The Razorbacks still aren't a good kicking team on the road, they haven't been in the '90s. As noted, some of these things are out of Houston Nutt's control. It is a given that the offensive line and thus the running game will get better next year as this year's new guys and next year's mature. Their bodies and their attitudes are good. What Houston Nutt has to solve is the deeply troubling matter of how teams such as Alabama made almost 400 yards on 17 big plays and LSU, which had been poor offensively, averaged 25.6 a play on 13 big plays worth 333 yards.
Big plays are THE common denominator for the four looses.
Well, it's not hard to fix that. You start by using a true safety much of the time. That should be simple compared to Nutt's biggest task, that of grooming or finding a quarterback on the order of Stoerner. Quarterbacking is getting to be about 90 percent of it. Probably, always was.