Prediction: University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles will fire football Coach Houston Nutt midseason (between tonight and mid-October) and will pretend to collaborate with his just-named successor Jeff Long to instantly replace Nutt. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prediction: University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles will fire football Coach Houston Nutt midseason (between tonight and mid-October) and will pretend to collaborate with his just-named successor Jeff Long to instantly replace Nutt. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-home-street"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/11\/pig-skinned\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":0},"title":"Pig Skinned","author":"Ben S. 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