Mirror, mirror

Coach Chad Morris repeated several times in his postgame remarks Saturday that the accountability for the 44-17 loss to North Texas begins with him and the coaching staff.

“You have a locker room of young men that are disappointed and coaches that are disappointed,” Morris said. “As I said before and I’ll say it again, they do care. They continue to fight and they will fight.

“And we’ve got to go back and look in the mirror. It starts with us. It starts with me. It starts with every coach and every player, and we start right off looking back in the mirror.”

senior class that they kicked out and then things started to turn around after. We want to be a part of the change.”

Froholdt said he knows it may sound like a broken record to some, but that the Razorbacks have to maintain the “one-play warrior mentality” Morris constantly preaches.

“If we start veering off track now, we’re never going to have a good football team or even be near,” Froholdt said. “We have to stay to our standards. We have to stay to what we believe in and how we think to run a football program.

“We have a tough schedule ahead, and if we’re thinking it’s a rebuild and we already have a losing mindset, then it’s just not going to be very pretty.”

LSU rallied to win 22-21 at Auburn on a last-second field goal by Tracy Cole.

The Arkansas-Auburn game at Jordan-Hare Stadium has a 6:30 p.m. kickoff and will be televised on the SEC Network.

“We’re going to face an extremely good Auburn team which just had a really close loss to LSU,” Froholdt said. “They’re probably ready to come back out and show the world that they can play again.

“That’s what we’re going to

do. We’re going to approach every single week like that.”

Ramirez said the Razorbacks’ leadership has to step up now more than ever and keep teammates from pointing fingers at each other.

“Ain’t not feeling sorry for ourselves,” Ramirez said. “We’re all men here. Regardless of overcoming adversity, football is a comparison to life. You have to continue to push forward regardless.

“We have Auburn coming up. Yeah, we just lost to North Texas, but it is what it is, man. It’s not a rebuilding year. We’re coming in stronger than ever, man.

“We can bounce back from this and make sure that we have everything that we need in order to play with Auburn. But it starts with preparation, not only in the film room, but in every aspect of our life and we have to have consistency.”

The Razorbacks can look at the start of SEC play as a chance to hit the reset button on their season.

“Moving into conference play, your record is 0-0,” Morris said. “But it’s all about us. Without looking at our next opponent, we’ve got to look at the Arkansas Razorbacks and focus on us.”