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Hogin58:
Wall Street Journal just put out their annual valuations of college football programs. Arkansas was ranked 17th in the country, which is fairly incredible considering that we’ve long been a smaller school in comparison to many other Power 5s in terms of attendance (and therefore alumni).
Regardless of what many in Arkansas think of Jeff Long and the current state of the program, most outsiders view the job being done as above-average. Hence the reason most think Arkansas fans are nuts for suggesting he be fired.
The fans who want Long fired have tunnel vision and only see one thing: the football team hasn’t won the division in 11 years and hasn’t won the conference in almost 30. They don’t care about any of the other stuff. I suppose some of them also blame him because we haven’t made a Sweet 16 in 21 years as well.
Nah, when it’s brought up on the basketball board, it’s very well know it was all John White’s fault
SwineFusion:
We have 8 men’s sports and 11 for women as far as the Director’s Cup is concerned. T&F is counted twice, indoor and outdoor. IIRC 16 of our 19 sports scored Directors Cup points last year, which means either participating in NCAA postseason tournament or a bowl game. The ones that didn’t score are women’s swimming, hoops and volleyball. All eight men’s teams scored.
Stanford, which almost always wins the directors’ cup and did again this time, scored in so many sports that several sports which were in postseason play were left off the scoring list. Stanford has varsity teams in 17 men’s sports and 21 for women, double our team count. And they’re pretty darn good in most of them, including many without a lot of national competition (fencing, rowing, water polo, stuff like that).
Ah, of course. I just went to the web site and did a quick count of sports from the drop-down list of sports.