Hawgs Illustrated’s Clay Henry enjoyed watching quarterback Feleipe Franks’ accuracy on deep passes and doesn’t know if anyone will match it.
ESPN’s Mehenti thinks Meyer could have success in NFL in right situation
Urban Meyer may (or may not) be headed to an NFL team and ESPN’s Zubin Mehenti said he could be successful if he has a lot of control.
Bud Light Seltzer Morning Rush Podcast – This sucks
Tye & Tommy on the Texas Bowl cancelled, what you’re doing now NYE, Zubin Mehenti and more!
Goode thinks practices before bowl game as important as playing game
Former Razorback and NFL player Brett Goode weighed in with his views on practices before bowl game accomplished main goal before game canceled.
TCU somehow manages to keep long-time ‘cockroach’ reference alive
Don’t blame me … it was legendary Texas coach Darrell Royal nearly 60 years ago that compared TCU to a cockroach and the reference came to mind Tuesday.
When the announcement was made early Tuesday afternoon Arkansas’ Texas Bowl matchup with the Horned Frogs was canceled, it probably shouldn’t have been surprising.
This is 2020. Nothing seems to work out the way it’s supposed to and this isn’t the first bowl game to bite the dust this year.
The part that raised eyebrows was the statement from TCU athletics director Jeremiah Donati that said in increase covid-19 positive tests, injuries and “other circumstances” left the Horned Frogs short of the Big 12’s threshold for player availability.
After Royal had a rather shocking 6-0 loss to one of Abe Martin’s salty Horned Frogs’ team in 1961, he was more than a little ticked-off and at his traditional postgame party at the Villa Capri Hotel in Austin, he delivered the infamous line:
“TCU is like a cockroach. It’s not so much what he eats and totes off, but what he falls into and messes up.”
And if you look at the official statement from the Horned Frogs, you have to wonder exactly what IS the cause of them backing out of a New Year’s Eve matchup with the Hogs.
Covid-19 we understand in this wacky year. Injuries can also be understood. What are the “other circumstances?”
It may be legitimate, but it does raise the question of exactly what that could be.
There are media reports the Hogs reached out to Iowa for a replacement. The Hawkeyes had their Music City Bowl game with Missouri canceled because of covid issues with the Tigers.
They couldn’t make it, for whatever reasons.
So, now Hogs’ football has come to an end for Sam Pittman’s first season in a year where hope for the future was revived around the entire program after a 3-7 record.
If nothing else, Pittman showed he knows how to manage the program through the unpredictable and trying times. This year was all of that and more.
Fans were ready for this bowl game. The players and coaches were excited and ready to play TCU, who may or may not have been as enthusiastic about the whole thing.
So now, all of those expectations and hopes will be placed on hold. Spring practice will likely be held in some form or fashion.
But until then, it’s just one more “what-if” for fans to have in their bucket of craziness for this year.
Which will, mercifully, end before the weekend.
Another Razorback senior decides to return; seventh to return
Dorian Gerald didn’t figure he would be around next season for Arkansas, but a second injury-plagued season obviously led to him changing his mind.
see y’all in 2021 ?? #wps pic.twitter.com/AfQacn1qZF
— Dorian Gerald (@dorianmgerald) December 30, 2020
Before this covid-19 season started, Gerald said he didn’t plan on taking advantage of the NCAA’s rule allowing seniors to come back for a bonus year.
But after playing in just four of the 10 games this year with one start, he was recruited back to get some more film in hopes of playing at the professional level.
The other seniors who have announced they are returning are running back-wide receiver T.J. Hammonds, linebacker Grant Morgan, offensive linemen Ty Clary and Myron Cunningham, tight end Blake Kern and wide receiver De’Vion Warren.
And there could be more.
Hogs’ Texas Bowl officially canceled due to covid issues at TCU
Arkansas’ Texas Bowl appearance was officially canceled Tuesday afternoon after covid-19 issues within the TCU football program, according to the bowl.
— Mercari Texas Bowl (@TexasBowl) December 29, 2020
Arkansas released a statement from Sam Pittman and athletics director Hunter Yurachek after the announcement:
Arkansas Head Coach Sam Pittman: “We are very disappointed not to get the opportunity to compete again as a team. We were excited and wanted to go play TCU in the Texas Bowl, but we certainly understand the issues in the TCU program. We had no positive tests from yesterday and were ready to go to Houston this afternoon with a healthy team. Our team and our student-athletes have sacrificed a lot over the last several months, including over the holidays, so this is a tough way to end our season. I’m so proud of our team for fighting and handling themselves through adversity all year.”
Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek: “We are disappointed that our student-athletes will not have an opportunity to compete against TCU in the Mercari Texas Bowl. In what has been one of the most unusual seasons in college football history, our student-athletes made incredible sacrifices and earned the opportunity to safely compete in 10 games during the 2020 football season. That is a tremendous credit to them and the efforts of Coach Sam Pittman, his staff, our medical team and the leadership of Commissioner Greg Sankey and the Southeastern Conference. We look forward to taking the field again for the 2021 season.”
The Razorbacks were scheduled to play the Horned Frogs on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Houston’s NRG Stadium. It would have been the first time the Hogs’ first bowl game since blowing a 24-point halftime lead against Virginia Tech in the Belk Bowl four years ago on Dec. 29, 2016.
The Hogs were set to leave at 12:45, but then the news started trickling out the game was canceled, according to media reports.
Bowl officials reached out to other teams, but were unable to find an opponent, media outlets are reporting.
Musselman glad to be cleared on covid protocols ahead of Auburn matchup
Razorbacks coach Eric Musselman says the media has seen more of his team the past week than he has while in quarantine on covid protocols.
Sills on having Musselman back, looking ahead to SEC opener with Auburn
Arkansas’ Desi Sills met with the media ahead of opening SEC play and facing someone he’s familiar with in Tigers’ Allen Flanigan.
Austin Allen on Brandon’s ‘game of your life’ leading Bengals past Texans
Former Razorback quarterback Austin Allen watched brother Brandon put up nearly 400 yards passing on Houston in “perfect way to cap the holidays.”
