To live his greatest day as a coach, Scott Long would have to relive his worst day as a player. The defensive ends coach of those 1-AA Missouri State Bears stepping up to play 1-A Arkansas in Saturdays 6 p.m. season opener at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Long was a starting Arkansas senior defensive tackle in 1992 when The Citadel of 1-AA stunned Jack Crowes Razorbacks, 10-3 in the season opener in Fayetteville. I talked to somebody about that yesterday, ... A reporter brought up that you are a I-AA school going to a 1-A and you have no chance. You can look at it all on paper like that. But it comes down to a group of 18 to 23-yearolds from Arkansas versus a group of 18 to 23-year olds from Missouri. Thats why we have to play it out and see how it comes. Every year things do happen.
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We didn't shoot the ball well at all. Fayetteville had something to do with that. We just didn't rebound very well, either. We fought hard underneath the basket but we didn't get near as many rebounds. We flat out didn't play tonight and we were out of sync.
Fayetteville coach Jim Schmidt's theory of recognizing paid off with a win. After the game Schmidt said, We needed to adjust to what they gave us and attack the goal strong. On the last goal, I told the girls don't give up until the zero. ... we are getting better as a team in getting over defense to give us more opportunities.
Walking my dog on the streets of downtown Fayetteville... contemplating, anticipating and daydreaming of what holds in tomorrow's promise... I look up above for some sort of comfort... and just in that moment, a rebellious star transcends a fiery streak in the night sky and that's the moment I know every little thing will be alright.
Fayetteville is a great hitting ball club. We didn't hit our spots pitching wise. We were all over the plate.
We will continue to hold 10 or 12 more hearings all through this year. This is the second one. We were in Fayetteville, N.C., yesterday. We will hold subcommittee hearings later in Washington, and plan to start writing the next Farm Bill early next year.
It's very disappointing. I thought we came in with a good game plan and it felt like we were just one rebound away from winning. We gave (Fayetteville) too many chances.
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
This Arkansas team is the perfect team for us to come back and try to solidify some of the things that we not only did not do well at Florida in terms of defending the basketball, but there were some of the same things we didn't do well in Fayetteville. We were lucky as apposed to good in some of our possession the first time against Arkansas. This should be a good game to try to correct some of those things.
The impact on the Fayetteville community will be in the neighborhood of 20,000, both military and civilian.
I just don't think we were ready for Fayetteville. We celebrated our win over Little Rock Central last week a little too long. We came out and didn't protect, didn't throw the ball well and didn't run routes well. Nothing went right and it was mistake after mistake.
I thought if we could go into Arkansas to begin the SEC season and win in Fayetteville, which we were able to do, the schedule favored us.
Brandon got wide open and our quarterback acted like he was trying to throw it into the next county. We missed opportunities like that all night. You can't do that against a team like Fayetteville.