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Burks named to watch list for Walter Camp Trophy

Arkansas junior wide receiver Treylon Burks has been named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List.

Burks, from Warren, is one of 35 players selected to the watch list, and one of four wide receivers.

He led the Razorbacks in receptions last season, hauling in 51 passes for 820 yards and seven touchdowns. He finished third in the SEC in receiving yards per game (91.1) and fifth in total receiving yards, logging six games of 90+ receiving yards and four games of 100+ receiving yards as a true sophomore.

Burks earned second-team All-SEC honors after the 2020 campaign and was one of only two FBS receivers to log 800+ receiving yards and 70+ rushing yards on the year. Earlier this preseason, Burks was named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which is presented to the most outstanding player in college football, and named Preseason All-SEC.

The Walter Camp Player of the Year award is the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade. The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in mid-November.

The 2021 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 130 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced live on ESPN on Thursday, December 9. The trophy presentation is set to occur on Jan. 15, 2022, in New Haven, Conn.

Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.

The Morning Rush is LIVE! Moses Moody goes in the lottery

Eric Musselman joins Tye Richardson and Tommy Craft on ESPN Arkansas and Moses Moody being a lottery pick in draft.

Moody drafted by Kings with 14th overall pick of NBA Draft

Moses Moody was projected to be a Top 10 in NBA Draft on Thursday night, but ended up going to Sacramento with the 14th pick.

He is the first one-and-done player in Arkansas’ program history.

Moody just completed a sensational freshman campaign with the Razorbacks. Not only did he compile an impressive list of individual honors, but Moody also led Arkansas to the program’s first NCAA Elite 8 since 1995, a 25-win season — just the program’s 13th 25-win season in 97 years of basketball — and a top 10 final national ranking.

 Moody led the team, ranked third in the SEC and was fourth among NCAA freshmen in scoring (16.8 ppg).

He was 1 of 3 NCAA freshmen to average over 15.0 points and 5.0 rebounds; as 1 of 3 players in the SEC (only freshman) to average at least 16.0 points and 5.5 rebounds; was 1 of 2 players in the SEC (only freshman) in SEC top 20 in: PPG (3rd) • FG% (9th) • 3PT% (17th) • FT% (9th) • RPG (17th); and was 1 of 3 players in the SEC (only frosh) to shoot at least: 42% FG, 35% 3PT and 80% FT.

Moses Moody 2020-21 Honors

• Second team All-American (Andy Katz NCAA March Madness)
• Honorable Mention All-American (AP)
• First team Freshman All-American (Basketball Times)
• Kyle Macy National Freshman of the Year Finalist (CollegeInsider.com)
• Kyle Macy National Freshman All-America (CollegeInsider.com)
• All-District VII (USBWA)
• First team All-District 20 (NABC)
• All-Midlands District (Basketball Times)
• SEC Freshman of the Year (Coaches)
• SEC Newcomer of the Year (Media)
• First team All-SEC (Coaches)
• First team All-SEC (AP)
• First team All-SEC (USA TODAY)
• SEC All-Freshman Team
• 3x SEC Freshman of the Week
• SEC Men’s Basketball Community Service Team

Arkansas First Round NBA Picks (by year)

• 1978 – Ron Brewer – Portland Trailblazer – 7th pick
• 1979 – Sydney Moncrief – Milwaukee Bucks – 5th pick
• 1983 – Darrell Walker – New York Knicks – 12th pick
• 1984 – Alvin Robertson – San Antonio Spurs – 7th pick
• 1985 – Joe Kleine – Sacramento Kings – 6th pick
• 1992 – Todd Day – Milwaukee Bucks – 8th pick
• 1992 – Oliver Miller – Phoenix Suns – 22nd pick
• 1992 – Lee Mayberry – Milwaukee Bucks – 23rd pick
• 1995 – Corliss Williamson – Sacramento Kings – 13th pick
• 2001 – Joe Johnson – Boston Celtics – 10th pick
• 2006 – Ronnie Brewer Jr. – Utah Jazz – 14th pick
• 2015 – Bobby Portis – Chicago Bulls – 22nd pick
2021 – Moses Moody – Golden State – 14th pick

Arkansas First Round NBA Picks (by highest overall pick / * indicates lottery pick)

