Razorback Football

[Spiderham]

The AI play caller will suggest double tight end reverses on 4th and 3. That sort of thing.

I think that is only if you are in Chad mode. 
It's a super high difficulty level where your team has to overcome completely inept coaching recommendations. 

Much harder than Nutt mode where your team just has to overcome coaching decisions that make the narcissist coach and lackey brother look good. 

[razor5396]

You know, with the advancements in video game technology since 20013, I hope they add the ability to negotiate NIL deals with players during recruiting. It would be cool to offer school specific benefits to each NIL offer

Arkansas: Dino nuggets and Catfish Hole
Ole Miss: Drugs and hookers
Texas A&M: Sheep and a tall wheat field

[animal]

Random opt outs during the season. It's gonna be just like real life.

[buff2.0]

Player refusing to play until the school does something about a weird guy who keeps trying to eat his leftover hushpuppies every Tuesday night

[Piggielicious]

You know, with the advancements in video game technology since 20013,

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. There are bigger issues to handle before this one.

[TC]

Player refusing to play until the school does something about a weird guy who keeps trying to eat his leftover hushpuppies every Tuesday night

Weirdo-fan mode, where stalker fans count how many beers the coach had at the race track and if his pontoon boat is docked.

[Lurk]

Weirdo-fan mode, where stalker fans count how many beers the coach had at the race track and if his pontoon boat is docked.

[animal]

I'm betting they'll be a setting for proper pronouns though. I tried to tell Google yesterday that my gender is Deer Season...it wouldn't take it.

[Hogworth Ballington III]

The trailer looks good, but not sure it can live up to a decade+ of anticipation. May have to splurge on a ps5.

https://youtu.be/W1QDaXkufCo?si=GYls43bUHU_fTQgC

[Thin Red Swine]

If you pick Arkansas will the game give you less time to make the right game management decisions?

Yes, and the manboob enhancement feature will blow your mind.

[Pumpkin Escobar]

What is it with the Arkansas sports media now attacking the fans? First, it was the AI called Kent Smith on SI and now Eric Bolin is whining about unrealistic Razorback fans and how we should just accept Razorback football for what it is. Cover the fucking programs and stop whining about the fucking fans. If you find Hog fans exasperating, then move to Austin, die your hair and cover the Horns.

[Spiderham]

Fan.  Short for fanatic.  Nothing to see here other than clickbait.

[animal]

If fans aren't willing to donate at least 25% of their yearly earnings to NIL then they just aren't fans


said someone probably in 2025

[buff2.0]

What is it with the Arkansas sports media now attacking the fans? First, it was the AI called Kent Smith on SI and now Eric Bolin is whining about unrealistic Razorback fans and how we should just accept Razorback football for what it is. Cover the fucking programs and stop whining about the fucking fans. If you find Hog fans exasperating, then move to Austin, die your hair and cover the Horns.

Because this states sports media are fuckwits who could only find employment here. We get very few sports personalities who are good at their job. Remember them all shitting on Petrino when one bitch wore a fucking Florida Gators hat to an ARKANSAS presser?

[DirkPiggler]

What is it with the Arkansas sports media now attacking the fans? First, it was the AI called Kent Smith on SI and now Eric Bolin is whining about unrealistic Razorback fans and how we should just accept Razorback football for what it is. Cover the fucking programs and stop whining about the fucking fans. If you find Hog fans exasperating, then move to Austin, die your hair and cover the Horns.

Eric Bolin is borderline retarded. 


Minus the borderline part. 

[Pumpkin Escobar]

Eric Bolin is borderline retarded. 


Minus the borderline part. 

Let's entertain his retarded blathering for a moment. Instead of being overly optimistic as he claims, we instead just accept that this is a 4-8 team, and this is just Razorback football in the current, post motorcycle crash era. Why bother going to the games or donating or reading his fucking articles? If we're in full on Arkansuxxor mode, then why should we give anything more than Arkansad energy? We're not Ole Piss, the tailgate ain't that spectacular.

