Ripping Bielema and Long

[Soooie21]

Lock this Bitxh..

[Porked Tongue]

Time running out at Auburn for Gus so let's try to build support to get rid of Bielema and build support to bring Gus back to Arkansas? That would certainly be a conspiracy theory. It may not be wrong. I've seen stranger things. On the other hand it also sounds a lot like some posters irrational rant that I have read over and over on Hogville.

Or it can be a Gus fan NOT wanting Gus back to the UA but rather just busting chops.

[Hogwild]

All this does is hurt the program...stupidity of the highest level

Even if you agree with what was printed (I'm not happy with Long's performance) why do it two weeks before national signing day?  What purpose, aside from letting him boast to his friends, does it serve?  All this is going to do is cast a negative light on the department.

This ad will be discussed on sports talk from Atlanta to Dallas, SEC Network....
You can bet that every single one of our recruits, as well as guys we are still recruiting, will be getting multiple tweets from other schools about that ad.  They will  paint our athletic dept. as divide and will claim that CBB is on his way out. 

[Letsroll1200]

Mike or Bret didn't have any  control of what happened 8 years ago. Mike does not have a losing record. Fix it

[MrKnowItAll]

Did Robert Shields move to Memphis and change his name?

From the Bench?

[Ironhawg]

Even if you agree with what was printed (I'm not happy with Long's performance) why do it two weeks before national signing day?  What purpose, aside from letting him boast to his friends, does it serve?  All this is going to do is cast a negative light on the department.

This ad will be discussed on sports talk from Atlanta to Dallas, SEC Network....
You can bet that every single one of our recruits, as well as guys we are still recruiting, will be getting multiple tweets from other schools about that ad.  They will  paint our athletic dept. as divide and will claim that CBB is on his way out. 

Who's to say if the guy who purchased the ad in the paper is even an Arkansas fan?  Something like this could be an attempt by a fan of another program to give the appearance that CBB is on the hot seat at Arkansas.  The timing just before NSD certainly is convenient.  Unfortunately since there was no actual investigation of the ad, the person who bought the ad or anything else, unless some sportswriter in Arkansas does some digging, we won't ever know.  The SDS article was written by Andrew Olsen.  He is a contributing writer for Saturday Down South.  He covers Florida and SEC football.  IMHO the article is a pretty shoddy attempt at journalism.

[HawgTide]

Facts and the bottom line just messes up so many on here.29-43 in the SEC on his watch. Fire him today!

Not sure if serious.

What's your plan? Are you taking care of the buyout? Who are legitimate replacements available right now? How bad would it screw up recruiting?

[Torqued pork]

The majority of people who read the ad will probably laugh.

[Hogwild]

Who's to say if the guy who purchased the ad in the paper is even an Arkansas fan?  Something like this could be an attempt by a fan of another program to give the appearance that CBB is on the hot seat at Arkansas.  The timing just before NSD certainly is convenient. 

That is a very good point, based on what some of our fans have done in the past, it didn't cross my mind

Unfortunately since there was no actual investigation of the ad, the person who bought the ad or anything else, unless some sportswriter in Arkansas does some digging, we won't ever know.  The SDS article was written by Andrew Olsen.  He is a contributing writer for Saturday Down South.  He covers Florida and SEC football.  IMHO the article is a pretty shoddy attempt at journalism.

I wouldn't categorize it as an article or journalism. It was basically a post with the picture, I've seen posts on here longer than that.  I'm sure their will be more information forth coming with regard to the author's identification

[DLUXHOG]

Probably butthurt over losing the GSD (great stadium debacle)

[sowmonella]

Dear ad writer,
You are an idiot.
Signed. Sane Hog Fans.

[Razorbackers]

This may be the dumbest thing Ive ever read.

May be?

[jcbville]

CBS Sports just picked this up. It just came across my notifications from them. It's how I actually found out about it. Wonderful....

[hawginbigd1]

Dear ad writer,
You are an idiot.
Signed. Sane Hog Fans.

Yep and needs taken behind the wood shed, horrible timing to pull this garbage.

Punk

[(notOM)Rebel123]

So...James Rogers is a "group of fans"?

[rhames]

CBS Sports just picked this up. It just came across my notifications from them. It's how I actually found out about it. Wonderful....

Link?


If any national sports outlet picked this up it will be just to make fun of hog fans. Which I doubt anyone worth a damn is really reporting on this

[Dwight_K_Shrute]

Probably won't do any big damage but the fact that it came out before NSD and some national sites are picking it up can't help. It will be spun like it's the majority of fans instead of the lunatic fringe.

[Tusks]

You know what hurts a program the most?  LOSING.

[PonderinHog]

Who on here lives at 50 N. Front Street in Memphis?

Sounds more like someone who calls 201 Poplar in Memphis his home.

[LZH]

We've beaten the darn out of all 3 situations - Long, BB and Anderson.  What is there left to say? 

Some fans are feeling "trapped".  Not saying they should be or the situation is nearly as dire as they believe. 

