Monday, February 12, 2007
Wally's world
The biggest news of the weekend was Wally Hall’s column in Friday’s Democrat-Gazette. Wally dunked Arkansas Head Coach Houston Nutt in batter, lightly breaded him, and tossed him in a hot skillet. It is a rare thing to see the privileged elite of Arkansas media snap at the hand that feeds it.
Wally used a rhetorical trick of insinuation in reciting a litany of charges in which he did not directly charge Nutt was the guilty party, and did not claim accuracy of each allegation. Based on the old theory that if you throw enough stuff at the wall some is bound to stick, Wally made his point.
He certainly got Nutt’s attention judging by that call into a radio show co-hosted by Hall. There are some fairly fine hairs to be split here. The definition of “rudeness” is too vague. Did Nutt go behind Malzahm’s back in hiring David Lee? Depends on whom you believe. If you never practice the hurry up offense, you can’t run it. If half the offensive plays must be directed to Darren McFadden, that quite a limitation on the offensive coordinator.
I did note in Mr. Nutt’s call an unnecessary insinuation directed to Mitch Mustain’s mom that tells me all I need to know. There is something very personal and ugly here.
(Broadcast February 12, 2007)
Wally used a rhetorical trick of insinuation in reciting a litany of charges in which he did not directly charge Nutt was the guilty party, and did not claim accuracy of each allegation. Based on the old theory that if you throw enough stuff at the wall some is bound to stick, Wally made his point.
He certainly got Nutt’s attention judging by that call into a radio show co-hosted by Hall. There are some fairly fine hairs to be split here. The definition of “rudeness” is too vague. Did Nutt go behind Malzahm’s back in hiring David Lee? Depends on whom you believe. If you never practice the hurry up offense, you can’t run it. If half the offensive plays must be directed to Darren McFadden, that quite a limitation on the offensive coordinator.
I did note in Mr. Nutt’s call an unnecessary insinuation directed to Mitch Mustain’s mom that tells me all I need to know. There is something very personal and ugly here.
(Broadcast February 12, 2007)
