SonoftheSouth

Obviously, she had access to their car. They had control over that.

Yet, if you used the company vehicle in violation of their rules and someone gets killed, don't be surprised when the billboard lawyers sue your company anyway. That's what's happening.

Is Arkansas about to do Arkansas things again? In 20-21, they lost 4 of 5 through January 16th, then went 12-1 the rest of the regular season and reached the Elite Eight. In 21-22, they lost 5 of 6 through January 6th, then went 14-2 the rest of the regular season and reached the Elite Eight. This year, they lost 5 of 6 through January 18th, and are 2-0 since. It's a little more challenging this year with two key injuries and a tougher SEC, but it's worth keeping an eye on. Musselman tends to find the right combos and push the right buttons this time of year.

I hope all is well with his family. His dad, Dr. Fitz Hill, is a fantastic man. I wish things had worked out for Justice at Arkansas, but it's impossible for an Arkansas fan not to root for him.

I'm not sure replay would have helped. The defender was inside the arc when his heels were touching, then he went up on his toes to get his heels off the floor. The biggest problem was the obvious flop; Davis went past him left to right at the last second, brushing him, and the dude went flying backwards like he had been shot. I don't know if they can call someone for a flop on replay, but that's what should have happened. Still, Arkansas has itself to blame for the L. Way too many turnovers.

Poor animal. That last year of Chad Morris took years off his life.

That sums it up way better than the article did.

They were chippy (not dirty) four times. I watched the game and that's a fact. It's also a fact they were the better team and deserved the W. And it's also a fact that the officiating was terrible. I'll also admit that Musselman acted like a moron in the early season tournament game against San Diego State when he nearly caused a brawl. I just call it like I see it. Like I did when I told another Hog fan above that he was wrong to say the officials were protecting Bama. If it hurts your feelings that I pointed out Bama's chippiness, then maybe your bias is the problem, not mine.

Bama Time, my point being they got bullied by a more aggressive team. I couldn't count the times a Bama player with the ball drove to the basket and no Razorback defender squared up in front of them. Bama, on the other hand, made everything difficult for the Hogs on the defensive end, except for a couple of lulls. I think that's pretty fair and balanced. And I've said more than once here, Bama was the better team and deserved to win.

I didn't see Arkansas trying to push anybody around. I saw an Alabama player take two steps and slap the ball out of an Arkansas player's hand during a dead-ball situation, then drop his shoulder and drive him backwards. I saw an Alabama player put an elbow upside the head or neck of an Arkansas player. I saw an Alabama player shove an Arkansas player's leg while he was on the floor after a hard drive to the basket. I saw an Alabama player after a made three and a time-out walk toward the Arkansas bench and have to be redirected by his teammates. I didn't see Arkansas trying to push anybody around. Maybe that was part of their problem.

They were in the bonus with 13 minutes left in the half. If they were unhappy to be given a bunch of trips to the free throw line, that would be a new one on me. Never have I heard a team complain "we could have run away with it if only the refs wouldn't have sent us to the free throw line so often."

Black and Q didn't just get tangled up and start pushing each other. It was a dead ball, Black was picking it up and Q walked up, slapped it out of his hand, and then lowered his shoulder to grab it and drove Black backward. That should have been a T on the Bama player alone. On the second one, pushing someone upside the head with your elbow should be a technical every time, with all the high elbow emphasis these days. The delay call on Bama made absolutely no sense, it had to just be a compromise call to avoid calling the technical. Bama was better and won it fair and square. But the officiating was still horrible.

I don't think they were protecting anyone; it was just lazy officiating. Bama is definitely chippy, with all the extracurricular shoving they did. There are two ways to get a situation like that under control: T up the perpetrator, which is the right thing to do, or lazily T up both players, which requires much less thinking on the officials' parts. None of them over-exerted their brains last night. But Bama earned the win.

Oh really? Free throws: Alabama 25 of 36, Arkansas 15 of 23. How does that favor Arkansas? I agree that Alabama is better than we are this year. Give us back our two best players who are out injured and I think it's even. I also don't think the officiating determined the outcome. Bama won it fair and square. But yes, the officiating was gawd-awful.

Online classes, probably. We might as well enjoy all the one-and-dones we can get our hands on. Because in this day of the unlimited transfer portal, every player on the roster is potentially a one-and-done. I'd rather have a five star give us a great year and go pro, than have a four-star give us a year and then leave for greener pastures. The old days of players coming in and staying for four years are gone, and they're not coming back, sadly.

"Everybody" doesn't live in East Tennessee. The rest of the country that doesn't live in Tennessee refers to them simply as Tennessee. Now, if you say "everybody who is somebody lives in the heart of East Tennessee," I'd let you have that one. It's beautiful country, for sure.

