It’s symbolic that the latest chapter in Razorback athletics came with a typographical error.
“After just 22 games, Chad Morris has been fried as the head coach of the Arkansas football program,” read a graphic posted on Twitter by a Fort Smith TV station.
Fried, as one enjoys a strip of bacon, rather than fired, the fate Sunday of the University of Arkansas’ second-year football coach.
Typographical errors can be corrected. Transposing a letter or two in a story occurs more often in journalism than anyone likes to admit. A notice in the next day’s newspaper that a mistake was made — usually regarding a factual error rather than a misspelled word — is often sufficient to placate everyone concerned.