Reggie Mitchell is the new RB coach

where you seeing this at?

Interesting. Look forward to reading more about him and his recruiting areas. I'm on board with a guy that has been a recruiting coordinator as long as he has. There HAVE to be some relationships that'll benefit us.

I'll need to do some more reading on him but it's not moving the needle for me at this point. I know he was a good recruiter back at Illinois but that was 8 or so years ago. Times have changed and he has been buried at Kansas. I would have preferred someone a little younger myself.

Trust in Bielema though and hope this works out.

Something more interesting than the hire is that reverend predicted the hire days ago. Could this mean someone finally has a source for coaching changes?

I guess at Arkansas we have to coach up our coaches, too.

What sticks out about Mitchell is his familiarity with current Razorback OC Dan Enos. The two have recruited from the same areas in the past and Mitchell has had to game plan for Enos while coaching up the defensive side of the ball at Minnesota as the d-line coach(1988-1990) during Enos’ tenure as a quarterback for the Spartans(1987-1990).

Bingo

He seems to have a good recruiting pedigree which had been lacking with the previous two coaches.

From the KU board.

I'm just going to leave this here:

"Earlier this week, Mitchell was honored by Rivals.com as one of the top-10 recruiters in the Big 12. Mitchell was the only member of KU’s staff on the list, and the website touted his reputation and ability to steer the two big targets to Kansas.

This is not the first time Mitchell received such an honor. In 2006, Rivals.com tapped him as one of the 20 best recruiters in the nation. A year later, he was named to Rivals’ list of the top five recruiters in the Big Ten. What’s more, Illinois’ recruiting classes ranked in the top 35 nationally during three of Mitchell’s five seasons as the Illini’s recruiting coordinator. That includes 2007, when UI’s class ranked 20th and included two five-star players and five four-star guys. A year later, the Illini ranked 23rd in the country, with six four-star prospects.

Mitchell surfaced in the Big Ten after spending nine seasons (1988-96) at KU with former Jayhawk coach Glen Mason. From there, he spent two years at Minnesota (1997-98), six years at Michigan State (1999-2004) and five at Illinois (2005-09).

It was there that the Flint, Mich., native established himself as one of the top recruiters in the country, bringing to Michigan State such big-name prospects as wide receiver Charles Rogers, the former No. 2 overall pick of the Detroit Lions, running back T.J. Duckett, who also was a first-round draft pick, and former all-pro wide receiver Plaxico Burress.

At Illinois, Mitchell helped land running back Rashard Mendenhall, the current Pittsburgh Steelers starter, who, in 2007, set Illinois school records for rushing yards and touchdowns on his way to becoming a first-round pick."

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He also seems like he's had success at schools not named kansas

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We are fricked

Touche.