It’s always something of a crisis when an SEC team loses at home to a lesser program, but that does not adequately describe what happened to the Arkansas Razorbacks in the first half of Saturday’s game.
Arkansas found itself trailing 35-7 to Western Kentucky at halftime of a home game Saturday. The Hilltoppers had 16 first downs to Arkansas’ three, and outgained the Razorbacks 317-119. This is a Western Kentucky team that came in with a modest 5-4 record, and had lost its season opener at home to an FCS team, Central Arkansas. Just to rub things in further, Western Kentucky quarterback Tyler Storey is a former Arkansas player.
Twitter did not go easy on the hapless Razorbacks.
Arkansas is losing 35-7 to a team that:
-lost to an FCS team from Arkansas' own state
-is quarterbacked by an Arkansas transfer
-is 5-for-5 on fourth down
-has a TD of exactly 69 yards today
but how is YOUR Saturday going
— Banner Society (@BannerSociety) November 9, 2019
This is the kind of day Arkansas is having. Western Kentucky's kicker did this! pic.twitter.com/x1IR60Up5h
— Max Olson (@max_olson) November 9, 2019
They may want to keep them on… WKU is now up 35-7 on Arkansas at halftime! #WKUvsARK pic.twitter.com/CMNqgCBLEy
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) November 9, 2019
Arkansas 2019 is an absolute disaster. Worst SEC team I’ve seen in my lifetime.
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) November 9, 2019
Then there was the second genre of tweet, suggesting Arkansas coach Chad Morris was probably coaching his last game at the school.
Let’s check in on Chad Morris’ seat… pic.twitter.com/Bo1odV2dEt
— Karen Howell (@karenehowell) November 9, 2019
I have never seen it but I strongly believe that one day an embattled coach will be led from the field by security after his team gives up a game-clinching pick-six in the 3rd quarter. Today could be that day.
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) November 9, 2019
The Razorbacks are on their way to a 2-8 record, and this is far from their first embarrassment of the season. Morris is almost certainly losing his job at the end of the season, if not sooner, especially with the team playing the way it is.
