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Good read here from Ross...but I'm calling bullshit on how they settled on each team's two additional opponents.

Reminder: I came up with a better, more fair schedule and I was just armed with a pen and notepad: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/fixing-the-sec-s-failure-to-create-balanced-2020-schedules

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the super-secret commitment coming @nikkichavanelle

*sees self out*

Some of you may remember my tremendous victory in the futurecast contest about 9 months ago in which I placed nationally. I was due to be rewarded with a $1,000 cash prize in addition to a free year-long subscription to the 'Bert.

Despite following and fulfilling all the prerequisites to receive my prize, Rivals went and left me on read. Despite my best efforts, I was not able to get my prize.

Now, at the time, the world was experiencing the outbreak of the rona, and I thought it morally right to hold my complaints for a later date. The time has come this holiday season to claim what is rightfully mine, approximately $3,500 in BTC.

The records show that BTC was trading for about $6,500 back in March, which would've made me the aforementioned $3,500. By my estimations this is a conservative amount, so I am once again doing Rivals a favor by taking the high road.

Rivals, you have until sundown to make this right.

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First, karlporkington, this will likely be very long and I accept the fact that you won't be reading it. I can live with that. To anybody else that hates long posts, that's fine, just skip over it and won't hurt you.

In the last few days the debate has raged over multiple threads that Mike is either right on track or peaked at mediocrity depending upon the end result desired by the poster. I thought it would be good to take a closer look at the records of Eddie, Nolan, and Mike. Heath and Pel were mistakes so there is no need to include them.

Eddie was a prototype x's and o's coach. He was also a demander of impeccable fundamental habits at all times. No exceptions. He played pressure man defense at all times and his players were great defenders or they never played. He ran a methodical ball control offense. He played his starters high minutes and thus, used his bench sparingly. That often hurt him at tourney time as his team tended to tire in quick turnaround of the tourney format. His players that went to the NBA were well known for their fundamentals and defensive prowess.



Nolan had a rough start here and a rough finish. His greatness, his legend, his legacy, is best defined by an epic 7 year stretch in which he took our program to places we never thought possible. From the freshman years of Day, Mayberry, and Miller to the last game of Corliss and co., we were as elite as it got in college basketball. four 30+ win seasons, 3 FF's, and a NC. We were truly elite and feared. Because this post is about expectations, Nolan's run of greatness is what should be looked at as the barometer of his legacy.

For you young guys out there, what Nolan and Eddie did was fun beyond words and set the bar for what our program can be under the right leadership.

First off, Mike has been touted repeatedly lately as having two of the highest win years in school history. This is a bit of a misleading statement. His high water win marks here were 27 and 26 wins. Nolan topped 27 wins 4 times(30, 31, 32, & 34) and Eddie once at 32. That puts Mike's highest win total at no.6. Mike's second highest win total was 26 and it was tied twice by Eddie and once by Nolan. Where it starts to gain some perspective is when you look at the losses in those years. Eddie went 26-2 and 26-4. Mike went 26-10 and 27 and 9. 53-19 in two years is not in the same world as 52-6. The difference between top 10 and top 30-50.

The deal is, both of Mike's high water marks were in odd years when he played 36 games. Eddie only played 36 games once in 11 years and he went 32-4 that year. Nolan won 30+ twice w/o even playing 36 games, played 36+ twice and won 30+ both times. 26 and 27 wins would look better w/o the 19 losses that went with em.

Eddie had one season of losses in double digits in 11 years, and that was his last one, when he was a raging drunk. He went 22-13. Mike has averaged 12 losses a year here and his low mark was 9. Eddie peaked in years 3, 4, and 5, but maintained a nationally competitive program until the end. He started with less than nothing and built and maintained a national top 5-15 team in a couple of years. He went to the ncaa tourney the last 9 years here and went toe to toe with some of the best college teams ever.

Nolan was the opposite of Eddie in most respects. Nolan didn't care a bit for fundamentals or precisely run plays. He believed in relentlessness at both ends the entire game. Non-stop pressure on the other team. Harrassing defense and attacking offense from tipoff to final buzzer. His use of depth and unorthodox style made us a bad draw in the tourney. When he had the guys to run it, it was virtually unstoppable and about as much fun as a fan could possibly have. Incredible time to be a Hog fan. The best of times. Sorry some of you guys missed it.

In Eddie's 11 years here, he won 5 conference titles and came in 2nd 5 times. In Nolan's 7 year run he won 6 SECC's and came in 3rd once. In 7 years, Mike has come in 9th, 7th, 5th, 2nd, 9th, T3rd, T3rd.

Truth be known, Mike's first seven years here look much more like the last 7 declining years of Nolan than any of the teams that made our legacy what it is. Year 8 looks much the same and anybody who thinks we will be better next year w/o Gafford is fooling themselves. Chaney can replace Gafford's production about like Derrick Hood replaced Corliss'. It's well documented that Mike is a fine guy and a true Razorback, but those things have nothing to do with running a BB program. We have 3 losses this year that could have and should have been wins. Those losses are costing us in rankings and national recognition right now and will cost us even more during tourney seeding time. If history is any indication, we will have another 3-4 snatching defeat from the jaws of victory games in conference too. Those games are the difference between ranking, high seeds, and national pub, and they are pretty much baked into Mike's teams every year.

