Houston Nutt: Living Up to Expectations

http://www.redcuprebellion.com/2009/6/18/913521/the-hype-myth

pre-season rankings are always complete bullshit.

My main problem with Nutt’s tenure at Arkansas (outside of blatant non-professionalism) was the complete lack of consistency.
2003. Starts the season off 4-0 with wins at highly-ranked Texas and at Alabama. Top 5 ranking… then the infamous 0-for-October (its not the only time that happened)… leading up to an ass-raping at the hands of LSU at home.

This was a team that produced a multitude of NFL talent, including three first round draft picks.

Nutt plays on emotions so much that if his teams experience disappointment, they’re very likely to not recover and lose again the next week. I saw it happen plenty of times… that has nothing to do with preseason expectations. It’s Houston Nutt’s signature.

While lambasting of coaches is permitted, lambasting coaches’ family members is not.

Below is a post by Popeye’s Corncob sin Becky Petrino reference.

For Yellowtail: a quiz

You know, kind of like the SAT. One of these quotes is a lie.

a) "Some guys are just not made to coach men." Rod Coleman on his former coach, Bobby Petrino.

b)"Nutt plays on emotions so much that if his teams experience disappointment, they’re very likely to not recover and lose again the next week." YTS

Answer: b: You took the 2003 season. Let’s look at 2008, where, out of the four losses, only one pair of consecutives occured. That would mean that twice, the rebels lost and won the next week (we took Florida after losing to Vandy, I won’t tire of repeating it). That means that three out of four losses were responded to with a win: much less than "very likely." If only this were the case last year after Ole Miss suffered two—back to back, nonetheless (that’s double emotional disappointment)—losses before travelling to Fayetteville. Which, I’d like to predict now, started our ninety game winning streak. That’s right. Ninety. Seriously, though, one thing I haven’t heard that much in these blogs about Nutt’s choking is the over-simplification of the concept of choking. Mistakes happen, sometimes often in one season, but to build a reputation from fans and media on this is a gross simplification of human psychology. We talk about players getting better every year, but coach’s seem to remain in a static trance of non-developement. Which is untrue, in any field. You either get better or get worse.

Juco,

It’s quite Interesting how you convieniently took comments from one of Houston Nutt’s deciples that lazily decided not to buy into Coach Petrino’s system.
Talented or not, not every athlete is capable of handling Petrino’s system.
Petrino is a perfectionist, and if your not willing to be one yourself, your playing for the wrong fucking team.
If your not disaplined enough to play for the man, you might be better off in Oxford. (land of the Nutts)

Juco,

How do you back up your statements when your only giving us half the facts? I don’t get it.
You say that statistically he’s NEVER done worse than the consensus projection before the season. Ok, so what were the consensus projections befor the other 5 seasons?

Prediction for 2009 season:

Alabama
LSU
Arkansas
Ole Miss
 Auburn
 Miss. St.

Ole Miss won’t prove themselves to be an SEC chamionship team or a top 10 team.
Some people just don’t know what reality is yet.