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  1. It wouldn’t surprise me if Wiggins starts on Friday either. It’s his draft year and he was dominant in the Fall, though that doesn’t always mean anything. Defense is definitely the biggest question mark since last year it was incredible but lost so much. 3B and SS are still somewhat up for grabs with position battles. 2/3 of our starting outfield are former Big 12 players in Bohrofen from OU and Josenberger from Kansas so should be interesting if any of the opposing coaches have faced them before.
  2. This is very true. Some SEC fanbases even put college baseball on equal footing as basketball. You'll still get the casual fans to show up for teams like Alabama and Auburn when they're ranked in the top 10 but very few are dedicated enough to show up for Wednesday night against directional schools like in some other conferences.
  3. KenPom has the Big 12 and SEC as the two best CBB conferences in 2022. So it's a step down but not a gigantic one. The SEC has definitely gotten better recently and made much better coaching hires. The problem in the past was usually that the conference had rosters full of great athletes but mediocre basketball players. They could posterize the crap out of you but had no footwork or fundamentals.
  4. Whatever he does it was good enough to lead all of P5 in rushing last season
  5. Hey there were OU fans who legitimately thought it was being announced on MySpace lol, I didn't know about the Twitter thing until recently.
  6. Apparently Twitter has a thing called spaces now. So he was saying his (Twitter) space which is why it wasn't all one word. Basically this new organization is a consortium that companies can donate money to fund, and athletes can sign deals with it and receive money for doing charitable work for nonprofits in Arkansas. Basketball player JD Notae is the first to sign so he will receive compensation for doing work with Samaritan's Feet which is a local nonprofit. Hard to tell how much of an impact this will cause but it all depends on if other companies want to jump in to help fund it. Seems like something that could easily be copied by other schools though. The Waltons generally don't give a crap about Arkansas sports but the charitable side may change things and it would be hard to top if they did get involved.
  7. Need a DT pretty bad in the portal. Could use a proven pass rusher too but not sure how many will be available after the spring. Was hoping to get Jaxon Player. Guess it helps that Odom basically runs a 3-2-6 but not sure if it's his preference or if it's because we just don't have enough SEC-quality DL so he does it out of necessity. Currently it's definitely the biggest question mark on the defense, plus we just fired our DL coach.
  8. I’ve always wondered why Arkansas historically has never recruited Tulsa much when it’s only 2 hours away. Pittman has changed that since he’s been here, which makes sense since he grew up in Grove I guess. Aren’t going to get many that OU wants but still plenty of talent to pick from.
  9. I think he may get a decent G5 job after next season. Don't see a P5 program going after him just yet though. Probably getting a pay bump up to $1.4 million to stay at Arkansas.
  10. I could see him being a rush end in certain situations. But Arkansas graduated two 100+ tacklers so there are plenty of tackles available either way next to Bumper Pool.
  11. Possibly, Arkansas will likely take a transfer CB but would probably prefer someone with more proven experience.
  12. Yeah, kinda funny how that all worked out. -Chad takes his son over King, gets fired and Chandler decommits. -King commits to A&M, UNC staff drops Malik Hornsby for Arkansas in-state QB Jacolby Criswell -New Arkansas staff tries to flip Criswell but he sticks with UNC so Hornsby basically falls in Arkansas' lap.
  13. Every conference has some sort of cannibalism to it. I haven't actually researched it but it sure does seem like most of the time the SEC team gets matched up with a team that finished higher in another conference. I know the year we finished 3rd in the division we got the Big 12 co-champ Kansas State and beat them by double digits. The SEC gets the benefit of the doubt since the recruiting and amount of NFL draft picks are just so much higher than any other conference, more talent than anywhere else. Haven't crunched the numbers on the actual bowl results. I know people acted like A&M coming into the SEC with Manziel and winning was a slight on the SEC but they destroyed Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl that year too.
  14. Alabama, Florida, Auburn, LSU and even Tennessee have all won national titles in the last 25 years. And Georgia is generally a top 10 team with a lot of talent. It's just hard to climb that ladder for the rest of the conference. I'm not one of those who thinks the bottom of the SEC would be the top in any other conference but you legitimately have 5 programs that think they should be winning it all every year. Arkansas, A&M, Ole Miss and Mississippi State have had seasons where they've won 10-11 games but finished 3rd in the division.
  15. Every QB behind Jefferson is a Freshman so probably want to give them all more reps and time to develop. John Stephen Jones is technically the 3rd string QB but everyone knows he's not going to play any meaningful snaps. Would have loved for him to have trotted out there to take a knee in his grandpa's stadium though 😂 Hornsby - covid freshman Kade Renfro - covid freshman Lucas Coley - true freshman Arkansas isn't taking a QB in the 2022 recruiting class either for similar reasons I would guess.
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