You know I'm feeling very torn about everything that is going on with Arkansas. I'm just about sick of reading and writing anything about an entire program from the AD to the Coaches to the players to the boosters to the fans that just has reached ridiculous levels. It has reached a point where the actual levels of importance to the amount of attention paid are inverse.On the other hand, there's a part of me that enjoys a good off-season soap opera and something to keep posting. Plus, a lot of the stuff is just darn goofy. Like this little bit of news.
Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt revoked the sideline pass of a family friend over a critical e-mail she wrote to freshman quarterback Mitch Mustain, and the e-mail drew a rebuke from Chancellor John A. White, as well.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported in its Thursday editions that the e-mails were written by booster Teresa Prewett, a Little Rock physical therapist who helped assistant coach Danny Nutt rehabilitate after brain surgery in 1998.
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January, the university investigated at the behest of Mustain's mother, Beck Campbell. The newspaper said that Prewett wrote a letter of apology to Mustain, who was released from his scholarship, at his request, so he can seek a transfer. Nutt sent a reprimand to Prewett and White sent a letter to Campbell that condemned Prewett's e-mail.
Prewett also was told not to have any contact with university football players, and the school placed a filter on its computer system to ban her e-mails, the newspaper reported.
Unfortunately, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article is a paid subscription only story.
Prewett, apparently couldn't contain her ire. The e-mail in question was sent to not just Mustain, but also to the sports editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Houston Nutt's wife back in early December. Naturally, Houston only found out about the e-mails a couple of weeks ago.
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2-15-2007 @ 9:42PM
ALL VOL said...
These people must be Nutt's!
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2-15-2007 @ 11:45PM
SLRscribe said...
ALL VOL, that was too easy.
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2-16-2007 @ 7:08AM
thehogblogger.com said...
Actually, you can read the story for free on a different website. The link is on my website, along with some other coverage of the story, including tonight's latest developments.
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2-16-2007 @ 7:08AM
paron said...
Minimizing the incident misses the point. You have someone important enough to have sideline passes proactively engaged to make the unfortunate young man's experience even worse, with the complicity of the head coach's wife, and when thankfully the young man's mother decided enough was enough and alerted the Chancellor, it still takes almost two weeks to offer a half-hearted apology. It's all so obviously the fine hand of a group of classless, small-minded, arrogant, self-important people, who got what they needed from the Springdale group when the heat was HDN for the prior poor seasons, and then couldn't find in themselves one ounce of contrition or concilatoriness for wasting at least two years of some young people's lives. And do we really think that this is an isolated incident in the way players have been/are/will be treated? After all, these people have no doubt that they OWN the football program.
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2-16-2007 @ 3:25PM
Parent of 2 College Student-Athletes said...
An Open Letter to Ms. Beck Campbell:
Every student-athlete's parent who has gone through recruiting wars sympathizes with the plight of the Springdale group. There seems to be credible evidence that your group was, first, simply deceived, and second, unfairly treated. You were regrettably caught up in the maelstrom that swirled around the football program after back-to-back unacceptable seasons. And while your group undoubtedly viewed the situation as an opportunity to participate sooner and substantially, in hindsight it appears you were used for political/media purposes to calm the anti-Nutt outcry that was swelling, first, in recruiting, and second, in the first game when your son was injected thinking he was redshirting.
Unfortunately what it all proves is that for the UofA football staff and AD, it's all about them, their media status, maybe even wins and losses, and they feel they OWN the programs.
But I can't help but wonder whether you provided the kindling by permitting your son to be shadowed and interviewed for a book which you must have known, would try to find controversial event to relate?
Why, if as it seems, your one and only concern is your son's welfare, did you allow him as a 17-year old to become quote fodder?
And then when your son did comment that the UofA would have a better chance to get him if HDN were fired, did it occur to you to set his priorities straight, tell him there would be events in life that one cannot control, and the right reason to sign with a school was what it would provide overall, and not because he was hopeful that a school would fire a coach because in his 17-year old mind, a sluggish offense was being implemented?
Is it possible that had you been a legal guardian for your son, you too should have been fired for putting him in a position where he would naturally make comments that would become public and also hurtful to the very people about to give him a free six-figure education?
Objectively, was there a perfect storm of an unscrupulous coach, a cocky kid, and a misguided mother?
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2-19-2007 @ 9:06AM
Parent of 2 College Student-Athletes said...
An Open Letter to Ms. Beck Campbell:
Every student-athlete's parent who has gone through recruiting wars sympathizes with the plight of the Springdale group. There seems to be credible evidence that your group was, first, simply deceived, and second, unfairly treated. You were regrettably caught up in the maelstrom that swirled around the football program after back-to-back unacceptable seasons. And while your group undoubtedly viewed the situation as an opportunity to participate sooner and substantially, in hindsight it appears you were used for political/media purposes to calm the anti-Nutt outcry that was swelling, first, in recruiting, and second, in the first game when your son was injected thinking he was redshirting.
Unfortunately what it all proves is that for the UofA football staff and AD, it's all about them, their media status, maybe even wins and losses, and they feel they OWN the programs.
