Hot Seat

The nerves in Houston Nutt's butt must be shot. He has been on and off the hot seat several times over the past 10 years. Started off solid then moved onto the hot seat. With a win over LSU in '02 he moved off and into the SEC Championship game where he lost and a loss in the bowl game put him back on the hot seat.



Rescheduling Texas in '03 and '04 the hogs stormed to a 4-0 record and a #7 ranking with road victories at Texas and Alabama. The season went out quietly from there, with 3 more SEC losses for a 4-4 SEC record and a 9-4 record overall and a victory over Missouri in the Independance Bowl.



Somehow riding the hot seat through a 5-6 and a 4-7 season, Houston rode Darren McFadden, Gus Malzahn, and several defensive players now playing for the NFL to a 10-4 record and bought rings for an SEC West championship. The off season put Houston right near the hot seat with E-mail Gate, Freedom on Information Act Requests, and the leaving of heralded recruit, and we go on and on just like it says in the newspapers every two weeks.



After allowing come from behind wins by Bama and Kentucky, coupled with a poor performance against UT Chatt, Houston finds himself the number 1 coach on the hot seat according to http://www.coacheshotseat.com/ .



While many razorback fans are still gearing up for games against Auburn, South Carolina, Tennessee, and LSU, some have already thrown in the towel and are wondering what coach is gonna pick up the pieces that will be left when Houston is fired at the end of the season and Darren McFadden and Felix Jones go to play for NFL teams.



There are still other razorback fans that are far from wondering, they are doing their best to make their opinion heard and are committing zookification on Houston Nutt.

10 years ago when the coaching position at Arkansas was opened up, Houston Nutt went against Tommy Tuberville for the job at Arkansas. Tuberville had just gone 8-4(4-4) with SEC team Ole Miss playing in the SEC, and Houston had just gone 4-7 with Boise St. Houston won the job due to his personality and peppy attitude.

Following the game on Saturday Houston was asked about the banner and his response was "where was the banner when we were 7-0 in the SEC last year?"

I think that's all I got. How screwed up is this situation anyway? I defy any fan to say that their school has a more fucked up athletic program than the University of Arkansas.