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We've got a full video board in the south end ???? pic.twitter.com/jxyjpGe9vS
— Arkansas Razorbacks (@ArkRazorbacks) July 24, 2017
Arkansas’ fans will now get to see a full video board in the south end of the stadium as construction continues on the north end.
Fans will get their first view of the new look when the Razorbacks host TCU on Sept. 9.
(Information from ArkansasRazorbacks.com is included in this story.)
Arkansas is taking over the SEC Network for 24 straight hours on Monday. Ten memorable games, all with one common theme.
That theme all involves games against teams in Texas, mainly for recruiting purposes in that state, showing the Razorbacks against those teams.
Only problem is putting the 2014 blowout win over Texas Tech in the prime time slot at 8 p.m. Monday night.
No, seriously. Why feature anything with the Red Raiders? If the Hogs can’t out-recruit Tech in Texas, they need to get better recruiters. There are high schools in Texas that recruit better players than Tech, but more likely it’s a chance to take a back-handed shot at Red Raiders coach Kliff Kingsbury after he called out Bret Bielema after beating the Hogs in 2015.
Two more games that would help recruiting more?
How about the 2003 win over the Longhorns in Austin, the 2000 Cotton Bowl win over Texas or even the 1988 win down in Austin?
Those would promote the brand more in the minds of potential recruits than any win over Texas Tech.
Get the popcorn ready and get settled in for a fantastic day of binge-watching the Hogs.
11 p.m. (Sunday night)
Football vs. Texas – Oct. 20, 1979
Arkansas capitalized on a pair of Texas turnovers to take a 14-7 lead and then marched 66 yards downfield to set up a 31-yard field goal as the No. 10 Razorbacks earned a 17-14 victory over the No. 2 Longhorns at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
It was Lou Holtz’s first win over the Longhorns as Arkansas’ head coach. The Razorbacks finished the season co-champions of the Southwest Conference at 10-2 overall with a 7-1 mark in league play.
1:30 a.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. Texas – Jan. 6, 2009
Mike Washington slammed home the win over No. 7 Texas in front of a raucous Bud Walton crowd for Arkansas’ second upset of a top-10 team at home in a week.
It marked Arkansas’ seventh straight home win over a top-25 opponent and its 43rd consecutive non-conference home win.
3:30 a.m.
Softball vs. #5 Texas A&M – April 16, 2017
Sophomore Ashley Diaz’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning capped a two-run final frame and gave Arkansas a walk-off win over No. 5 Texas A&M in Fayetteville.
It marked Arkansas’ first win over a top-five opponent since 2014, while it was just the fourth loss in 41 games for the Aggies.
5:30 a.m.
Football vs. Texas – Dec. 29, 2014
Brandon Allen tossed two touchdowns as Arkansas cruised to a 31-7 beating of Texas in the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl.
The Razorbacks’ defense harassed the Longhorns’ offense all night, holding them to a season-low 59 total yards, including just two on the ground.
8:30 a.m.
Baseball vs. Baylor – June 11, 2012
Arkansas earned a trip to its seventh College World Series in program history in 2012 when an RBI single by catcher Jake Wise broke a scoreless tie in the 10th inning to beat the Baylor Bears in Waco, Texas.
The Hogs had to battle back after losing the first game of the Waco Super Regional and was able to get a combined five-hit shutout from five different pitchers for the 1-0 clinching victory.
11:30 a.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. SMU – Nov. 25, 2014
Future SEC Player of the Year Bobby Portis led the Razorbacks to a wire-to-wire victory over the Mustangs with a game-high 22 points on the road in Moody Coliseum.
It marked Arkansas’ first road win as a ranked team in 16 seasons.
1:30 p.m.
Football vs. Texas – Oct. 17, 1981
Arkansas topped No. 1 Texas 42-11 in Fayetteville for the program’s largest win ever over the Longhorns.
The Razorbacks’ offense carved up Texas’ fourth-ranked defense, behind 323 total yards, five touchdowns and a pair of field goals, while the defense forced seven turnovers.
4 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas A&M – May 20, 2017
A two home run day from first baseman Chad Spanberger propelled Arkansas to a dominating 8-0 victory over No. 22 Texas A&M in College Station to close out the regular season in 2017.
