Final Four voting begins today in the greatest Razorback football game of all time bracket

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Final Four voting begins today in the greatest Razorback football game of all time bracket

Final Four voting starts today in the Greatest Razorback Football Game of all-time bracket! Now your votes count more than ever, because these Final Four match-ups are tough, and feature four of the greatest games in Arkansas football history. But which one is the greatest? Make sure to submit your votes below!

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Final Four voting will conclude tomorrow evening! On Wednesday, we will begin the National Championship vote of the Greatest Razorback Football Game of All Time Bracket! GET YOUR VOTES IN!

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Jets’ Loggains impressed with Pittman, new offense under Briles

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Former Arkansas player and current New York Jets offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains likes what he knows about new coach Sam Pittman after talking with him on the phone a couple of times.

“I got off the phone thinking, man, what a great guym” Loggains told Derek Ruscin and Zach Arns (Ruscin & Zach) on ESPN Arkansas on Friday. “The impressive thing was as he’s talking and telling you everything, the strengths and weaknesses, he also tells his players.”

That won’t be earth-shattering news for Razorback fans. It’s pretty much the same thing everybody comes away with after talking with Pittman.

“You can feel that’s going to coach a guy hard,” Loggains said. “He’s going to develop the player as well as develop the man. It was really impressive. He did a really good job coaching those two guys that went in the first round and he’s got a long track record.”

Georgia offensive linemen Andrew Thomas (4) and Isaiah Wilson (29) went in the first round. In all, Pittman had three linemen from Georgia picked in the draft.

NFL coaches tend to notice things like that.

“He’s going to coach the man first and in doing that they’re going to become the best student-athlete they can be,” Loggains said. “He’s going to set them up to be successful after life. He’s also developing guys to play at the next level which is impressive.

“We’re in good hands. We’ve got a guy that’s got a lot of character and brings a lot of credibility. He’s coached in the SEC for a long time at a bunch of different programs.”

As an offensive coordinator he makes a living studying offenses and is familiar with what new offensive coordinator Kendal Briles wants to do.

“You can win a lot of different ways,” Loggains said. “I learned at an early age it’s not what you do but how you do it and you better do it better than everybody else.”

But he did point out it will be a different offense from what Bobby Petrino employed the last time the Hogs were winning games on a regular basis.

“He coached the passing game better than everybody else in that conference at that time,” Loggains said. “He knew how to practice, he knew how to rep things, he knew how to put pressure on the quarterback to get the most out of them.”

It will be different, even from the spread offense the last couple of years that was only consistent in backfiring and unable to move the ball.

Loggains is looking forward to seeing it.

“It will be a no-huddle tempo spread offense that a lot of people are running in college football right now,” he said Friday. “I’m excited to see how the wide splits … they are a little different than most people.

“It’s interesting when you go back and watch Baylor and how wide their receiver splits are, how they create numbers in the run game, the RPO’s, bubble screens and stretch people horizontally and vertically.”

 

Jones’ signs with agent, but where he goes nobody will know for awhile

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Jones’ signs with agent, but where he goes nobody will know for awhile

Mason Jones has signed with an agent — not one of the ones that let you withdraw — and is likely gone from Arkansas, but exactly where he’s headed won’t be known for a few more weeks.

Jones obviously would like a shot with an NBA team and get picked whenever they get around to having a draft (scheduled for June). It seems the mock drafts and analysts all have a different read on where he stands.

Kevin McPherson at NWAHomePage.com cited sources split on the decision. One has him going in the second round and another saying it’s a mistake for him to be leaving school.

“We’ve done all the research we can do up to this point,” Eric Musselman said last week. “I’ve talked to 23 NBA teams, supplied them the information and we support all of our guys in any of their professional aspirations. We’re behind them 100 percent in whatever decision they make. The only thing we can do is provide information through our multiple, many, many contacts that we have.”

Make what you want of that, but I’m not sure the statement would be the same if Musselman was confident Jones would be picked in the two-round draft. Just an opinion.

The deadline to withdraw and try to back-track all this for Jones is June 3, but that would now involve getting a waiver from the NCAA.

Razorback fans are awaiting word on Isaiah Joe, who is exploring his options but so far hasn’t made any direction he might be leaning clear.

Joe is rated higher in most rankings out there than Jones, but might benefit as much by coming back for another year.

‘These guys are football coaches,’ Campbell says about new Hogs’ staff

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Louis Campbell has coached at just about every level of football, been around some of the best in the history of the game and from what he’s been able to see, he likes the new football staff.

“The thing I’ve been impressed with this group is they’re not into cliches and they may not be the best speakers on Saturday or Sunday night, but I really think these guys are football coaches,” Campbell told Tye Richardson, Tommy Craft and Clay Henry (The Morning Rush) on ESPN Arkansas Friday morning.

Even though they haven’t gotten on the field with a ball for a real practice, the direction they’re heading in is positive.

“They know what it is to go out and work and get their hands dirty and coach a player hard,” Campbell said. “I’m not talking about being physical. I’m just talking about hold them accountable, making them do what’s right and that respect goes both ways. I think they’ll earn the respect of their team and when they do Arkansas will turn the corner and start getting better.”

He’s been in the spot Sam Pittman and his staff are in … more than once.

Campbell, who intercepted three Tennessee passes in the Liberty Bowl in 1971 against Tennessee, was on Jack Crowe’s staff, then with Joe Kines, Danny Ford and Houston Nutt. He was also on Nutt’s first staff at Ole Miss, then at Mississippi State under Sylvester Croom.

