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Horns247 Podcasts: The Flagship Podcast

The Flagship: Former Arkansas coach Houston Nutt talks Texas, Steve Sarkisian

Horns247 Podcasts: The Flagship Podcast

247Sports, Texas, Texas Longhorns, Texas Football, Texas Basketball, Texas athletics, Arch Manning,

Football, Sports

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's interview edition of The Flagship Podcast, we talk to CBS college football analyst Houston Nutt, who was the head coach at Arkansas the last time Texas played the Razorbacks in Fayetteville (in 2004).

It's now official Texas and Arkansas will kick off on Sept. 11 in Fayetteville at 6 pm CT, so who better to give perspective on what that game will mean to Razorbacks' fans than Nutt?

Hint: Nutt said it would be Arkansas fans' "Super Bowl."

Nutt grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, going to Texas-Arkansas games with his father and three other brothers. He talks about how he got caught up in his childhood fandom when he did the Horns down following a Cotton Bowl victory over Texas capping the 1999 season - and the backlash he received from Mack Brown.

Nutt talks about his memories of that 2004 game between Texas and Arkansas, a game in which the then-No. 7 Longhorns escaped with a 22-20 victory over an unranked UA team.

Nutt also provides some interesting observations of Mack Brown that were picked up when Nutt, Brown and other high-profile college head coaches were part of a tour of the Middle East in 2009 in support of U.S. troops.

Those observations lead Nutt to talk about the challenges Steve Sarkisian now faces as the head coach at Texas. 

Nutt, an offensive-minded head coach who called his own plays while at Arkansas and Ole Miss, comments on what he likes about Sarkisian's offense.

Nutt also provides a scouting report on the 2021 Razorbacks.

As the last recruit ever signed by former Arkansas coach Frank Broyles (before Nutt ultimately transferred to Oklahoma State), Nutt talks about the history of the Texas-Arkansas rivalry and his memories of Broyles taking on former Texas coach Darrell Royal.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:10.6

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0:13.7

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0:19.7

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0:35.5

Welcome in, everybody, to the flagship podcast interview.

0:39.2

Very excited to bring in one of my absolute favorite people in college football.

0:45.3

All the guy does is win at everything he does, and he does it with Flair.

0:51.5

We're going to talk to him about all kinds of things.

0:55.9

The one and only Houston Nut, who I just remember, you know, going up to, well, first I remember the Cotton Bowl

1:04.9

victory that he had over Texas in 99 that season, then coming to Austin in 03 and and beating the longhorns

1:16.2

and then almost beating the longhorns in 2004 when Texas was number seven and Arkansas

1:23.6

was unranked.

1:25.2

And it was a showdown in Fayetteville and we learned this week that

1:28.7

Texas and Arkansas are going to play at 6 o'clock on September 11th. So I wanted to bring in

1:36.6

Houston nut to get perspective on that and just all of his wisdom. Coach, how you doing?

1:45.2

Hey, I'm doing great.

1:46.6

Doing really good.

1:47.8

Well, I appreciate you having me.

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