FAYETTEVILLE – Pretending everything is OK is not going to work anymore. Talking about the future won’t, either.
Come Monday, Arkansas coach Bret Bielema will have to face the questions. They will be questions from the media. But then, more than ever before in Bielema’s tenure, those questions will be on behalf of nearly an entire fan-base.
Saturday’s 35-24 loss to Texas Tech was not, in and of itself, reason for panic. The circumstances that surrounded it – literally surrounded, on both sides – were harbingers to the angst and frustration. Warning chimes the 2015 season would be like 2012 one were faintly ringing after the Razorbacks lost to Toledo 10 days ago.