Green Offensive Lines & poor defensive schemes will not fare well when going on the road in the SEC against a well coached Game Plan. Auburn coaches developed a well laid Game Plan from viewing Razorback games from earlier this season. Malzahn had a good time viewing those game films.
This coaching staff is to blame for not developing an adequate O-Line in their 4th year up there. The defense is not coached well either. No excuses for these type fundamental weaknesses.
highly agree
It is not that. There is no way for Arkansas to recruit as well as the top half of the SEC.
Arkansas has had better O-Lines than this all through-out their SEC history. The defense played well against the Ole Miss offense last week that was far superior statistically and at the QB position over this Auburn offense. It is coaching, not recruiting.
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Arkansas has had better O-Lines than this all through-out their SEC history. The defense played well against the Ole Miss offense last week that was far superior statistically and at the QB position over this Auburn offense. It is coaching, not recruiting.
[/quote]I don’t doubt that coaching is part of it. However, if you look at the recruiting rankings, I don’t believe even once in the last 10 has Arkansas been in the top half and certainly not in the top third of the SEC.
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If a person is going to live & die by recruiting rankings. How has Arkansas been able to beat Ole Miss the last three years and even LSU the last two years the way their recruiting classes have been ranked high in the SEC?
Yes, this is a brutal loss, but, I’m not jumping off any cliffs tomorrow. All teams go out and play a clunker 1 to 2 games a year. I was worried about this game for several reasons.
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Petrino had a Class that was ranked 6th in the SEC (that’s top half, even then). That’s within the last ten years.
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Petrino had a Class that was ranked 6th in the SEC (that’s top half, even then). That’s within the last ten years.
[/quote]Thank you for the info. Clearly my memory is far from perfect.
It’s amazing how when we win, nobody is here to say anything, but when we are going to lose, the flood gates open with naysayers yet again.
Gee, I said that last week.
Agreed General, for whatever reason, we just came out and laid an egg. I think we just need the bye week to take a deep breath. It’s a bad loss but we get a week off and get to play at home. That being said, I am having some real issues with CRS’s schemes this year. We have no aggression on the defensive side of the ball. And I don’t understand why we never bring a lot of pressure. Always playing base defense.
Do you expect Hog fans to accept 3-49 type losses just like a close nail biting win? Hopefully it gets no worse, nearly a quarter still to go. Do you think blow-out poor showings like this show progress for a football program in it’s fourth year? I think these are legit questions. Perhaps some fans wish to ignore these type questions. Does that make them better Hog fans? I don’t really think so.
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If it’s the coaching, then how have we been able to beat teams with higher ranked recruiting classes as you point out? How is it that our qbs and receivers are good but not our lineman if they all have the same coach? For me, it makes more sense to say that the qbs and receivers are just better players. Recruiting rankings are not perfect. The real test of how recruiting is going is results in games.
I agree. I don’t why you can’t be a fan and be critical of apparent weaknesses. Further more I can’t abide by the fan that is obilivious that the team is woefully lacking in talent and depth in key areas. I haven’t seen an Arkansas team talented enough to beat everybody in any given day, in last 25years. This attitude some fans have that they are “a play away” from greatness every year befuddles me.
I agree that it is coaching. We were not ready to play. We looked slow and out of position just like the aTm game. Defense was terrible slow and not tackling well. OL looked slow and lost again. We are lucky AA was not injured bad in this one. We beat Ole Miss and they got tough players on defense as well and they run the HUNH AS WELL AND WITH A BETTER QB. Its coaching. HOGS YA’LL.
Even Baker didnt have a good night.
Because the OL & DL plays down in the trenches where games are won & lost and that type play further amplifies coaching deficiencies or abilities. The QB and receiver positions are much more about player skills than coaching. These inferior lines that Bielema is producing are not our historical predicament in the SEC except usually when playing Alabama. Bielema is just not getting his job done coaching and developing those lines.
We just had the most rushing yards historically FOREVER against a Razorback defensive unit along with a 56-3 loss. Bielema brought us our worst football in over 70 years in his first two years. Bielema is not endearing himself to me with this type damn junk. I don’t care what previous coaches did here.
I think those two awful years you mention were mostly due to Petrino’s lousy recruiting, and the recruiting under Bielema has not improved enough. If you look at Washington and Oregon, they’ve basically flipped over the past 3 years even with the same coaches. Possibly the West recruits that were going to Oregon are now going to Washington.
Here’s what reality I see. Ole Miss is a good team and Auburn is almost a clone except OM has a better QB. I think the player talent is there but the coaches must get the team out of this up and down roller coaster. We play Auburn with the same intensity as Ole Miss and this is a game we might’ve won. COACHES must get it together! Ole miss leading LSU 7-0. HOGS YA’LL.