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Apparently they flipped him to ole miss the other day, and now telling him he don’t have a scholarship. Wtf..

So no one else asks Nikki, Markevious Brown signed w/ Ole Miss.

Love the size Pitt is recruiting, we looked small on the field compared to the traditional top teams (bama, a&m, Ga, LSU) it was obvious on film (even with TN, AU, and FL)

DT ‘21 Williams 6’3 295, Ball 6’5 302
(i think they may keep wright small to play end some because of quickness)
DT ‘20 Boykin 6’4 314
DT ‘19 Miller 6’5 310 (Jackson and Carter undersized)
That’s an average 6’4 305

OL ‘21 Manual 6’8 310, Carson 6’6 285, Wells 6’5 306 Avg 6’6 300
OL ‘20 curry 6’5 320, Henderson 6’5 285, st John 6’5 359 (st John needs to be lower) Avg 6’5 321
That’s a total average 6’5.5 310

Other OL that came in previous years (besides Cunningham, Gatlin, Wagner who looked the part on height and weight) were very undersized coming in 6’2 -6-5 & 260-280
I wonder framewise, how much more can some of them carry and still be effective

Will there by any live coverage? Maybe SEC Network +

I was looking at all the players who signed today with SEC schools and look at how Arkansas’ class took shape today and all of ours signed and we are full.

However, ESPN and the SEC Network hasn’t really shifted to the early signing period be the main day.

I could see Arkansas in February being like naw we are good, we don’t need to rehash what we went over on December 16th....

If this a trend, media should shift. But it could be just another aspect of the pandemic with visits not as likely this year.

Ball talks decision with Rivals.


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Has there been a D1 Power 5 School that didn't lose a single commitment on signing day that had more than 20 signees? Seriously... today was incredible.

While many may enjoy the drama, I for one was extremely grateful for the reduced amount of stress on signing day. What does this say of the type of person Sam Pittman and his staff are that when he took commitments (sight un-seen no less) to have young men that never wavered! (One QB exception but totally understandable with 2 QB's committed in the same class - even if he does move to TE)? Listening to the interview of most of these young men doesn't do anything but bring hope and excitement to what could be for the foundation of the future of Hog football.

Even more so, can you say enough about how he has guided this team through this COVID football season? While we were livid when the new schedule was announced, he never wavered in his commitment to improve and prove that Arkansas was no longer a "gimme" with the exception of Alabama. He could have cried foul like most of us did but he made his players believe that they would thrive through the adversity.

He never gave us a black eye (no pun intended) in the middle of the racial tension that was brewing across the country. He stood up for his players and never said or did anything that would make Arkansas look, well...like Arkansas!

While Sam may not be the flash he is certainly the substance. I would not have wished this season on any coach but he has handled it with incredible grace and excellence.

"he is a hero, not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed" - THANK YOU SAM PITTMAN FOR BELIEVING IN AND LEADING SO WELL!

As I do every year, I'm keeping track of all in-state FBS signees and adding them to my database. Here's a list of who I have so far... Am I missing anyone?

(Those highlighted in yellow have not officially been announced as signees by their respective schools.)

Signed with UTSA today...

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QB offer No. 13:
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They’ve been watching him for a while.

As it stands now, here are the SEC rankings:



and the national rankings: https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2021/all-teams/football

Arkansas's class finishes since 2012 (not including 2018, 2020): 34, 27, 29, 25, 30, 24, 20 AVERAGE: 27

When the dust settles I think the Hogs finish right around that average. Given the circumstances of this year, are you satisfied with the class or will happiness depend on signing day wins?

ANNOUNCEMENTS TO WATCH

(Undecided) Jones College DT Jalen Williams - TBA

(A&M Commit) Northside ATH Dreyden Norwood - Signs Wednesday, official ceremony in Feb.

(Undecided) Tri-Cities DT Cameron Ball -11 a.m. (CT)

COMMITMENT OFFICIAL SIGNING TIMES (CT)

AJ Green - 7:45 a.m.
Bryce Stephens - 8 a.m.
Chase Lowery - 8 a.m.
Javion Hunt - “morning” (Friday signing ceremony)
Jaedon Wilson - 8: 30 a.m.
Chris Paul Jr - 9 a.m.
Lucas Coley - 9:45 a.m.
Jermaine Hamilton-Jordan - 10 a.m.
Patrick Foley (PWO) - 10:30 a.m.
Solomon Wright - 11 a.m.
Terry Wells - 11 a.m.
Cole Carson - 12:15 p.m.
Jayden Johnson - 12:30 p.m.
Marco Avant - 12:45 p.m.
Ketron Jackson - 1:30 p.m.
Erin Outley, Landon Rogers - 1:30 p.m.
Cameron Little - 2 p.m.
Devon Manuel - 3 p.m.
Raheim Sanders - 3 p.m.
Keuan Parker - 5:30 p.m.

Still getting times from the ones I haven't posted

LETS DO IT.

And the funny videos he's been putting out for the guys.

