Mixed Nutts

In today's Stephens Media newspapers, there was an article by Ryan Malashock (is his name really Malshock and that is justHDN's pronounciation?) about how in the Houston Nutt era at UA, the first SEC loss has been followed by another loss in the next game in all 9 seasons of Nutt's reign of error.

In the article, Nuttcase claims he didn't know about the trend. It kind of reminds me of the late Paul Eels asking Danny the Dinosaur late in his regime about being outscored something like 97-10 in the third quarter of the Hogs' games that season. The Ford who didn't have a better idea, or any ideas, really, didn't know about it. It would have interfered with his playing the stock market, I guess.

Anyway, the article ends up with a quote from the Hogs' fearful leader: "I'm not worried about that, it's brand-new news to me. I've never known that stat. I hate that I even heard it. But you know what, now that I have, we're going to break it". Sounds like a guarantee of victory to me. I figure it will take 40 points or so to win this one for either team. I've heard some Hog fans saying things like "Kentucky 'don't' have a defense", etc. Am I missing something? Did the Hogs not just give up 41 points to a team Vandy held to 24?