Mixed Nutts

I Called That Play, Brutha!

Funny, but we didn't hear that from Hootie Nutt about the 4th and 1 call when DMac, the 5th leading rusher in SEC history, was on the sidelines last Saturday. Watching Peyton Hillis getting stuffed in the backfield for no gain or a loss of yardage.

It wasn't Hillis' fault, he never had a chance. But McFadden should have been in the game. If he had been, imagine the defensive reaction to a fake to #5. If he was only in the game to be a decoy, he should have been in the game. How about the WildHog formation in that situation?

All Hootie had to say about it was some lame Nuttisms
about how you have to make a yard. Or it was only a few inches or some such spin. What? That still doesn't explain why your mealticket wasn't in the game!


Some fans talk about how "childish" it is, flying banners, wearing black shirts and the like. I say it's not nearly as childish as crediting Danny Nutt with the idea for the then Wildcat package. What's worse is changing the name to WildHog after "Mal-a-zahn" left.

There is no bigger child than Hootie Nutt. What's more childish than "I called that play, brutha!?" Unless it's elbowing the band director out of the way to lead the band after a victory. A win that was achieved only because the opponent's kicker missed about 14 field goals and extra points.

Back to the subject of Peyton Hillis. How about that quote from Hillis in today's Demozette? You know, the verbal hand grenade lobbed into the Broyles Center Head Coach's office. Hillis: "D1 coaches make millions of dollars to figure stuff like that out, we were hoping they would". Whoa! Take that Hootie!

There is talk that if the Hogs win a 7th game they could go to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. Possibly to play Tulsa. I don't think it will happen. Even if the Hogs beat MSU next Sat., no cinch, Paw Paw Broyles would probably nix such a matchup. Just as he will play everybody in the Sun Belt conference except Arkansas State, I can't see Broyles exposing his favorite son, widdle Hootie Patootie, to getting embarrassed by Gus "High School" Mal-a-zahn. The Hogs would stay home first in my opinion.