A little bit of movement for both Joe and Jones since I last updated at the beginning of April: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/updated-nba-draft-prospects-for-arkansas-s-isaiah-joe-mason-jones

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Minutes went up from 21 to 30 min per game, points went up from 9.4 to 13.4.
Better shooting percentages all around and 6.7 boards per game.
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Missed this nice graphic earlier
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Wooooo-Han-Pigggggg!

@HogPocket9455 honestly thought this was gonna be you when I read the headline.

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I feel great about this.

The NCAA won't mandate or oversee a uniform return to college sports, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Tuesday, leaving decisions on start dates to state officials and university presidents.

College athletics came to a halt in mid-March, when the NCAA canceled the men's and women's basketball tournaments, along with all remaining winter and spring championships, because of the evolving threat of the coronavirus pandemic. There is still no timetable for a return, and Emmert said it isn't the NCAA's role to determine one in this instance.

"Normally, there's an agreed-upon start date for every sport, every season," Emmert told ESPN, "but under these circumstances, now that's all been derailed by the pandemic. It won't be the conferences that can do that, either. It will be the local and state health officials that say whether or not you can open and play football with fans.

"We already saw the Oregon governor offering her views on what's likely to happen in September. The Pac-12 can say, 'Gee, we'd all like to open up on this date,' but whether or not you can is going to be ultimately up to the state and local health officials and the campus itself making a decision whether or not they want to go forward."

I thought this was some good insight from DVH yesterday: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/van-horn-s-pitch-to-get-signees-to-campus-rather-than-go-pro

This one may make y'all sad, but I'm not too shocked by it... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/another-diamond-hog-enters-transfer-portal

https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2021
Not a ton of major Arkansas targets in the 250 but...

OL Rayshaun Benny, Down 3 to No.86 (Hogs in top 14)
WR Jayden Thomas, Down 9 to 131 (Hogs in top 11)
WR KeTron Jackson, Up 54 to 172 (says Hogs are at the top, also watch for Auburn, Baylor, TCU)
RB Cam'Ron Valdez, Down 8 to 217 (Ark, TCU, Texas Tech all in hot pursuit)

Aaron McLaughlin fell out of the top 250.

So many kids are absolute animals in HS then go on to be duds in college, don’t make it to college, etc.

Who are some of the best high school players you’ve ever seen live? Doesn’t have to be guys that made it to the league. Can be hometown legend type guys, guys that didn’t care about sports enough to go play after HS, whatever.

For me:

Michael Dyer at Lakeside 2008. He was coming off a twister ankle the week. Ran for 274 and 5TD in the first half, against a D that had only given up 233 total rushing yards in the first 4 games.

Kalenna Azabuike (Player at KU, NBA, Overseas) Victory Christian played some school like Sunshine Prep in Kansas in a big show case at ORU in Tulsa. Gym sold out. Dad and I went to see Kalenna.. he dropped 73. Think he shot 78% or something stupid like that.

Ky Madden was killer in high school, too. Watched him drop 36 against Parkview and Aaron Ross at a sold out LR Hall arena.

You ever had that moment where you've caught yourself saying " I called that move" when it happens? Well here's a chance at putting it in writing.

I'm calling Brad Stevens to Duke after Coach K retires.

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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.