From the Springdale Experiment:

So, let me get this right. Mustain came to Arkansas because of his former coach Gus Malzhan. But Malzhan went to Tulsa, and Mustain went to Southern Cal. hmmmm…..very interesting.

1. Recruits and their parents only stand to lose when they give in to the apparent “honor” of allowing themselves to be followed and quoted, because the author’s agenda is profit and controversy sells books.

2. Houston Nutt couldn’t really get past and above the quote attributed to Mustain, saying “the school had a better chance to recruit him if Nutt were fired”. It’s human nature to take that personally.

3. The book fray forever tainted what might have been, and Hog fans have no real idea what true level of performance the coaches observed byMustain and the others associated with him.

4. Mustain’s “numbers” place him at the very top of performers of true freshmen starting QBs in recent years.

5. Nutt would have been better off making one sincere-seeming apology to one and all for the failure of the Springdale experiment, taken some responsibility for the pathetic Prewitt emails, and just maybe the FOIA circus would never have arrived in town. It didn’t bode well that in every public comment made by him, the AD, the coach’s wife, the therapist-booster, and Houston Nutt is portrayed as infallible, not a single tiny mistake ever conceded.

6. So now we have a coach who thinks that whatever obvious unfortunate events occurred, he never had any responsibility for it.

[KFSM Fort Smith] A Montgomery County man Tuesday brought suit against the chancellor of the University of Arkansas and the university system president, alleging the two failed to ensure NCAA rules were followed in the institution’s football program.The suit claims Chancellor John A. White, as the supervisor of coach Houston Nutt, and President B. Alan Sugg, as White’s supervisor, are responsible for tax dollars being wasted or illegally spent, according to the lawsuit.

The suit contends members of the football coaching staff failed to create an atmosphere in compliance with NCAA constitution and bylaws. Phone records received through Freedom of Information requests show Prewett sent several cell-phone text messages to Houston and Danny Nutt and received text messages from them later Dec. 7. [41 page PDF file here]

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