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gahogfan wrote:

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uscreb wrote:

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Our current class includes
Three Running Backs: Scott, Neat, and Hunter. Hunter is still iffy because of injury.
One WR: Montez Phillips - the rumor mill says that because he is a hometown kid, he will greyshirt and eventually come aboard as an athlete. We will add atleast two more.
Four OL's: We will add at least two others on schollie and probably one preferred walk-on
Four DL's: We will add one more for sure and are in a foot race with Arkie for Williams
Seven DB's: Four safeties and three CB's. One of the Safeties will probably move over to LB and we may
Three LB's: We will probably add three more.

Go make up shit somewhere else.

So I missed by two RB's -- which is interesting and probably news to those kids b/c every single one seems to think they are going to be running the "wild-rebel" next year.

And it looks like you just added one more OL. You beat out of UCF, Middle Tennessee, and South Alabama. Those schools look familiar on all of your OL/DL...interesting.

Just curious, but how many BIG TIME OL recruits did Nutt ever land at Arkansas? I'm guessing Shawn Andrews was one. Were there any others?

Reason I ask is because you always had a great offensive line under Nutt/Markuson. That tells me that they are all about finding potential on the OL and then developing those players. O-linemen, more than any other position, are often determined by how well your S&C coach and your OL coach get them ready. You can't just "recruit" a quality O-line. You have to build a quality O-line, even if you land a bunch of highly touted guys. Michael Oher is a good example. He was highly touted, and he was good enough, but he didn't come close to his full potential until this year after Decker and Markuson got a hold of him.