It's all about the Integrity of The University of Arkansas.....Yeah About that

Jeff Long showed guts when he fired Bobby Petrino for lying about a bike ride with a mistress. So who would have knew months later that the fans are wanting him back. Here's a line from Jeff Long's press conference:

Coach Petrino's conduct regarding his account of the accident jeopardized the integrity of the football program.  He made a choice to return to practice on Tuesday, to hold a press conference, and to demonstrate his physical resiliency and command of his program, all the time failing to correct his initial report that he was the only person involved in the accident.  He made a conscious decision to speak and mislead the public on Tuesday.  In doing so, he negatively and adversely affected the reputation of the University of Arkansas and our football program.

Fast forward to today. John L Smith is the interim coach and Arkansas has become the punchline of college football. Now we come to the question that no one can truly answer. Which is more important in the south? Integrity of a University or a winning football program? There's a facebook page "Bring Back Bobby Petrino in 2013". It's still up in the air if Derek Dooley will survive this season at Tennessee, Joker Phillips is done and Gene Chizik is beginning to feel the heat at Auburn.

I agree with Paul Finebaum when he was on OTL on ESPN when he said (and I paraphrase) that John L Smith is responsible for the product on the field, but Jeff Long is responsible for putting him in that position. John L Smith has been nothing but a circus act. He was suppose to plug into the system that was already created by Petrino, yeah that didn't work. Firing John L Smith would only be more embarassing for this season and probably make Arkansas fans praying the Mayans were correct. Cut your losses for this season and get a hire that's going to put them back.



Hiring Bobby Petrino back at Arkansas answers the question that everyone already knew the answer to. A winning football program in the SEC is more important.

In honor of Lane Kiffin......

What a terrific day in sports......gotta go!



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A way too early look into the 2012 BCS Title game fallout

We're into Week 3 of the College Football Season and a few of my predictions look to be in jeopardy. Florida is the JaMarcus Russell (college career not pro i.e. lucky as hell) of college football, USC fell to Stanford after the preseason accolades. If you've seen them play the 1st 2 weeks, you weren't impressed to begin with. Auburn takes Overtime to avoid an 0-3 start, Arkansas is already begging for Bobby Petrino to come back, and Kentucky is probably taking donations to pay Petrino's salary to bring him to Lexington.

What we always like to do, no matter how early, is look at how the BCS Championship chips could fall at the end. The question that lingers is "Could there be a rematch of the rematch?" i.e LSU vs. Alabama. As much to the chagrin of BCS Executives, the chances I could put it right now is 55%.

The SEC East can be won by anyone at this point, but it looks like LSU or Alabama would pound all of them to the ground. That already eliminates Georgia and South Carolina. So most likely, the SEC Champion will take 1 of the 2 spots.

What does that mean for the others? Right now, if you're an LSU or Alabama fan, you're rooting for Stanford, Oregon, Florida St, and Clemson to lose. West Virginia will drop a game (most likely Texas), Oklahoma will drop a game (they always do), Texas will drop a game (despite playing well at this point). Notre Dame, I don't think, will be able to run a gauntlet of Michigan, Stanford, Oklahoma, and USC in order to run the table, they're out.

Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Michigan were the Big Ten Teams that would have the best (and that's not much) shot at a BCS run. Nebraska is too far down the polls to run the table and get in.

So we're down to the teams that have a legitimate shot at running the table:

They are: Florida State, Clemson, Oregon, and Stanford. Let's break their schedule down to survivable losses. Survivable losses are based on schedule strength and LSU/Alabama having only one loss being the loser on November 3rd.

Those 4 teams lose and Alabama/LSU play another epic battle, we could have a repeat of last year's Championship again.