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That 2014 Arkansas team should have been much better than 7-6, Bielema kinda screwed the pooch on that season. Lots of close losses including to Alabama 14-13. Had a top 10 defense and NFL guys on offense like Alex Collins, Hunter Henry, Brandon Allen (who is surprisingly still in the league). Not winning 9-10 games in 2014 or 2015 is probably what eventually led to him not getting more time to turn it around after a bad 2017 season.

A HB pass with Ja'Quinden Jackson just seems too obvious but I've been expecting it to happen in this game all year. For some reason though over the last two years Arkansas has been a much better road team than they are at home (Tennessee notwithstanding). Had great games @ LSU, @ Alabama and @ Ole Miss last year and then 2/3 SEC wins this year were on the road - but then they tend to lay an egg at home and struggle with teams like UAB for some reason. It's really weird.

That's actually the Arkansas left tackle and his brother who do that podcast every week. He transferred from San Jose State and the whole family is from the west coast so I wouldn't figure they're very familiar with SWC history lol.

The Arkansas offense has quietly been really good this year at moving the ball, they just turn it over every other play and make self-inflicted mistakes. Dumb turnovers is what has kept Arkansas from being 7-2 right now and most likely in the top 25. They beat Tennessee because they actually took care of the ball and didn't turn it over a single time. The secondary has gotten exposed against Dart and Nussmeier, really the only two decent QBs they've faced this year (with Nico being inconsistent as a freshman). Getting Jaylon Braxton back should help (who is Arkansas' best CB but has been out since week two) but there just aren't enough dudes who can cover 1:1 against SEC receivers and Travis Williams doesn't play much zone to help mitigate that since he likes to blitz so much.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Wiggins starts on Friday either. It’s his draft year and he was dominant in the Fall, though that doesn’t always mean anything. Defense is definitely the biggest question mark since last year it was incredible but lost so much. 3B and SS are still somewhat up for grabs with position battles. 2/3 of our starting outfield are former Big 12 players in Bohrofen from OU and Josenberger from Kansas so should be interesting if any of the opposing coaches have faced them before.

This is very true. Some SEC fanbases even put college baseball on equal footing as basketball. You'll still get the casual fans to show up for teams like Alabama and Auburn when they're ranked in the top 10 but very few are dedicated enough to show up for Wednesday night against directional schools like in some other conferences.

KenPom has the Big 12 and SEC as the two best CBB conferences in 2022. So it's a step down but not a gigantic one. The SEC has definitely gotten better recently and made much better coaching hires. The problem in the past was usually that the conference had rosters full of great athletes but mediocre basketball players. They could posterize the crap out of you but had no footwork or fundamentals.

Whatever he does it was good enough to lead all of P5 in rushing last season

Hey there were OU fans who legitimately thought it was being announced on MySpace lol, I didn't know about the Twitter thing until recently.

Apparently Twitter has a thing called spaces now. So he was saying his (Twitter) space which is why it wasn't all one word. Basically this new organization is a consortium that companies can donate money to fund, and athletes can sign deals with it and receive money for doing charitable work for nonprofits in Arkansas. Basketball player JD Notae is the first to sign so he will receive compensation for doing work with Samaritan's Feet which is a local nonprofit. Hard to tell how much of an impact this will cause but it all depends on if other companies want to jump in to help fund it. Seems like something that could easily be copied by other schools though. The Waltons generally don't give a crap about Arkansas sports but the charitable side may change things and it would be hard to top if they did get involved.

Need a DT pretty bad in the portal. Could use a proven pass rusher too but not sure how many will be available after the spring. Was hoping to get Jaxon Player. Guess it helps that Odom basically runs a 3-2-6 but not sure if it's his preference or if it's because we just don't have enough SEC-quality DL so he does it out of necessity. Currently it's definitely the biggest question mark on the defense, plus we just fired our DL coach.

I’ve always wondered why Arkansas historically has never recruited Tulsa much when it’s only 2 hours away. Pittman has changed that since he’s been here, which makes sense since he grew up in Grove I guess. Aren’t going to get many that OU wants but still plenty of talent to pick from.

I think he may get a decent G5 job after next season. Don't see a P5 program going after him just yet though. Probably getting a pay bump up to $1.4 million to stay at Arkansas.

I could see him being a rush end in certain situations. But Arkansas graduated two 100+ tacklers so there are plenty of tackles available either way next to Bumper Pool.

Possibly, Arkansas will likely take a transfer CB but would probably prefer someone with more proven experience.