SonoftheSouth

It's almost exclusively a student problem. Simple solution: first offense, ban all student tickets for the next game. Second offense, ban them for a calendar year. When the first program has to play in front of a vacant student section, the problem will get solved. And the grownups who pay premium prices and stay in their seats won't get penalized.

Musselman, at 4-9 and an injury-plagued season, gets an F. Missouri’s guy, at 0-13, gets a D. Yeah, that makes sense.

Reading between the lines in the story in the Arkansas paper, I think there's a bit of a mental health issue at play. Nobody asks for mental illness, just like they don't get to pick their height or athletic ability. Devo's an easy guy to root for, and when he's on, he's a helluva player. Stever is probably right, it's not going to make a huge impact on the final team record. But if he could turn it on down the stretch, at least Razorback fans could finish this year with a feel-good story. And then I'm afraid it's goodbye to Muss, who will leave for a better NIL situation that is better positioned to him get to the promised land than Arkansas is now. But I'll happily settle for Stever being right, and me being wrong, and pleasantly surprised.

I don't think Razorback fans have figured out what's going on yet, but Musselman could recruit great players when the attraction was his ability to get them into the NBA. Now, the attraction has changed to NIL money, and suddenly he can't recruit like he could. He's hinted at that the past few months. It was a great run, but I think he's gone after this season to a program with more NIL money than the Hogs have.

Yeah, but look at who we beat. The bad thing was, we showed up at Florida after Enos got fired, and fought. That showed we were capable. Then we just quit on the rest of the year. Auburn and Missouri were disgraceful efforts. I think there were team chemistry problems and a lack of leadership in the locker room. And that terrible o-line.

You can say your team embarrassed my Razorbacks. And I can say we embarrassed ourselves by not showing up to play. And we’d both be right. We’re good at QB next year. Heck, we were good at QB this year. There wasn’t a QB in the country who could have done anything behind our pathetic excuse of an offensive line.

I can just hear that hypothetical post-game interview down on the field: “Coach, your first SEC championship. What are your thoughts?” “Oh, it’s just another win. It’s no different from beating Vanderbilt this year, or Ball State in the nonconference portion of our schedule. A win is a win, and this one won’t last more than a week, just like those. No big deal.” -said no coach, ever.

So, Missouri getting to the SEC championship game and winning it wouldn’t be a signature win for the program? It would just be identical to beating an 0-8 Vanderbilt team? Because a win is a win is a win, right? That’s your story and you’re sticking to it. No matter how utterly nonsensical it is.

Remind us, which conference has a tougher gauntlet than ours?

And every time you say that, you prove yet again that you’ve never experienced a signature win. You reference 2022 Tennessee-Alabama once again, and conveniently ignore the other games I mentioned. “A win is a win. They don’t last but a week.” That’s only true if Mizzou is your team. Maybe y’all will beat the Buckeyes and you’ll learn something.

It gave them a whole lot to brag about and feel good about, and recruit on, and that lasted way longer than a week. Ask a Tennessee fan if that was just another ho-hum win. I seem to recall them celebrating it the rest of the season. The “kick six” game was a big deal for Auburn, and they’re don’t done talking about that one yet. Ask an Auburn fan if that was just another ho-hum win. In 1999, Arkansas won the famous “redemption game” over 3rd ranked Tennessee, after their All-American former walk-on lineman who was the goat for the prior year’s loss died in a car wreck. That story was so compelling, the SEC network made a documentary about it recently, 24 years later. I guess they didn’t notice the week was up. So like I said, when your Tigers finally get one, you’ll understand.

True Lefty, I’ll give you credit for being a hopeless optimist. Playoff contenders every year? They “shall” contend every year? You don’t even know how much longer Drinkwitz “shall” be your coach. And of course he’s not done reaching into the portal. That’s true of every team in the country. So if a stud enters the portal and Mizzou wants him but so does Georgia or Bama or Michigan, that stud “shall” pick Mizzou, every time?

UGA has been the class of the East, just like Bama has been in the West. I’m not talking about the quality just at the very top, but from top to bottom. And the results say the West has been a lot tougher than the East the past several years. Drinkwitz has done a nice job this year, but he was on the hot seat 12 months ago and he’s not the only guy plucking players from the portal. That’s just as big a competition as the high school ranks are. It’s not like he’s going to win every transfer portal battle. But my original post ended with “we’ll see.” I’m not saying Mizzou can’t be somewhat successful. I’m just cautioning against reading too much into this season. Kansas State and Tennessee were decent wins, but they both finished 8-4. They have Ohio State coming up. Win that one, and then they can talk about how they’re catching up to the upper echelon in the SEC. They still need a signature win, even though Booches pretends not to know what one is.