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Already an update since Gorney posted this...
The latest in the rumor mill about Norwood’s decision is that he’s likely to stick with A&M

1. CB Dreyden Norwood (Fort Smith Northside) **** 6'1 175 *Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Miami, FIU offers - COMMITTED TO TEXAS A&M (July 10, 2020)

2. TE Erin Outley (LR Parkview) **** 6’4 234 *Arkansas, LSU, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Missouri, Kansas, Florida State, Oregon, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Memphis, Southern Miss, Arkansas State, FIU, LA Tech, Western Kentucky, North Texas, SMU, LA-Lafayette, Tennessee State offers COMMITTED TO

3. OL Terry Wells (Wynne) **** 6'5 280 *Arkansas, Kansas, Southern Miss, North Texas, Arkansas State offers - COMMITTED TO (Feb. 1, 2020)

4. OLB/DE Marco Avant (Jonesboro) *** 6'3 200 *Memphis, Houston, Kansas, Arkansas State, Liberty, Campbell, ULM, Illinois State,Texas Southern, Southern Miss offers - COMMITTED TO (April 3, 2020)

5. DT Tyas Martin (Jacksonville)*** 6’4 315 *Tennessee, Colorado, Virginia, Kansas, North Texas, Southern Miss, Virginia Tech, and LA Tech offers COMMITTED TO COLORADO

6. QB Landon Rogers (LR Parkview) *** 6'4 215 *Arkansas, Kansas, UNT, Louisiana, Houston, Murray State offers - COMMITTED TO (April 16, 2020)

7. DE DJ Withers (Joe T.)*** 6’4 245, *Kansas, Vandy, ULM, LA Tech, Murray State offers - COMMITTED TO KANSAS (April 13, 2020)

8. LB Cole Joyce (Bentonville) *** 6’0 212, 4.45 40 yard dash *Louisville, ULM, SMU, Hawaii, Bowling Green, UAB, Tulsa, UCF, Houston, Liberty, Arkansas State, FIU offers COMMITTED TO UCF

9. WR Marlon Crockett (Cabot) *** 6'4 190, 4.51 40 yard dash *Kansas, ULM, Arkansas State, Southern Miss, Umass offers - COMMITTED TO A-STATE (June 16, 2020)

10. OLB Corey Platt Jr. (LR Christian) *** 6'2 195 *LA Tech, Kansas, ULM, North Texas, Arkansas State, Toledo, Tulane, Murray State, Northeastern State offers - COMMITTED TO A-STATE (June 3, 2020)

11. TE Mason Brotherton (Mena) *** 6’4 235, 4.75 40 yard dash, *Memphis, ULM, Kansas, Coastal Carolina, and Mercer offer - COMMITTED TO KANSAS (April 21, 2020)

12. TE Errington McRae (Har-Ber) *** 6’3 230 *Memphis, Kent State, UAPB, Arkansas State, ULM, Tulane, New Mexico, UT-Martin, Coastal Carolina and Bowling Green offers - COMMITTED TO A-STATE (April 25, 2020)

13. ATH Ja'Quez Cross (Fordyce) *** *A-State, Akron, ULM, Army, Eastern Illinois, UAPB, South Dakota State, UT Martin, Austin Peay, Southeast Missouri, Northeastern State, Missouri State, Lamar offers - Committed to Purdue

14. OL Josh Street (Bentonville) *** 6'6 285 *Maryland, Kansas, ULM, Southeastern Louisiana, NSU, Arkansas Tech offers

15. TE/OL Jayden Williams (Conway) *** 6'5 255 *Missouri, Ole Miss, Kansas, UCA, OBU offers

16. RB Theron Davis (Newport) *** *Memphis, Navy, Akron, South Dakota State, UCA, North Alabama, SEMO, OBU offers

17. RB Hunter Smith (Joe T.) *** 5’11 165, *ULM, A-state, North Texas, Missouri State, SEMO offers

18. DB James Jordan (Joe T.) *** 5'10 175
*UNLV, UAPB, Illinois State, UT Martin, Austin Peay, Northeastern State, SEMO offers

19. DE/LB Jordan Hanna (Greenwood) *** 6'2 195 *Southern Miss, Austin Peay offers

20. OL Makilan Thomas (LR Central) *** 6'3 293 *A-state, Lamar, Abilene Christian, Northeastern State offers - COMMITTED TO A-STATE (April 16, 2020)

21. DE Chris Haywood (Foreman) *** *North Texas, UAPB, UT Martin, Northeastern State offers

22. RB ShunDerrick Powell (Hoxie) *** *Hawaii, Navy, UAPB, Murray State, Missouri State, Illinois State offers

23. ATH Daylon Powell (Hoxie) *** *UAPB, UTEP, Austin Peay, Old Dominion, Western Carolina, SEMO, UAM, Arkansas Tech offers

