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Arkansas is Copying the Tennessee Business Model
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:27 pm
After the All-American linebacker commit today from NJ it shows Arkansas is literally copying the Tennessee business model.
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Tennessee made a living off recruiting all over the nation along with the Southeast.
Arkansas, with the help of TAMU, has put our name back into Texas and opening up areas across the nation. Arkansas and Tennessee have similar in-state talent which is better than Missouri and Kentucky but not as good as LSU and Alabama.
It's so nice to finally see Arkansas getting back to where we are supposed to be in the national spotlight. I just wish we could pick up Tennessee again for more games. We owe them now the shoe is on the other foot!
It's amazing how Houston Nutt would lose 2 or 3 in-state Arkansas recruits to Tennessee every single year but he could never just copy their business plan. Thank you BMFP!
WPS!
LINK Recruiting Video
Tennessee made a living off recruiting all over the nation along with the Southeast.
Arkansas, with the help of TAMU, has put our name back into Texas and opening up areas across the nation. Arkansas and Tennessee have similar in-state talent which is better than Missouri and Kentucky but not as good as LSU and Alabama.
It's so nice to finally see Arkansas getting back to where we are supposed to be in the national spotlight. I just wish we could pick up Tennessee again for more games. We owe them now the shoe is on the other foot!
It's amazing how Houston Nutt would lose 2 or 3 in-state Arkansas recruits to Tennessee every single year but he could never just copy their business plan. Thank you BMFP!
WPS!
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Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:29 pm to SunHog
How? It's not even a Top 25 class. Tennessee had top five classes from 1994-2002.
Edit: And SEC Recruiting Board...
Edit: And SEC Recruiting Board...
This post was edited on 1/27/12 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:29 pm to SunHog
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Arkansas is Copying the Tennessee Business Model
So Arkansas is copying Bama?
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:32 pm to SunHog
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It's so nice to finally see Arkansas getting back to where we are supposed to be in the national spotlight.
I lost it here
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:32 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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How? It's not even a Top 25 class. Tennessee had top five classes from 1994-2002.
Petrino Last Week - "We have this 5* player here, and this 3* player over here .. I think this 3* star player is better for our system and development of that player."
It's hard to argue that when we are 21-5 in 2 years without using our Red-shirts yet. He talked extensively how development is majorly over looked because most kids don't peak athletically their senior year in high school. Therefore, you must believe in your system.
I agree with all those points.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:33 pm to BamaFan89
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I lost it here
Sorry you lost it.
Arkansas is in the top half of the SEC all time which is above top 25 in almost all categories.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:33 pm to SunHog
Things we've taken from Tennessee:
Their recruiting blueprint
Their dignity (42-7)
Their seat at the Big 6 table
Their recruiting blueprint
Their dignity (42-7)
Their seat at the Big 6 table
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:34 pm to SunHog
Got your new avatar for you.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:34 pm to SunHog
Well, talk about development of players, over recruiting rankings. That's what Nebraska did for so long. Tennessee, while they developed players, were signing the top guys from areas all over the country during their run. They were college ready. This is clearly not the same thing for Arkansas.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:34 pm to TreyAnastasio
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So Arkansas is copying Bama?
Can't copy Alabama in recruiting because of population of athletes within a 200 miles of Tuscaloosa is greater than Fayetteville.
Fayetteville = Knoxville in so many ways.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:35 pm to SunHog
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Arkansas is in the top half of the SEC all time which is above top 25 in almost all categories.
Seems like a pretty loose definition of national spotlight, but whatever floats your boat.
:nb4flagshipjoke:
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:36 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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How? It's not even a Top 25 class. Tennessee had top five classes from 1994-2002.
Edit: And SEC Recruiting Board...
We're something like 11 on Scout. It just depends on which website you pick.
If we end up getting DGB and Diamond (which we supposedly are the team to beat) among a couple other big guys we are looking at then we'll be top 10-15 across all sites.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:37 pm to SunHog
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Arkansas is in the top half of the SEC all time which is above top 25 in almost all categories.
Actually Arkansas is 7th in the SEC since joining.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:37 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Well, talk about development of players, over recruiting rankings. That's what Nebraska did for so long. Tennessee, while they developed players, were signing the top guys from areas all over the country during their run. They were college ready. This is clearly not the same thing for Arkansas.
Tennessee was not doing that in 1989 Cotton Bowl they had just begun to do that. They sustained it with one coach which can be a mirror image of Petrino.
You do realize we didn't use red-shirt's this year. We have a class full in waiting. We haven't done that in 15 years... Petrino has layed a foundation.
21-5 in 2 years within a division that has had 3 national titles is fantastic! I'll take it all day everyday. Some of y'all live in fantasy world.
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Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:37 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Well, talk about development of players, over recruiting rankings. That's what Nebraska did for so long. Tennessee, while they developed players, were signing the top guys from areas all over the country during their run. They were college ready. This is clearly not the same thing for Arkansas.
You are correct, sort of.
We are going back to the Holtz method of recruiting. When Hatfield came in he focused mainly/only on instate/Texas and we lost several of the ties Holtz had created in Ohio/etc. Hatfield literally quit recruiting his last year, Crowe didn't have a friggin clue what he was doing. Ford didn't know where he was half the time and Nutt was extremely lazy when it came to recruiting.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:39 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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How? It's not even a Top 25 class. Tennessee had top five classes from 1994-2002.
We are recruiting nationally and not locally like we used to do. How is this complicated to understand?
Also the class is #20 on Scout and #22 on 24/7.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:39 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Actually Arkansas is 7th in the SEC since joining.
Which would be top half...
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:39 pm to BamaFan89
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Seems like a pretty loose definition of national spotlight, but whatever floats your boat.
It's pretty obvious to any college football fan top 25 in football categories is the bar.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:40 pm to bpfergu
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Diamond (which we supposedly are the team to beat)
Michigan is
Posted on 1/27/12 at 2:40 pm to TreyAnastasio
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Michigan is
Michigan isn't hard for Arkansas to beat...
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