Take this to the bank

[CCCharlie]

when we lose to KY this year, the press will NOT report that the only way Nutt can save his job is to win the SEC Championship.

[HoopS]

You know, I bet Kentucky gives us ALL we can handle.  People who automatically mark "W" beside this game need to re-evaluate.   

[philobeddoe]

when we lose to KY this year, the press will NOT report that the only way Nutt can save his job is to win the SEC Championship.

Now that is the way to support your favorite team.

[BigDeal]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

[jkstock04]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

[Mr. Hog]

Yeah with our great passing game your probably righy !  (HUGE AMOUNT OF SARCASM INTENDED)

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

[Mr. Hog]

That should have been "Right"  Duh!

[polandhog]

KENTUCKY 29
ARKANSAS 17

remember???

http://kentucky.rivals.com/boxscore.asp?Game=833&Team=KENTUCKY

[jkstock04]

You know, I bet Kentucky gives us ALL we can handle.  People who automatically mark "W" beside this game need to re-evaluate.  

Nutt, true to form, is .500 with Kentucky.  So I would give it no better than 50/50 that we beat them.  We lost to them last time in F'ville.

Yep, that was a real fun day.  I remember specifically how stellar our offense was. 

[HoopS]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

And I guarantee you, Woodson will tear our secondary up more than Casey Dick can even dream of tearing theirs up.   They actually worked on improving their passing game this past season.   You want to talk about a bad secondary, do you think ours is anything to brag about?   Chris Houston is gone.  Red is about the best we have, maybe J Norton.  What about the other 2 or 3 receivers they will use?   Who will replace Anderson with the heat on the QB?  ARob will do well, who else?   Put me on the record with this;  we may very well win this game, but it won't be easy.  I think we will rack up the ground yardage, and if we win the turnover ratio, will likely win.    This "W" is far from a lock, IMO.

[gohogs3218]

Where is everyone getting that David Lee is such an asset for the program? It is his THIRD time here. What did he do before? His contract was up at Dallas and his job was to break down film. People are saying he developed Romo also not true. He played at E. Illinois under none other than Roy Wittke. Recognize that name? Yet another good coach that HDN ran off. Give me a break. You guys need to clean off your rose colored glasses or at least be realistic.

[The Lemming]

Did I hear C Dick and big game used in the same sentence? Laughable.

[HeathWimp]

You know, I bet Kentucky gives us ALL we can handle.  People who automatically mark "W" beside this game need to re-evaluate.  

Amen to that.  KY improved greatly last year, and returns most of their team.  Brooks is a lousy coach, but it looks like he has finally turned their program around a bit.

[fu-man-soo]

when we lose to KY this year, the press will NOT report that the only way Nutt can save his job is to win the SEC Championship.

becuase if we lost to kentucky we wont be in the championship game

[HogHeathen]

Apples to Oranges

[dirtydoghog]

It's funny that all some of you have it to "talk" about the number of teams that will beat us next year.  Couple that with the number of games you "claim" we actually should have lost this year and you can almost spin that information enough to make yourselves feel better.  Keep up the good work, got a long year to keep "guessing" about how the destuction is about to happen.  That worked so well for most of you this past year. 

[King-Tusk]

What's really laughable is that we are starting posts about what will happen when we lose to Kentucky in FOOTBALL!! 

Thanks nutt, for making the fans lower their expectations and expect losses from Kentucky in FOOTBALL!   

[BigDeal]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

[Bomis Hawg]

I would be more scared to play Vanderbilt than Kentucky this year.  As of now, I don't see Kentucky any bigger of a threat to beat Arkansas than either Mississippi school.

Vandy could be 6-6 this year.  With an upset, they'll be this year's Kentucky.  The Wildcats are a one-year hit.

[strawhog]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

and tony romo was worth a crap?
Let me guess thats just a bad rumer.
or is it a bad rumour?

[OnYourToes]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

CD might have a huge day handing off but I look for DMAC to be 20 of 25 for 215 yards and 2 TD, oh and he'll rush for another 2.

[ErieHog]

Where is everyone getting that David Lee is such an asset for the program? It is his THIRD time here. What did he do before? His contract was up at Dallas and his job was to break down film. People are saying he developed Romo also not true. He played at E. Illinois under none other than Roy Wittke. Recognize that name? Yet another good coach that HDN ran off. Give me a break. You guys need to clean off your rose colored glasses or at least be realistic.

I used to think much more highly of Wittke in that situation, than I did of Lee.   Then I evaluated what they've both done since leaving the Hill.

Wittke went to Arizona State, which had been one of the leading offenses in the country, and promptly slashed offensive scoring by 16PPG,  managed to have the QB Meltdown in the Desert, even before we had the QB Meltdown on the Hill;  Lee helped fashion Tony Romo into a playoff QB. 

I'd have to say Lee's moved up in my appraisal of things.

