It is a bye week for Razorback football and I couldn't be happier. I was able to attend the game last week against Western Kentucky and we might as well had played Alabama. Firing the head coach Chad Morris was the right move after the disaster of losing 45-19 to Western Kentucky at home! But now it feels like 2 years ago again when we fired Bret Bielema after a mediocre 4-8 season. I was thinking this week about what if we kept Bret Bielema. I even watched a lot of the great highlights that happened during his tenure here especially from the 2014-2016 seasons. Of course the season in 2017 looked bad. But it wasn't as bad with Chad Morris. We went 4-8 in 2017 and have gone so far 4-18 the past two seasons with Chad Morris. Maybe Bret Bielema could've gotten the program up again if we gave him time to do it after the 2017 season. We will never know now.
There are probably 3 things that I noticed about Chad Morris that gives me confidence that firing him was the right move. 1. He never moved his family to Fayetteville. Since he never moved, it looks like he wasn't really into it all the way in the first place. We probably never saw Chad Morris give his best effort into the whole deal. 2. He always gave the same excuses and same press conference every single stinking time. After this latest blowout loss to Western Kentucky, a friend on Facebook posted the most perfect post about what I'm talking about. The post was:
That's all I'm saying about #2. And now the 3rd thing is the progress that happened to the program. Here's a spoiler....there was no progress. His first season went 2-10 and we are already on track to go 2-10 again. I know that a lot of people wanted Bret Bielema fired after his 4-8 mediocre 2017 season, but it never got that bad with him. Of course his first season he went 3-9, but that was expected after going 4-8 the season before with John L. Smith as coach. But then the next season we went 7-6. That season we beat Ole Miss and LSU in back-to-back weeks. They were both ranked and we performed a shutout in both games! We went to the Texas Bowl and blew out Texas! Now that was a huge progressing season for the 2nd season with Bret Bielema. But for Chad Morris, nothing changed at all. You know how bad we are now? Guess who beat Western Kentucky for week 1 of this season? It was University of Central Arkansas! UCA beat Western Kentucky 35-28. UCA is a division II college in Arkansas. And we, a division I college, lost to Western Kentucky 45-19. This is really bad.
Now that I think of it, the real hero for our football program is Ty Storey. He transferred from Arkansas to be Western Kentucky's QB. He played well against us and I can tell you he did not play that well when he was with us with Chad Morris as coach. This shows that Chad Morris really doesn't know how to coach up and develop his players and one of his biggest excuses was that they needed more time to do that. But Ty Storey, his QB from last season, got one off-season with Western Kentucky and played better than he ever did here. Thank you Ty Storey for making us realize this! In a way he is still helping the Razorbacks improve the football program.
Now with my opinion about who should be the next coach, I'm just really open for anybody to progress the program. If the interim head coach Barry Lunney Jr. can do it, then I'm behind him. It just has to be somebody who can set the future of this program to be bright. I'll put my faith in Hunter Yuracheck to pick whomever it will be. Of course a dream candidate would be Gus Malzahn because of all the Arkansas connections that he has. And everywhere he goes, big success comes with him. Also he does run a hurry up type of offense that Chad Morris was trying to implement but was not very successful. So that would help the current players adjust well when they learn an offense that is similar to what they've been learning now. As for defense, Gus Malzahn does have a great defense with Auburn now. But with Arkansas, you really need to be sure that the offense is right before defense can be fixed. That is just how it works here. We've won more of our games in the past when we have a great offense. After that is set up, then set up the defense.
Now I would like to start making my own game predictions to see how well I can get it. The usual football analysts can predict 60% of who will win and lose accurately. I want to see if I can do better than that. So here are my predictions for just the Top 25 ranked teams for College Football and all of the NFL games.
College Football Top 25:
Alabama vs. Miss St. Winner: Alabama
Indiana vs. Penn St. Winner: Penn St
Florida vs. Missouri. Winner: Florida
Wisconsin vs Nebraska. Winner: Wisconsin
Michigan St. vs Michigan: Winner: Michigan
Kansas vs Okla St. Winner: Okla St.
Navy vs Notre Dame: Winner: Notre Dame
Ohio State vs. Rutgers: Winner: Ohio State
Wake Forest vs Clemson: Winner: Clemson
Georgia vs Auburn: Winner: Auburn
Memphis vs Houston: Winner: Memphis
Texas vs Iowa State: Winner: Iowa State
West Virginia vs Kansas St. Winner: Kansas St
Minnesota vs Iowa. Winner: Iowa
LSU vs Ole Miss. Winner: LSU
Cincinnati vs USF. Winner: Cincinnati
Oklahoma vs Baylor. Winner: Baylor
Appalachian St vs Georgia St. Winner: Appalachian St.
UCLA vs Utah. Winner: Utah
New Mexico vs Boise St. Winner: Boise St.
Arizona vs Oregon. Winner: Oregon
NFL Match-ups:
Cowboys vs Lions. Winner: Cowboys
Jaguars vs Colts. Winner: Jaguars
Bills vs Dolphins. Winner: Dolphins
Broncos vs Vikings. Winner: Vikings
Saints vs Buccaneers. Winner: Saints
Jets vs Redskins. Winner: Redskins
Falcons vs Panthers. Winner: Panthers
Texans vs Ravens. Winner: Texans
Cardinals vs 49ers. Winner: 49ers
Bengals vs Raiders. Winner: Raiders
Patriots vs Eagles. Winner: Patriots
Bears vs Rams. Winner: Rams
Chiefs vs Chargers. Winner: Chiefs
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