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Jimbo Fisher says he, Nick Saban have moved on to more important things
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher is finally over his little hissy fit.
At least he says he is.
Reports say he and Alabama’s Nick Saban had a quick encounter, it was normal and everybody has moved on.
“Things are said,” Fisher told reporters at the SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Fla. “What he said. What we said. We’re moving on to the next thing.”
It was a nice story for a couple of weeks, but it really wasn’t going anywhere. It still wouldn’t be surprising, though, to see one run up the score given a chance.
“We’re done talking about it,” Fisher said.
You get the idea Saban has been done with it. You don’t win at the pace he does and not be able to enjoy the free rent in other coaches’ heads.
Fisher was adamant everybody has moved on to other things.
Mainly the scheduling, which is something they can do something about. Forget name, image and likeness. That’s out of the coaches’ control and they are usually very good at only worrying about things they can control.
What the coaches think about how many league games teams play is likely to be directly proportional to how many teams can get into the playoff.
“You want what gives you the best chance as a conference to get the most teams into the playoff,” Fisher said. “To get the 12 best teams or eight best teams or 16 best teams or whatever the format is.”
Right now, the guess here is it’s a chance to give the coaches a chance to weigh in with their opinion, but Greg Sankey has a general idea of what he wants to do.
His staff has the primary goal in mind. We may not know, but there’s probably a direction they are headed.
Now they just have to sell everybody else on the league on the idea.
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Only two Razorbacks make list on first 2023 draft ‘Big Board’
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Aside from way-too-early predictions, projecting any ranking of players right now may be jumping the starting pistol a little.
Such is the case with ESPN’s first Big Board for the 2023 NFL Draft.
After months of wondering where Arkansas’ Treylon Burks would be picked (No. 18 by Tennessee), now we can resume normal wondering if the Razorbacks can get anybody picked the next year.
The Hogs don’t have anybody mentioned until position rankings after the Top 25.
Center Ricky Stromberg is the seventh-rated center as the only offensive player making the list and safety Jalen Catalon is projected as the fourth best safety.
Sam Pittman’s team doesn’t have many projected stars coming back for a team that went 9-4 last year making it to the last Outback Bowl (it’s now the Tampa Bowl).
No Razorbacks were listed in Todd McShay’s first way-too-early mock draft for 2023.
Why is all of that deserving of even a mention?
Considering teams that have the most players projected to be high draft picks tend to be playing in championship games, that would explain why the Hogs aren’t getting much love in that area.
All of it’s summer discussion, anyway.
With the SEC having spring meetings this week where a lot of things being discussed, rankings probably won’t be on that list.
But it is a starting point for looking at the teams that have highly-projected players and that list doesn’t include the Hogs.
In case you’re wondering, the top of the first big board is dominated by the usual suspects like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia.
That likely will be the case when we start rankings, too.
