re: 2016 Arkansas Recruiting Thread - Football & Basketball Commits

frick Otis. We're letting his bullshite get in the way of celebrating the commitment of the highest rated recruit in Bert's tenure here.

A game changer DE that we've really not had since Wayne Martin.

Trey Flowers, Chris Smith, Jake Bequette, and Jamaal Anderson were all pretty good for us in the recent past but none of those guys were regarded as national recruits and certainly not lauded as a 5* level guy, or even low 4* level.

We should still be on cloud 9 that got Agim, and that he's coming in at semester, he'll be a sophmore academic wise before he takes a single snap, he's got a 3.6 GPA, his head on straight, he's got a vision to play 3 years here, graduate in 3, and enter the draft.

We're all going to love that kid by the time he's done here.

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We're letting his bullshite get in the way of celebrating the commitment of the highest rated recruit in Bert's tenure here.

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Alex Collins was also a "5*". #1 RB in his class as well.

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Trey Flowers, Chris Smith, Jake Bequette, and Jamaal Anderson were all pretty good for us in the recent past but none of those guys were regarded as national recruits and certainly not lauded as a 5* level guy, or even low 4* level.

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Bequette was loathed as being a "legacy" recruit by Nutt.

Anderson was actually a scholarship given to get his buddy to sign, a guy who was suppose to be a game changing D lineman who didn't do shite during his time on the hill.

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We're all going to love that kid by the time he's done here.

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Most likely. Bert is doing a good job of filling the lines, this is the area where Arkansas has struggled since joining the SEC (being undersized was rarely a problem in the SWC).

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Collins didn't play football until his Jr. year. He didn't get that 5th star until late in his Sr. year IIRC.

Agim's been lauded as an elite of the elite recruit since going into his Soph. year.

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I'd call Agim our biggest commitment since McFadden and possibly even bigger than DMAC.

DMAC was a heavy Arkansas lean before he ever committed. Agim was a heavy Oklahoma lean before he committed if I recall correctly and Arkansas was an after thought to other schools besides OU. But bert made up serious ground and got his commitment. Plus agim gets to stick to his natural position, DMAC moved from safety to running back.

<3 bert's recruiting

Yeah the stars thing is largely a popularity contest. I think there are too many recruits for the ranking services to keep up with them well enough to be accurate.

And then when a 2-star kicks arse in college they retroactively bump to 4 or 5. Like Felix Jones. NFL caliber player, recruited by no one. Then the services pretend like he was a 5 star all along.

Agim passes the eyeball test though. Big, strong, fast, good technique. He already looks like a college player and he's graduating early so his head is screwed on at least halfway straight. :)

It's amazing how many guys were out of position during Nutt's era. Like basically all of the good players besides Jermaine Petty, Ken Hamlin, and Tony Ugoh.

that was the only way nutt could get good players; let them play where they wanted to play

Dmac would be the best saftey in the league if he played there

I wouldn't give up McFadden's years for anything; probably the most consistently entertaining football in my lifetime, with Matt Jones as really the only conversation I could have.

(Also, F Troy Smith)

That said, yeah, he would've been a pretty damn good safety.

Going to watch TJ Hammonds tonight. He exploded last week every time he touched the ball. He goes to the high school I graduated from. He seems like the real deal out there! Ill post updates throughout the night.

By the way I'm new to the board. WPS

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