That was my point exactly.

[factchecker]

You know what hurts a program the most?  LOSING.

Tough to win without recruits.

Be unhappy all you want but doing this on our biggest recruiting weekend right before signing day is idiotic.

[jcbville]

Link?


If any national sports outlet picked this up it will be just to make fun of hog fans. Which I doubt anyone worth a damn is really reporting on this

http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/look-angry-arkansas-fan-takes-out-newspaper-ad-to-criticize-bret-bielema-ad/

[rhames]

http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/look-angry-arkansas-fan-takes-out-newspaper-ad-to-criticize-bret-bielema-ad/

That is surprising. Especially considering it isn't a slow sports weekend

[LZH]

Sounds more like someone who calls 201 Poplar in Memphis his home.

Ha! I looked it up.

[PonderinHog]

Ha! I looked it up.

Don't go there if you can help it.   

[rhog1]

http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/look-angry-arkansas-fan-takes-out-newspaper-ad-to-criticize-bret-bielema-ad/

I just got the notification from cbssports on the top of my phone about this. Thanks ad writing moron for making laughingstocks out of our fan base again.

[jcbville]

I just got the notification from cbssports on the top of my phone about this. Thanks ad writing moron for making laughingstocks out of our fan base again.

Yep. That's how I got the story too.

[PorkRinds]

What's weird is the way these national sites are interpreting it. They say it's "calling out bielema" but really it's calling out Jeff Long.  That doesn't make a big story though, so they twist it to be about CBB specifically. Dishonest tactics.

[rhames]

Timing makes me think it wasn't a hog fan.

[onebadrubi]

Who said someone like Freeze doesn't have an add like this put up for a possible recruiting ploy?  Or maybe mccelwain since he knew stewart was here this weekend and at Florida next. 

[Deep Shoat]

Our fans are idiots.

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Don't go there if you can help it.   

No sharp objects allowed.

[Deep Shoat]

You know what hurts a program the most?  LOSING.

Well, now we know who paid for the ad...

[PonderinHog]

No sharp objects allowed.

Just crayons and safe spaces...

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Well, now we know who paid for the ad...

Hillary?....Kingsbury?

[TNhawgfan]

People from Tennessee are such morons.

That's funny because most people in east Tennessee wish Memphis was its own state

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Just crayons and safe spaces...

"Attica, Attica"

[jgphillips3]

The timing is just bizarre.  I have to think this guy isn't really a fan.  It's close enough to NSD that I could see an Ole Miss fan doing this to sway recruits like Calloway that we are both in on.

[harrisburghog]

If we don't change our direction we're likely to wind up where we're at. Whether you agree or not with someone taking an add out the program is not headed in the right direction. This add hurts recruing, really? Based on what I've read on this board AR can't do any better than what's it's always done.

[3kgthog]

Who said someone like Freeze doesn't have an add like this put up for a possible recruiting ploy?  Or maybe mccelwain since he knew stewart was here this weekend and at Florida next.

Do you also believe the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood back lot?

[NotSoFastMyFriend]

Just confirmed: The ad is not from an Arkansas Razorback fan.

You know how governments do "information operations" where they drop pamphlets and put up posters and take over radio and TV content? This is a very poorly done, albeit well-timed, example of such.

:razorback:

[lasthog]

Who on here lives at 50 N. Front Street in Memphis?

We will search for him...We will find him...and we will smite him.

[Al Boarland]

Who actually reads newspapers anymore?

Apparently all of twitter. Bad look.

[Porked Tongue]

Fake news?

[onebadrubi]

Do you also believe the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood back lot?

So you say it isn't even slightly possible these types of games would not be played in the recruiting of high division one football players?

Mentioning the possibility of another school doing this is not liek the couple of people in this world that believe the moon landing was staged in Hollywood, you are just an agenda driven troll around here with nothing to do.

[Calling All Hogs]

So all you have to do to get a story written about you is run an ad? Does it have to be in a newspaper? Can I take out one of those ads on the shopping carts at Krogers and get a write up? I'm guessing more people read those than read the print version of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

[ur]

That's funny because most people in east Tennessee wish Memphis was its own state

Yes, their joke is that if TN ceded memphis to Ark, it would raise the IQ of both states. Ouch.

[Biggus Piggus]

Threads like these are dumbass flypaper.

[LA Football fan]

What is worse is that we have a thread on it on Hogville and nobody seems to care if recruits, families of recruits, etc have access to it on a RAZORBACK site.  Incredible that the mods haven't removed this thread.  I don't care if you want CBB to stay or not, letting crap like this stay on the main message board does NOTHING to help this program,  does NOTHING to get CBB removed, and only gives our competition ammunition right before signing day to try and pick off recruits.  Unbelievable what this board has become and what this board tolerates to remain posted right before NSD. 

[hoglady]

How much does one of these ADs cost?

I'm thinking about sending in some facts.

Probably in the neighborhood of $2500 maybe more.