Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Where the hell was Monk this game?

How do we fix our poor shooting? I really didn’t think Auburn was a team we should be losing to.

Monk has “eligibility issues” and was held out pending an investigation. Add that to the litany: Beverly, McDonald, Moore, now Monk.

Like Stephen, I cannot speak right now because this was one of those soul-stealing losses where the team quit; the coaches were inept; and the great people who are Arkansas fans deserved much, much more.

I want to vomit. I am as disgusted as I have ever been. I may write more tomorrow, but I am not sure this team is worth the effort.

Sounds like Mrs. J Hawg needs to hide your razor blades, shoelaces and collar stays. Come off the ledge, man: It will be OK.

She is very happy I did not go onto the screened porch and kick a chair through it. Did that once in Nolan’s first year.

re: monk
if he’s found to be ineligible, would the games he played in be forfeited?

The way this season is going, forfeiting the wins over OU and Texas would be par for the course.

When does baseball season start?

This might be the worst team in the last 35 years of basketball at Ark. You have to go back to Lanny Van Eman’s teams of the early 70s to find a 20 point loss at home.

The truth is there are only 2 top caliber SEC players on the team, Fortson and Washington. I’m afraid Rotnei Clarke is gloing to turn out just too one dimensional and weak defensively to justify his hype.

I had huge concerns before the season about our recruiting for this year, and unfortunately they’re coming true. We are getting players either who are sketchy academically (McDonald, Henry, Fortson) or iffy athletically (Sanchez, Moore, Clark). Look at all the suspensions already: McDonald, Henry, Fortson, Moore, and now, though certainly not his fault, Monk.

Why in the hell wasn’t Monk entirely cleared before he ever played a second? Are we that damned desperate and pathetic that a guy who hasn’t played a college game in four years means that much to our program?

And next year I don’t see any relief coming in from Powell, the 6-5 guard, and the center from eastern Arkansas who is a project probably like Jason Jennings.

What is amazing is that we actually won all those games and beat Texas and Oklahoma. That was done with home cooking, Fortson and Washington playing to their peaks, and the other guys all filling their roles as best as they can.

We should have a full complement of 13 scholarship players who don’t get suspended, don’t get DWIs, don’t miss practice, and who can compete at the Division I level. How did we get to where we only have 8 or 9 players? I just don’t understand it.

One last thing, just imagine what Nolan’s teams would have done to this team? Look at these match-ups:

Mayberry — Fortson — Beck
Huery — Clarke — McDaniel
Day — Welsh — Thurman
Howell — Sanchez — Williamson (how’s that
                     for a mismatch)
Miller — Washington — Stewart

Blowout City!!!

I’m sick of being nostalgic for the old days.

Some good news for this valley of Razorback despair. I just read where the gymnastics team beat Number 1 Florida. With all respect to the gymnastics squad, that I have to stretch so far as the gymnastics team says how badly things have turned for the Hogs of late. I don’t believe either the men or the women have won an SEC game so for this year in basketball. Oyi!

First off… congrats to the gymnastics team. They’re obviously all we have.

Secondly, to answer TheBeave’s question, YES, we will be forfeiting the games in which Monk participated if he’s found to be ineligible.

You can no longer hear the pleas of Kentucky fans all the way from Lexington for native son John Pelphrey to come home and coach the Cats. They seem to be just fine now.

Arkansas basketball is indeed back… to where it was during the Stan Heath era.

And I’ll leave you with this:

Rotnei Clarke = Jason Gilbert
Football recruiting > Basketball season
0-16 = a realistic possibility

Well, both the men’s and women’s track teams are off to a good start, with several athletes marking NCAA auto qualifiers already. I can’t imagine what kind of eligibility issues Monk would be having. I mean, sure, his schedule was unorthodox, but at this point, he’s been in school a shorter time than most (meaning less than 5 years).

What bothers me the most about the Monk issue, was why in the h*** this wasn’t completely cleared through the proper channels by the UofA administration, before even clrearing him to play in a game.
Wasn’t this supposed to be taken care of already?

What now? Does this mean now that an NCAA committee could oversee the forfiting of games won, in which he played? (most notably, OU and Texas)

It’s not like we don’t already have enough problems to deal with.

Obviously, I hope that Monk isn’t deemed ineligible for the rest of the season. But even if he is, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Arkansas would have to forfeit the games in which he appeared.

In 1996, about 25 games or so into the season, the NCAA ruled that Jesse Pate and Sunday Adebayo had not been properly enrolled (whatever that means) and were therefore ineligible to play at the U of A. However, the Hogs did not have to forfeit the games in which they had played.

I’m very disappoint in this team. I thought this team would be like Nolan Richardson’s teams where Arkansas players took pride in wearing a Arkansas Razorback jersey.Players would give 110% of themselves to win not only for themselves,but for all the Arkansas Fans. So far I am wrong;the team playing the last 4 SEC games is not that type of team and now I wonder if they will ever be this kind of team this year. For the record right now I not blaming Coach Pelphrey and his coaching staff,but the players. Coach Pelphrey is a much better coach than Stan Heath. I never did like Stan Heath as a coach.

A possibility I heard regarding Monk, is that because he is in grad school the number of hours he carries may be less than the 12 required to be a ‘full time student’. Also, he could have dropped a class since the semester began, and now be below whatever amount of classes are required to be ‘full time.’

I was at the game. Wish we would quit trying to rely on our very unreliable 3-pointers. (I have never thought that if they weren’t hitting, that trying 15 more times would help). We didn’t rebound, and with 3 1/2 minutes left in the game, while most fans were leaving an obviously all ready lost game, the players mentally left with them. They QUIT!! I hope Pelphrey reams them out about that. Yes. The game was lost, but it was obvious they just wanted to hit the locker room. In over 30 years of watching Razorback basketball, I have NEVER seen a team just quit. This one did. VERY disappointing.