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Is John Chavis close to being named Arkansas’ next defensive coordinator? One podcast points out that may not be the best choice for the Razorbacks.

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Word broke a little over an hour after Chad Morris’ signing day press conference on sports radio that former Texas A&M defensive coordinator John Chavis was in contract talks for the same post at Arkansas.

Which, if you’ve paid much attention to football the last few years, raises the queston of why?

As recently as five years ago Chavis was a hot commodity. That’s when he was coordinating a defense against offenses that got in a huddle, discussed whatever, clapped, everybody lined up and ran a play.

When teams started running more and more no-huddle offense along with run-pass options, Chavis defenses went from the top to ordinary at best.

Barrett Sallee pointed these facts out in his “SEC: Smothered and Covered” podcast on Razorback Sports Radio.

There are questions why Chavis would be a surprising choice for Morris’ first staff at Arkansas:

• His defenses don’t work well against the hurry-up, no-huddle offenses in vogue today.

• At age 61, he’s considerably older than what is expected on Morris’ staff.

• While the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M, his defenses basically couldn’t stop the scout team when they used tempo and run-pass options.

• This past season, the Aggies allowed Arkansas 457 yards of offense and 43 points, the year before 491 yards (but just 24 points) and in 2015 the Aggies gave up 457 yards of offense.

• His defenses ranked over the last three years at A&M (in order), 59th, 89th, 41st.

• If he is the choice, why has Morris allowed the lack of a defensive coordinator to hurt him so badly in recruiting?

He has been in the conversation since the beginning.

But so has Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, although no one is predicting him to come to Fayetteville.

At Wikipedia, Chavis was listed Wednesday as the defensive coordinator at Arkansas, but anybody can post just about anything about anybody there.

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Following is the Arkansas Sports Media High School Football Poll including the Overall Top 10, the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A and 2A, plus the top three in the 8-man division, as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for the week ending August 24. Ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points and ranking from last week's poll:
OVERALLRecordPtsPrv
1.Bryant (25)10-02681
2.Greenwood (2)10-02343
30Conway9-12022
4.Little Rock Parkview9-11714
5.Bentonville7-31625
6.Benton9-11486
7.Fayetteville8-21117
8.Pulaski Academy8-2898
9.Rogers7-3439
10.Joe T. Robinson9-122
Others receiving votes: Valley View 8, Mountain Home 7, Cabot 6, Little Rock Catholic 6, Shiloh Christian 6, Elkins 1, Farmington 1.
CLASS 7A
1.Bryant (27)10-01351
2.Conway9-11022
3.Bentonville7-3813
4.Fayetteville8-2454
5.Pulaski Academy8-2395
Others receiving votes: Rogers 3.
CLASS 6A
1.Greenwood (27)10-01351
2.Benton9-11082
3.Mountain Home8-2623
4.Shiloh Christian7-3494
5.Little Rock Catholic9-1345
Others receiving votes: Marion 6.
CLASS 5A
1.Little Rock Parkview (27)9-11351
2.Joe T. Robinson9-11062
3.Valley View10-0793
4.Farmington9-1484
5.Hot Springs Lakeside8-2205
Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 7, Harding Academy 7, Morrilton 3.
CLASS 4A
1.Elkins (20)10-01261
3.Arkadelphia (5)8-2913
2.Little Rock Mills (1)10-0682
4.Warren8-2554
5.Dardanell (1)9-123
Southside Batesville10-023
Others receiving votes: Malvern 12, Gravette 5, Highland 2.
CLASS 3A
1.Bismarck (12)10-01051t
2.Fordyce (10)10-0961t
3.Prescott (1)9-1704
4.Osceola (2)8-1543
5.Booneville (1)9-1395
Others receiving votes: Mansfield (1) 23, Rivercrest 10, Rison 4, Salem 4.
CLASS 2A
1.Carlisle (20)10-01271
2.Conway Christian (7)10-01152
3.Des Arc8-2595
4.East Poinsett Co.7-352
5.Bigelow6-4183
Murfreesboro7-3184
Others receiving votes: Mount Ida 6, Junction City 4, Cross County 3, Poyen 3.
8-MAN SANCTIONED
1.Strong-Huttig (27)5-0811
2.Midland9-0532
3.Cedar Ridge8-1253
Others receiving votes: Woodlawn 3.

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