Arkansas releases Week 1 hype video for FAMU
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— Razorback Football (@RazorbackFB) August 30, 2017
The Razorbacks released their hype video Wednesday for the season opener against Florida A&M.
Hogs won’t get much information on TCU this weekend
While Arkansas is probably not going to show a whole lot against Florida A&M on Thursday night, they won’t see much in their first serious opponent, either.
That’s because TCU opens at home against Jackson State, a SWAC school.
Talk about planned scheduling. You can bet Gary Patterson or Bret Bielema looked at the other’s schedule and got someone similar. Whichever opener was scheduled first, the other mirrored it.
All of this means scouting won’t reveal much.
And it reminds one of the time Arkansas played LSU in the 1947 Cotton Bowl (no, I wasn’t there) and former athletic director told how he was “scouting” the line play during the game for coach John Barnhill.
“He sent me down to the end zone to try and get an idea what our line was doing against their line,” Cole related years later. “You could do that in those days. Well, the whole first half was played within 40 yards of where I was sitting, so I didn’t get to see anything of how they would do normally.”
At halftime, tied 0-0, on a field that closely resembled an ice rink, Barnhill asked Cole what he found out.
“Well, I can tell you all about our goal-line defense,” he said.
That one turned out to be a 0-0 tie in conditions that were beyond miserable for the time.
The Hogs may not find out much more about TCU than that this week.
Based on results from the first week of games, Florida A&M might hang 50 on Jackson State.
While the Rattlers were winning their opener against Texas Southern, the Tigers were being throttled by Alcorn State, 35-16.
So much for limiting access to practices.
Both Arkansas and TCU will be holding a scrimmage on national television. If so inclined, you can catch the thrilling warmup for the Horned Frogs on Saturday night at 7 p.m. on Fox.
Hogs superfan picks score of opening game against FAMU
Canaan Sandy has made his pick for Arkansas’ opening game Thursday night against Florida A&M. Watch the video to see who he picks.
Whaley’s family among those displaced by floods
The recent flooding in south Texas has had an affect on a few of the Arkansas football players getting ready for Thursday’s opener against Florida A&M.
Including starting running back Devwah Whaley.
“He’s assured me everything is good and he’s ready to rock and roll,” Bielema told Matt Jones of WholeHogSports.com earlier today. “He’ll do everything he can to honor his family by the way he plays, I’m sure.”
Other players from cities affected by the flooding include:
• Defensive end Brandon DePrato, Cypress
• Defensive back Ryder Lucas, The Woodlands
• Running back Connor McPherson, The Woodlands
• Defensive end Jonathan Marshall, Shepherd
“Our kids, their concerns are always with their loved ones,” Bielema told WholeHogSports.com. “It’s just a lot of things to navigate through. We’re working with the university to see if there is anything we can – and as a head coach, anything I can do, we’re going to do that.”
Parking, traffic information for War Memorial Stadium
Lot Times
- Reserved Tailgating, Large Grill, and Fraternity Row will open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 1:30 p.m.
- Scholarship Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12 will open at 8:00 a.m.
- Scholarship Lots 2, 9, and 10 will be available after 1:00 p.m.
- Ray Winder Lot will be available after 1:00 p.m.
- Rick’s Armory Lot will be available after 5:00 p.m.
- General Parking (Golf Course) opens at 9:00 a.m.
- Corporate Tailgating opens at 8:00 a.m.
- Handicap Accessible Parking opens after 1 p.m.
General Admission Parking
General admission parking is located on the Golf Course and should be accessed from Markham and Taylor or from I-630 and Fair Park.
Reserved Parking
- If you are parking in Scholarship Lots 1, 2 & 5, you should enter through Markham and Monroe.
- If you are parking in Scholarship Lots 6 and 9, you should enter from Seventh Street, coming west from Cedar.
- If you are parking in Scholarship Lots 4, 7, and 10 you should enter from 12th and Jonesboro.
- If you are parking in Scholarship Lots 3 and 8, you should enter from I-630 and Fair Park.
- If you are parking in Scholarship Lot 12, you should enter from Markham and Taylor.
Traffic is diverted around the Stadium in the following manner
Streets are closed for one-way traffic as follows:
Pregame
- Taylor from Markham is one-way south;
- Markham and Fair Park is closed to south bound traffic, with exceptions to Media and Medical;
- Monroe from Markham is one-way south;
- Palm from Markham is one-way south;
- Seventh Street from Hooper is one-way west;
- Jonesboro (both sides) is converted to one-way north from Twelfth;
- Fair Park south side is closed north bound to only game traffic, all other is diverted to I-630 eastbound.
Postgame
All streets listed above are converted to outward flow only.
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