Between getting pretty drunk today, the cold/wind, and beating the piss out of Mizzou finally…. I came home and passed out. What a great season from Pittman and crew. Felt like we’d also get to 7 wins with an outside chance at 8 with an upset. We didn’t really upset anyone, and came really close to 10 wins this season. This was a great team, and the best team we’ve had in a decade. I sincerely hope Burks gets the recognition he deserves as being one of the all time great Hog players and I truly hope he becomes a superstar in the NFL and gets to play in a great situation. We won’t see another player like him for a long time. KJ Jefferson had a pretty great season and is the first hog QB to ever put up 2500 yards passing and 500 yards rushing, and had the 2nd highest completion percentage in school history and had a 76% completion percentage the last 4 games of the year. It seems like we should get one of the Florida bowl games. Win that and secure a top 15 ranking to end the season, and I would hope Pittman gets the National coach of the year recognition for what he’s done here. Lots of questions about who will step up next year to fill some big holes, but really appreciative of a lot of the super seniors to come back and help get this program back to respectability.
Agree with all of this and I am curious to see how Pittman and the coaches are able to transition this season into some success in recruiting over the next several years.
I mean, it’s just an terrible try at creating a trophy game. It’s never had any major implications for either program other than us firing our coach who was already on his way out the door for losing to them. It needs to just be that. The rivalry/trophy part is pretty ridiculous.
KJ is already an all timer Jefferson finished his first season with a QBR of 168.7, the highest in school history. He only threw 1 interception against SEC teams (a Hail Mary at Ole Miss). His 13/1 TD to INT ratio is the best we’ve had since we joined the SEC and likely the best in school history. He completed 67% of his passes (184-275) for 2,576 yards with 21 Touchdowns against 3 INTs. He rushed 126 times for 554 yards and 5 TDs. He led us to at least an 8-4 record and a Top 25 finish in his first year as a starter, with a Florida bowl almost guaranteed. All timer.
As frustrating as Briles can be as a play caller, you can't deny how well he developed KJ. His play in September vs November is night and day
KJ has to be in contention next year for the best QB in the SEC if Corral leaves. You will have him and Bryce.
Bentonville is really nice. If I had to move back to Arkansas that’s where we’d live. It needs more of a late night scene though, but it’s not like they have to compete against Fayetteville because college age students don’t live in Bentonville for the most part.
That and a billion dollars will do that. The central AR billionfucks are dicks and think they are taking their "hard earned money' with them
I'm going to continue to believe Sam is going to retire here and isn't a hired gun like all other coaches
Williams is going to be a great player for us this year. But we are not going back to the elite eight.
Team hasn’t clicked yet but still winning comfortably. I think we are going to be fine. Notae and Devo all playing like shit. Once that gets cleaned up and we start shooting from perimeter like we are capable, we can beat a lot of teams.
Also appear to be in heavy with the 5* OU OL transfer that might not be great but hopefully just because lord Pittman hasn’t gotten ahold of him yet
by virtue of not getting shitcanned at ESG every other day, he’s still managing the stress better than Bret
I haven’t been to esg in prolly 5+ years. Used to go a lot when my buddy lived near there but he moved
This is pretty big, right? I haven’t paid attention to whether he’s lived up to his recruiting ranking hype.
He’s just not developing as quickly and doesn’t have the experience that Notae, Devo, and Lykes have and has struggled a bit with confidence. It’s not that he sucks, kinda the same issue that Robinson has right now. Just young and has had to overcome some injuries so his development hasn’t progressed like the others in his class yet.
Hogs played like shit today. Definitely deserved to lose. Those announcers will be coughing up OU’s sperm for the next day or two. They deep throated em all game.