Several media outlets, including Jonesboro’s KAIT, claim to have independently verified that embattled head football coach Houston Dale Nutt is coaching his final game in the state of Arkansas for the Razorbacks today.

Normally, the Ridge Writer avoids news about Pig Slop State for two reasons: (1) it isn’t located on the Ridge, and (2) he could care less.

But, as a hard core college football fan, a little coaching speculation got the best of him.

Who will replace Nutt as the highest paid employee of the state of Arkansas?

A new athletics director is taking the helm of a newly combined athletics department in Fayetteville. Would he dare make a run at our very own Steve Roberts, head coach of the Arkansas State Indians?

Hear this out. Steve Roberts turned around the Indians after several years of underachieving. He brought the Tribe a league championship and a bowl game.

He has proven he can take a troubled program and build it into a winner.

He’s a Little Rock man and brings no baggage – he is a very respected member of the Jonesboro community and has made a reputation for recruiting players who can achieve academically as well as athletically.

Also, to the Arkansas fans who are always complaining about a one-sided offense, Roberts makes good use of what he has. For his first several years at ASU, he coached a power running game because he had great running backs. Now with Corey Leonard’s play-making ability and rocket arm, he has put together a very balanced offense that ranks among the nations elite.

The Ridge Writer hopes we don’t lose him, but thinks he could be a good fit at Pig Slop State.

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