re: 2016 Arkansas Recruiting Thread - Football & Basketball Commits

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Lamar tight end Blake Kern has accepted an invite to walk-on at Arkansas.
Kern, 6-6, 230 pounds had 16 receptions for 332 yards, a 20.8 yards per catch, and 9 touchdowns.
While playing defensive end, he recorded 61 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, 3 interceptions, a forced fumble, a recovered fumble and pass deflection as a senior.

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in 4 years we've landed Collins, Rawleigh and Whaley.

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It doesn't strike you as odd that in 4 years we've had 3 backs that were high rated. and saying Rawleigh was highly rated is kinda a stretch since he was a 3 star by most if not all services although he lit it up his senior year. This all considering the amount of 1k yard rushes we've had and running backs we've had drafted is extremely sketchy for a team that relies so heavy on the run.

We've also got Juan day and Denzel Evans on the roster but Juan is constantly injured and evans clearly isn't up to par if he can't get on the field with all the injuries we had at the position this year.

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I wonder if it has something to do with wanting #UnCommon young men. When dealing with some of those stud recruits that have offers from everyone, I imagine that Bert is not blowing as much smoke up a kid's arse. I also imagine that the kind of kids that WANT that kind of smoke don't fit Bert's description of uncommon.

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Some of it might but i also think it has to do with missing the top targets. Especially when you look at who we offered I think it becomes clear we wanted some of those kids but didn't get them. not that I think we should land everyone we offer but it's not like we aren't trying to get the higher ranked guys for lower ranked guys all the time.

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imagine that Bert is not blowing as much smoke up a kid's arse

This probably has a lot to do with us losing out on stars. But team chemistry is more important imo. Or you could end up with a situation like A&M is dealing with.

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all of this.

kids that really like having smoke blown up their arse aren't worth the time, since arrogance goes hand in hand with that smoke blowing. hard work and humbleness wins out every time. speaking of, kristian has been described as pretty humble a few times...

Porter to Texas

He probably just wasn't humble enough and we didn't blow enough smoke up his arse. Am I doing this right?

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Scared of Whaley imo. Sucks we didn't get him but we had to get one of him, Whaley, Pennamon, or White and we did.

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been stated all along we wanted two running back out of that group. We got 1.

Me too. Really wanted Porter.

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Damn it, so who is going to be our other RB for this class?

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read either in this thread or on another site that supposedly bielema has been secretly recruiting another RB. Expect someone out of nowhere with low-level offers.