Ahh, the Casey era.

Poor Casey. He popped his cherry and lost a full year just to put a merciful end to the RoJo experience and win two meaningless games against Mississippi.

Of all the big moments in Arkansas football perhaps the most singularly significant was when Nutty pulled Mitch very early at SCar to get his boy back in the game. A top ten, BCS, outside shot at the national title season went on to mediocrity with a 3-17 first half performance against LSU, an oh so close humiliation in Atlanta, and a ‘we are just glad to be here’ Capital One Bowl.

Casey went on to truly mediocre 8-5 the following year ending with the spectacularly meaninless win over back door national title winner LSU. The Cotton Bowl should go down as Arkansas’ worst bowl performance ever. Although, there were so many during the HD era.

And of course the coup de gras, this year’s 5-7 with a highlight reel of pick sixes, not able to complete the year ahead of a redshirt freshman.

Casey seems to be a genuinely sweet kid. I have never believed this was really his fault. Arkansas is down, way down.

Go Bobby!!!

RE: The Senior Holdouts. It’s a little bit sad (and more than a little infuriating) that some of the seniors have been more or less sabotaging the season, but I suppose it’s to be expected. Houston’s boys may have had potential, but, too often, they never lived up to it, and they certainly never had to be held accountable for their actions. We may end up at 4-8 or 5-7, but it’s almost comforting to me that we could have had 8 or 9 wins (Kentucky, Ole Miss, Miss. State, and stretching a little with S. Carolina).
As an aside, there was letter to the editor in the NW Arkansas Times this morning from an Ole Miss fan thanking us for giving them Houston Nutt. Poor bastard. He doesn’t know HDN like we do.

Drew,

Yesterday, I heard a sports talk radio host here in Atlanta say something like, “I bet Arkansas fans are really regretting running off Houston Nutt now.”

I had to laugh.

I like the use of Eliot. At time it’s been more Conradian, however, “The horror, the horror.”

Maybe the Wasteland of Razorback football will end as Eliot’ poem, with Shantih, Shantih, Shantih.

We all know the big hoopla about Nutt is nothing more than BS.
We all knew if he was sucsessful with the talent and exsperience Orjeron left him, and The Hog’s season would go as exspected, in a down year, that these morons would swim their way to the top of the sewage, to proclaim such victory.
Really now, what’s so suprising about what were hearing?
We all knew Ole Nutty would sucseed with the talent he inherrated from someone else, just like he did when he came to Fayettville in ‘98.
Remember that his so-called great coaching came to an end in the 3rd year.
From then on, it was up and down, and only when Malzahn was hired as OC after two 4-7 seasons, did the Hogs hit the national seen again.
That lasted about 3/4 of the season, before Nutt took over the reigns again, only to fall flat on his face with his “lack of leadership” skills.
Everyone knows the rest of the story, and why that idiot is at Ole Miss now, so if they want to thank us, then the only reply I have for them would be…..your welcome. Let’s talk again in a couple of years.

Good to see Old Tom Eliot getting some attention here. With a wimper, yep, I think so. And, Tab, yeah, Kurtz’ last words seem rather apropos in describing this season. I think this could be our first last place finish in the SEC. But it was the end of the line for Kurtz. The end of this season just brings us to the beginning of a new season, which right now, can’t get here fast enough!