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Too far, too fast? How Arkansas’ fast turnaround caused expectations to rise too quickly.

As anyone reading this knows, life is not always easy for Arkansas Razorbacks fans. We don’t call them, lovingly of course, the Heart Attack Hogs for nothing. It seems we live and die by the last second free throw shots, the baseballs hit with warning track power or that just miss the foul pole, and the final two minutes of the football games.

Starting back in the 1960s with Frank Broyles as head coach, Razorback football was a thing to behold. We had a National Championship and over the next five decades we were always in the conversation with excellent rivalries and fielding teams with players that went to on to the next level.