re: 2014 Arkansas Recruiting Thread - Football & Basketball Commits

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That Tom Martin guy just said he doesn't think Thibodeaux wants to sign today. I'm guessing he would then take his visits.

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He should take visits.

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Idiots. That's literally all they look at because it's all they know from playing NCAA on XBox. I'm not kidding about that.

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Yeah, that guy was rated as a ILB, so I'm going to assume he will be a LB, he played DE in HS.

This guy is a DT who is projected to play as a DT.

But they are the same size.

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Yeah, that guy was rated as a ILB, so I'm going to assume he will be a LB, he played DE in HS.

This guy is a DT who is projected to play as a DT.

But they are the same size.

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It's also sort of like how they quite literally always compare kids' sizes to someone in the NFL. Like when Demetrius Dean was in high school, he was something like 6-3, 230, so naturally Hogville started comparing him to Andre Johnson and Megatron. Dennis Johnson is around 5-8, 200? So is Ray Rice!

Same for Kane Whitehurst -- undersized, white receiver? SOUNDS LIKE WES WELKER TO ME.

Heck, they were even trying to compare Wary to Brian Urlacher (insert roflcopter here).

If all you look at is height/weight when recruiting NCAA, I seriously question your gaming accumen. Morons.

Disappointed we didn't close as strongly as we all hoped. Praying that character and hard work will be enough to overcome our better recruiting contemporaries.

I'm hoping we have a QB that can utilize the WR. With a solid OL, WRs, and RBs - our glaring question mark is QB.

Wilson alone should make a big difference. Excited to have him back.

But he and Hatcher are the only ones I'm remotely excited about, just because I have no idea what to expect from the commits. Wish Melvinson hadn't left...

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I'm hoping we have a QB that can utilize the WR. With a solid OL, WRs, and RBs - our glaring question mark is QB.

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Sure. I think if you look at the RS players and the players added this year, you can see many holes being filled. They will have 5 QBs on campus for spring ball, 1 needs to step up and get it done.

Apparently the show on ESPNU said the quickest way to turn around the program was a QB, they used Cam Newton and RGIII as examples, of course HiV is running with it especially the Petrino people. They must have missed where they said earlier on that show that QBs, WRs, and RBs would get you 10-11 wins, it was the lines and DBs that would allow you to win more than that when talking about aTm.

No but it's not like I expected more

If we see the same production from this class as we did the last one then I expect a big improvement from last year. Plus it's another group of Petrino recruits gone

And this class is definitely good. Not any more than that but we met our needs and did great with the O line. Our running game has the potential to be fricking awesome. Plus there will be a lot more competition at QB and receiver

Defense is a question mark but like I said there will be less Petrino guys on there which is a big plus. A defensive Bielema 3 star >>> a defensive Petrino 3 star

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Gonna take a year to bulk all these LB signees up, but we should be able to utilize the WR's in this class immediately. Looking forward to being improved and excited about 2015 already. If we make a bowl this year I'll be really stoked.

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Probably, not sure if you will see many of the defensive recruits make an immediate impact, but you had guys last year who redshirted on that side of the ball.

These guys may need a redshirt year, that's fine, Arkansas needs a redshirt program if they want any amount of sustainable success over a long period of time.