Coach Nutt and the Arkansas Football program have had their fair share of "off-season" distractions. After leading the program to a 10 win season and the SEC West title, Nutt and the entire AD dept., cannot get a break. Leaving is QB Mitch Mustain who went 8-0 as a starter for the Razorbacks last season, for the sunny skies of USC. What is left is a program in tumoil. But why?
These days, Freedom-of-Infomania is all the rage in Fayetteville. The university has received so many FOI requests in recent months, White says, it has had to hire an additional attorney.
Fans and reporters are not the only ones requesting information. Mustain also submitted an FOI request, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The quarterback asked for phone records for Houston Nutt; Danny Nutt, the running backs coach and head coach's brother; and the soon to be retired AD Broyles.
Fans and reporters are not the only ones requesting information. Mustain also submitted an FOI request, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The quarterback asked for phone records for Houston Nutt; Danny Nutt, the running backs coach and head coach's brother; and the soon to be retired AD Broyles.
According to the Democrat-Gazette, Nutt exchanged more than 1,000 text messages with the cellphone of Donna Bragg, a television news anchor in Arkansas, from Nov. 30 to Jan. 11, including one of 19 minutes before the start of the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1. Nutt wrote an open letter to fans, saying there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with Bragg.
Nutt says the two are friends and that wrong conclusions have been drawn from the volume of text messages. He says many of those text messages were simply one- and two-word responses to questions. During the six-week period being analyzed, Nutt says, a close friend of Bragg's had been diagnosed with cancer and Nutt, who has had family members with cancer, was helping Bragg's friend get treatment. He also says some of the messages he exchanged with Bragg concerned the charity work both are involved with.
Terry's lawsuit revolves around the e-mail Prewett sent to Mustain. According to excerpts included in the complaint, Prewett wrote, "Competition scares the s(—-) out of you, doesn't it little boy? Please transfer. All you've been since you walked onto campus is a cancer. … Why is it that you came to Arkansas again? Was it so your mommie could be close by to change your diaper, or was it because you thought having (Malzahn) on the sideline would make playing in the SEC easier?"
Bottom line is the city and the fan base in general have to relax. SEC fans in general are the most passionate in all of the land but this is taking it just too far. It is not as if your team posted a 1-10 record last year. They won the SEC West along with 10 games for the first time since 1999. Of the four losses all of them were to teams ranked in the top 5 in the final AP poll. Nutt was also name SEC coach of year and you have legit shot at having a Heisman Trophy winner in RB D. MCFadden. Future still is bright.