Football
Bohannon’s choice doesn’t slow down Hogs’ recruiting
Earle’s Gerry Bohannon chooses Baylor over Arkansas after the previous coaching staff simply didn’t recruit him very well and the early signing date.
Gerry Bohannon has made his choice and it’s not Arkansas.
The Earle quarterback picked the Bears over the Razorbacks on Tuesday afternoon in a press conference at the high school in Earle.
In the last few days it had become increasingly clear from people who follow the world of college football recruiting closely that he was leaning in that direction.
To be honest, the response should be, quite simply, okay. Good luck and goodbye.
Earle’s Bohanan in Baylor gear . They were after him from day one pic.twitter.com/GlkjqGQvnP
— Steve Sullivan (@sully7777) December 19, 2017
The Hogs weren’t putting all their eggs in Bohannon’s recruitment, mainly because they don’t have to.
Signing Bohannon would have been nice, but in my opinion Connor Noland is more capable of stepping in and running the new offense sooner and it’s about 99 percent that he’s coming to Fayetteville.
It would be a shocker, according to people who are extremely knowledgeable about such things, if he’s drafted high enough to consider an immediate leap to play pro baseball.
I would've signed LAST December if they would've let me! Can't wait to be part of @RazorbackFB & @RazorbackBSB !!! #HammerDown #OmaHogs #WPS #OneMoreDay ??⚾️? https://t.co/rehBLjxXTx
— Connor Noland (@cnoland_13) December 19, 2017
Some fans are already getting on the Debbie Downer group that Chad Morris isn’t able to recruit. If you’re thinking that you don’t know enough to be giving it a second thought.
With less than two weeks on the job, Morris has tried to build a relationship equivalent of one or two years in about 20 minutes. In some cases, he’s made progress.
Losing Bohannon a day after Sean Michael Flanagan of Charleston chose Oklahoma State certainly isn’t great news, but it’s not even a warning sign.
Not after 12 days as the Hogs coach.
Baylor had been on Bohannon for some time. According to his coaches in Earle, Arkansas really didn’t push that hard.
No, don’t blame Morris for this one … or Flanagan, either.
The negative being used against Arkansas right now on the recruiting trail is the lack of a defensive staff. While that may indeed be the case, it’s only going to affect the early signing date.
That is the major culprit here.
Nobody knew what would happen this first year with that new date, but you knew anybody making a coaching change probably wasn’t going to do well in that early signing period.
Let’s see how it plays out through February.
If things haven’t improved by then, well, we’ll address it at that time.
But Bohannon’s decision won’t slow Morris down one bit.