[WBChogfan]

Gus Malzahn is to Darksiders as David Lee is to Huggers.

[DeltaBoy]

Big Blue gonna punk NUTT!

[James K. Pork]

Is he going to take responsibility for the other Dallas quarterbacks?  Or was that someone else's fault?  He'll fit in well with Nutt.

If David Lee was the be-all and end-all, then he would've received a position in the NFL as a coordinator or a quarterbacks coach.  He was a film boy for years.  Somehow, no one in the NFL viewed him as anything more...not even his own head coach.

This was a comfort hire.  It wasn't based on any proven ability, certainly not based on his previous two stints at Arkansas.  One of those departures Houston used to claim that he was moving towards an improved passing game.  Now we bring back a guy who was responsible for an anemic passing game to "resurrect" a passing attack that he failed to create in his last stint at Arkansas.  Welcome to Nuttstown!  Kool-aid lines start sometime soon.

[razorbear]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

McFadden and Jones are chucking around the ole pig skin as we type.  The problems in the secondary are not related to the pass they are related to tackling the two best running backs in the league as they run by.

[Bacon The Saddle Again]

You know, I bet Kentucky gives us ALL we can handle.  People who automatically mark "W" beside this game need to re-evaluate.  

So do the people who automatically mark "L" by it.

[razornole]

I'm still wondering IF the ole nutty guy will be on the sidelines for the the KY game.


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[Snarlton]

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

...as he has already stated, and stated, and stated and stated some more, and again, and again.  Nutt is great at stating things.  Following through on his statements, however... not such a good track record.

[NATEHOGG216]

You are funny BigDeal,  I hate when u can't see the forrest bc those darned trees get in the way.  you do realize that your idol also vowed to improve the passing game last year right?  you also realize that just a few years ago we FIRED LEE bc we wanted to develope a passing game?  now we hire him to develope a passing game?   hmmmmmmm that makes about as much sense as driving a convertible in alaska.   NONE.

try and use your head before you post, when you don't like your post above, it just makes u look silly.

[HoopS]

You know, I bet Kentucky gives us ALL we can handle.  People who automatically mark "W" beside this game need to re-evaluate.  

So do the people who automatically mark "L" by it.

I agree with that statement, as well.

[rightdp]

KENTUCKY 29
ARKANSAS 17

remember???

http://kentucky.rivals.com/boxscore.asp?Game=833&Team=KENTUCKY

What is it about Nutt's teams? He is notorious for racking up tons of yard and even looking good in the overall stats column at the end of the year but the W/L column is never as impressive.

In this game, we had 515 total yards on offense versus Kentucky's 332.  We tied in turnovers (2) and the time of possession was almost the same, yet we got beat by 12 points.  I remember the game well.... it was raining and a fast white guy (I think he was #12) ran back a punt the length of the field it seemed.  Either way, it was frickin' Kentucky and they beat us at home with far less talent.

[Snarlton]

What is it about Nutt's teams?

It's Nutt.

[Hog Scratch Fever]

Okay, let's be honest.  What year has HDN NOT said we were going to improve the passing game?  It is simply a ruse (oh, let's just say lie) to make people come back to the games and watch to see if it ever happens and then cheer a 40 yard freakin' incomplete pass.  It doesn't matter who the OC or QB coach is because it is only a title as long as Nutt is there.  How many have we had?!  Has it mattered?!  No QB has ever excelled after Clint Stoerner and we all know he checked out of bad plays and was in the dog house for it.  No QB, not even the best in the nation, can look good in a HDN offense.  I used to like HDN, after all, I do some motivational speaking and he was a breath of fresh air after Danny Ford, but it's over.  I can't even motivate myself to make any more excuses for what he does.  It is sickening. 

[PiggyBack]

Chris Vaughn is "coaching" the secondary.
KY is improving in the passing game.
DLee is "OC."

All that spells trouble to me, fellas.

[CorningHog]

The BIGGEST revelation of CCC's comment is this....

When, or if, however you want to put it, Houston becomes on the hot seat as a head coach, you will never see him put out on the "sacrificial limb" or the "walking of the plank" and the words, Houston will have to win the SEC Championship to save his job.

Sure, football doesn't have a tournament in the SEC, but do you actually believe that there is not a "double standard" going on in the Arkansas program??

If Susie Gardner returns to coach, how can a coach like her keep her job when she goes on a 10 game losing streak in the conference?  Especially after they did the same thing in 2005-2006?

Houston never got any kind of public condemnation for his 2 years of losing seasons and they looked totally worse with players not playing up to their expectations and yet Nutt is still considered a very good coach.

Nutt was fortunate to have had 1 good year in 5, so now all is forgiven and all is forgotten, even to the degree that incredible leadership defeciencies off the field and in dealing with a high profile player are being overlooked because it was due to a meddling parent? <(sarcasm) 

The fans are noticing again, AGAIN, that there is now apparently a double standard.  It will not be a good rest of 2007 for Arkansas fans except for baseball and track.

