HOGS UP NEXT!

By: Joe Tucker (CrimsNkentucky) RollCrimsonTide.com

With eight seconds left in the game, Matt Caddell shielded the Arkansas defender from the ball and caught the winning touchdown pass from John Parker Wilson. Alabama had out played the Razorbacks and their nationally touted running duo of Darren McFaden and Felix Jones. The final score Bama 41, Hogs 38; it was a shot heard throughout the football world. There was a new sherriff in town, his name was Coach Saban. That was last year. This year the Nutt is gone from Arkansas, Houston Nutt that is, and has been replaced by Bobby Petrino. Although Houston Nutt was a very good game day coach, scandal hung over his head like a tumultous black cloud waiting for the lightning to strike down and burn both him and the university. He had hired a new offensive coordinator, Guz Malzahn, from the high school ranks. Many questioned the hire and wondered if it was a move made solely to land the highly touted quarterback Malzahn coached, Mitch Mustain. Mustain was the Parade magazine prep player of the year in 2005. Mustain eventually did sign with Arkansas, but both he and Malzahn left the team last year with a bad taste in their mouths. Then the scandal hit over the affair Coach Nutt was having with a newspaper reporter. The storm was growing as were the calls for the Hogs leader’s head. Nutt escaped. He stepped down as head coach and signed a deal with Ole Miss to become their latest attempt at legitamizing the program.  Register now (It’s free) for access to the rest of this article Click here to continue on with the article.