Calling realistic Florida and Arkansas fans

I think Ark is a team that CAN win 10 games next year but we pretty much were this year as well. Whether they will or not will depend on whether or not they've learned to eliminate the idiotic mistakes that single handedly cost us the Bama, A&M, Miss St games and so on.

Losing Philon, Flowers and Spaight sucks and their replacements likely won't be as good HOWEVER literally every other position on defense other than those 3 will be improved significantly. Our defense will be legit. And there's no excuse for the offense to not be legit with our o-line being mainly the same, TE and RBs being the same and receivers adding a good amount of talent and a 5th year QB that's done nothing but improve steadily. Plus a new OC that hopefully won't call a double reverse on the 5 yard line or a toss sweep that never gains yards.

I'm psyched about the Tenn game. I'll be up there for it. I'm excited to see our secondary against your receivers.

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Arkansas - Props to a very impressive '14 season, which opened my eyes. Beating Ole Miss and LSU made me believe that CBB will win games at Ark. But, what is the feeling on the '15 season? What's the standard? How big of a game is the Tennessee game this year to you all and how do you think it'll end up? What do you have returning? Arks' OL vs our D front 7 will be fun to watch.

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Quite honestly, we are replacing 3 very good players in Flowers, Philon and Spaight from last season...that's it. That won't be an easy task, but our lines are the deepest they have been on either side of the ball in years...

DC Robb Smith was asked how he'll replace a player like Spaight, but then pointed out that he's had an all-conference selection at his position the last 3 years (Tampa, Rutgers and Arkansas) so it seems that he's pretty good with the X's and O's.

I think the expectation this year is to challenge for the West. It won't be an easy task, with road games at Bama, OM and LSU.

However, we have a 5th year SR QB with 2 future NFL RB's, a strong OL and Defense that should still be pretty damn good in 2015.

It's a big game for sure...We are still building and this would be another nice step in the right direction.

I like our chances

We return basically everything on offense. The only regular starters that we lost is our starting RT and our #2 TE. We were primarily in 12 personnel last year and our #2 TE, AJ Derby, was a big part of our scheme. However, Jeremy Sprinkle will be taking his place and he has been working his way up through the system for the past three years. He is faster than Derby so he will be a different kind of threat than Derby was in the passing game. The question will be can he block as well as Derby did in his short time at TE.

We also have a new OC this season in Dan Enos. According to virtually every player interview that I've seen over the past few weeks, the run scheme is exactly the same while he has expanded the passing concepts that we utilize. Hopefully, we see an increase in our passing efficiency to keep folks from stacking the box against us all season long.

Defense is where we will be questionable early in the season. We are only replacing four players on our defense from last year but three of them were our top three players last year. That will be a tough task to overcome but there probably wasn't a person in the country that would have predicted Robb Smith could have turned a defense ranked in the 70's the previous year in to a top 10 defense.

We shifted our two year starting MLB over to Will where he will be replacing Martrell Spaight who lead the SEC in tackles last year. Will is the focal point of Smith's defense and is honestly the more natural position for Brooks Ellis so this could turn out to be a very good move for us if another LB steps up along side him. He has really been out of position at MLB the past two years but he was really our only option there. Our backup MLB, Josh Williams, has now moved up to the starting role there and then Sophomore Khalia Hackett out of Georgia will be playing the Sam. When we go to Nickel it will be Ellis and Hackett on the field.

DL is probably going to be a rotating unit but is probably the deepest across those two lines as we have ever been in my lifetime. I'm excited to see what they can do this week and who will step up in place of Flowers and Philon. Right now they don't have a set group of 1's so it's tough to give you an exact update there.

I think this game is just as big for us as it is for you. We have to win on the road if we are going to continue moving forward under Bielema.

Hopefully, us catching you early in the year will be beneficial and a lot of your younger guys won't be clicking yet. I give a slight edge to Tennessee due to it being in Knoxville but if our veteran offense isn't rattled early by the environment then I can see us pulling this one out.

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We shifted our two year starting MLB over to Will where he will be replacing Martrell Spaight who lead the SEC in tackles last year. Will is the focal point of Smith's defense and is honestly the more natural position for Brooks Ellis so this could turn out to be a very good move for us if another LB steps up along side him. He has really been out of position at MLB the past two years but he was really our only option there. Our backup MLB, Josh Williams, has now moved up to the starting role there and then Sophomore Khalia Hackett out of Georgia will be playing the Sam. When we go to Nickel it will be Ellis and Hackett on the field.

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I think they are looking at Hackett as the MLB and moved Williams to SAM to play closer to the line.

Arksulli and Cheshire fall under the category of realistic, they're good posters in general, but the majority of other Hog fans on here..fall closer to the category of surrealistic.

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How big of a game is the Tennessee game this year to you

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I think the UT game is very pivotal. We should be 3-0 heading in to a stretch that goes like this: A&M @Cowboy Stadium, @ UT, @ Bama, Auburn at home. That UT game is big for us. We need to go 2-2 in that 4 game stretch if we are going to have a good/great year.
I love how our offense is looking with a 5th year SR.QB, 2 stud RB's, quality TE's and an OL that should be much improved from last year. If we can get someone to step up at WR we should be a really good offense.

I like Coach Mac so far. He's been dealt a shite hand with the OL numbers, so I'm not expecting us to be anything special in year one. 6-6 to 8-4.

Our strength is definitely our defense, specifically the secondary and DL. We'll be in nickel the majority of the time, which should help us to mask our thin LB corps.

On offense, most of us are just looking for improvment week to week. Will Grier and Treon looked solid in the spring game, but that should be taken with a grain of salt. Our OL is thin with 6 scholarship players right now, but we signed 6 OL this last class, so reinforcements are on the way. Look for Martez Ivey to be a virtual starter as soon as he steps on campus. At WR, we only have 1 proven guy in D-Rob, but besides him, we're pretty devoid of talent. Ahmad Fulwood and Brandon Powell have showed flashes, so I expect them to be the other 2 guys on the outside. TE looked promising this spring, with Deandre Goolsby and Cy'ontai Lewis looking the part. We also have Jake McGee, Virginia transfer, who was injured this past year in the 1st quarter of the first game.

I expect UT-UF to be close. Your offense is obviously at a higher level than ours, but I don't know how much success you'll have running the ball, and our DB's aren't no joke. You're defense will shut us down a large part of the game though. Will probably be a 21-17 type game.

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I'm psyched about the Tenn game. I'll be up there for it. I'm excited to see our secondary against your receivers.

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going to the Tennessee game?

two words


SCOOT OVER!

just kidding as long as your arse isn't wider that 6 inches you'll be fine.

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TE looked promising this spring, with Deandre Goolsby and Cy'ontai Lewis looking the part.

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I watched your spring game the other day and would agree that the TE's look good. I would imagine they will be a focal point of the passing game this season. You can really do a lot with Goolsby in regards to scheme. I really wish we hadn't lost out on him to you guys. He's going to be a good one.