You heard wrong. Petrino didn't just have an affair. He has a whole slew of character issues. While at Louisville the first time, he agreed to meet with Auburn boosters behind the backs of everyone else in an effort to get that job. Then he left Atlanta before the season was over to take the Arkansas job. Then he had an affair, hired his mistress for a newly created job that reported to him, passing over more qualified applicants in the process, then lied to the A.D. about the whole thing, then got caught. He finally stayed at Louisville the second time long enough for things to catch up to him: over-recruiting offensive skill players to the detriment of his defense, treating players horribly. His program imploded. Then he jilted UNLV after three weeks for A&M. You may can explain any one of those things away on their own. When you group them together, you get the picture of the kind of sorry human being he is.

I am an Arky fan. I know. You've never heard of a motorcycle accident, or car wreck, where one passenger gets hurt worse than another? It was well documented. The trooper on the scene took her into town and met someone in a parking lot who picked her up from there. Then in his accident report, he didn't disclose that she was on the back of his bike. He got caught at all that, admitted it, and got fired. Petrino's injuries were clearly road rash, not caused by someone hitting him with a golf club. And we don't know that she suffered "no injuries whatsoever." We just know she didn't need medical attention at the scene and got the heck out of there courtesy of the trooper. I despise him as much as anyone else. But those are the well-documented facts.

And the Southwest Conference before that.

I'm a lifetime Razorback fan, but anyone taking an objective look would have to admit that Arkansas is middle-of-the-pack, maybe. Frank Broyles got us out of the dying SWC, where we were one of the top dogs. Early in our SEC days, he warned a group of boosters that out of the 12 (at that) teams, we ranked 7th in resources. Nothing says "middle of the pack" better than that. And if you look at on-field success, we rank 13th in total wins over the past 10 years. In other words, not even middle of the pack. I have higher aspirations like all Hog fans do. But I'm also a realist.

LSU has never been the "University of Louisiana State." Mississippi State was Mississippi A&M as an original member, until becoming Mississippi State University. Tulane University was an original member. Vanderbilt has been Vanderbilt University since 1875. Auburn was Alabama Polytechnic Institute until 1960 when it because Auburn University. None of those schools ever put "university" in front.

No, everybody doesn't, lol. You should travel more.

You're right because as far as I know, Freeze has only screwed the pooch one time so far. Petrino has left a litter in his wake everywhere he's been. He's had more second chances than cats have lives.

I'm telling you what he's done in the past. Do some research. And you really shouldn't call Jesus a moron like that.

It's a fiction. The motorcycle wreck is well documented, hence the road rash injuries to his face. State trooper gave the fiance, who wasn't hurt, a ride to town and didn't mention she was there. That's how he became a former state trooper soon after.

I'd love to be at the first A&M practice when a d-back smothers a receiver and breaks up the pass - and Petrino comes uncorked on the defensive coaches for disrupting the timing of his quarterback and receiver. I'd love to by a fly on the wall in the meeting room when Petrino tries to convince Jimbo to cut some of those defensive linemen and linebackers from the recruiting list so he can bring in 9 new receivers instead. Enjoy the first couple of years, Aggie fans. He'll do great with what he inherits. It'll go downhill after that.

"Jimbo seems to have finally been able to get the Board of Regents to a point at which they’re wiling to tune out the noise and focus on what’s important." So what's important is winning at the expense of integrity. "Petrino’s done a lot of things I don’t approve of, but we all deserve another chance." He's had another chance, several times. At Arkansas, all we heard when we hired him was how grateful he was for another chance and how he wouldn't let us down. Then he let us down. Then he stayed at Louisville long enough on his second chance there to finally suffer the recruiting implosion brought on by his habit of treating players like gum on the bottom of his shoe. Then he left Missouri State to be OC at UNLV. Three weeks later, he told them to kiss his behind to go to A&M. Give him all the second and third and fourth and fifth chances you want; a snake is a snake. Let me give you Aggie fans some advice: you better tell Jimbo to watch his back from day one. Petrino will help turn Texas 8&4 into Texas 10&2; and then his toxicity will turn you into Texas4&8.

Why don't we just call them what everyone outside both states have always called them - Tennessee and Texas? Nobody refers to either of them as UT.

Especially a fifth year guy. That's usually reserved for freshmen and sophomores. Sounds like he may have developed a serious case of the I-don't-give-a-rips.

You're right about them relying on replay. On the non-fumble, the thought process is that if they blow it dead and it gets overturned, they've denied the defensive player the chance for the fumble return. So they let it go and depend on the replay crew to overturn it. The problem is, with both the non-fumble and the non-targeting, is that the replay official fixed neither of them despite clear evidence to the contrary. The replay system is broken and needs to be fixed.