Mike runs a system emulating Nolan's glory days. Problem is, like anything new and successful, once Nolan started dominating with it, many started copying it, others learned how to attack it, and yet others petitioned the ncaa to make rules to negate it(which they did). What Mike is doing had quit working for Nolan 20 years ago. The formula for attacking it is commonly known. Eight years in, the pattern is well set. Basketball does not require 8-10 years to establish a pattern. Mike's pattern is clear.

Sorry for the rambling to anybody who got this far. My head has been swimming with all of the takes on the subject over the last few days, so I thought I would try to throw what I see as best as I can in one post.

qb- still not sure how I feel about them right now. I’m not quite sold on kj. Obviously haven’t seen Hornsby yet. Hard to tell on Lucas coley, I think he’s a good athlete just not sure it translates to an sec an. Landon Rogers is a Tightend.

RB- obviously smith is your rb1 unless he fumbles himself out of the job. Dom Johnson will probably get some carries next year maybe?? Honestly in my opinion your next rb will either be green or rocket sanders(I really would like to see him at running back)
Haven’t seen enough film on hunt.

WR- probably our best group. Obviously Burks, woods are your 1&2 I think you see a lot of Crawford in the slot. And then everyone else will be fighting for playing time.
TE- Hudson will take a big jump I’m hoping. Needs to get bigger and stronger. Hopefully outley will heal up nicely to contribute.
OL- I think this is the surprise group for next year. I think with a good offseason you’ll see these young guys take a jump. Henderson has a chance to start next year, chop should cut down to around 320-325 and just move people at guard. Curry should compete at tackle or guard. If wells is a legit 300 he may compete. Devon will probably have a chance to compete at right tackle just based off of pure size.
D-line- this group scares me... once we lose Marshall we have no legit dudes right now thah have proved anything. Need Williams to come in and play and start day 1. Need Nichols to take another step forward. He did pretty good this year. And need all the other d-tackles to keep building. Defensive end is where we are really lacking. No true size. We have speed but they are only about 240 which is small for an sec defensive end. Hard to set an edge at 240. Would love to get another grad transfer. Especially since Coates probably won’t be coming back.
LB- really need Morgan to come back(thahs being selfish) because other than Morgan we have no true baller at lb. pool isn’t good. Draper may be good? But he can’t stay healthy. Everyone else is either undersized or just not good. Hopefully Pooh can come in at be ready at 235/240 and not be too slow.
Secondary- obviously this is our other top unit.
Catalon is all American so we’re good there. We really need another safety to step up. Mason isn’t that good. And foucha is way too hit or miss he’s santos Ramirez 2.0. I think you’re starting corners are busta and crap forgot his name he started against Alabama. And we have some legit depth under them coming in and the Freshman that played this year too. Really need slusher to take the next step. I think he’s very talented. I just think the speed of the game was too much for him this year.

special teams- don’t really even want to talk about it hahaha! Hopefully the guys coming in will help.

I love hearing everyone’s opinion so tell me how you feel.

Incoming at 3 p.m.

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I'm still trying to figure out HOW, but Pittman said they have four more spots they could potentially fill. Here's what they play to do with them...

Kicker cam little tweeted this last night:
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I believe he could be referring to Miami area long snapper Francisco Castro who Scott Fountain has been recruiting as a walkon for some time now

Here’s the final update of the regular season. As always, it includes season snap counts and PFF grades for each freshman who appeared in a game...

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Third member of the Hogs’ 2020 signing class that has already left the program...

It's open season yall

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Remember how all 20 commits joined the class:

We’ve got one down folks. Georgia linebacker Chris Paul is a Razorback!
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this offseason. There are a lot of position battles, and the spring should be really interesting. The guys in the secondary pretty much all come back, and now we have to figure out how Slusher fits in, plus with this Gordon kid. What happens with Bush, Bishop, and Hudson Clark? How does the OL shape out? Most of the skill positions on offense are pretty much set.
trying to project any kind of starting lineup is gonna be tough for sure even well into spring ball.

listening to espnU on XM and the hosts said that whoever ran the signing day ceremony announced his commitment to miami and everyone including cbs ran with it. apparently he went on IG live and said that his commitment to miami is false. xm hosts are speculating arkansas is very much in play

The dude doesn’t miss
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Can you imagine what a throat fracture would feel like??

Did some looking at what SEC teams are taking, and how many of each. Seems like there are the elite 3-4 then everyone else takes all the 3* they can get.


Alabama - 4
Georgia - 4
LSU - 4
Florida - 10
A$M - 7
Tennessee - 15
Ole Miss - 12
Missouri - 15
Arkansas - 18 (!!!!!!!)
Vandy - 17
Mississippi State - 14
Kentucky - 14
Auburn - 9
South Carolina - 9

With Art Briles recently resigning from Mount Vernon High School in Texas, perhaps Morris can land there next.

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