[jpenrod1]

We wont lose to Kentucky so it wont matter.

[Houston h]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

I'm hoping that was sarcasm! Nutt, Lee and Company?  Casey Dick having a huge game?  Oh, I forgot about that new passing attack that Lee is bringing with him from Dallas.

[Bacon The Saddle Again]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

I'm hoping that was sarcasm! Nutt, Lee and Company?  Casey Dick having a huge game?  Oh, I forgot about that new passing attack that Lee is bringing with him from Dallas.

He had a pretty good game against UT and first half against South Carolina (the only half we really threw it). Stands to reason he could have one against Kentucky.

[U.P. HOGG]

when we lose to KY this year, the press will NOT report that the only way Nutt can save his job is to win the SEC Championship.

No kidding.  Maybe thats because we don't gather all the teams together for a tourney still way to decide the overall SEC championship.  HMMM.

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

and tony romo was worth a crap?
Let me guess thats just a bad rumer.
or is it a bad rumour?

Maybe Lee can teach our place holder for Tejada next year......wait.....Romo fumbled the snap.......Never Mind.

[J. McHog]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

I've noticed that each time there is a post that is negative, you come back with a totally positive post that is ridiculous to the point of absurdity. I can't decide if you are totally serious or just being a clown.

I've also noticed you cannot use spell check, but that's another story.

[razornole]

JMc: he enjoys the attention.

Don't you BD

[J. McHog]

JMc: he enjoys the attention.

Don't you BD

What is humorous is that he was on here a few days ago wanting to know how to redo his applaud/smite count.

Which is, by the way, heavily to the smite side. I wonder why?

[jkstock04]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

Tony Romo?  Do you mean this Tony Romo?.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09nwnsPJ9M&mode=related&search=

Cause if so, that sure is the type of training I want our players to get.  I'm going to put this as nicely as I can, you my friend, live in a fantasy world.  You actually think Coach Nutt is commited to the passing game?

The only way I can see someone saying this with a straight face is if you've never been to any football games.  If we were commited to getting a passing game we would've practiced it against the likes of Utah State and so forth...but that was not the case. 

Coach Lee was hired cause he's a part of the Dallas Cowboys/Frank Broyles/MSM connection....I.E. the "Good Ole Boy" network....nothing more, nothing less.

[BigDeal]

We play Kentucky on the third game of the year at HOME. I garentee you Coach Nutt ,Lee & Co. will have the troops fired up and beat this team. Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

LOL.  You think we're gonna pass the ball?  What evidence do you have that thats gonna materialize?

This has already been discussed to a great degree. Coach Lee was hired in to develop the passing game. Coach Nutt is committed to that as he has already stated. He picked David Lee because he developed  Tony Romo.

Tony Romo?  Do you mean this Tony Romo?.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09nwnsPJ9M&mode=related&search=

Cause if so, that sure is the type of training I want our players to get.  I'm going to put this as nicely as I can, you my friend, live in a fantasy world.  You actually think Coach Nutt is commited to the passing game?

The only way I can see someone saying this with a straight face is if you've never been to any football games.  If we were commited to getting a passing game we would've practiced it against the likes of Utah State and so forth...but that was not the case. 

Coach Lee was hired cause he's a part of the Dallas Cowboys/Frank Broyles/MSM connection....I.E. the "Good Ole Boy" network....nothing more, nothing less.

I wouldn't  go so far as to judge Tony Romo on one botched play.(Besides, the snap looked bad to me). Anyway, Coach Lee developed his  throwing arm, not his placeholding abilitys

[razornole]

good point BD.

um How long did the two of them work together? 

[bphi11ips]

Kentucky is hurting in the secondary, so I would expect Casey Dick to have a HUGE game against them too.

So are we, and Andre Woodson is back after leading the SEC in passing.  Real matchup problems plus coming off a probable loss to Alabama in Tuscaloosa make this game a real upset special.  Don't get me wrong - I'm a Hog fan and predicted good things last year when family and friends said I was crazy.  But I don't like the way next year's first three games set up.

[razornole]

I really don't like the schedule with the current coaching staff

[Pork Salad Annie]

All David Lee "developed" was film.
He was'nt even a "coach" and was not on the sidelines or in the press box calling any plays.
Now our million dollar "free pass"  offensive genius has hired him for the third time to be our "Offensive Coordinator".
Totally unqualified.

[BigDeal]

good point BD.

um How long did the two of them work together? 

Razornole,
Glad you are asking questions about this. To me it shows, there is a keen interest on your part to come to light on  things.
Read this article below. Note the writer mentioned two things about David Lee, besides his relationship with Tony Romo.  One, It took BIG money to get him here(a sign he is in high demand), and two, Coach Lee brings instant creditability to the program.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/16497409.htm