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Arkansas is better than what most people believe.

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  • ugadawgs07ugadawgs07 Posts: 306 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Yes sunshine pumpers, your thread title says it all. Arkansas is not better then most people think. They are horrible, have no depth( which is why we pulled away). They are a bad team period. They maybe ranked 26th nationally in team talent, but that still bottom 2 or 3 in conference. No excuse for our offensive performance.

  • SupraSupra Posts: 109 ✭✭✭ Junior

    Bama and Florida both played teams with less talent (according to 247) and won by fewer points.

    Doesn't mean Arkansas was good, but it's definitely possible there are more than a few teams worse than them. Especially w/ Briles and Odom as their coordinators.

  • GrayDawgGrayDawg Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Arkansas didn't have Felipe Franks last year; clearly, they are better.

  • PerroGrandePerroGrande Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I think the initial point is a very good one: Arkansas does have some talent, and they have very talented coaches this year. Odom has had good defenses wherever he went. Pittman, we don't need to discuss. Tex did say he wasn't selling them being great, only that they were probably better than last year's stats indicate.

  • papadoc19papadoc19 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited September 2020

    You can have more talent and still be a garbage team which Arkansas has been for the last 2 to 3 years (far more so than either Missouri or Ole Miss have been). I don't think too much weight should attributed to that data point especially when it doesn't appear to account for how that talent is distributed across the roster. Arkansas may have more talent than Ole Miss but would you rather have the trio of Matt Corral, Jerrion Ealy, and Elijah Moore than anything Arkansas put out there? Frankly, Corral and Ealy compare favorably to anything we have on our roster...and Moore paired with Pickens would have made an elite 1, 2 punch. There is actually a very intriguing what if because Moore was committed to us and we essentially chose Fields over Corral and ultimately ended up with neither long term. You had a team that struggled to defeat a D2 school last season, hasn't won a SEC game in over two years, and is completely overhauling its entire offense and defense during a pandemic shortened preseason with a QB we have clowned for the past three years. We shouldn't get a star for having the largest win margin against them...it should have been higher and the fact we had to struggle to get it and barely cover (depending on the line you got) is a problem.

  • TeddyTeddy Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Even if you don't want to put much weight on the the team talent data point, that's fine. But handpicking three players to try to prove a point about an overall team isn't the best data point either.

  • ugadawgs07ugadawgs07 Posts: 306 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Bama also pulled away in the first half like they were suppose to and played back ups the whole second half. If they keep their starters in, they could have made the score whatever they wanted it to be. Y’all coming up with this little spot on sunshine to make you feel better about our win going to lead you to a huge let down.

  • ugadawgs07ugadawgs07 Posts: 306 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Since when has Franks been a player that makes any team better.

  • GrayDawgGrayDawg Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I was being sarcastic, although, I would bet Franks is better than whoever their QB was last year.

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