FAYETTEVILLE - Texas A&M will accept an invitation to become the 13th member of the Southeastern Conference on Wednesday, according to multiple reports late Tuesday. Presidents of the 12 SEC universities met Tuesday night in Atlanta and approved to formally extend an offer to Texas A&M, according to reports. The Fort Worth...
Read More Post a comment (23)FAYETTEVILLE - Longtime Southeastern Conference referee Steve Shaw is now in charge of the league's officiating. Shaw was named the SEC's Coordinator of Football Officials on Wednesday, replacing Rogers Redding, who left his post to become national coordinator for College Football Officiating, LLC. Redding has been under much scrutiny the last...
Read More Post a comment (4)Vanderbilt coach Robbie Caldwell changed offensive coordinators Monday, tabbing running backs coach Des Kitchings to the position five days before the Commodores travel to Arkansas. As Jeff Lockridge of The Tennesseean writes, the switch comes just two days after Vanderbilt mustered only three first downs and 70 yards of offense in...
Read More Post a comment (4)The first ever luncheon for the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club will kick off game week today. The first speaker for the newly-created club? Arkansas Coach Bobby Petrino, of course. The luncheon will begin at 11 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Springdale and Petrino will speak at noon. Lunch will...
Read More Post a comment (0)You've seen the polls, the picks, the prognostications and you've heard the banter. There are plenty of opinions out there about how the Southeastern Conference will shake out this season. You've heard from the coaches in their poll. You've even heard from the media in their poll. But what we're doing here...
Read More Post a comment (2)The Arkansas Expats, one of several great Razorback fan blogs, had a great question-and-answer series with college football's prognosticating protagonist Phil Steele recently. It was all about Arkansas and the upcoming season. Steele ranks the Hogs 17th nationally and projects them to finish third in the SEC West. He's rather high...
Read More Post a comment (1)Boy, I tell you what, Stewart Mandel got Houston Nutt pretty good. Mandel, an excellent writer for Sports Illustrated, chimes in on the controversial decision by Nutt and Ole Miss to allow Oregon exile Jeremiah Masoli to enroll and walk-on at Ole Miss. Masoli was kicked off the Oregon team in June...
Read More Post a comment (16)How Arkansas will do in Bobby Petrino's third year remains to be seen, but history says Arkansas may be in for a big year. The Wall Street Journal reflected this in a piece today: In recent years, several major turnarounds and championship seasons occurred during an administration's third year. Two of...
Read More Post a comment (3)Expectations are high at Arkansas, sure, but huge questions remain. Obviously, most of the attention and need for improvement resides with Arkansas' defense in 2010, and perhaps none will require more work than the holes at linebacker. Depth looks to be an issue for inside linebackers coach Reggie Johnson, but he...
Read More Post a comment (0)Arkansas receivers coach Kris Cinkovich has one of the best corps of receivers in the nation. Cinkovich, most recently the receivers coach at UNLV, enters his first year with the Razorbacks in a situation that assistant coaches across the nation must envy. Back at his disposal are Greg Childs, Joe Adams,...
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