Game Day
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jan 2, 2009 11:06 AM EST
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PrintI'm excited. I'm nervous. I'm focused. And I'm pissed.
I'm sick of a vast majority of the mainstream media downplaying our Rebels. I'm sick of fairweather Rebel fans who aren't at all ready to cheer for our Rebels against an excellent team for fear that they'll be cheering on a losing effort. I'm sick of Texas Tech fans acting like their Red Raiders don't deserve to play our "lowly" Rebels in the cotton bowl and I'm sick of them acting like we're just going to roll over and die out there.
Above all of this, though, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. This four losing seasons in a row bullshit has finally ended and I don't anticipate it coming back for quite a while.
I know that this game has been placed on the back burner in favor of the BCS title game and the ESPN-boner (Rose) Bowl but when all things are considered, this is a pretty impressive bowl game. The Cotton Bowl has an incredibly storied history. National championships have been won and lost in Dallas on New Year's Day and to earn the opportunity to be one of the final teams to play in the actual Cotton Bowl stadium itself is pretty impressive. This game will also actually allow us to play out the heated debate of SEC defense vs. BigXII offense in real, on the field play. Perhaps, though, the greatest aspect of this game is the fact that we've a slew of All-Americans headlining both of these teams, all of which have something to prove.
All-Americans, all of 'emHere's to a damn good Cotton bowl, Rebels and Raiders. Hotty Toddy and go Rebels.
Post Scriptum - Just an FYI, Leach: Peria Jerry isn't afraid to hurt a motherfucker. You can't say I didn't warn you.
Post Post Scriptum - Cotton Bowl open thread is below. If you're not in Dallas or at your favorite local sports bar and have elected to watch the game at home with a laptop nearby, leave your very own running commentary. Anything and everything goes.
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My middle finger is in the air right now. If any Tech assbag tries to tell me to get my guns up he's in for a cyclone of gnashing teeth, scraping claws, and seething hatred. It's over for you.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jan 2, 2009 12:52 PM EST reply actions
by Anonymous on Jan 2, 2009 1:13 PM EST reply actions
by Whiskey Wednesday on Jan 2, 2009 2:10 PM EST reply actions
Every time Summerall says something NOT factually erroneous, drink.
by Whiskey Wednesday on Jan 2, 2009 2:20 PM EST reply actions
by Vince Currie on Jan 2, 2009 2:51 PM EST reply actions
These people really think the Nutt's "invented" the wildcat?
by Anonymous on Jan 2, 2009 2:52 PM EST reply actions
No. They acknowledged that it is a formation that had gone away from use and was re-introduced by Arkansas under Nutt.
by Juco All-American on Jan 2, 2009 3:41 PM EST reply actions
by greg heidel on Jan 2, 2009 4:11 PM EST reply actions
by Anonymous on Jan 2, 2009 4:12 PM EST reply actions
This referee is a douche bag though.
by Hog Fan on Jan 2, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions
Congrats, Rebs. It's a fitting end to a great season for y'all.
by artiger on Jan 2, 2009 5:55 PM EST reply actions
Congrats on the win.
by Hayden Hodges on Jan 2, 2009 6:09 PM EST reply actions
by Anonymous on Jan 2, 2009 11:25 PM EST reply actions
I listened to the comments made by Pat Summerall and that other guy commentating the game. You smooth their comments over pretty well. Congradulations.
Here are 2 more questions (with lots of factual information in between and after) for you:
1. If the Wild Cat package was reintroduced by Nutt, while at the UofA, then where was the origional formation created?
I've heard such fairy tales as it origionated from the previous years of Matt Jones, which is false, concidering (fact)the Wild Cat name was never used in link to discribe the offenses in those years under Nutt.
2. This so-called reintroduction to the Wild Cat was also the same year Gus Malzhan was hired as the 1st (as titaled) OC for the Hogs in Nutt's tenure. (all previous years, the coaching staffs assembled by Nutt never had one member known as an OC by himself, before Malzhan.)He was brought in with the reputation of being a fantastic offensive mind, and being the master mind of using the (as titaled) Wild Cat package in the HS ranks.
Does it not seem odd to you that it was introduced (exscuse me, that's reintrouced) as the "Wild Cat", rather than the "Wild Hog", as it was re-named the following year under Nutt/David Lee?
Those are 2 questions I would really be interested in hearing your opinion on, (without being biased and ignoring the facts, of course) because if Malzhan gets little or no credit for the Wild Cat package's sucsess, then how could it work so well at the UofA the year he was hired, and sucked so badly the following year with the same outstanding players? (LSU being the one exception)
Nutt said David Lee was the man calling the plays in '07, but factual evidence shows how similar the play calling was to the back to back, 4-7 years in '04 and '05, when Nutt was the only coach calling the plays. Coinsidence? Not likely.
When Malzhan was replaced by Lee in '07, and the formations name was changed to the Wild Hog, the formation itself was also changed.
instead of McFadden lining up in the shot-gun, he lined up under center, which was stupid at best, because it put him closer to the line of scrimmage, and took away the reaction time he had to the defense the previous year.
It's a fact, not fiction, that Nutt/Lee put McFadden under center until the Miss. St. and LSU games at seasons end.
How does Ole Miss line up D. McCluster, and how often?
by GonzoHog on Jan 3, 2009 2:48 PM EST reply actions
There's this really fucking badass website with a few links and such detailing the history of the Wildcat.
Click the link: http://redsolocup.blogspot.com/2008/09/internets-available-in-arkansas.html
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jan 3, 2009 4:09 PM EST reply actions
I didn't say that Nutt re-introduced it. I said it was re-introduced by ARKANSAS under Nutt. I have no idea which coach brought it in. There are conflicting reports. I'm sure that Gus Malzahn had a big hand in it.\
I too wonder why the wildcat wasn't as effective when Malzahn left... especially since Malzahn didn't call plays or put them together.
by Juco All-American on Jan 3, 2009 7:51 PM EST reply actions
According to Nutt, Malzhan WAS calling the plays.
I, along with everyone else who followed them, will tell you that's also a very true fact, because those where Nutt's very own words, in which we (Arkansas fans) heard with our very own ears.
Ghost,
I value your opinion, Honestly, but I don't need to look up the link for something I'm well aware of.
The Wild Cat, in nature, has many sources you could trace it to, but Malzhan should be getting a hell of a lot more credit for what he introduced to the UofA than what certain people would let you believe.
Malzhan will never get into that discussion, because he is a class act, 100%.
If other people want to take credit for what he was responsible for, then so be it.
He's back now, by the way.
What comes around, usually, goes back around.
by Gonzog on Jan 3, 2009 8:37 PM EST reply actions
Malzahn brought the WildCat (or the complete version that we know now)to Arkansas. Ran it to perfection.
Regardless of who called the plays that season, the package was that of Gus Malzahn - so Gus and/or Nutt used that package; a package that would not be prominent in College Football now if not for Malzahn's convincing Houston that it would work.
Fact, not fiction.
by Hayden Hodges on Jan 5, 2009 2:49 AM EST reply actions
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