Baseball is right! Geez. Just one of those years, I guess. What’s more disappointing is that we can’t really look back to the recent “good years” and see any trophies to smile about. You have to go back to 2003 for a bowl win. We really finished poorly in a lot of things. There are no SEC Championships outside of Track and Field, I believe. (Colonel Nutt, I can’t get all that excited about division championships. You need to win the whole damn thing!) No BCS bowl appearances. No SEC basketball conference tournament championships (thanks, Georgia!) to crow about. Just one win in the NCAA tournament over a depressed Indiana team. Baseball has brought play-off appearances, but the teams have all fizzled in them and fizzled at home to boot. All this to say, it is sad we didn’t make better hay when the sun did shine now that it has gone behind a dark cloud. Hopefully across the range of sports they’ll do a better job of finishing when this dark cloud and locusts, haha, have moved from over the UofA.

Oh, and the picture below reminds me. No Heisman trophy either! Just gotta make do with those Doak Walker awards, I guess. How much more a Heisman trophy would have meant to Arkansas than it would have Florida, what with their national championship trophies and two other Heisman trophies. Yeah, haha, call me bitter!

I think we’ll be better than most think. Courtney Fortson is the TRUTH. With Patrick gone, this will soon become HIS team. I think we’ll surprise some people.

The lack of a solid frontcourt is dis-heartening. Perhaps Sanchez and Clark can step it up, but seeing Michael Washington walk around campus, I don’t think he’s put on much if any muscle. We’re just going to have to out-run everybody.

Well, at this rate at least I won’t have to shake off my New Years Day hangover just in time to get an emotional hangover from another embarrassing bowl loss. That’s no way to sober up. Maybe this year I’ll go to Dallas again just to enjoy a peaceful New Years Day slumber until noon.

Dallas,

That’s the kind of positive thinking I admire.

This is not surprising. The UofA fired two losers and now the new guys have to clean up the messes they left behind. Did you guys actually believe we could escape the Stan Heath era without a massive rebuilding year?

Personally, save for one or two, I’m glad the old players are gone – Patrick Beverley included. I don’t care how many rebounds he pulled in from missed shots, the guy was a distraction to the team. I won’t miss the fact that our bigs were constantly outrebounded, or the lack of consistent shooting, the boneheaded moves (fighting your own man for a rebound), the auto-losses on the road, the inability to make free throws, and the general “IDon’tGiveADamn” attitude these underachievers possessed.

Supposedly the days of lackluster guard play and inconsistent shooting are over. I hear the new guys even have a desire to compete (Imagine that!) New Team, New Philosophy. That’s why I welcome them with open arms, no matter how bad this season is. It all has to start somewhere.

This year I expect: 17+ wins, NIT invite.