But he started his coaching career at Alabama under maybe the best ever, Paul “Bear” Bryant.

“If I had to send my son to play or coach under somebody it would be him,” Campbell said. “He was what coaching is all about. If you played or coached for him It was two things he had a team do — be physical and you win by being tougher than the other guy.

“Not smarter, not call better plays, just go out there and kick his butt on that particular play. That’s what he was.”

Off the field, though, Bryant was a lot different.

“He’d give you the shirt off his back,” Campbell said. “When we got to Alabama, we’d been recruiting and my wife picked us up. She was a teacher and coach Bryant looked in the back seat where she was and said, ‘honey, you working now?'”

Campbell’s wife said she hadn’t gotten anything yet. Bryant asked a couple of questions and then didn’t bring it up again.

She had a teaching job the next day.

“Unbelievable person,” Campbell said of Bryant.

It was Bryant that also gave Campbell an important lesson about making excuses when he’d moved on from Alabama and was on Ron Meyer’s first staff at SMU.

After picking Bryant up at the airport in Dallas, Campbell made the mistake of making excuses for the previous season and Bryant just listened.

“Mustang Mania hadn’t kicked in yet,” Campbell said. “We were awful.”

He detailed a list of excuses for the “awful” season. Bryant finally had one line about excuses.

“Poor workers find fault with their tools,” he told Campbell after a long pause.

“For the next hour not another word was said,” Campbell said Friday. “I learned that one the hard way.”

Knight on workouts with wife helping him (at times) during baseball shutdown

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Being married to former Arkansas softball catcher Rachel Box has given Blaine Knight someone to at least catch balls so he can throw … at least to a certain limit.

“She tried to catch one full out a couple of weeks ago and she told me never again ,” Knight said Friday afternoon to Phil Elson and Matt Jenkins (Halftime) on ESPN Arkansas. “She was kinda upset with me. I spiked one fastball on her and she thought the world was ending.

“She wasn’t too happy about it.”

Like the rest of the world that is slowly to starting to re-open after shutdowns due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Knight is just waiting.

“I know about as much as ya’ll know,” he said. “They are trying to piece things together right now. I’m just sitting here on standby.”

He’s trying to work out as much as he can, but it’s better when he has someone catching, which is not going to be Rachel for anything really serious.

“She will catch some touch and field,” Knight said. “We reached a ceiling with it the other day. It has saved me days not being able to throw. It’s different throwing to a person than a wall or a net.”

And he would rather be shaking off signs from former catcher Grant Koch than Rachel.

“It was way easier to shake off Grant,” Knight said. “She’s pretty critical. She has a full report after my games. She always thinks she’s right. She’s been around it long enough … she knows.”

? HALFTIME POD presented by Jeff’s Club House ? 5/1/2020

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? HALFTIME POD presented by Jeff’s Club House ? 5/1/2020

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Bud Light Seltzer Morning Rush Podcast — Louis Campbell, Clint Gaston, and Tye’s First Time Fishing

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Bud Light Seltzer Morning Rush Podcast — Louis Campbell, Clint Gaston, and Tye’s First Time Fishing

Tye and Tommy are back LIVE at Gaston’s White River Resort. Hear about Tye’s first time fishing on the White River. Also, they guys talk to former Arkansas assistant coach Louis Campbell and Clint Gaston, owner of Gaston’s White River Resort. Plus, Tye and Tommy have a little fun with Clay Henry… you might recognize the voice!

Wolfenbarger on close to full-blown dunking, commiting to Razorbacks

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Height is one thing that can’t be coached.

Jersey Wolfenbarger has gained nearly a foot of that pretty quickly and Mike Neighbors probably landed what could be the most intriguing player in program history this week.

There haven’t been a lot of 6-foot-5 guards in Arkansas women’s basketball history.

And Neighbors offered her when she was 5-foot-6.

“He offered me when I was 5-6 and all I had was my work ethic,” she told Phil Elson, Matt Jenkins and Matt Travis (Halftime) on ESPN Arkansas Thursday. “He’s a worker himself and I really appreciate that.”

She also blew the guys away and left Elson shaking his head when he asked if she could dunk the basketball.

“I can dunk a smaller basketball pretty easily,” she said. “I can two-foot dunk a tennis ball.”

That hasn’t happened often for the Razorbacks.

But she’s also working on playing with her back to the basket for certain situations.

“It’s all about matchups,” Wolfenbarger said. “I’m working on some post moves, but it’s not my main focus right now. I am a guard. When I get smaller guards on me more efficient to score with my back to the basket.”

Her commitment was something she was leaning towards but confirmed it after talking to some people … and most of it was about Neighbors.

“It’s all about timing,” Wolfenbarger said. “I knew, but you have to gain as much information as possible about anything to be 100 percent. I was able to talk to some people about coach Neighbors’ style and as much info as I could. I came home from a workout and knew where I wanted to go. My mom was fully on board.”

It was those talks that sealed the deal.

“They really helped me understand,” she said. “They all said the same thing to me that “you will love playing for coach Neighbors.” It really stuck with me. He empowers people and I wanted to be a part of that.”

And she will be in 2021, but first she’s looking forward to her senior year with the Grizzlies.

“It’s our last go-around,” she said. “It’s more about being consistent on both ends of the floor. Our defense could have been better last year.”

Danyelle on Ruscin & Zach with how things going during shutdown

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Eric Musselman is still going to the office during global health crisis, which Danyelle is grateful for, she told Derek Ruscin and Zach Arns (Ruscin & Zach) on ESPN Arkansas Thursday afternoon.

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