Do you really believe in your heart Mitch was afraid to compete with Dick? When you have Gomer Pyle as your head coach and he wants to play cousin Gober in front of you. Well what can you say. The emails where on the wall so to speak. Mitch’s quote that Gomer was an idiot sealed his fate.

Who knows what Mitch was thinking? I do know that if he is as good as he says/thinks he is then he would have wound up as the Razorbacks’ starting QB at some point. There’s no way around it.

I think a bigger issue is – whatever Houston Nutt’s good or bad qualities are – you had an 18 year old kid (and his mom) who had essentially done nothing trying to run the show over a guy who, for better or worse, has a proven track record of pretty decent success over a long period of time at the major college level. That was very troubling to me, especially when you consider that proven stars like McFadden, Jones, Hillis, Monk, etc weren’t putting their needs ahead of the team like that.

-John

Buy a clue.

Sell us one…

Mitch shouldn’t have come here in the first place. He didn’t like the coach. Mitch wanted to go to Notre Dame, that didn’t work out for him.

Houston Nutt has NEVER developed a QB so what good would it do for Mustain to stay here? We are NEVER going to have a “great” QB here. We do have some pretty “great” players at other positions, thankfully.

He’s at Southern Cal. They are pretty good. I’m sure he’s having a great time. He’s 19 years old, living in Los Angeles…I bet he’s over it.
How about everybody else get over it, as well?

Mitch Mustain was 6-0 , He was pulled out so that a more “experienced” quarterback could start over him. We put a quarterback (Casey Dick) in who had played in a total of 2 games previously.

How does 2 games trump 6 wins in experience?

I think it is clear Mitch was not going to get the playing time even with a better win record.

I don’t think that calling Mitch’s performance unimpressive is quite accurate. If you lined up all of last years quarterback and were asked which one was more “impressive” then the other you’d have give it to Mitch. Sure Casey Dick did have to decent games last year. But Mitch performed quite as badly as Dick did in those last few. But Casey’s our guy now, and its definitely too early make any kind of judgement.