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

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Any idea of what we're going to finish at? Ranking wise?

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In what way is it easier to recruit to Lexington Kentucky for football than it is Fayetteville?

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I've never had nine kids enroll early before. So it was a little odd with so many already here. We still have an open scholarship, so it's a work in progress. Everything went as planned today.

Those early enrollees are in their third week now and have adjusted well with the weight room and academics. The first four weeks will be all Coach Herb. The next four weeks will also incorporate a little on-field stuff and Hoganese.

Chevin joining us today was some icing on the cake. ... This may be the deepest DB class I've ever been a part of.

We knew we were going to go after some JUCO wide receivers. Brandon Martin was the top of the list. When Jen (Bielema) first saw Brandon, she asked, "Is that a defensive end?"

Koilan is probably one of the more underrated recruits in our class. He's big and strong and hasn't played the receiver spot that much. ... And Jarrod was the guy who held Malik Monk pretty well in the state championship basketball game and you see what he's doing in the SEC now.

Kurt and I went after a certain kind of guy. We didn't go after "sexy and stars"... We went after "meat and potatoes." ... Wagner, it's like walking behind a moving garage.

Kirby Adcock has the ability to play inside and outside. ... Shane Clenin could play all five positions. He reminds me of Frank (Ragnow) with that skillset.

We have a pretty small class next year in the state and for us. Those (blueshirts) give us an opportunity to make the class bigger.

Patton is back home in Indianapolis taking online classes. Hope to have him on June 1.

After the first month of the season I knew we were going to a 3-4 scheme and that's when we started adjusting the numbers with E.K. Franks. I wasn't sharing it with anyone else. Then we set our numbers up accordingly with who we needed to recruit.

on Daulton Hyatt: Height, length, arm strength. ... His whole school gravitated to him, so there's leadership. He's great with Xs and Os. He fell in love with the place when he got here.

on Porter: David is a very good football player. It was more about what he was getting done in the classroom. He's giving up soccer to concentrate on getting the grades he needs to get. It was just a matter of getting that stuff done.

We captured a commitment from every player we offered in the state of Arkansas. Some others went to other Power Five schools, but they weren't offered by us. Some were based on fitting in our scheme, some were academic concerns, others were character.

By the fifth game of the season, several people from Little Rock were telling us to look at Hayden Henry. He called me Monday and said he wanted to come here.

on DBs possibly playing early: They have to mentally be able to handle the pressure of it. There is a lot of up-tempo and adjustment at the line of scrimmage. It's more than the physical aspect of it.

on Chase Hayden: I have no intention of playing him anywhere other than running back.

BB says T.J. Hammonds will cross train at wide receiver and Hayden Johnson will cross train at tight end.

This is my fifth class, so I know these guys well. We first started recruiting Calloway in his freshman year, so we've known these kids for a while. We offered Munson midway through his sophomore year. He's a kid who was on the wrong path academically, but when we offered him, he got things on track and turned his life around.

I've been trying to recruit Oklahoma since I got here. For us, that is an area... Y'all know geography better than me. I didn't know it was so close.

The very first moment I knew Robb was gone, I called every defensive recruit. There was never any indecision. Robb was the lead recruiter for those Oklahoma kids, but we got several other coaches on them, too.

BB, on what he told recruits: My first 20 games here, we were tied for dead last in the SEC. My last 20 games, we are tied for fourth in the SEC. Had we won those last two games, we'd be tied for second.

We've snuck some guys in for interviews. Being on the road is a good time to do things under the radar. One of the guys I wanted to interview was just eliminated from the NFL playoffs and another is still involved. I don't want to speculate on when it's going to happen.

I couldn't be happier for Trey Flowers. To have that connection to the Super Bowl is pretty cool. It's a fun time of the year to see those guys at the highest pinnacle of football.

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