[The Whyte Boar]

Arkansas football sucks without hope of being better.  There is literally NOTHING about it that is special or worthy of fandom.  People are born Razorback fans or come to be one by circumstances, it is not a burden one should take willingly.  But what keeps those of us so cursed going is the hope that one year, lightning will strike.  I can get by on most years being no better than 8-4 but to ask me to accept that 8-4 is the pinnacle of our success?  Yeah no, I'll find something better and more healthy to do with my time. 

[FNG]

I guess I just have Battered Spouse Syndrome.

No matter how much the Razorback Athletic Department (includes all sports in general but particularly football) abuses me, I always believe it when they tell me "next time it will be different". 

[DirkPiggler]

Let's entertain his retarded blathering for a moment. Instead of being overly optimistic as he claims, we instead just accept that this is a 4-8 team, and this is just Razorback football in the current, post motorcycle crash era. Why bother going to the games or donating or reading his fucking articles? If we're in full on Arkansuxxor mode, then why should we give anything more than Arkansad energy? We're not Ole Piss, the tailgate ain't that spectacular.

I'm not going to read anything written by Eric Bolin.  When I want to kill brain cells I choose to do so with bourbon or quality beer.  So I'm going on assumptions based on what some of you have posted about what they/them wrote.

There are a couple of myths that simpletons like Bolin who lack critical thinking skills fall back on every time. 

1). The fans expect us to be perennial contenders.  Anyone who follows Arkansas football closely knows we have limitations that will likely keep us from ever being on the same level of what Alabama, LSU, and Georgia have been for the last 20+ years.  We know that isn't the expectation.  What we want is for the team to be competitive, and to not fall behind our peers in the league (OM, MSU, Kentucky, Missouri, etc).  Schools in our tier are going to have peaks and troughs.  We expect to take full advantage when the stars align as they did the last couple of years, when most of the league is relatively down and we have returning experienced talent.  Petrino did this.  Nutt did to a degree, although his obstinance and stupidity always kept them from truly peaking. 

2) It's not the X's and O's.  It's the Jimmies and Joes.  I love Jimmy Johnson to death as a Razorback and Cowboys fan, but when he said this in a self-deprecating manner to downplay his contributions he broke the brains of a significant number of people who cover the game.  Coaching is and always will be the number one most important variable in a program's success.  The difference between the elite athletes and three stars is usually bridgeable by quality scheme, development, and knowledge of your roster's strengths and weaknesses.  Sure, it's much easier to win when you can fill a roster with studs without ever having to get on an airplane to recruit.  And history is full of guys like Larry Coker, Les Miles, Ed Orgeron, and to a lesser degree 2021 Sam Pittman who can win at a level well above their own ability when they add a superstar or two to an already loaded roster.  But there is also room for Barry Alvarez, Frank Broyles, and Bobby Petrino, guys who put together top ten teams with the kind of players you can get at Wisconsin or Arkansas.  We need to find that guy, someone with a scheme that minimizes or negates a talent gap, and who is willing to stay around to gradually build a program.

Dave Van Horn has shown the blueprint for how to make Arkansas football relevant.  In the SEC baseball is really more competitive than football.  Where in football you have realistically 3-4 programs that could win it all, in baseball you probably have ten.  Yet DVH found a way to build a consistent program that most agree is top two in the SEC.  He took the type of talent you could get here at the time...in state kids, supplemented with a few from surrounding areas like Tulsa, Memphis, KC, etc, and added some guys from cold weather states.  DVH got the max out of those guys, which was consistently making the NCAAs and a couple of CWS appearances where we realistically had no shot of winning.  Keeping the team ranked and relevant every year gradually upgraded our profile to the point where we could start adding Benintendi from Cincinnati, Fletcher from California and the like, and top tier guys from our region.  We may never win a title under DVH, but we're damned sure going to be in the discussion every year.  It didn't happen overnight, but he also didn't have the fuck up years while building (outside of 2016) that knocked our prestige level back down and got us off everyone's mind either.  He's kept the program moving forward and changed the level of expectations.  There is no reason that couldn't happen in every sport, including football.

[buff2.0]

Arkansas media told us 8-4 was the pinnacle WHILE we were going 11-2.