative Nancys out of the woodwork.

[Vantage 8 dude]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

Did you think of that all by yourself? Gosh, that's brilliant!!

[Vantage 8 dude]

Welcome to Razorback football. Measuring success one 13-point-or-less loss at a time.

Welcome to Hogville. Measuring success one troll at a time.

[TomBigBeeHog]

Maybe we reduce that margin a little more this year.

[lumphog]

Great point OP, but it does bring the Negative Nancys out of the woodwork.

Fork Em

[RazorbackToTheFuture]

Kinda curious when you think that timeframe may have been?  I like the job BB is doing and hope he has great success on the hill, but his teams have given up 50 or more 4 times, and 40 or more 8 times, in 3 seasons. His predecessor, to whom I presume you are referring, gave up 50 or more 3 times, and 40 or more 5 times, in 4 seasons. BB's defenses - 25.66 pts/game, predecessor - 25.33 pts/game (improved in pts/game each season). Reality often doesn't mesh with the popular myth.


Go Hogs!

Slappy the Clown wasn't here for 3 seasons...

[Gonzo]

Slappy the Clown wasn't here for 3 seasons...

Few people would consider the stopgap to really be the predecessor. For the most part, everyone knows who everyone is talking about.

Go Hogs!

[Bacon_Bitz]

Kinda curious when you think that timeframe may have been?  I like the job BB is doing and hope he has great success on the hill, but his teams have given up 50 or more 4 times, and 40 or more 8 times, in 3 seasons. His predecessor, to whom I presume you are referring, gave up 50 or more 3 times, and 40 or more 5 times, in 4 seasons. BB's defenses - 25.66 pts/game, predecessor - 25.33 pts/game (improved in pts/game each season). Reality often doesn't mesh with the popular myth.


Go Hogs!

Hanging 50 on us without us keeping up. I was mainly thinking about CBB's first season and Smiley. Petting was great but couldn't keep up with the big dogs at all. Nutt was always good for an awful blowout or two every year.

[ChitownHawg]

Kinda curious when you think that timeframe may have been?  I like the job BB is doing and hope he has great success on the hill, but his teams have given up 50 or more 4 times, and 40 or more 8 times, in 3 seasons. His predecessor, to whom I presume you are referring, gave up 50 or more 3 times, and 40 or more 5 times, in 4 seasons. BB's defenses - 25.66 pts/game, predecessor - 25.33 pts/game (improved in pts/game each season). Reality often doesn't mesh with the popular myth.


Go Hogs!

Let's be a little fairer to our current team and our coaches. Those huge losses you are referring to were against ranked teams. Here are the ranking of those teams:

2013
#10
#14
#1
#8

That was against a team which was not mentally strong. They crumbled at the first sight of adversity.

Now here are the big scoring games the next two years which shows our team was improving on offense:

2014
45-21 Auburn ranked #6
45-32 Georigia #10

2015
The only 45+ game we lost last year was a 51-50 vs MSU. This was after two monumental SEC road vicitories against ranked teams.

Yes I would say we are improving and it is more factual than you give it credit for.

[a0ashle]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

I am just waiting for this guy to show up and say "A win is a win is a win..." when people are upset if we don't perform as well as expected against G5 school. It never happens. Maybe he is too busy hanging out wherever the "realists" go instead of setting pessimists straight.

[choppedporkextrasauce]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

Yeah you're wrong.

[Vantage 8 dude]

I am just waiting for this guy to show up and say "A win is a win is a win..." when people are upset if we don't perform as well as expected against G5 school. It never happens. Maybe he is too busy hanging out wherever the "realists" go instead of setting pessimists straight.

Well good luck on that one. If you've followed this guy (I suppose at least) you'll know that we could win a NC and he'd still find fault with something. Perpetually unhappy/dissatisfied with something and everything. Sad, sad, sad...........

[UAfanatic]

If you're measuring progress.. you have to know if your incrementally getting better..

and its, well, by increments, are we moving closer to wins with our losses..

And I'm sure even the loss is a loss guys get that.. but like to say they don't

[Hoggish1]

Since Auburn kicked our butts to start the 2014 season, the Hogs haven't lost a game by more than 13 points in 25 games and counting

The last time we went this long being that consistently competitive? 35 games from '87 Miami to '90 TCU without a loss of more than 14 points

Thanks for making a great point!

[Hogarusa]

Seems like an odd stat to know the details of.  But hey, good job Hogs

[code red]

Really...Wow man that's heavy!!!

He also gave us the first 0'fer the conference.

