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No it's not.

Well that's finally over after staying at Miami-Ohio for three seasons. No hyphen, no parentheses on his diploma to have to explain.

It's pretty obvious Arkansas is glad to take him. Mercenaries is what Musselman lived on and it caught up to him when other coaches did the same exposing his real coaching abilities. Look, with "mercenaries", Arkansas finished with a losing record 16-17 and didn't make the tournament. Kentucky finished with 23 wins and 13 wins in conference, exactly the total wins for Arkansas over the last TWO seasons. So yeah, if you're that sure that Pope is your man, then both schools should be happy.

Doug says he "speaks truth to power". Man, next he'll let us know what his preferred pronouns are.

So now getting to the final four is nothing but failure. Like only looking at a final score, you know nothing about the game.

In a hind-site post here, Arkie dodged a bullet. All things considered, this looks a lot like a Stan Heath prospect.

Maybe the logic is that If Pope wins, great. If he doesn't, maybe play for a Donovan return after he has been out of BB a college season after leaving the NBA. But by then, Florida might be in play for a Donovan return.

Great. He can be the team doctor too?

But there were sure a lot of Kentucky fans making jokes about Arkansas after they missed on Beard and Tang. The point all along is if you don't go after what you think is best, you ain't tryin. Nothing wrong with getting turned down, just shows you arent' willing to settle. Well...at least at first.

Term blue bloods I'd bet is already history but some places haven't faced up to it yet. Or at least the definition will change on what makes a blue blood. Duke made a deep run, Kansas went out HARD in only the second round. And of course Kentucky. Is UConn blue blood? I don't know. UCLA use to be many many years ago. I just think it's not relevant anymore. It's all about the cash now. Does Duke have it? Why is the football so stuck in the middle..and for that matter lots of the ACC schools. Arkansas? Some find it hard to believe, but that entire sports department up there is always valued in the Top 20. Football is not their forte, but I've been around long enough to remember the Frank Broyles years when there were very few schools that they had to take a back seat to. Blue bloods....thing of the past.

Man I know one thing. Money is going to be flying fast and furious all over the country. Just unreal about all the NIL. And you know, if Arkansas has boosters with deep pockets, so do just about all the other schools in the power conferences, or at least the ones that end up in a super league, which you know is going to happen. It'll be like the high stakes poker games. Don't come to the table unless your pockets are full. 18 years old looking for the highest bidder.

Hogs dropped off and you could see it. Then we hear stories (true or false?) that he was actually looking around before this past season. But at any rate, he got back to where the big boosters were willing to step up. I'd bet that if not for Musselman, in spite of a down year, Calipari likely wouldn't have wanted to even consider it.

Not any connection between Arkansas and Fred Smith/Fedex, huge financial supporter of University of Memphis. Only connection Smith had to Arkansas, I believe, is he started out buying and selling used jets out of Little Rock and almost went broke. No other connections.

There are always a thousand rumors out there, usually just someone thinking out loud and trying to get an unfounded story rolling. But the sports shows keep mentioning that Musselman was putting out feelers during the 22-23 season. Even mentioned he let Louisville know he was interested. Somehow I don't believe that, or most of it. He's a Southern California guy and he's no spring chicken himself. I'd bet he was trying to get back there and didn't care who. USC or UCLA, just anything probably. But his style sure seemed like it had lost some fire for whatever reason. In spite of the Sweet 16 appearance, winning just 13 conference games over two years sure looked like he was slipping away. He came in the same time as Oats and came out of the gate faster, but sure faded on the backstretch.

There's another multi billion annual revenue company in NW Arkansas called Simmoons and they have there fingers in not only being wholesale suppliers to restaurants but also many different labeled pet food products.

Only thing against be excited about Drew for Kentucky fans I'd guess is it doesn't just jump out like a Donovan or Hurley. But the guy's record at Baylor says he will be a welcome change. He'll go if he's offered. The future of the Big 12 is still in flux. Could go up, could go away. Could pick up some leftovers from the ACC after all that dust settles.

