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In a day and age where we have nothing else to discuss, it’s national signing day for college basketball Wednesday and Eric Musselman made his fifth offer for an in-state 2022 player Tuesday.
For a guy that studies everything it’s probably a safe bet he’s aware of Arkansas’ basketball history the biggest success has come with a generous sprinkling of home-grown players.
You can go back to the 1970’s when Eddie Sutton managed to get Marvin Delph out of Conway, Ron Brewer from Fort Smith and Sidney Moncrief out of Little Rock to catapult the program into the national spotlight.
Check some of the best players lists that’s been popular while everything in the world of sports has been shut down and there’s a pretty good representation of in-state players on the list.
Musselman offered Morrilton small forward Joseph Pinion, who is 6-6, 180 and has garnered some pretty high-level interest from the likes of Kansas, Baylor and Oklahoma among some other smaller schools.
Four others inside the state have gotten offers for 2022, too. Guard Nick Smith of Sylvan Hills, guard Derrian Ford of Magnolia, guard Javion Guy-King of Little Rock Mills, and center Kelel Ware of North Little Rock were already holding offers.
Don’t ask me how many he can actually sign here. The scholarship distribution for basketball is subject to a lot of changes based on who’s leaving and who’s coming. Of course there are some that get moved along, but that’s not really anything new.
But Musselman does know the public relations benefits of signing kids from within the state. Nobody can keep them all, so don’t be surprised if one or two go somewhere else.
You don’t get the signature, though, if you don’t make the offer.
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It didn’t really dawn on me until one of Andrew Hutchinson’s stat stories at HawgBeat.com got my attention earlier that Arkansas hasn’t had a punt return touchdown since 2011.
Well, technically it was early 2012 when Joe Adams returned a punt against Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl following the 2011 season.
You would think over eight seasons the Razorbacks could have gotten one into the end zone completely by accident. I mean, they let North Texas bring one back in 2018 by faking a fair catch.
That’s one of the examples of the breakdowns in nearly a decade of futility when you really don’t have a special teams coach.
For all of last season the media was not allowed to take pictures or film special teams drills in the first period of practices. The guess was it wasn’t to hide the intricate nature of the jump pass fake punt that blew up spectacularly against Auburn.
I say all that to point out part of what was, in my opinion, the failure of the previous two staffs to really understand what they were doing. Special teams is a full third of the game and I’ve never seen a championship team that was horrible in every phase of special teams.
There’s no home cooking in saying Treylon Burks is going to end that run of failure for the Hogs.
In his first season in Fayetteville, Burks returned a dozen punts for 130 yards, which is a little over a first down on every return. He had a long return of 32 yards against Texas A&M where all the folks in Warren were assuming he was headed to the end zone.
The talented freshman has a unique way of catching the ball over his head instead of like using a basket, size 4XL hands and the speed. He had several returns that could have been big with one block.
Burks has a way of making at least one person miss.
With a full-time special teams coach now in Scott Fountain and it will be interesting to see where the improvements are in that area this year.
One thing that’s for certain is he’s had plenty of time to look at every special teams play from the last several seasons if he wanted to, not just last year.
It’s probably a good guess Burks not getting into the end zone jumped out.
And it’s a stat that probably will change.
While the XFL experiment was halted last week without much warning, ESPN’s Tom Hart told Phil Elson and Matt Jenkins on Halftime some of their innovative experiments might be around awhile.
“I know for a fact (the NFL and colleges) are looking at them,” he said Monday afternoon. “There’s no reason now to watch kickoffs.”
In case you didn’t see it, the XFL lines the two teams up five yards apart on the 30 and 35. Nobody can leave until the ball is caught or hits the ground. It actually turned out to be more interesting than you’d think.
“Such a high percentage of head injuries occur on kickoffs,” Hart said. “Whare your choices?
“You negate it to the point you very seldom get a return and then you’re just talking about wasted time. In this day and age where everybody wants the games to move along that doesn’t make much sense.
“Or you make it safer by putting everybody closer together and you get action. The shame of the season only get halfway was we didn’t get as many data points as we wanted.”
Tarvaris Jackson showed some potential in a brief time at Arkansas but not enough to keep Matt Jones on the bench, then went to the NFL and had a substantial journeyman career.
Jackson, 36, was killed in a single-car crash in Alabama on Sunday night just south of Montgomery at around 8:50 p.m. when his car left the road, hit a tree and flipped, according to law enforcement officials.
He was drafted in the second round after leaving the Hogs for SWAC member Alabama State. Jackson played for nine seasons in the NFL with Minnesota and Seattle. Jackson spent the 2012 season with the Buffalo Bills, but did not play.
Jackson started 34 games over the course of his career, including 14 for the Seahawks in 2011, and threw for more than 7,200 yards with 39 touchdowns and 35 interceptions. The Montgomery native also won a Super Bowl ring as Russell Wilson’s backup in 2014.
“TJack… you will be missed. Praying for your family…Love you man,” Wilson wrote on Twitter on Monday morning.
Jackson was released by the Seahawks in 2016. He was arrested in Florida later that year for allegedly pulling a gun on his wife, though the charges were later dropped.
Jackson then decided to retire from the NFL, and move to coaching. He spent the 2018 season as a quality control assistant at his alma mater before joining Tennessee State as its quarterbacks coach in 2019.
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The opening round of voting for the greatest Razorback football game of all-time bracket went great! But it’s time to continue the bracket! Today, we open up 2nd round voting in the Broyles Region! Make sure to submit your votes below!
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— ESPN Arkansas & HitThatLine.com (@HitThatLineAR) April 13, 2020
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Tomorrow (Tuesday), we will have opening round voting for the Paul Eells Region! Get out there and vote on what you think the Greatest Razorback Football Game of All Time!
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