The series win over the Aggies helped Arkansas build the momentum it needed to make a strong postseason run that included an appearance in the SEC Tournament final and a selection as an NCAA Regional host for the first time since 2010.
6 p.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. Texas – Feb. 4, 1990
Down one with less than 20 seconds remaining in regulation, head coach Nolan Richardson walked off the court after Arkansas is called for a technical foul.
Lee Mayberry hit a 25-footer from the top of the key with less than five seconds remaining to send the game to overtime, where Richardson returned and Arkansas defeated the Longhorns on the road, 103-96.
8 p.m.
Football vs. Texas Tech – Sept. 13, 2014
Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams ran wild, combining for six rushing touchdowns and 357 yards on the ground in Arkansas’ 49-28 routing of Texas Tech in Lubbock.
The Razorbacks totaled 438 rushing yards and limited the Red Raiders, which came in averaging 365 yards passing, to 252 yards through the air.
Former Arkansas basketball player Ronnie Brewer was arrested Sunday morning just before 1 a.m. in Fayetteville for driving while intoxicated, driving left of center and violating a local noise ordinance.
Brewer, 32, was booked into the Washington County Adult Detention Center at 1:03 a.m. and released in under an hour and a half after posting $1,055 in bond. A court date has been scheduled in Fayetteville District Court on August 21, according to the Washington County sheriff’s office website.
Brewer played at Arkansas from 2003 to 2006 where he averaged 18.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.6 steals, and 0.5 blocks. He also was 51–151 from three-point range and shot 75 percent from the free-throw line.
Selected with the 14th overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz, Brewer went on to play or Memphis, Chicago (twice), the New York Knicks, Oklahoma City, Houston and the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA Development League.
This is not Brewer’s first brush with the law for driving under the influence.
Brewer entered a plea of no contest in August 2014 on a misdemeanor charge of drunk driving and a judge in Los Angeles Superior Court sentenced Brewer to three years probation, mandated he attend 10 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and ordered him to attend three months of alcohol abuse classes.
The charges stemmed from a drunk driving arrest in Beverly Hills, California, in February earlier that year.
Longtime buddy Rex Nelson has for years done a Houston Nutt parody that features a repeated warning as Nutt to other coaches: “Don’t text females who are not your wife on a state cell phone.”
Apparently Hugh Freeze didn’t pay attention.
Freeze resigned Thursday from Ole Miss after officials dialed numbers to an escort service on his state cell phone while on recruiting trips to Florida.
No, seriously. The man who once compared himself to Jesus somehow figured out a way to nail himself to the cross.
Whether he actually saw an escort or not isn’t even being questioned now by anyone except maybe his wife. But the hypocrisy of someone who routinely invoked religion in routine press conferences dialing the number is enough to throw everything into question he’s done since taking over in Oxford for Nutt after the 2011 season.
Booger McFarland thinks there’s more to Freeze story Booger McFarland joins SportsCenter and provides his take on Hugh Freeze stepping down at Ole Miss, thinking there is more to the story with Freeze walking away from four million dollars.
And it was Nutt’s lawsuit last week that brought the whole thing down on Freeze’s head.
In a Thursday press conference where Rebels athletics director Ross Bjork’s spin was the issue that caused Freeze to resign was part of a “pattern of conduct” they recently discovered … even though the school has been under the microscope for a few years.
No, the self-righteous comments from Bjork and chancellor Jeff Vittor were an excuse to try and avoid two issues.
“We simply cannot accept the conduct in his personal life that we have discovered,” Vittor said.
They were not aware of it until Nutt’s lawsuit, which caused a Freedom of Information Act request. To make a long story short, someone figured out the connection to the escort service.
Bjork and Vittor questioned Freeze, who admitted it (after lying for over a week to members of the media asking about it).
Considering when Freeze was hired by the university in 2011, according to multiple sources including two inside the athletic department, Freeze was told to get the football program winning at the highest level and “we’ll deal with the NCAA if they come calling.”
That left them in a tenuous position on the entire NCAA matter as there were rumors in Oxford that Freeze would be paid off if he was forced out over the recruiting issues.
Being in Oxford for a year covering the Rebels last year, I knew Freeze about as well as I really wanted to. There was never anything to say he wasn’t living up to what he was talking, but you got the feeling he was a snake-oil salesman.
There were too many stories of his treatment of assistants and at least one team meeting where he called several members of the team some unflattering names and blamed them for poor performance.