Arkansas First Round NBA Picks (by highest overall pick / * indicates lottery pick)
5th – Sydney Moncrief – Milwaukee Bucks – 1979
6th * – Joe Kleine – Sacramento Kings – 1985
7th – Alvin Robertson – San Antonio Spurs – 1984
7th – Ron Brewer – Portland Trailblazer – 1978
8th * – Todd Day – Milwaukee Bucks – 1992
10th * – Joe Johnson – Boston Celtics – 2001
12th – Darrell Walker – New York Knicks – 1983
13th * – Corliss Williamson – Sacramento Kings – 1995
14th * – Ronnie Brewer Jr. – Utah Jazz – 2006
14th * – Moses Moody – Golden State – 2021
22nd – Bobby Portis – Chicago Bulls – 2015
22nd – Oliver Miller – Phoenix Suns – 1992
23rd – Lee Mayberry – Milwaukee Bucks – 1992

Arkansas NBA Lottery Picks (by year / NBA Lottery began in 1985)
1985 – Joe Kleine – Sacramento Kings – 6th pick (7 total lottery picks)
1992 – Todd Day – Milwaukee Bucks – 8th pick (11 total lottery picks)
1995 – Corliss Williamson – Sacramento Kings – 13th pick (13 total lottery picks)
2001 – Joe Johnson – Boston Celtics – 10th pick (13 total lottery picks)
2006 – Ronnie Brewer Jr. – Utah Jazz – 14th pick (14 total lottery picks)
2021 – Moses Moody – Golden State – 14th pick (14 total lottery picks)

SEC’s decision will give Hog fans someone to hate regularly

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The only question left to answer after a unanimous decision to officially invite Texas and Oklahoma into the SEC is when they start playing?

So much for speculation the media has run with for a decade that Texas A&M would block any attempt by the Longhorns to get into the league. It wasn’t hard to guess money was going to be the ultimate trump card … sooner or later.

Turns out ESPN apparently has come up with some sort of plan to get out of the financial disaster of The Longhorn Network and in the process has created the biggest super conference in the history of college athletics.

Arkansas fans should thank Frank Broyles. His talking the Razorbacks into the SEC will start paying dividends and keeps them from getting left out.

Get ready for a new world. Don’t plan the future based on what has happened in the past. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not promised and the present is probably going to change on a pretty regular basis.

The good news is Hogs’ fans have an opponent they can truly hate.

Of course, they never really stopped hating Texas for some strange reason. Hey, I grew up in Arkansas and seen it for over six decades and I still don’t understand why everybody gets so worked up, but it is what it is.

While Oklahoma may be the best football program right now, don’t think Steve Sarkisian inherited a roster without any talent. He’s got a top 10 group of players in the country. The question is if he can pull it together for the first season.

The Hogs are the only SEC team having to worry about that now. Make no mistake, though, the Longhorns will come into Fayetteville to make a statement after being approved to join the league.

In sports other than football, both programs are pretty good. Texas is ranked in the way-too-early preseason men’s basketball polls, Oklahoma is currently a powerhouse in college softball. The Longhorns went to the College World Series, beat Mississippi State and Tennessee in Omaha so that will be intense, too.

The SEC rivalry may be more intense for Hog fans than it was before 1992.

We have no idea, though, when that will be. The invitation says it will be effective July 1, 2025 but nobody wants to wait four years and it will happen before then.

Exactly how it happens with CBS holding that Saturday afternoon game for a couple of years isn’t known and as I was told years ago don’t apply standard business practices and logic to television rights fees and such. They play with an entirely different set of financial rules, expectations and results.

It will get figured out by somebody.

For the Hogs’ faithful, though, this should be good news for the future. Oklahoma is a relatively easy drive for much of the state. Austin is a bigger trip but fans would go to a foreign country to play the Longhorns.

But now fans under the age of 40 will finally get to see what all of the fuss is about from old folks about hating burnt organge

Holt on ESPN jumping into middle of shuffling conferences around

Democrat-Gazette writer Bob Holt on Halftime about the SEC expanding by adding Texas, Oklahoma and implications.

Moody probably will do better with NBA spacing, other players, writer says

Parker Fleming from Grizzly Bear Blues said on Halftime ahead of the NBA Draft he feels Moses Moody will thrive.

Halftime Pod Presented by Eastside Liquor: Holt, Fleming

Bob Bowlsby mad at ESPN; AAC replacing Big 12?; DVH; NBA Draft; Halftime Homework and more!
 
Guests- Bob Holt & Parker Fleming

RECRUITING THURSDAY: Adding Texas, OU to SEC won’t hurt Hogs

Democrat-Gazette recruiting guru Richard Davenport sees a stronger league only being positive for Sam Pittman getting players.

Murphy thinks conference juggles are all about power, money

Democrat-Gazette writer Tom Murphy thinks ESPN helping SEC grabbing Texas, Oklahoma all about increasing power, making money.

Brewer on what he brings to Razorbacks’ recruiting, coaching staff

Ronnie Brewer, Jr., talked Wednesday morning about his new job helping land new players for Eric Musselman’s roster.