Greetings, Arkansas basketball fans; you probably don’t know who I am, but your fearless leader Evin learned about my existence this week and – much like the videotape in The Ring – he’s passing knowledge of me onto you before his family perishes from some sort of woman in a well. (Full disclosure: I have not seen The Ring.)
My name is Jonny and I go by BitterWhiteGuy (it’s a long story) on various social media platforms. I’ve been writing about Texas basketball for the better part of a decade, and bring you insight from the enemy camp, in the form of someone who has been watching Texas basketball since the Tom Penders years. That means that I’ve been on the full rollercoaster ride from irrelevance to a Final Four to whatever the last decade has been.
All that to say I should have relished Arkansas getting demolished in Austin in Saturday’s exhibition. If you had come to me six months ago and said “Texas is going to push the pace, take advantage of their athleticism, and beat the Razorbacks by 30,” I would first ask why someone came back from the future to tell me this and not, like, what stocks to buy or if Elon Musk has bought every social media app as a joke or whatever. Then, I would ask if you were sent to me as some sort of angel, entrusted with a message that would delight me very specifically.
Short of telling me that Oliver Miller was convicted of a Ponzi scheme involving fake Dunkin Donuts franchises,…
