All was mostly quiet on Friday when it came to the Arkansas Coaching Search. Reports leaked that Auburn has offered Tuberville a 2 year contract extension that would bring his average yearly salary thru 2012 to 3.3 million a year. Arkansas has reportedly offered $3.7 Million a year for 10 years. Tuberville avoided Alabama press [...]
KNWA-TV Broke into programming tonight to report that multiple sources told them that Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville is going to be the next head coach at Arkansas. The rest of the sports blogosphere is running with the story eventhough KNWA plainly states nothing has been signed and it’s all subject to change. The Slophouse blog has [...]
Outside of the Future Coaching Search….
McFadden’s NFL decision will wait a little longer. CSTV and KTHV will be reairing the ARK/LSU game (CSTV-Fri/KTHV Saturday night after the SEC title game and the News). Darren McFadden Named to AFCA All-American Team. 4 Hogs Named To Rivals All-American Squads. Jonathan Luigs is 1 of 6 Rimington Trophy [...]
Great win for the hogs, and Pelphrey. Arkansas turned the ball over 23 times to Mizzou’s 21. Charles Thomas led Arkansas with 21 points. Golfer John Daly was in the crowd of over 18,000 at Bud Walton Arena.
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Razorbloggers Roundup
First a humorous link on how to pronounce the name Arkansas. Oakland Raiders Head Coach Lane Kiffin and Texas Tech Mike Leach are on Arkansas’ short list. The Hog Blogger has been prolific in the hours since Houston’s Departure…Here’s RBN’s HogBlogger reasons Houston had to go. Here’s the Razorbloggers Roundup of all the stories from [...]
From OleMissSports.com…
University of Mississippi Athletics Director Pete Boone confirmed Tuesday morning that he has reached an agreement with former University of Arkansas head football coach Houston Nutt to become the 36th head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels.
The Ole Miss position became available after three-year head coach Ed Orgeron was notified last Saturday that he [...]
Several news outlets are reporting on a story in the Northeast Mississippi Journal which says that Houston Nutt has accepted a job offer from Ole Miss worth $9.5 million over 5 years. More when this develops.
NE Miss Journal
HT: Ark. Times Blog
UPDATE: CBSsports.com Confirms/KABZ-FM (103.7 The Buzz) in Little Rock says that the Ole Miss press [...]
At the 6:30 pm press conference Houston Nutt made it known that he resigned the position of Arkansas Razorback Head Football Coach this morning. Reggie Herring was named interim head coach for the bowl game. Jeff Long will begin the search for a new head coach as soon as possible. Chancellor White will ask the [...]
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ESPN and The Morning News is reporting he is being bought out (He’ll resign with a 3.5 million compensation package). Arkansas Sports 360 is reporting he’ll probably stay (White and Broyles will be present at the press conference). We’ll find out soon enough.
ESPN
The Morning News
Arkansas Sports 360
UPDATE: News is Spreading and AS360 [...]
Again, the Nutt Press Conference will be at 6:30pm. Until then enjoy these other news bits…
Texas A&M and Arkansas are close to signing a 6 to 8 year deal to renew their football rivalry. It’ll be played at the New Cowboys Stadium. Here’s video of Casey Dick’s awesome block during that McFadden Run from [...]
This Week From The Bench….
McFadden surpassed Bo Jackson on a day in Baton Rouge to move into the No. 3 spot in the SEC. ESPN, in a run down of the greatest football players in history, ranked Jackson at No. 8. I guess that makes McFadden no worse than seventh to ever play the game [...]
Matterral Richardson’s interception in the 3rd OT of the LSU game has been nominated for the Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the Week-Vote Here. Darren McFadden was Named the Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week. The Razorbloggers have the Good, Bad, and Ugly of the LSU game. The Ladyback Basketball team beat the University [...]
The Coaches have Ranked the Hogs #25 in the nation although the AP doesn’t. They have the hogs at what would be #26 or the team with the highest # of votes not to be ranked in the top 25. The BCS Computers show little love towards the Hogs. So, the Hogs end up 27th [...]
Darian Townes scored 18, Charles Thomas scored 15, Stefan Welsh Scored 12 points. The Hogs only Turned the ball over 10 times while Delaware St. had 21. Arkansas improved their record to 4-1 and they face Mike Anderson’s Missouri Tigers Tuesday at Bud Walton.
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