You didn’t give a shit about police brutality until it became a hot topic. Most of these douches don’t have friends of other races but they sure want to champion everyone now. Once all of this dies down you’ll go on to the next hot topic to champion...

A cop murdered a guy, it was disgusting and he deserves to go to jail... Quit trying to get social points off of a guys death.

Sorry, I can’t post this on social media...

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This is an assumption but it sounds like Morris, again, wasn’t legit.

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For me it’s my gaming names. RazorbackMort and Blood Red Tusks. I hope some of you are more creative. Yes I am bored. But Killer Pig rules.

Has turned into a cesspool beyond repair. I understand no sports has shifted things, but that place is beyond imaginable. As a conservative, it’s embarrassing to see the thought process over there. I’m not even sure sports coming back will save it.

I also realize that it wasn’t a great place to begin with. But it’s basically become a white supremacist board.

A look back at Jarques' career (with help from PFF), his expectations for 2020 + remembering his recruitment... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/razorback-roster-rundown-no-4-jarques-mcclellion

Just as the Spanish Flu was starting to emerge in 1918, Philadelphia threw a parade which drew 200,000 people. Within 10 days, almost 50,000 people were infected and 4500 people had died from the virus. Eventually 17,000 people died in Philly while other parts of the country experienced significantly fewer cases and deaths.

Let's hope the protests and riots over the last few days don't lead to a surge in infections which could not only impact the individuals involved but the 100s of thousands of people they will interact with over the coming weeks.

Here is all 34+ minutes of the Zoom teleconference with Pittman this afternoon, in which he addressed attending last night's protest in Fayetteville and the return of student-athletes to campus...

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Dewitt Class of 2022 TE Dax Courtney (6'6 210) picked up TCU and Kansas offers today.
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Starting to hear a football commit is coming soon. Not sure if it’s today, tomorrow or what, but just “soon”. Not talking about Rocket, either. I can’t say the name (although not super hard to figure out) but The Bert needs some good news on here. Maybe @nikkichavanelle knows when it’s going down.

I will have more tidbits and stuff in a notebook tomorrow, but wanted to write this story about Matt Goodheart first. I asked him about his shoulder, which I had heard was in pretty bad shape, but he sounded much more optimistic: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/goodheart-starts-summer-ball-hot-discusses-status-of-shoulder

Majors, who was an assistant on Arkansas' 1964 national championship team, has died. https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/former-players-remember-their-coach-johnny-majors

https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-2021-target-big-board

Arkansas had three players come off the big board over the past week. First, Indy CC linebacker Joko Willis from Troup HS. Kentucky made him a priority and it worked out for them. Arkansas offered Kevon "KJ" Cloyd from Jones County before Joko committed so I assume they heard it was happening from the Troup HC. I talked to Glisson (Troup HC) and he made it sound like Arkansas may still get a visit later on for a chance to flip but Willis is set for now. Cloyd has offers from Arizona, ECU, Arkansas State and a few more small programs, so it seems like there's a good shot to land early.

Jordan Eubanks was one they really liked as a hybrid LB/safety but he picked Florida State over Arkansas, Michigan State, Arizona, Colorado and Pitt. Arkansas and Florida State offered the same day in April.

Also coming off the board from the JUCO ranks, Jadarrius Perkins from Gulf Coast CC. Perkins said Oregon was his dream school, so it was no surprise he committed shortly after they offered. I'm going to add Kani Walker in his place on the board since Chad Simmons chatted with him and it sounds like the Hogs are starting to recruit him pretty hard.

Maxwell Hairston is announcing his decision tomorrow and he has a singular FutureCast pick in for Kansas. I don't think Hairston has been a major priority for the Hogs.

Posted elsewhere but Raheim "Rocket" Sanders is announcing June 8. I'm expecting it to be Arkansas unless something changes between now and then. If Jaedon jumps on board today like he's anticipated to, that's two WRs in the class relatively early. That could help Arkansas land Ketron Jackson if they put some heat on him. Hogs will definitely take at least 3, maybe 4 if there's room. Jackson's announcing his top 7 June 3.

Arkansas did a virtual visit with QB Lucas Coley yesterday and he hasn't gotten back to me about how it went yet but clearly interest is still high on both sides. Coley said "leme know where we're going" to Jaedon Wilson's commitment date announcement.

Arkansas also made the top 10 for in-state tight end Erin Outley this weekend with Oregon, LSU, Penn State, MIchigan, Michigan State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, A&M and FSU. I wanna do some digging around to see how big a priority Outley is with these other programs. Outley usually says the same thing, that he's waiting to take visits to figure things out, so i'd expect the same answer if I asked him today.

