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Thursday, March 23, 2006
This year's Kansas
Just one question for the Razorback nation: How long are you going to whine?
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Are you folks like Kansas, where even a year and another first round loss to a mid-major later, they are still talking about the loss to Bucknell, or will you start act like grownups, take it like a man and admit you got beat by a better team. Not the better collection of athletes, but definitely the better team.

You got outplayed, outhustled, outsmarted and outcoached. You lost. Bucknell won. In your backyard. In front of your fans. Deal with it.

Think it was a fluke? Come to Lewisburg next year and play the Bison again. I promise Pat Flannery could find a spot on the schedule for you

Until then, enough of the coulda, woulda, shoulda. It's boring. It's classless. It's time you got a life.

Lay off Stan Heath. He did a good job this season. He seems to have your team headed in the right direction.

Terry Wood, sports editor at the NW Arkansas Timestries explaining that to the Arkansas fans in a column today:
Much of the consternation has to do with whom the Razorbacks lost to in the NCAA Tournament.

Despite the fact that Bucknell performed better and played more consistently well than the Razorbacks all season, Hog fans saw it as their program's manifest destiny to advance in Dallas.
To be certain, Heath has not been whining. Neither have the Arkansas beat writers, most of who were privately expressing doubts about the Razorbacks; chances well before the game even tipped.

Nobody is suggesting Arkansas fans shouldn't still be discussing the loss. But we're pretty sure Dr. Phil would tell them the way to deal with it starts by accepting the better team won, at least the better team on that given Friday afternoon in March.

Kansas fans never learned that lesson and they are miserable still.
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