re: Arkansas and aTm in old SEC

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Arkansas needs Texas talent. They really should move to the big 12.

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I just don't see how moving to any other P5 conference would have helped these last few years when we're losing to Western Kentucky, San Jose State, North Texas and Colorado State.

There is a narrative that A&M coming into the league has killed our Texas recruiting but it's not true at all, we're still recruiting Texas the exact same as we were when Petrino was winning 10-11 games here: LINK

We do need Texas talent but we also need Arkansas talent to be better than it has been lately. In the past we've been able to rely on in-state guys like Matt Jones, Darren McFadden, the trio of WRs under Petrino, etc. but there haven't been many superstars come out of Arkansas lately since they're all playing basketball now (and coincidentally we have a top 10 recruiting class in basketball for 2020 of all originally in-state guys). On paper we hover around #20-#25 in recruiting but you can tell by watching that our current talent (or maybe it's just been the coaching) is worse than it has been in a very long time.