Got questions? Shoot em to me.

Caught up with Kopps after his outing last night... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/critical-summer-awaits-kevin-kopps

ICYMI: Goodheart starts summer ball hot, discusses status of shoulder

Next up on my list of things to write is a notebook with some other tidbits from last night.

As promised, my notebook from last night's action: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/notebook-burton-throws-gas-other-tidbits-from-pt-college-league

are genuinely angry and fed up with the bullshit that keeps happening with cops. I’m also convinced that there are a bunch of idiots who have been cooped up for 3 months and just want to break, burn and steal shit and get away with it.

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DB offer No.24

Against my better judgment, I am going to wade into the deep end of the pool.

Police Are Killing Fewer People In Big Cities, But More In Suburban And Rural America

https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...ities-but-more-in-suburban-and-rural-america/

Six years after nationwide protests against police violence captured the country’s attention, the recent killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have put the issue of police violence back into national focus. Many are left asking what, if anything, has really changed?

In the absence of comprehensive federal data, databases such as Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence and The Washington Post’s Fatal Force project have tracked these killings year after year. And the data produced by these projects suggests that police, at least on a national level, are killing people as often now as they were before Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked widespread protests in 2014.

But these numbers don’t tell the whole story. While the nationwide total of people killed by police nationwide has remained steady, the numbers have dropped significantly in America’s largest cities, likely due to reforms to use-of-force policies implemented in the wake of high-profile deaths. Those decreases, however, have been offset by increases in police killings in more suburban and rural areas. It seems that solutions that can reduce police killings exist, in other words — the issue may be whether an area has the political will to enact them.

Indeed, looking only at the 30 most populous cities in the country,New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Houston; Phoenix; Philadelphia; San Antonio; San Diego; Dallas; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Fort Worth, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Charlotte, North Carolina; San Francisco; Indianapolis; Seattle; Denver; Washington, D.C.; Boston; El Paso, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; Detroit; Oklahoma City; Portland, Oregon; Las Vegas; Memphis; Louisville, Kentucky; and Baltimore.
you see a substantial decrease in the number of people killed by police in recent years.

Police departments in America’s 30 largest cities killed 30 percent fewer people in 2019 than in 2013, the year before the Ferguson protests began, according to the Mapping Police Violence database. Similarly, The Washington Post’s database shows 17 percent fewer killings by these agencies in 2019 compared to 2015, the earliest year it tracks.

This data isn’t perfect. The databases have slightly different methodologies for collecting and including police killings. And not everyone who’s shot winds up dying, which means some people who are shot by police don’t end up in one of these tracking projects. So to better test and understand the progress made in these big cities, I compiled an expanded database of all fatal and nonfatal police shootings by these departments, which expands our view of any changes in police behavior. Based on data published on police departments’ websites and reported in local media databases, I found data covering police shootings in 2013-2019 for 23 of the 30 departments.San Diego, Washington, D.C., Columbus, Detroit, Memphis, Nashville and Boston police departments did not publish data online covering the full 2013-2019 period. You can find the data I collected on GitHub.

An analysis of this data shows that police shootings in these departments dropped 37 percent from 2013 to 2019.

So why haven’t these trends resulted in fewer people killed by police nationwide?

Examining the geography of police killings based on population density (a methodology developed by the real estate site Trulia, which was featured in a previous FiveThirtyEight article), police killings in suburban and rural areas appear to have increased during this time period — offsetting reductions in big cities.

This shift mirrors other trends within the criminal justice system. For example, since 2013, the number of people in jail per capita in urban areas has fallen by 22 percent, while rates have increased by 26 percent in rural areas, according to a study by the Vera Institute of Justice.

Similarly, arrest rates have declined in major cities at a faster pace than arrest rates in suburban and rural areas. Fewer arrests means fewer police encounters that could escalate to deadly force — police are substantially more likely to use force when making an arrest than in other interactions with the public — so falling arrest numbers could have a marked effect on police killings. Comparing police shootings data to the arrests data each department reported in the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that departments that reported larger reductions in arrests from 2013-2018

Jaedon is announcing his commitment decision tomorrow. All the FutureCasts are in favor of Arkansas at this time.
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Georgia DB Kani Walker is back on the market and Arkansas is a school he is regular contact with.

link: WALKER UPDATE

Legendary Auburn coach Pat Dye has died. He was 80. From our Auburn site: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/legendary-auburn-coach-pat-dye-passes-away-at-80

Coley will do a virtual meeting with the Hog coaches at 1:30 pm today. Like I said last Monday, he’s been super plugged in to Arkansas’s recruiting so we know the interest level is still very high despite other schools coming in with offers like Virginia tech.