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The state of Arkansas could be the size of Texas and they would Aggie it up. Some programs just have it and and know what it takes to win. They have goals of what they want to achieve and are very aggressive in doing so. You can't be this bad for so long in football and not have any internal issues within the program.

sadly, I’m afraid you’re right. People love to say Arkansas is just too small and doesn’t produce enough talent as a reason we don’t have success, but that still doesn’t explain why we lose to teams like byu and Liberty and why those same teams as well as teams like Iowa or Oklahoma state have better seasons than we do.

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Posted by dchog

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 5:59 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55

The state of Arkansas has always struggled to put out enough high school talent and that shouldn't be breaking news.

Back then it wasn't as bad and Arkansas didn't have the long list of bad coaches that they do now. It also doesn't help that these coaches continue to overlook good not necessarily highly rated prospects but good role players that would do those jobs well.

For example remember Zach Stadther? He wasn't highly recruited out of high school and didn't have NFL size but regardless Petrino thought he was a good enough player and he was right.

These coaches don't take these chances anymore and let the them go to not high level power 5 schools but middle to lower level power 5 schools. If they are good enough to go to these schools then they are good enough to go to Arkansas.

This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 6:02 pm

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