Evin Demirel

Photo credit: Hunter Yurachek Some of the weekend’s most important news regarding the future of the Arkansas football program arrived Friday, not Saturday. It came about 24 hours before the Razorbacks got roasted in College Station, almost entirely extinguishing any hopes of a bowl game appearance this year after last week’s promising Tulsa win and flinging Inside Arkansas’ John Nabors into the ninth circle of fandom hell: “You’ve been cast into outer darkness and no one cares. You’re struggling.

Photo Credit: Craven Whitlow Heading into a way-too-early tipoff at Mississippi State, Arkansas was already up against it. Generally speaking, nobody really wins in the event of a 11 am tip-off for a major college basketball game. The fans are not going to show up like they would for an afternoon or night tilt, and the product on the floor usually isn’t as good with players whose bodies are geared toward later start times.

It’s a touch funny how sometimes the closest of friends can wield the sharpest of knives on each other. College football hall of famers Frank Broyles and Darrell Royal, for instance, were great friends most of the year. But not when they led the Razorbacks and Longhorns onto the gridiron on an annual basis with the prime objective of destroying each other’s dreams of a national championship.