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https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/alabama-4-star-lineman-lucas-taylor-excited-by-offer-from-pittman
He's OL offer No.16 for the Hogs in the 2022 class. Of the 16, half are already rated 4-stars.

I have an 11 year old I-Mac ( 27” desktop).

When I did my taxes this year, Turbo tax told me as i was loading it up that my Mac operations system would not be able to load the 2020 version of Turbo Tax because it wouldn’t be supported on my current operating system, and that I might better think about a new computer. I then realized I was not getting prompted fo about constant updates for my Mac operating system form Apple as I had in the past. Alas, it appears that my perfectly running Mac has been abandoned.

I’m not in the mood to spend another $2,000 with Apple to replace a computer that they have decided to make obsolete, so I’m thinking about buying a laptop PC or maybe a “tower” running windows.

Question is , how hard is it, and what do I need to do, to move files from my Mac to a windows machine? Can I still use the Apple cloud for photos, music etc? If no can I store that stuff on some other cloud that is brand agnostic about my hardware and operating system? While still using my Mac? Google cloud for example.

What else do I need to consider in all this?

PS- My wife and I are very light users, no gaming, just emails, web browsing, some video streaming, paying bills online, and my annual Turbo Tax thing to satisfy Uncle Sam. I do have an extensive ITunes music collection, and tons of photos. But we use a tiny fraction of or 1 TB storage on the Mac. RAM is an issue at 4GB so Ill definitely buy an 8GB or higher memory machine.

Thanks in advance , I'll hang up and listen.

Obviously stuff has changed with top target Kaidon Salter who set a date for May 10. He told Sam the Hogs aren't in the mix as a finalist on Friday so with Coley's decision coming up on May 5, I've put in a FutureCast pick for him to the Hogs: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/closer-look-at-arkansas-s-2021-qb-offers

Talked to Jaedon Wilson last night and he says he and Stepp either talk or text every day. He said he’s getting closer to a decision now so I went ahead and put in the pick for the Hogs:

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Woman in South Carolina tries to pet an alligator, doesn’t go well:

https://apple.news/A1I0wZR27TlOcOJLkiXvciQ

A shot from the stands at a GT home game during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. The opponent is undetermined. The SF reportedly killed 675,000 in the US out of a reported population of 104,550,000. That’s roughly 1 out of 150 people.

Just finished it. Pretty good flick. Not Oscar worthy but maybe 7/10 imo. What’d y’all think?

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee announced that beginning with the 2020-21 season, the NCAA Evaluation Tool will be changed to increase accuracy and simplify it by reducing a five-component metric to just two. The remaining factors include the Team Value Index (TVI), which is a result-based feature that rewards teams for beating quality opponents, particularly away from home, as well as an adjusted net efficiency rating.

The adjusted efficiency is a team’s net efficiency, adjusted for strength of opponent and location (home/away/neutral) across all games played. For example, a given efficiency value (net points per 100 possessions) against stronger opposition rates higher than the same efficiency against lesser opponents and having a certain efficiency on the road rates higher than the same efficiency at home.

No longer will the NET use winning percentage, adjusted winning percentage and scoring margin. The change was made after the committee consulted with Google Cloud Professional Services, which worked with the NCAA to develop the original NET.

“When we adopted the NET in 2018, we had reviewed several seasons worth of data and we insisted that we would continue to evaluate the metric,” said Dan Gavitt, the NCAA’s senior vice president of basketball. “We’ve been very satisfied with its performance thus far, but it became evident after two seasons of use that this change would be an improvement. While we will continue to monitor the metric, I don’t anticipate any additional adjustments for several years. We believe this change will result in more precision throughout the season and will be easier for our membership and the public to understand.

In addition, the overall and non-conference strength of schedule has been modernized to reflect a truer measure for how hard it is to defeat opponents. The strength of schedule is based on rating every game on a team's schedule for how hard it would be for an NCAA tournament-caliber team to win. It considers opponent strength and site of each game, assigning each game a difficulty score. Aggregating these across all games results in an overall expected win percentage versus a team's schedule, which can be ranked to get a better measure of the strength of schedule.

My favorite has to be "Two and one half Men"
I used to not care for Allen, I thought he was just too silly but after watching these reruns for so long, I salute the writer's, you realize just how comical they are. besides, the eye candy is usually outstanding,

what say ye?

That roster crunch I wrote about yesterday? Here's the first of many ripple effects: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/talented-diamond-hogs-freshman-enters-transfer-portal

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A refresher of who remains undecided on the board:
6'6" 170 SG Jalen Ricks 4* No.112 (6/27 UOV)(UOV to Arkansas@A&M game 3/7)
6'7" 195 PF Duncan Powell 4* No.86 - (UOV 9/14)(Committed to Ark 9/26)(UOV 1/18)(Decommitted 4/8)
6’6” 205 SF Harrison Ingram 5* No.13 - (UOV 8/22)(OV Scheduled for Jan 17-19-postponed)
6'4" 175 G Trey Alexander 4* No.54 - (UOV 8/20)(UOV 10/5)(Virtual UOV 4/27)
6’8” 180 C Daimion Collins 4* No.22 - (UOV 10/5)(Virtual UOV 4/25)
6'4" 165 PG Hunter Sallis 4* No.20 - (Virtual UOV 4/23)
6'4" 185 SG Langston Love 4* No.39 - (Virtual UOV 4/23)(Virtual UOV 5/5)
6'7" 195 SG Kendall Brown 5* No.14 - (Virtual UOV 4/24)(Virtual UOV 5/5)
6’6” 180 SG Matthew Cleveland 4* No.40 - (Virtual UOV 4/26)
6'11" 205 PF Alex Tchikou 4* No.25 - (Virtual UOV 4/30)
6'6" 175 SF Peyton Watson 5* No.19 - (Virtual UOV 4/17)(Virtual UOV 4/22)
6'5" 190 SF Michael James 4* No.74 - (Virtual UOV 4/27)(Virtual UOV 5/5)
6'8" 195 PF DaRon Holmes 4* No.33 - (Virtual UOV 4/30)(Virtual UOV 5/5)
6'3" 180 PG JD Davison 4* No.26 - (Virtual UOV 5/4)
6’9” 190 PF Moussa Diabate 5* No.18
6'8" 180 SF Kaleb Washington 3* No.105
6'9" 220 F Michael Foster 5* No.9
7'0" 190 C Chet Holmgren 5* No.4
6'10" 205 PF Zach Clemence 4* No.31