24. QB Austin Ledbetter (Bryant) *** (Hog baseball commit)

25. QB Gary Phillips (Van Buren) ** Army, Navy, Columbia, Dartmouth Committed to ARMY

25. QB Tyler Gee (Cabot) ** 6'1 200 *UCA, Missouri State, Tennessee Martin, UAPB, SEMO offers - Committed to UCA

26. RB Kylin James (Dumas) ** 6’0 200, 4.53 40 yard dash *offers from UCA, Murray State and William & Mary

27. OL Dalton Brown (Nashville) ** 6’5 301 lbs *UCA, UAPB, SEMO, OBU Offers - Committed to UCA (July 28th, 2020)

28. RB Samuel Franklin (LR Central) ** SEMO, UT Martin, South Dakota State, Lamar, Austin Peay, Tennessee State, Illinois State offers

29. ATH Kam Turner (Rivercrest) **6'2 175 *Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois, Northeastern State offer

30. ATH Bryce Bohanon (Conway) ** *Air Force, UCA, Northeastern State offers

31. DB Jacolby Williams (Ashdown) ** *Texas State, Austin Peay, Northeastern State, Arkansas Tech, OBU offers

32. DB Brodie Williams (Jonesboro) ** *Army, Navy, Austin Peay, UAPB, NSU, Campbell, Arkansas Tech, OBU offers

Read that Art could potentially get hired at TTU? There has been a growing amount of support, especially after an independent law firm concluded that Briles knew nothing about the sexual assault at Baylor. That report was sent to the hot shots that make decisions at TTU, and they are expecting to at least kick the tires on it.

If that happens do you guys think we will lose Kendal?

Here's what's on the horizon for Arkansas, including how the players feel about a bowl + Pittman plan for practices...

Any news on the possibility of him being a target? I understand that they have two commits plus Johnson and Smith coming back but they couldn't pass up on a RB that caliber could they? A 6ft 225lb true three down RB and best of all over 400 touches at UT with zero fumbles before this year. The fit makes perfect sense in my eyes. Hogs recruited him hard out of high school.


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

It's DECEMBER 1 yall. For the fourth year now that means it's officially EARLY signing month! The early signing period runs from the 16th through the 18th. Here's what Pittman said yesterday:

"I think any time you have an early signing date and obviously you like who you have or you wouldn’t have accepted their commitment, it’s big to get (the signature) early. It’s big to get it in December. Once you get them on the dotted line, you can go for, ‘Well, are we going to save some of these for some transfers? Are we going to continue to chase after another position? You know what I mean? Another guy at the same position. We obviously like who we have. And so we hope, like I’m sure everybody who has commitments, that they will sign on Dec. 16. We’re certainly hoping we can get that class figured out. And then we potentially have several guys coming in January and that would be huge for spring ball, assuming we’ll be able to have spring ball."

The players I have gearing up to enroll early are: Lucas Coley, Ketron Jackson, Javion Hunt, Raheim Sanders, Jaedon Wilson, Marco Avant, Chris Paul, Jermaine Hamilton-Jordan and Jayden Johnson. Bryce Stephens was hoping he could make it early but doesn't sound like he will.

The Razorbacks' 2021 class is currently 21st in the nation with 20 commits. SEC teams in front are 1. Bama, 4. LSU, 6. Georgia, 7. Florida, 11. Tennessee, 15. A&M, 19. Mizzou. Missouri is the big surprise as they've finished 54, 34, 39 and 49 the past four cycles. They have four 4-stars committed when they only had 4 total over the last 4 years. Auburn, Ole Miss and South Carolina are going to have A LOT of work to do between now and late signing as they have just 12, 15 and 10 commits in their classes, respectively.

It looks to me like Arkansas will finish top 30 at least but really hard to tell where in that range they'll fall when all the dust settles because all the schools behind them are waiting on a commitment or two or three as well and if the Hogs finish the class with mostly grad transfers, then they won't get any further boost besides......

Cameron Ball, DT from Georgia, is the only prospect I'm really waiting on to join the class between now and the end of the signing period (his announcement is at 11 am (our time) on the 16th). He's really between Arkansas and Georgia Tech but I think the Hogs have already won out. He was planning to wait to sign late but I think he was convinced otherwise.

If Ball joins the class as planned on the 16th then (with Jaqualyn Crawford and George Caratan counting against the 25 total) there's room for just two more, which I would imagine they keep for grad transfer additions. There are several JUCO targets still on the board but since they didn't have a season, the staff's probably thinking a transfer is a safer bet. They're already over the 85-total (86 with Jayden Johnson's commitment) but if you assume some of the guys that opted out don't return to the team then they'll be perfectly fine fitting in their additions up to 25.

Given the national situation, I'd say it's a pretty nice class. Not star-studded but you can tell there will be quite a few contributors, I'd say more than last year's class but there's still a lot unknown about them and how they're doing since we can't see practice.

Rivals rankings update this week so stay tuned for any bumps/drops, etc!

In answering a question about Tennessee's ceiling in the weekly mailbag, The Athletic's Eamonn Brennan dropped this juicy lil nug:

The best three teams in the SEC right now? Tennessee, LSU, Arkansas. But I still think Kentucky will figure it out.