The team responded by tanking the last two games of the year to, as one player said, “avoid having to practice the entire month of December.”
It started in a 34-30 loss to Arkansas where, for the third straight year, Brett Bielema took a less-talented team and basically helicopter pimp-slapped Freeze all over the field for a win.
Freeze has spent over a year defending himself in the NCAA matter. He repeatedly said he wanted to tell his side of the story.
Then came Nutt’s lawsuit where Freeze’s cajoling and discussions about laying the blame on Nutt and the previous staff came home to roost.
Don’t forget a big part of Nutt’s problem in his last season over FOIA-obtained state cell phone records of calls to people other than his wife, although there was never any proof that he did anything wrong.
Nutt knew how to cause a problem and his lawyers did just that.
And Ole Miss got a gift.
Now they are able to tell the NCAA they no longer have the coach in question at the helm of their program. It’s a step they get to make while maintaining the public position it had nothing to do with the NCAA.
If you believe that, then, well, I hope the grass is green and the sky is blue in your world.
Now the problem for the rest of the SEC is this: A talented group of players can truly let it all hang out.
Offensive line coach Matt Luke is the interim head coach. He’s got an Ed Orgeron-type of enthusiasm about everything without the negatives … and he’s well-spoken, smart and Ole Miss to the bone, more than any coach the Rebels have had since Billy Brewer.
Don’t look for a drop-off in the high-octane offense at Ole Miss.
Luke’s background is all offense, first under David Cutcliffe at Duke, then Freeze at Ole Miss, where he has been co-offensive coordinator the last five seasons and helped create much of the offense Freeze ran.
Plus, he’s a motivator.
Ole Miss now has another line to throw at the NCAA: The man in charge is gone.
It may be a case of addition by subtraction.
Oh, not to mention the lawsuit with Nutt will likely be settled before ever seeing a courtroom.
DALLAS — Following a strong freshman season, Arkansas sophomore running back Devwah Whaley was named to the preseason watch list for the Doak Walker Award, the PwC SMU Athletic Forum announced Thursday.
The award is annually presented to the nation’s top college running back.
Whaley, who is slated to be Arkansas’ lead back in 2017, played a key role last season, backing up SEC regular-season rushing champion Rawleigh Williams III. In 13 games played, Whaley rushed for 602 yards and three touchdowns on 110 carries and added six catches for 139 yards.
The Beaumont, Texas, product flashed explosiveness with runs for 75, 50, 34 and 30 yards and receptions for 43, 26, 26 and 23 yards, while becoming just the fourth Razorback in school history to record two 100-yard rushing games as a freshman.
Ten semifinalists for the award will be unveiled on Nov. 15, with three finalists selected Nov. 20.
The winner will be announced live during The Home Depot College Football Awards on Dec. 7.
Arkansas legend Darren McFadden is one of just two players to win the Doak Walker Award twice. McFadden became the first sophomore to take home the award in 2006 and repeated as the winner in 2007 when he rushed for a program record 1,830 yards.
Arkansas is now represented on nine different preseason award watch lists.
ESPN has added to its decorated college football game analyst roster with the signing of former college football head coach Tommy Tuberville.
Tuberville is a native of Camden and played in college at Southern Arkansas University.
With 159 victories in more than 20 seasons, including an undefeated season, five SEC Championship game appearances, multiple Coach of the Year awards and an American Athletic Conference Championship, Tuberville brings an experienced coach’s viewpoint to the booth. Tuberville will call games each week across ESPN or ABC with his broadcast partners to be named soon.
The former Cincinnati, Texas Tech, Ole Miss and Auburn head coach is enjoying this summer from his Florida beach home. As he says in the video above, Tuberville reluctantly is putting his golf clubs away in anticipation of college football season.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Allen added to his list of preseason honors on Wednesday.
The Arkansas senior quarterback was among 30 of the nation’s top college quarterbacks, including six from the Southeastern Conference, named to the preseason watch list for the Davey O’Brien Award. The award is presented annually to the nation’s best quarterback by the Davey O’Brien Foundation.
Allen was also one of 47 standout quarterbacks from different divisions and conferences across the nation tabbed to the watch list for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is presented at the end of each football season with the winner selected based on his accomplishments both on and off the field. Candidates must be a college senior or fourth-year junior on schedule to graduate with their class.