When y’all get a signature win, you’ll be talking about it for a whole lot longer than a week. That’s just more proof that you haven’t seen one yet.

The people in charge of naming the bowl need to learn geography.

It also favors Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Texas, and Oklahoma. What people are about to discover next season is how the standings look with a 16 team conference with no divisions. We can look to basketball for a preview. There will be about three teams in the top tier, about three at the bottom, and a slew of 3-5, 4-4 and 5-3 in between. I just don’t see Missouri taking the place of one or two of the traditional powers in that small group at the top.

I gave you Missouri’s actual record since joining the SEC and pointed out how they’ve benefitted from playing in the East division all these years, both of which are established facts. Facts are stubborn things. You’re the one talking out of your ass.

I answered it, and it went to the moderators for some strange reason. No profanity. No Ron Mexico style insults. But seriously, you don’t know what a signature win is? Hint: it’s a win over a team who has a conference record better than 5-3.

Since the 2012 expansion that brought Missouri in, the East is a total of 41 games under .500 against the West. The West has been clearly better.

I didn’t prove your point. You said “signature wins = poppycock.” I didn’t. Try again.

“Signature wins meaning what?” Thanks for proving my point.

I don’t have to read it again. “This story is about Mizzou staying out of the mediocrity you just spelled out.” And I just spelled out why I think they won’t.

If you go back through Mizzou's SEC record since joining the league, you discover they're 13 games under .500: 47-60. Of those 47 league wins, they've only ever beaten two teams who had a winning conference record, and both those teams only went 5-3. Neither of those came this season. 39 of their 47 wins are against teams with losing conference records, the other 6 were against .500 teams. Signature wins: zero. Mizzou has benefitted from the schedule the East division provided them, other than Georgia. The only teams they have a winning record against is Vanderbilt (9-4,) South Carolina (7-6,) Ole Miss who they've only played twice, and Arkansas (8-2.) Other than the hapless Hogs, they're 5-14 against everyone else in the West. That scheduling advantage is gone now. So we'll see.

The Arkansas tight end room has gotten suddenly more crowded. Starter Luke Hasz has announced he's coming back, along with his backup, Ty Washington. Two days ago, they picked up Andreas Paaske out of the transfer portal, and they have a couple more on campus with potential. I guess the prospect of being buried on the depth chart didn't appeal to this guy. Best wishes to him, hopefully he lands somewhere where he can get on the field.

This is probably as much about last week as it is about today's game. A pass interference no-call last week, followed by this one, would frustrate anyone. This article leaves out what I read on ESPN, quoting a referee saying that a warning isn't always called for, such as when the receiver is so far offside, he's blocking the line judge's view of the football. Notice that Andy Reid said he "usually" gets a warning, which means not always. And then a great play gets wiped out. It was unfortunate for sure, but this coming on the heels of the non-call last week is probably what set Mahomes off.

That's a big keep for the Razorbacks.

This continues a pattern of articles: "Eli Drinkwitz takes a shot . . ." "Eli Drinkwitz calls out . . ." Eli Drinkwitz throws shade . . ." Eli Drinkwitz runs his big mouth, in other words. Eli Drinkwitz is destined to get humbled, by OSU and beyond. It's coming. And it will be fun to watch.

Backed it up how? By beating a lot of so-so to bad teams. Not a single win over an SEC team with a winning conference record. That “fantastic” season is a lot of smoke and mirrors thanks to an easy schedule, other than the two good teams that beat them.

1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State, if they finish this game off, and it's looking like they will. The above 3 are 13-0 and P5 conference champs. 4. As bad as I hate them: Texas. 12-1 conference champ that beat the other P5 conference champ at their place. Seems unbelievable, but the SEC gets shut out. There's no way the committee passes on Texas and puts Alabama in there over them. All this other stuff about hurt quarterbacks, or "but Texas lost to Oklahoma," is just wishful thinking. I'd love to have Bama or Georgia in there. It's not happening.

“He left ARK for the Falcons, right?” Wrong. You got that bass ackwards.