They say hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. It’s your favorite junior-high coach’s favorite phrase. The assertion is that players have to give it their best to maximize the chances for winning. But the phrase is overlooking one important thing.
What if the coaches fail to give them a chance to work hard?
The 2024 Arkansas football team doesn’t have a whole heck of a lot of talent. What little it does has, in fact, been maximized most of the season. And the hard work, as it were, they put in Saturday against the Tigers should have been enough to finally again beat a Missouri football program that has their number.