But I can't help but wonder whether you provided the kindling by permitting your son to be shadowed and interviewed for a book which you must have known, would try to find controversial event to relate?
Why, if as it seems, your one and only concern is your son's welfare, did you allow him as a 17-year old to become quote fodder?
And then when your son did comment that the UofA would have a better chance to get him if HDN were fired, did it occur to you to set his priorities straight, tell him there would be events in life that one cannot control, and the right reason to sign with a school was what it would provide overall, and not because he was hopeful that a school would fire a coach because in his 17-year old mind, a sluggish offense was being implemented?
Is it possible that had you been a legal guardian for your son, you too should have been fired for putting him in a position where he would naturally make comments that would become public and also hurtful to the very people about to give him a free six-figure education?
Objectively, was there a perfect storm of an unscrupulous coach, a cocky kid, and a misguided mother?
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2-16-2007 @ 2:37PM
paron said...
An Open Letter to Ms. Beck Campbell:
Every student-athlete's parent who has gone through recruiting wars sympathizes with the plight of the Springdale group. There seems to be credible evidence that your group was, first, simply deceived, and second, unfairly treated. You were regrettably caught up in the maelstrom that swirled around the football program after back-to-back unacceptable seasons. And while your group undoubtedly viewed the situation as an opportunity to participate sooner and substantially, in hindsight it appears you were used for political/media purposes to calm the anti-Nutt outcry that was swelling, first, in recruiting, and second, in the first game when your son was injected thinking he was redshirting.
Unfortunately what it all proves is that for the UofA football staff and AD, it's all about them, their media status, maybe even wins and losses, and they feel they OWN the programs.
But I can't help but wonder whether you provided the kindling by permitting your son to be shadowed and interviewed for a book which you must have known, would try to find controversial event to relate?
Why, if as it seems, your one and only concern is your son's welfare, did you allow him as a 17-year old to become quote fodder?
And then when your son did comment that the UofA would have a better chance to get him if HDN were fired, did it occur to you to set his priorities straight, tell him there would be events in life that one cannot control, and the right reason to sign with a school was what it would provide overall, and not because he was hopeful that a school would fire a coach because in his 17-year old mind, a sluggish offense was being implemented?
Is it possible that had you been a legal guardian for your son, you too should have been fired for putting him in a position where he would naturally make comments that would become public and also hurtful to the very people about to give him a free six-figure education?
Objectively, was there a perfect storm of an unscrupulous coach, a cocky kid, and a misguided mother?
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2-16-2007 @ 9:09PM
hogger said...
The soap opera in Fayetteville is one that sports fans outside the state have a difficult time understanding. Simply, a coach who views his stature more important that TEAM success has diluded himself into believing that he has no obligation to his customers -- ie the students and fans who pay by attending the school and pay for tickets and with donations for a product that they want to consume. That product is affiliation with a respectable program that has 50 years of history built mostly on integrity. It is now unfortunate that the AD will step down in a way that is less shining than he should have been allowed all because he chose loyality to a man who does not deserve it -- The soap opera has less to do with the "kids" from Springdale or their very capable coach than it does with a breach in the integrity that built the program to begin with.
Frank Broyles did a lot to set a standard of excellence in College Football but his misplaced loyality will not doubt cast a small boil on the buttox of College Football.
Thank You Coach Broyles from one of the many alums who remember you with great fondness.
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2-20-2007 @ 8:36PM
DR. Simmons said...
IMO the mother is a classic BITCH and the rest of the parents involved within this (The Williams's) are the types of people you see at the little league ballparks accross the country that think they know everything. The biggest mistake, it seams, here is the University of Arkansas putting themselve's into the precarious position just to appease a few disgruntled fans by asking these two individual players and their coach to commit to them. Should have held their hands accross the state border as they stumble their way to perceived greener pastors.
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2-21-2007 @ 3:14PM
HogintheRock said...
Don't let the Springdale circus grab your sympathy. Before the season started Beck Campbell asked Coach Nutt to find a Razorback Foundation donor to pay for the Springdale circus tailgate parties. Coach Nutt told them to go read the NCAA bylaws and come back to let him know if they wanted their sons to play on t.v. and in the post season. This kind of crap went on all year long. Don't be fooled by their sob stories. If everyone knew the Springdale circus contributions to this tale, they would begin to understand why someone would get fed up with it all.
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2-23-2007 @ 7:00AM
David n Keathley said...
Could it be that we were all overcome by MCfa.;our unexpected success this season?
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2-24-2007 @ 8:53PM
trader nutt said...
The definition of H. Nutt (to clarify understanding) L.R central----Texas----Total control----The Great ONE----Heisman only focus----fans don't know anything---I called that play----force-out coaching comp ---winning is not an option----boy -we got a kicker----we got a kicker----I do not call the plays-I set the quota on play calling------4 and 3 is always better than 8 and 0----. The problem with the great leaving -is the great expects to win and wins and the leadership here expects to hit the wall get back up and hit it again and again ---------Fans we need a change --- however it seems we have no voice. Well personally I do not support this personality currently presiding over the Razorbacks and the fans.
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