[code red]

Just sayin

[DiamondHogFan]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

I am just waiting for this guy to show up and say "A win is a win is a win..." when people are upset if we don't perform as well as expected against G5 school. It never happens. Maybe he is too busy hanging out wherever the "realists" go instead of setting pessimists straight.

+1.

Losing to Toledo = Losing to Texas Tech = Losing to Alabama

Beating UTEP = Beating Tennessee = Beating LSU

It all makes sense except for the parts that don't make sense.

[Wildhog]

Can't regress this year.  Need 9 wins.

[Torqued pork]

We've came a long way since losing consecutive games by a combined score of 104-7 in '13.

Nobody looks forward to playing the Hogs now.

[a0ashle]

We've came a long way since losing consecutive games by a combined score of 104-7 in '13.

Nobody looks forward to playing the Hogs now.

But those were just loses like all the others \s

[atekido]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

Just like a win is a win is a win and it doesn't matter how? oh wait thats right it does matter, or so says the College Football playoff committee and pretty much everyone ever involved in competitive sports.

[Hawgar The Horrible]

A loss is a loss is a loss. It doesn't matter how you accumulate them.

I'll take your word for it considering your expertise on the subject.

[Hollywood_HOGan45]

I like the progression of our program but I would put the Georgia 2014 loss in the sh**stomping category. We were down. 38-6 before you could blink.

Sh**stompings were the norm under Nutt and against Alabama under Bobby P.

Seeing this program progress under CBB has been very enjoyable. I just hope we come out of the gate better this year than last.

[Gonzo]

Let's be a little fairer to our current team and our coaches. Those huge losses you are referring to were against ranked teams. Here are the ranking of those teams:

2013
#10
#14
#1
#8

That was against a team which was not mentally strong. They crumbled at the first sight of adversity.

Now here are the big scoring games the next two years which shows our team was improving on offense:

2014
45-21 Auburn ranked #6
45-32 Georigia #10

2015
The only 45+ game we lost last year was a 51-50 vs MSU. This was after two monumental SEC road vicitories against ranked teams.

Yes I would say we are improving and it is more factual than you give it credit for.

I did not say the Hogs are not improving. In fact I quite clearly said I like the job he's doing so far, and I hope he has a lot of success as the Hog HC, as I do for every Hog HC. My response was to a particular assertion that prior to his arrival it was a "regular" occurrence that the Hogs surrendered 50+ pts, and I provided the numbers to refute such a claim. The results are what they are, no more, no less. Apparently though, that doesn't mesh well with the mindset of many that BB is performing at an unprecedented level in UA football.


Go Hogs!

[Bacon_Bitz]

I did not say the Hogs are not improving. In fact I quite clearly said I like the job he's doing so far, and I hope he has a lot of success as the Hog HC, as I do for every Hog HC. My response was to a particular assertion that prior to his arrival it was a "regular" occurrence that the Hogs surrendered 50+ pts, and I provided the numbers to refute such a claim. The results are what they are, no more, no less. Apparently though, that doesn't mesh well with the mindset of many that BB is performing at an unprecedented level in UA football.


Go Hogs!

Losing is always bad but losing 52-51 is better than losing 52-0.

[razorbackkid]

Losing is always bad but losing 52-51 is better than losing 52-0.

Losing by a large margin makes me numb and leaves me wondering.

Losing by less than a score is gut wrenching and makes me physically ill.

But I'd much rather know that "but for" any certain play, we could have won.

[HogMantheIntruder]

I did not say the Hogs are not improving. In fact I quite clearly said I like the job he's doing so far, and I hope he has a lot of success as the Hog HC, as I do for every Hog HC. My response was to a particular assertion that prior to his arrival it was a "regular" occurrence that the Hogs surrendered 50+ pts, and I provided the numbers to refute such a claim. The results are what they are, no more, no less. Apparently though, that doesn't mesh well with the mindset of many that BB is performing at an unprecedented level in UA football.


Go Hogs!

Let's just take away the number "50". Even in Petrino's best year we got embarrassed a couple of times, when it was blatantly obvious we were outmatched. The fact that we haven't had to suffer through that is good for the overall health of the program and specifically recruiting. It's a lot easier to sell kids on where the program is headed when the teams we play don't look light years ahead of us on the field.

[Gonzo]

Never ceases to amaze me how often folks need to massage reality to make sure they feel better about it rather than just let it be and accept it for what it is. BB is doing well, I hope he does even better. I hope we see the Hogs back in the top 10, where they were not too long ago, soon.


Go Hogs!

[LZH]

Nobody looks forward to playing the Hogs now.

Shut 'er down, run everyone off, and lock the doors....end of thread.