Redneckerson

Tiger TD, I think you are right. A lot of kids commit to go to Oregon these days, and I am not even sure anyone can actually remember what colors their original uniform was. And yep, I am too old to appreciate it I guess. My original comment was not meant as taking a shot at any team in particular. Somewhere along the line my hogs picked up a color they call anthracite. I am not a fan of this either, but there must be a benefit to in marketing to 17 year olds.

What anger could I have Guinny? I am a very happy guy with my Hogs this year. We play a much tougher schedule than you guys do, (#1 in college football), we own the state of texas, (3-0), with one of those wins being over our most hated rival! Not to mention, (but I feel I must), we have been ranked in the top 10, in just Pittman's 2nd year after taking over the dumpster fire left by Chad Morris. by the way, isn't this your coaches second year? The child who ran his mouth was your programs savior, coach Drink at the SEC media days. There is some serious crow on the menu for him the rest of the year, although not against a Vandy team following a bye week, (and playing in those cool Uni's revealed in a cave by torchlight)! I guess you liked the reveal, but since you most likely live in a cave, those geniuses handling your team's social media actually hit your teams target demographic. I guess we all just do what we need to do to get by Guinny. Just because I don't need any silly videos of Uni "reveals" to hype my team and fanbase up to hopefully compete with Vandy, does not mean I don't have understand your teams plight. We have made some coach hiring blunders, with Chad Morris being historically the worst head coach in SEC history. Drink is Chad 2.0, and I hope you guys give him an extension soon because I am almost positive he is just the guy to turn it all around! And even if your team doesn't get to 6 wins this year, you will always have those Uni video reveals!

Nope 90Dawg, I find it stupid as well.

Nope. Noticing because it is a stupid trend these days, with not just Missouri doing it. I promise, if Arkansas does some dumb Uni "reveal" titled "I'm Vengeance" in a dark cave with a torch, going into a game against a team which any team in the SEC should be favored to win against, I will call it out as just as stupid, and with a slight hint of desperation. And yes, I lived through the Chad Morris years, so I am familiar with that hint of desperation. Missouri will beat Vandy just as they should, and in Drink's presser after the game, he will not cite the Uni as being instrumental in getting the win. But hey, I am old, and feel if you are changing the Uni every week, let the "reveal" be when the team comes out of the tunnel. Good luck this Saturday. You won't need it.

This is one of the stupidest things I have seen on SDS in quite a while, and that is really saying something. Who exactly cares about these "reveals"? More importantly, has Missouri really fallen so far that they need some special Uni combo to beat Vandy?

As an Arkansas fan, I have seen the SEC refs blow the "is it a fumble" question in back to back years vs Auburn. Both times, reviews of the play which should have gotten the call right, refused to make the guys on the field look bad, and ruled the play "stands" as called on the field, as opposed to ruling the call on the field is "confirmed". I agree that the refs on the field do often "swallow their whistle" in fear of being overturned by review, but I think it goes the same way for the review booth. The replay booth always seems to lean over backwards to not go against the guys on the field. I think making the the officials full time, would make them more accountable for their performance. As it is they can blow a call, (perhaps intentionally), and just shrug their shoulders and say, "oh well, I still have my day job". Whereas if officiating the games was their "day job" and only means of supporting their families, they would be in the same boat as most of us, in that we keep our jobs based on our work performance. Poor performance, would get them fired. "Homer-ish" calls would get you fired. No more of this suspended for a week BS. There is no way anyone could ever convince me that Mark Curles would still be a ref in anything but peewee football if he had been held accountable for all the blown calls he has been responsible for. The SEC officiating model is basically the same as the small town kids baseball league umpires. You basically have someone's dad or uncle out there, calling the game because he watches a lot of baseball on tv, and lettered 30 years ago in high school. Is he biased? yeah, probably. Is he really worried about his performance? Not so much, he makes his money selling cars at the hometown dealership. Is he going to face any repercussions for calling the home team kid safe at home when he clearly wasn't? Only from the bitter moms and dads in the stands, who knew the biased/inept way he would call the game when he was chosen from the other dads and uncles. Sorry for the rant... Part timer SEC officials suck.

I am surprised by UK this year! Much like the resurrection of the Arkansas program, they are another feel good story for the SEC. As for the SC game, SC did manage to score a single TD in the fourth quarter against back-ups to make it 40-13 Georgia.

Wilbon was right... about the Lane Kiffin of the past. I like Kiffin for the most part now. He is funny on Twitter, and he takes the trolling, as well as he gives it. I do not believe it will be an ass whooping applied by either side in Saturdays game, although I have picked the Hogs to lose primarily because it is in Oxford. I see this one coming down to who's defense, can stop the other the most times. Gonna be a fun one to watch I hope! One thing is for certain, it will be better for both fanbases to watch than what happened last weekend!

