Phil and Tye discuss Kelly Bryant possibly ending up at Arkansas, most expensive tickets, plus Bob Holt!
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Storey shrugging off eye poke a good sign for a QB
In the third quarter against Auburn, there was one of those notable moments for Arkansas quarterback Ty Storey.
Tigers’ defensive lineman Marlon Davidson just reached his big paw inside Storey’s facemask had a go at his eyes. There’s not really any way to describe it, but none of the officials seemed particularly interested.
“He definitely got a finger in my eye,” Storey said earlier this week. “It actually popped my contact out.”
The SEC Network cameras caught it in living color, as they used to say when black-and-white TV sets were the norm.
Arkansas called timeout to discuss the upcoming fourth-and-2 situation and Storey discussed it with the officials to no avail. Cole Kelley came in and got the first down while Storey was getting a new contact lens on the sideline.
“Our training staff is always well prepared,” Storey said. “They popped a new one in, and we were ready to go.”
He more or less shrugged over the whole deal, but he wasn’t happy about it during the game.
“We were pretty heated about that,” Storey said.
Before practice Wednesday, Morris was asked about the eye-poke and if he’d sent the video to the league office in Birmingham.
“That’s pretty customary for everybody across the country,” Morris said. “There’s different things that come up in the course of a game and you want to get a response back from the officiating crew.”
But what about the eye-poke, Chad?
“I’m not going to go into all that,” he said. “We send in a bunch of plays and there were several of them, just asking for interpretations.
How Storey responded, though, was likely what Morris and offensive coordinator Joe Craddock were looking for in a quarterback.
He didn’t let it bother him. By Tuesday, he was just kinda shrugging about the whole thing.
“I guess that’s part of the game,” he said. “I thought it was kind of dirty. But it’s whatever. It’s part of the game.”
Storey pretty much has taken it all in stride, which has more or less been the way he’s handled everything since being in Fayetteville all the way back to 2015.
That whole incident, as much as anything, may offer a clue why he never seemed to make much progress under the previous coaching staff.
Kelley did, apparently leapfrogging Storey in the pecking order of things.
Did the previous staff value that raw emotion that sometimes just pours out of Kelley more than a calm, almost laid-back approach that Storey has?
Just one of those questions that come up now and then.
Morris on Southwest Classic against Texas A&M
Razorbacks coach Chad Morris met with the media Wednesday for the final time before the game Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington against Texas A&M.
???? Wednesday Halftime Pod — Featuring Bill King
Phil and Tye talk about Kelly Bryant transferring, clips from the players last night, the Change My Mind segment and more!
Should Hogs be going after Clemson quarterback?
Chad Morris may have been part of the recruitment of Kelly Bryant to Clemson back in 2014, but he never got to coach him.
Morris was gone to SMU by the time Bryant enrolled in January of 2015, but it’s a good bet the two know each other.
How well may be interesting to find out in the coming days.
The news broke late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning that Bryant had not shown up at the Tigers’ practice Tuesday and In an exclusive interview with Orange & White, Bryant told Manie Robinson he was leaving.
As soon as that broke, Arkansas fans added two and two, hoping they came up with the right answer that the Hogs might be a potential landing spot.
Bryant did guide Clemson to the College Football Playoff last season and began this season as the starter. But Tigers coach Dabo Swinney made the decision Sunday to go with freshman Trevor Lawrence as the starter.
And Bryant decided to move on.
He spent two years backing up Deshaun Watson, got his shot last year and had a couple of stumbles along the way, got the Tigers into the CFP, but the hyped semifinal shootout with Alabama came off as the Cap Pistol Follies as Clemson struggled.
Now could Arkansas be on his radar?
Nobody knows, but it’s a good bet this story could be updated with the media visiting with Morris before the Hogs’ practice Wednesday.
Not being a recruiter, I have no idea what the rules are on coaches commenting on a graduate transfer.The guess is Morris won’t say much, if anything beyond he knows Bryant.
The bigger question is how Bryant would fit at Arkansas.
Initial knee-jerk reactions say he would fit nicely. Knows what the Hogs want to do with the offense, is more mobile than any quarterback on campus since Matt Jones and has won games at a big time level.
All of those are the positives.
But what message does that send to what is likely to be a diminishing group in the quarterback room.
Cole Kelley is a redshirt sophomore, so if he’s leaving for anything other than an FCS or DII school, he’s got to sit a year, then have one season left.
Ty Storey could do the graduate transfer path, but his options will likely be limited. Daulton Hyatt may be out.
Incoming freshman K.J. Jefferson may not be ready for a year or two, according to some who have seen him closely at North Panola the last few years. He’s a raw talent, but plays in a smaller conference and gauging his skillset is tough.
North Panola is not South Panola, the one-time national powerhouse at the other end of Panola County around Batesville, Mississippi, that churned out highly-rated players every year.
Bryant could be a fit at Arkansas … and maybe the answer at the offensive position that has appeared to have Morris and offensive coordinator Joe Craddock stymied.
The biggest question, though, is if Bryant would be interested in Arkansas.
Speculation in the national media has thrown out everywhere from Ohio State to Florida and everything in between as possible landing spots for Bryant.
Are the Razorbacks an option?
We won’t know for awhile, but there does have to be an interest on both sides.
And you thought things were going to settle down, huh?
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