Ready for his second season at the helm of the Razorbacks’ offense, Allen enters 2017 after an impressive junior campaign that saw him top the SEC in both total passing yardage (3,430) and passing yardage in conference play (2,291). He also threw 25 touchdown passes, which ranked second in the conference, completed 61.1 percent of his passes (245 of 401) and boasted a 146.04 passer rating.
His 3,430 passing yards and 25 touchdown passes each ranked fifth in single-season school history. Of his 25 touchdown passes, 19 came inside the red zone, which led the SEC and tied for 10th in the FBS. The Fayetteville product threw multiple touchdown passes in nine games and became the first quarterback in school history and one of just four in the SEC since 2000 to throw multiple touchdown passes in each of the first seven games of a season.
Allen was previously honored by the Davey O’Brien Foundation last September as one of the “Great 8” quarterbacks in Week 2 for his performance in the Razorbacks’ 41-38 double-overtime win at No. 15 TCU. He led the Razorbacks to the tying score in the final two minutes of regulation, going 4-for-4 with a touchdown pass and then catching the tying 2-point conversion with 1:03 remaining. He later ran 5 yards for the winning score in the second overtime to lift Arkansas to victory, snapping TCU’s 14-game home winning streak. He finished 17-of-29 passing for 223 yards and three touchdowns.
Allen was also named to the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award on July 10, and earned third-team All-SEC honors last Friday from the league’s media.
FAYETTEVILLE — With the 2017 season approaching, Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema and players will host the Razorbacks’ annual Fan Day presented by Pepsi on Saturday, Aug. 12.
The event will be open to the public and free for fans of all ages.
The team will hold an open practice inside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Players and coaches will be available for autographs later that afternoon inside Walker Indoor Pavilion.
In addition, a kids zone will feature inflatables plus other fan activities throughout the indoor pavilion.
More details, including a full schedule, will be released leading up to the event.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — Arkansas senior center Frank Ragnow was named to the preseason watch list for the Wuerffel Trophy on Tuesday.
The Wuerffel Trophy is “College Football’s Premier Award for Community Service,” presented annually by the All Sports Association of Fort Walton Beach to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) player who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.
One of a record 109 nominees for the prestigious award, Ragnow has participated in a variety of community service projects atArkansas and is three credit hours away from graduating with a degree in recreation and sport management.
Ragnow is also a candidate for the Rimington Trophy, Outland Trophy and Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.
He boasts spots on several preseason All-America teams, including earning first-team honors from Athlon Sports and Lindy’s Sports as well as second-team status from Sporting News.
Last Friday, he earned preseason first-team All-SEC honors, as voted on by the media at SEC Football Media Days.
Ragnow’s Community Service Projects
• Made visits to elementary schools in Northwest Arkansas throughout the Spring 2017 semester.
• Participated in Razorback Relief: Operation Baton Rouge, which benefited those impacted by floods in Louisiana last August.
• Participated in the Book Hogs — Read to Win Kickoff at Root Elementary School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, last March, an initiative that encourages students at the elementary school level to enjoy reading, has been one of the Razorbacks’ most successful programs over the years.
• Helped host Special Olympics Arkansas at football practices this past spring.
• Volunteered with Hogs for Hope, a registered student organization at the University of Arkansas whose goal is to fundraise and support the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
• Volunteered with and made regular visits over the last three years to the Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter, a private, non-profit organization that provides 24-hour emergency residential care to children who are victims of family violence, neglect and physical and sexual abuse.
CHICAGO — Arkansas junior Dre Greenlaw was named to the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award, an honor presented annually to the nation’s best linebacker by the Butkus Foundation, it was announced Monday.
Greenlaw is one of 51 candidates for this year’s award.
Greenlaw saw limited action in 2016 due to a foot injury. He started all seven games played and finished with 42 tackles and one interception.
He led Arkansas with 35 tackles through the first five games before sustaining the injury in the first quarter against No. 1 Alabama, and posted team highs in tackles twice over the first four games.
A freshman All-American in 2015, Greenlaw led all SEC freshmen with 95 tackles, good for fifth nationally among rookies.
He played in all 13 games and recorded four double-digit tackle games in his 11 starts, three of which were against SEC opponents.
The Fayetteville product was the only player to win SEC Freshman of the Week twice.
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