Recommitted Decommit Un-Transfers, Re-Enrolls, and is Named Prince of Denmark

by T Kyle King on Jan 20, 2007 12:00 AM EST in Football

Bill Curry says that teenage boys waffle when it comes time to pick a college and Exhibit "A" in support of Coach Curry's argument is Mitch Mustain.

The news of Mustain's impending transfer from Arkansas has been bandied about in the blogosphere---analytically by some, gleefully by others---but this wasn't the other shoe we expected to hear drop:

Mitch Mustain, Arkansas' highly recruited quarterback who asked for and received his release from the Razorbacks this week, has re-enrolled at the university for classes this semester.

As if that were not odd enough, the report went on to disclose this datum:

Neither Mustain nor his mother could immediately be reached for comment Friday.

"His mother"? Isn't there enough parental involvement in Fayetteville these days? But wait . . . it gets stranger still:

[Houston] Nutt has left open the possibility for Mustain to return to the Razorbacks.

Well, I would imagine so. Coach Nutt took the extreme step of hiring Mustain's high school coach as an Arkansas assistant in order to prevent the prized recruit from reconsidering his verbal commitment . . . a tactic, by the way, that he stole from "Johnny Be Good."

This embarrassing situation has devolved into a soap opera, culminating in newspaper advertisements calling for the firing of virtually everyone after a 10-win season. Who do these Razorback fans think they are . . . Alabama fans?

College football's zaniest coach headquartered elsewhere other than in Lubbock, Tex., starts to see his job security slipping away . . . his prize recruit follows his abrupt about-face with an equally abrupt about-face . . . the kid decides to stick around Fayetteville and cements his decision by enrolling in classes (which, I'm guessing, at Arkansas, still involves filling in bubbles on pieces of paper with golf pencils while retrieving course numbers from computer printouts posted on particle board or fishing them out of the Opstar the way we had to do in Memorial Hall a million years ago, back in 1989) . . . and Coach Nutt leaves open the possibility that Mitch will be welcomed back to the team?

The Razorbacks couldn't be any more dysfunctional unless they started choking and outing one another. It turns out I was right . . . the Razorbacks are crazier than a pack of run-over dogs.

Go 'Dawgs!

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This one still astounds me!

Having an all SEC education (UT/UGA) and many friend who graduated from all SEC schools, we're all stumped.
But a funny one that someone told me, is it the Walmart phenomenon? You know Walmart dominating the world, empowering all of NW Arkansas with super hero powers IN THEIR OWN MIND! Someone should see if any of the parties owns stock/works for Walmart?
I know it's a "stretch" (aka joke), but isn't that what this whole situation has become???

by lisa on Jan 20, 2007 8:39 AM EST reply actions

It is a messy business

We went through a similar albeit less bizarre scenario with Shockley. Shocks father has a lot of pull in the Ga HS coaching community. In addition, UGA recruits a fair amount from North Clayton. So MR had to play this little game of balance and fairness. Why else would MR even consider pulling Greeny who was nothing but a winner? Did we see Joe T platoon with Shock? Did we see Cox platoon with the INT machine MS. *BTW, I want to love MS's game, but I have only seen glimpses of brilliance.

Messy, messy, messy now that all the $$$ are involved. Mommy wants a meal ticket. So sad. How many of these kids actually make it anyhow. Get your free education and practice. If football doesn't work out, you have a degree. Let mommy go get a job.

by ssidedawg1 on Jan 21, 2007 10:10 AM EST reply actions