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Gohogs14

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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.
  16. Yeah former players advocated for Pittman from the start. I think Arkansas was close to hiring Kiffin but depending who you listen to he either chose Ole Miss over Arkansas or the Arkansas AD didn’t like him trying to leverage more money from Arkansas with the Ole Miss opening and moved on. And then Drinkwitz thought the state of the roster was too big of a rebuild. Pretty much every candidate kept talking about the challenges of the job but Pittman talked about how badly he wanted it and his plan for turning it around and that was refreshing. He accepted the job without even asking about how much his salary would be.
  17. Arkansas really hasn't been in a position where the offense has been forced to pass this year yet, only averaging about 20 attempts per game. If A&M gets ahead by 2 scores early or puts Arkansas in a lot of 3rd and long situations then that will really test things though.
  18. Yeah it started off as an OOC game there for two years prior to them joining the SEC. The fan split used to be more even (or maybe 55-45 A&M) but obviously Arkansas sucking so much lately it's gone way in favor of A&M. I agree that it needs to go back to campus but I wonder if there would be plans to replace it with a Big 12 team if that happens. I don't really think Arkansas needs that game anymore with road games in Austin and College Station now in the conference anyway for Texas recruiting exposure...if it even helps with Texas recruiting now.
  19. A&M fans are calling this game Arkansas' Super Bowl too...guess we'll play a lot of them this year. They did allow Colorado's QB to rush for 76 yards and gave up 5 YPC to Kent State. I think the key will be if Calzada can hit some of those deep passes that Card couldn't complete if Arkansas decides to go with a similar gameplan and try to stuff the run. Odom against a fairly inexperienced QB is usually pretty good though.
  20. 2010 Alabama was just as loud if not louder than last Saturday's game was. Of course, back then both teams were ranked in the top 10-15. It being Texas was probably part of it but this was also the first time Arkansas has somewhat had hope for a decent season in a long while with no COVID precautions to throw a wrench in things. If the Texas-Arkansas game came at the end of a season where we were 2-9 or something then it would likely be a ghost town. Even 2014 Alabama, Jalen Hurts said Razorback Stadium was the loudest game he played in that year. 2016 Ole Miss at one point in the game reached decibel levels that ESPN said were in the top 10 they've recorded for a college football game at the time. So fans do show up for other games but just not when there is no hope Arkansas will even be remotely competitive.
  21. And Oklahoma only beat Tulane by 5. It happens. Hell Michigan ended up winning 9 games the season they lost to FCS Appalachian State.
  22. I definitely thought Thompson looked like the better QB Saturday. You could tell he has more experience finding the soft spots in the zone and his running ability seemed like it added a lot more of a threat. However I don’t think you should give up on Card just yet. His OL did him no favors and his second start coming against a well-respected DC like Odom who can disguise coverages well is a tough break. Matt Corral last year threw six interceptions against Odom’s defense but was one of the better QBs in college football the rest of the year once he gained some experience. Other than the fumble (which was really just unfortunate) he protected the football which is what you want from a young QB. He made good decisions on those 2-3 deep balls that will probably be completions later on in the season when his nerves settle down.
  23. ...who was a runner up for the Burlsworth award last year as the best former walk-on in college football. It doesn't make any sense to refer to high school ratings over actual production at this point. Do you do that for JJ Watt too? lol
  24. I could see this team being similar to the 2014 Texas Bowl team the last time we played. Sure it finished 7-6 but it was obvious they were better than the Texas Bowl - lost to Alabama by one point, beat the shit out of Ole Miss and LSU, lost to A&M in OT, lost to then-#1 Mississippi State by 7. Not a great team by any means but finished #10 in the country in total defense and with a little more luck and better coaching would have finished with 8-10 wins. Our team last year actually won more SEC games than that 2014 team did.
  25. Morgan was an all-american last year. His high school rating from 6 years ago is pretty useless at this point lol. He's starting over a guy like Andrew Parker who had offers from Texas and a lot of other big time schools...experience means a lot sometimes.
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