I agree Prim. Georgia has a generational defense that will go down as one of the best the SEC has ever produced. They will curb-stomp Auburn, and pretty much any of the other "also-rans" in the SEC not named Bama. As far as strange things happening in Jordan-Haire, this could be played in Harsin's backyard on blue astro turf, with his relatives as referees, and the result would be the same. Georgia by at least 30.

The Hogs got rolled up by those Georgia Dawgs that is a fact. But I did not see the Vols coming into COMO and doing what they did to the Tigers. All of a sudden those comments Drink made at SEC media days, (about "keeping Arkansas as a rival", because he "couldn't remember the last time Arkansas had won it"), do not appear to be aging very well.

I disagree. Bennett is enough when you have THAT defense. He is quick and accurate, (didn't have to throw it against my Hogs this week), but he can. I see him more like a Greg McElroy game manager, with better feet. He is smart, and doesn't make mistakes. Saw he thought about transferring last fall, and there would be a lot of teams that would have been interested in him I bet. All the guy does is win, which is a nice trait to have in a back-up QB. Yes, Georgia can beat Florida with him, because he won't make mistakes, and THAT Georgia "D" is the best in college football this year.

I think Bama gets back to being Bama this week and wins decidedly, by at least 21. No disrespect to Ole Miss, just catching Bama at a time where Saban will have his team convinced they are playing Brady, and the Tampa Bay Bucs. There is never a good time to play Bama, but Bama being home after an away game with a loud hostile crowd, where they were really challenged, Saban will have a focused group ready to silence the doubters. If this was in the Grove, it possibly could have been close. Again, no disrespect to Ole Miss, I would prefer to be wrong.

Arkansas has had the toughest schedule in country every year we endured those inept coaching hires. In my opinion, our schedule with the the two new additions just got a lot better. I hate the horns as much as anyone here, (pretty indifferent to OU, I live on the western side of the state in Arkansas, and have friends who are sooner fans, and we bond over our shared hatred of the horns). Neither of these teams are going to come into the SEC and do any better than 5th or 6th in the conference. They are not ready, (take a look how the big 12 champion has fared in the playoffs). I would much rather play the Sooners, and tu, than Bama and Georgia. I personally hope they keep the East/West divisions, and just split the 8 teams in each division geographically. Oklahoma and tu are coming in used to the big 12 where they can't afford to schedule cupcakes in their out of conference games, because there schedule is already full of them just playing the bad teams in their conference. Sure they had pretty much run the table in that weak sauce conference, but that is an easier task than facing SEC defensive/offensive lines each week, and yes I know they have some excellent athletes, but they do not have the depth. In the big 12, "to be the man, you have to beat the man", meaning you actually have one "man" (team), which could be on a good year competitive nationally, outside of the over-hype, (yeah, yeah, tx is back again). In the SEC, "to be the man, you have to beat the man", (TEAMS), practically every week, (unless you were playing a bert beliema/chaggy morris coached Razorback squad, of the past). In a few years, these both teams COULD become competitive at the top of the conference, but I do not see them winning a division in the SEC in the next 10 years. I like my Hogs chances against either of them, with coach Pittman at the helm, both recruiting as he does, and the team he puts on the field that does not quit. Welcome Sooners, and horns. Watch out for that performance curve, it will be a steep one for you both.

Kevin Kopps is the best pitcher in college baseball this year. Prove me wrong.

^ this is so true. But in the when it is decided in the finals, it needs to be the SEC holding up the trophy. Here's to all the teams in it, go forth and represent!

Dogs are a good team, and I cannot see how they wound up in the "funk" they were in in the SEC tourney. I think they make Omaha.

Oh great, spewed coffee on the keyboard when I read that one!

Saban should win it, end of story. If it was between Drink and Pittman, Pittman should win. In an all SEC schedule Arkansas should be 5-5, after playing 6 ranked teams. Missouri after Saturday will have played 4. Drink has done a good job, but to compare an Arkansas Team who went winless for 2 years against SEC schools, to the Odom coached Missouri teams is ridiculous. If it comes down to who did more with less, Pittman blows away the competition, but that is not what being coach of the year should be. Saban is clearly the best coach in history, (yes he gets the best recruits, but that too is part of coaching), but he also finds and then develops recruits with lesser "stars" and makes them exceed everyone else's expectations, (i.e. Matt Jones will probably win the Heisman). You might FEEL that Drink should win it, because you hate Barry Odom. But Odom was just didn't win enough SEC games to keep jis job. Chadd Morris in two years never won a SINGLE SEC game, which makes him statistically the worst head coach the SEC has every seen.

Good thing this hasn't happened in the SEC... Marc Curles's career would have been over years ago.