Quote Originally Posted by Captain Falcon View Post
Watching some of his press conference, either he has the least interesting personality in the SEC or he is stressed to the max right now. Certainly can't blame him if he's stressed based on what he inherited and how tough his schedule this year. But you're definitely not seeing some of the goofy "YESSIR" stuff that there was a lot of when he was hired.

Pittman seems like a likeable guy who genuinely wants to be there, so I hope he gets Arkansas back to respectability. Just going to be a lengthy process.

Our series with them has been pretty strange since we joined the SEC. They had a stretch where they won 15 of 17 against us and we couldn't buy a win against them. And now we've won 7 of 8 against them. You just don't see division matchups like this very often where it goes from one team totally dominating the series for almost 20 years and then there's a big swing where the other team starts dominating the series for going on a decade now.
All had to do with scheduling. Until recently they've always been sandwiched between Bama and Northern Miss. We'd come out flat and just get rolled. There's also the tail end of JWS and Croom in that 15/17 stretch for them. Once we had a competent coach and a competitive talent level, we stopped losing to them so much. But the scheduling change to play them earlier has been a huge improvement.