There are 19 prospects left undecided and since the Hogs have started doubling up on virtual visits, it appears to me that they don't have much reciprocated interest from the five prospects at the bottom of the board.

Jalen Ricks is obviously the former in-state kid who plays at Oak Hill. We haven't heard of much recruiting activity between the two parties, indicating to me that the interest into too high on Arkansas's side at this point–doesn't mean they can't start recruiting him hard some time.

The momentum with Harrison Ingram seems to have slowed despite his connections to the staff. Stanford had the buzz last month but national analyst Corey Evans says Purdue is after him the hardest at the moment.

Duncan Powell has picked up offers of little consequence since his decommitment from Arkansas–Old Dominion, Tulsa, Murray St, UTSA, Tenn Tech, Texas Southern, NC A&T.

Of the remaining 11, only two have visited campus–OKC native Trey Alexander and East Texas native Daimion Collins, a borderline 5-star. Trey's visited twice and they've both had supplemental virtual visits.

Tchikou, Watson, James, Holmes and Davison are all offers that went out between the end of March and now.

I could be wrong of course but I don't foresee any of these kids making a decision during this time but they're laying down great groundwork for when visits are allowed again and they're in the mix for a lot of talent for the ~3 spots they'll have open.

This list isn't exhaustive but here are some prospects who have said they want to visit this spring:
February 1
RB James Jointer
OL Terry Wells
TE Erin Outley
OLB Corey Platt Jr
LB Cole Joyce
ATH Isaac Thompson
QB Austin Ledbetter
LB Jordan Hanna
OT Andrew Chamblee
RB Javion Hunt
WR Jaedon Wilson

QB Kaidon Salter - March 2 (visit recap)

Offered
WR Ketron Jackson - March 7 (visit recap)
DB Keuan Parker - March 7
OL Cole Carson - March 7 (visit recap)
LB DJ Arkansas - March 7 (visit recap)
RB Caleb Berry - March 7
LB Jermaine Hamilton-Jordan - March 7 (visit recap)
LB Michael Lunz - March 7
DE Javon Nelson - March 7
DB Hunter Washington - March 7
QB/DB Gentry Williams (2022) - March 7
Not Offered
DL Torey Phillips (not reoffered yet) - March 7
DT Melvin Swindle (no offer) - March 7 (visit recap)
K/P Brock Funk (no offer) - March 7
DB Kaleb+Kyle Knox (no offer) - March 7
TE Mason Brotherton (no offer) - March 7 (visit recap)
K/P Cameron Little (no offer) - March 7
K/P Kade Hensley (no offer) - March 7
LB Dwayne Johnson (no offer) - March 7
OL Dalton Brown (no offer) - March 7
DE Silas Barr (no offer) - March 7
QB Jordan Moore (no offer) - March 7
DT Kevin Greene (no offer) - March 7
DL Jack Arnette (no offer) - March 7
DB AJ Moss (no offer) - March 7
OL Brock Burns (no offer - 2022) - March 7
QB Jordan Mills (no offer - 2022) - March 7
Scratches
WR Roderick Daniels - March 7 (scratch due to 7on7)
LB Collin Oliver - March 7 (scratch, went to Texas Tech)

OL Jake Slaughter - March 16
DL Tobechi Okoli - March 16
TE Ryan Hoerstkamp - March 16

Spring Game
QB Kyron Drones - April 25
DE/TE Landyn Watson - April 25

TE Erin Outley
WR Demetrius Cannon
WR Tyrese Johnson
DL Tyas Martin
TE Errington McRae
DB Tyler Hibbler
DL Travion Ford
QB Garrett Nussmeier
OL Makalyn Pounders
OL/DL Cameron Ball
WR Erick Smith Jr (no offer)
RB Cam'Ron Valdez

It’s Rivals rankings week, kicking off with the 5-star updates today.
Farrell goes into how they went about it with the shutdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/ask-farrell-how-was-this-rankings-update-different-

have a conspiracy theory thread? What are your favorites? Michelle Obama is a man. That's a fact.

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One of Stepp’s top targets

SMU has steam here as their WR coach is Duncanville HC’s son. He visited SMU, TCU and Texas Tech before the dead period

This is the first of a series in which I'll (hopefully) talk to all of Arkansas' 2020 signees. Figured I'd start with a big one... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/diamond-hogs-2020-signee-spotlight-watson-chapel-rhp-tink-hence

Here's my wish list. Thoughts? Any games you'd like to see scheduled? https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-s-non-conference-basketball-game-wish-list-for-arkansas