No disrespect, but they went the Walmart route when they had to replace Chad Morris with Sam Pittman. Morris has a way of breaking the bank and he sure scammed Arkansas. So seeing more NIL in the football program up there would be a 180 turn from the Morris recovery mode.

I remember watching those games very well. And what I remember most was when the Hogs came into the conference with Coach Richardson, it was instant electricity. Kentucky needed a big competitive opponent and boy did Arkansas deliver in some years before being joined by Donovan at Florida. Just seemed like the SEC in BB had really arrived as a conference, not just a one team league. Yeah those were good years.

And that's the same for Musselman. It just looked like he was ready to load up and leave. Now some sources are saying he was letting some know last season that he was looking to move, even as they were playing into the round of sixteen.

If that were true, which I don't believe it is, they would have had to pony up the $30+ million. No, wanted or not, Kentucky was stuck with him till the end or until the buyout went down IF it went down. No one would have liked it, unless next season they made it to the final four, then all would be forgiven. But it couldn't have been Kentucky telling him to hit the road. Couldn't afford it.

If you believe some reports coming out now that Musselman was putting out feelers LAST season, during the season, to move on. If that's true, Arkansas if fortunate that he's gone. 13 total conference wins in his last two seasons looks weak. And this past season, you could tell something was not right with his coaching. Talent was there, but never seemed to mesh. In hindsight, Muss had already loaded his bus and headed somewhere, anywhere. I read it even sought the Louisville job which isn't a step up. But then, neither is the USC job and if he was failing in SEC competition, he's not going to find a smoother road in the Big Ten. But he would have bailed for a West Coast area job, even a Fresno or a San Jose State. He is a West Coast guy.

Welp???

The Muss bus had flat tires. And Muss flattened em. Hard to watch, then know, that he was shopping himself around by conference tournament time. He owed Arkansas a lot more than he was giving. The talent was there certainly for better than 6 conference wins. Coaching failure and sure, it was time for him to move on. He didn't get the Louisville job so now he moves on to a job that will be impossible to turn out a winner in the Big Ten, a harder BB conference than the SEC top to bottom. He'll be gone from USC in 3-4 years.

Haha. You love you some fiction man. But whatever. You carry that false flag around when you post, and have your fun.

Oh, an internet tough guy calling someone else names. Pretty funny but I enjoy watching all the mess. You ain't gettin Oats. And that's all we need to know.

So no school should ever talk to a coach unless they call first and ask if they can have the job??? Look at how many times Tennessee swung and missed. Beard should have taken the job. He won't be able to get Ole Miss to Arkansas' level in BB.

Haha. Don't worry. Pretty sure Arkansas has NO interest in the Missouri coach.

Just seeing Petrino back at Arkansas in any capacity is a bit bizarre. I'm not criticizing him or anyone else, but it just seems so improbable to see him back. I will say that people I know there thought Long shouldn't have fired him in the first place. Punishment sure. And as I recall from articles, Petrino had offered to cut his salary if he stayed. And in hindsight, now seeing names back like Freeze, Beard, Wade being mentioned for a return, maybe they were right to want punishment instead of firing. Look at the mess they've been in for 9-10 years.

Usually seeing 6 wins is not a huge mountain. But looking at their schedule, I'd say that if Pittman/Petrino find 6 wins it will be almost a miracle and certainly another year for Pittman. How long Petrino stays is the question, even at his age.

I just don't see Pittman as the long term HD of an SEC team. He's always going to have to depend heavily on his coordinators and if they do well they'll always be moving on to bigger programs. Pittman may be a nice guy, but he can't help when the offense is incompetent run by a Dan Enos. That was a shocker. Sadly, with all he's been through and needing a fresh start, I do think KJ would have had his best season ever at Arkansas. Too bad, he'll do very good in a watered down Big 12. May even be the reason he picked a Big 12 spot. Sanders? Seems like he had more missed games than not after the injuries started to add up. Be interesting to see how he does at SC.