re: 2017 Arkansas Recruiting Thread---Football and Basketball

Desi Sills commits, unrated for now but not long, another solid guard. Runs point for the Hawks, excellent chemistry with Perry already at this point.

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DESI SILLS SCOUTING REPORT: perfect skill set for the fastest 40 minutes of basketball, relentless defender, above average jump shot and shooter beyond the three-point line, very aggressive to the basket, can play the one or the two, ultimate team player

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Can we get all 5?

Desi Sills 87 3* ranked 123. Technical error showing him as unrated on 247 per Jerry Meyer on Twitter.

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@jerrymeyer247: @UltimateHog @OtisKirk247 Has rating. Technological error. Rated him an 87 which is a currently a ranking of 123.

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2018 class moves up to #1 in the country.

Sexy.

Awesome!

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Ethan Henderson is next

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Fitzgerald Hill
?@fitzhill
I nicknamed AR Hawks Isaiah Joe, " THE SNIPER" because he is deadly behind the three point line. Get ready HOG Fans.

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Hyatt accurate, mobile in first game

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Razorbacks 2017 quarterback commit Daulton Hyatt of Etowah High School (Attalla, Ala.) also began his final high school season on Friday night.

Hyatt was 13-of-18 passing for 238 yards with 2 touchdowns and an interception in the Blue Devils’ 48-33 loss to Southside (Ala.) High School. He added 49 rushing yards with 1 touchdown on 7 carries.

Hyatt (6-4, 182) is rated as the No. 20 pro-style quarterback in the class. The highlights from the game Friday suggest he may have dual-threat abilities. He was forced to elude the rush on several occasions. He turned busted plays into positive gains.

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Dual-threat QB?

From watching his hudl he seemed to make a lot of things happen with his legs.

Interesting to me that we'll have Kelley and Hyatt who seem to be two completely different types of QBs. Should make for a pretty good competition in a few years

Could be better.

I noticed that w/ Tre Swilling's commitment to his dad's alma mater Georgia Tech that 5 of their 12 commits are CB's.


Have we had a 4* or better CB since Winston? Swilling's not, but he made think about our CB recruiting and how it's probably the one position in football that is the most dependent on pure athletic ability over other positions.

Other positions can be coached up and efficient play and good technique can make up for a degree of athletic deficiencies but at CB on an island it's all ability, reaction and instincts.

Our CB recruiting is right there on par with Iowa St. in this class. I hope that Rhoades is willing and able to get after some top talent in the secondary. The teams competing to win the SEC all have sick athletes in the secondary and we've got work to do to get close to their talent levels.