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JUST RELAX: Sam Pittman wasn’t going to run up score on UAPB

There was no reason for the Hogs to score more points against UAPB except to please the Lunatic Fringe.

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Either a lot of Arkansas fans laid the points Saturday or they really don’t have a grasp on how Sam Pittman works.

When the Razorbacks raced out to a 45-point lead at halftime, that was more than enough.

And Pittman knew it.

“Our goal at halftime was to play all 2’s and 3’s and win the second half and we didn’t do it,” he said later. “We couldn’t move the football with our 2’s and that was our 2’s.”

For some that’s not good enough.

A lot of folks seem to be in a panic over the second team offense not being able to run up and down the field on the Golden Lions or have Malik Hornsby flinging the ball around. That would be the normal offense.

Pittman just wanted to get some guys on tape and avoid any injuries. He also wanted to get the game over as fast as possible. That’s why there were only four passes in the third quarter and one in the final period. That’s not the Hogs’ normal offense.

UAPB wasn’t exactly looking to extend the pain.

“When the kid sees himself on tape, all this, ‘Well, I’m as good as somebody, and I’m as good, and I should be doing this.’ Well, okay,” Pittman said. “You’ve got a half of football. Let’s see what it looks like.

“And if it looks like what you’ve been saying, well then we’ll give you a few extra reps. If it looks like what we’ve been saying, then we’ve got to get better.”

That’s a polite way of saying if you stumbled around and couldn’t block anybody from UAPB, shut up and go back to work.

The backups didn’t exactly line up and run up and down the field on anybody and if you thought that was going to happen then you had unrealistic expectations.

Second-teamers don’t get the reps the starters do in practice. There are times you can mix in a couple with the starters and see a better end result.

Coaches don’t make a hockey-type line change very often.

And they know things are going to quite possibly get ugly putting an entire lineup of backups in the game at once. Even against the Golden Lions, who aren’t even a really good SWAC team this year.

What Pittman wanted to happen is how things played out Saturday.

The first team guys got three touchdowns from Treylon Burks, a punt returned for a score by Nathan Parodi and he got enough teaching tape on the backups to keep everybody busy during a bye week.

He was never going to hang 60 or 70 on UAPB.

Mainly because it wouldn’t prove anything to anybody except maybe a few in the Lunatic Fringe of Hog Nation.

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2024 High School Rankings

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 (18)8-02521
2.Conway (6)8-02302
3.Greenwood (2)8-02103
4.Little Rock Parkview7-11714
5.Bentonville5-31416
6.Benton7-11265
7.Fayetteville6-21008
8.Pulaski Academy6-2757
9.Rogers5-3459
10.Shiloh Christian6-24010
Others receiving votes: Marion 13, Valley View 9, Joe T Robinson 8, Mountain Home 4, Cabot 3, Elkins 3.
CLASS 7A
1.Bryant (20)8-01241
2.Conway (6)8-01052
3.Bentonville5-3753
4.Fayetteville6-2455
5.Pulaski Academy6-2354
Others receiving votes: Rogers 5.
CLASS 6A
1.Greenwood (26)8-01301
2.Benton7-11022
3.Shiloh Christian6-2713
4.Marion7-1524
5.Mountain Home7-131
Others receiving votes: Little Rock Catholic 4.
CLASS 5A
1.Little Rock Parkview (23)7-11271
2.Joe T Robinson7-1902
3.Valley View (3)8-0803
4.Hot Springs Lakeside7-1484
5.Farmington7-130
Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 4, Maumelle 4, Morrilton 3, Greenbrier 2, Harding Academy 1.
CLASS 4A
1.Elkins (19)8-01161
2.Arkadelphia (5)6-2792
3.Little Rock Mills (1)8-0703
4.Warren6-2404
5.Malvern (1)8-0315
Others receiving votes: Dardanelle 22, Southside Batesville 11, Mena 8, Bauxite 7, DeWitt 4, Highland 2.
CLASS 3A
4.Bismarck (15)8-01054
5.Fordyce (4)8-0765
Prescott (3)7-1531t
1.Osceola (2)6-149
3.Mayflower (1)8-036
Others receiving votes: Booneville (1) 31, Rivercrest 19, Mansfield 14, Charleston 4, Rison 3.
CLASS 2A
1.Carlisle (21)8-01211
2.Conway Christian (4)8-01042
3.Des Arc7-1663
4.Bigelow (1)6-2455
5.Murfreesboro6-230
Others receiving votes: Marked Tree 10, Mineral Springs 6, Junction City 5, Cross County 1, Mount Ida 1, Poyen 1
8-MAN SANCTIONED
1.Strong-Huttig (25)5-0761
2.Midland (1)7-0502
3.Cedar Ridge7-1253
Others receiving votes: Rector 5.

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