When it comes to college football, there are fans and there are fanatics .
Destined by geography and family tradition to latch onto the Arkansas Razorbacks, Blant Hurt is of the second type.
Like most devotees, he was captivated by his love of his team at an early age.
But unlike more casual fans, Hurt found himself attaching what some might call outsize life importance to the fortunes of the Razorbacks -a team which, like his own life, had a habit of going in direc.