Mid-Week Hodge Podge

by Stephen Expat on Jun 10, 2008 10:06 PM CDT in Basketball Comment 1 comment

December Madness? According to Brandon Marcello of The Slophouse, John Pelphrey is trying to schedule an early-season invitational that would take place next season in Bud Walton. Sounds like a cool idea, although let's hope it turns out better for the Hogs than did the last regular-season tournament held in Fayetteville: the John Thompson Foundation Challenge Classic, which took place in November 2000.

The Razorbacks, sporting the talents of one Joe Johnson and ranked 15th in the nation, lost to Southern Mississippi in the finals. Perhaps the guys were just distracted by the ongoing Florida recount.

Peering into the Future. In the June 2008 issue of Pravda Hawgs Illustrated, Harry King does his best Nostradamus impersonation and unfurls his game-by-game prediction of the 2008 Razorback football season. The bad news? A 5-7 record. The good news? No humilating bowl loss.

The wins: Western Illinois, Louisiana-Monroe, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Tulsa. The losses: Texas, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, South Carolina, Mississippi State and LSU.

Before you dismiss his prognostications, you should know that King correctly predicted last year's regular season record (8-4), although, as he's quick to point out, he erroneously predicted the Hogs to beat Kentucky and lose to LSU.

Do not doubt Harry King. Stronger people than you have - and been destroyed as a result.

One on One. Bobby Petrino recently sat down for a Q&A with ArkansasSports360's Chris Bahn; to listen to the interview, click here.

The Pride of Little Rock. Please excuse the non-Razorback item, but here's a nice article on Los Angeles Lakers guard and Little Rock native Derek Fisher. We here at RazorbackExpats can't think of an athlete that we admire more than Fisher, and we have been known to gab about the following "What If?" scenario: What if he had been a member of those wonderful mid-1990s Razorback teams?

In some ways, it's not a terribly gripping discussion: After all, the Hogs did win the 1994 title without him. But, we can't help but wonder if his off-the-charts leadership qualities might have helped combat the sluggish and unfocused play that frequently plagued the 1995 Hogs. Regardless, we would have loved to have seen a backcourt of him and Corey Beck.

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I was in Wal Mart before coming to work in order to buy a father’s day card, and then it hit me that there might be some college football magazines out. Daddy’s card selection would have to wait a bit, haha. There was one magazine out that I saw. Being in Oklahoma, it had Big 12 people, uggh, on the cover, but they do still predict the SEC in it. The Hogs were at the bottom, as I expected. I wonder if there is any need to look at any others, for that is likely to be the prediction in all of them. Harry King’s prediction makes sense, I guess, and so do these magazine predictions, but I can’t help but think, hope, pray, that the upgrade in coaching has to be worth at least one win out of the Texas, Alabama, Auburn, Florida list, and though Miss. State is overdue to beat us, why not one more year of beating them? It can happen. So, Harry, magazines, put me at the more optimistic 7-5 and a bowl victory in Shreveport or Memphis. I am hoping too that a new era of bowl play has arrived with Petrino! haha.

by KevinHog on Jun 11, 2008 9:03 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs