Thursday, April 05, 2007

Razorback Fiasco

So, it's a relatively slow news day.  Except here in Arkansas, where we have a smoldering scandal in the University of Arkansas athletic department seemingly set to burst into a full-fledged inferno.  You got yer football coach. You got his cell phone records.  You got yer unbelievable number of text messages to a female TV anchor.  You got yer fired basketball coach.  You got yer NEW basketball coach.  You got yer NEW basketball coach who becomes yer FORMER basketball 24 hours after he was NEW.  And that, my friends, is just the tip of the soap opera iceberg. Let's just name the Razorback Athletics Department "Titanic" and be done with it.  Good reading from the Arkansas Times blog and its commenters.


Quick, hide the records



By now this blog has carried a bit of the blowback from wild Hog board discussions about an FOI request made for football coach Houston Nutt's telephone records.  They shed some light on the frequent contact that Nutt has had at key times with a Hog booster who wrote an ugly e-mail to Mitch Mustain and with Nutt's agent. Something is also being made about the large number of phone calls and text messages Nutt made to a female Fort Smith newscaster, including one minutes before an important football. game. This was a time, disgruntled fans might say, that Nutt could have [...]


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