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In any coaching capacity....heck no

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He could handle being the RB coach. I doubt he'd be satisfied with it, though.

They're also 41–13 and have been playing like a fringe top 25 team all year. Auburn can't exactly afford to throw the kitchen sink at a midweek game with an SEC opponent coming up, but Jacksonville State is both good enough to take that game and greatly benefits by doing so. They're so much stronger than the bulk of their conference that they can still take 2/3 on the weekend.

Then it sounds like we should be praying for a 2-seed :lol:

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Stetson was a weekend series, lol. It went four games, but we still split with them.

LSU fans are fricking insufferable about the sports they're good at, but I don't think a single one of them has tried to say baseball is objectively as important as football.

"Allow me the pleasure of introducing you to... Blaide.. Laizer... Blaizer..."

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why not more wins?

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They were only allowed to play us three times.

I never rejected the Missouri rivalry, I think you're the most natural rival we have at this point.

The problem with teams like Arkansas is we have no power conference in-state rival to have built all this storied history with. Arkansas, Missouri, and LSU are the only three SEC teams who don't have that, and LSU is a charter member of the conference, so they have a lot of backstory with a lot of teams. So for us it becomes teams we share a border with, or "what team has pissed us off the most recently," and the problem with that one is if you're not consistently competitive, the team you're pissed at doesn't take you seriously. Back when we were in the SWC our hatred for Texas could be taken more seriously. Then we stopped playing them regularly and football fell off a cliff.

The football series between Mizzou and Arkansas has become lopsided, but the game is basically always settled by one score or less. We just keep coming out on the wrong side of it. You don't really care about baseball, and you keep fricking up basketball hires the same way we keep fricking up football hires, so basketball isn't as fierce of a rivalry as it could be.

There are a lot of similarities between us and Missouri, though. And ARMOgeddon is the coolest rivalry name in the conference, even if the competition itself is usually a slap-off between two barely functional retards.

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But as far as titles go, Alabama baseball kicks Arkansas baseballs fricking arse.

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We have the same number of national championships?

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I think Arkansas is the last sleeping giant,

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We've always had a terrifying upside in baseball and basketball, if we could only learn to get out of our own way. Football, not so much. Arkansas football struggled for political reasons a lot of people outside the state don't see, so the backyard pool of talent isn't really there. And in the age of NIL this should theoretically be less of an issue, but we've made it beyond clear that we have no interest in ponying up the money, and the fan base has no interest in hitting the misguided administration where it hurts. We're no more a sleeping giant than Nebraska is anymore. We ARE better than struggling to go to consistent bowl games, so at this point my only explanation is we're somehow infested with double agents.

Any team in Texas or Florida failing to emerge or remeerge is a lot more fascinating than Arkansas: failure to launch, imo.