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Title: Hogs will come to Bryant-Denny with more confidence than last time Post by: ssmith general on September 21, 2011, 06:41:28 AM Quote By TOM MURPHY and BOB HOLT Arkansas Democrat-Gazette FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas Coach Bobby Petrino called his team's 35-7 loss at Alabama in 2009 a prime teaching tool and a big yardstick in the realm of mental preparation. The No. 14 Razorbacks return to Bryant-Denny Stadium, now expanded to more than 101,000 in capacity, with what Petrino hopes is the proper emotional state to compete with No. 3 Alabama on Saturday in Tuscaloosa. Petrino said he didn't think his team felt deep down it could win the game in 2009. "What happens then is you see a lot of people do the same thing against Alabama," he said. "You don't execute and do the same thing that you normally do. "You drop passes. You overthrow a guy wide open. You trip on a line. ... You're out of your comfort zone and you don't play football the way you can. I think last year's game has to help us some in our confidence and certainly the way we came out in that game." http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/09/razorback_report_hogs_will_com.html Title: Re: Hogs will come to Bryant-Denny with more confidence than last time Post by: Chechem on September 21, 2011, 06:54:43 AM Good article, thanks.
Quote Arkansas offensive coordinator Garrick McGee, when asked his assessment of the no-huddle offense that helped the Hogs build a 24-0 lead over Troy, demurred on the subject -- at least for a moment. "I didn't know that we were in no-huddle," (http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk105/trishleagh/A%20Emoticons/sarcasm.gif) McGee said straight-faced. "We were just trying to go at a fast tempo. I didn't want everybody in the world to know we were in a no-huddle." When reporters pointed out the availability of game tape and that the game was televised, McGee continued. "We feel we've got a lot of fast kids on our team, and we really trust and believe in our conditioning," he said. "It tended to work for us the other night." |