Arkansas QB Brandon Allen threw for 442 yards and 6 touchdowns to become the Offensive Player of the Week.
Brandon Allen is Arkansas to the core.
The Hogs' fifth-year senior quarterback grew up in Fayetteville, played his high school football at Fayetteville High School and started watching Hogs' games from the sideline when he was in the first grade, a fringe benefit of his father being an Arkansas assistant coach. Bobby Allen is in his 18th season as a member of Arkansas' staff, and all his middle son has ever known is Woo Pig Sooie.
So maybe all this explains why it cut to the core, for the entire family, when Allen was sledgehammered with the kind of nasty backlash from fans that would bring even the most hardened of NFL veterans to their knees.