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RazorBits: No Hanging Around

August 18, 2008 by TipsterHog 

RBN tidbits from around the web.

London Crawford (TipsterHog Photo)– Last spring, we mentioned how injured Razorback football players were kept involved during practice:

One noticeable change from practice in previous years is that there are drill periods followed by scrimmage periods…followed by drill periods followed by scrimmage periods.  No resting…no group water breaks…no sympathy if you tweak something.

If you’re an injured player, you were on an exercise bike over in a corner of the field.  No one was just ‘hanging around’ on the sidelines.

Alex Abrams of The Morning News wrote a interesting article over the weekend about how those injured player workouts can also involve wailing away on a punching bag or dragging a tackling sled uphill with a rope.

Hmmm…still think being a college athlete is the glamorous life?

– Believe it or not, this Razorback team predicted by many (but not us!) to finish last in the SEC West received 14 votes when the preseason AP poll was released on Saturday.

Technically, that means the Hogs are ranked 37th in the poll (tied with North Carolina).  By comparison, that’s only six spots lower than they were ranked before a 10-win season in 2006.  Just sayin’…

– The stories this offseason about NBA players leaving for greener ($$) pastures overseas now have a Razorback connection.  Former Hog guard Jannero Pargo signed on Friday with Dynamo Moscow, a Russian club team.  The deal is said to be for one year, $3.5 million.

No word yet on whether Patrick Beverley will be one of Pargo’s teammates.  ;)

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18 Responses to “RazorBits: No Hanging Around”

  1. Pete on August 18th, 2008 7:57 am

    “Technically, that means the Hogs are ranked 37th in the poll”

    No, it doesn’t. There are no places beyond 25th because, given the number of votes allotted to each voter, there’s no way to determine anything beyond that.

    For example: if Team A was the first “other team receiving votes” and Team B was the second, and only two points separated them, it’s easy to see that if the ballot was extended to 26 places, and all of the voters placed Team B at #26, they would be #26 by a fairly large margin.

  2. OwassoHog on August 18th, 2008 8:25 am

    Pete, I understand what you are staying but it typically just wouldn’t work out that way so most folks would agree with the “technically perspective show here”.

  3. GonzoHog on August 18th, 2008 8:42 am

    It only matters how they look at it after the season anyhow. Anything right now is nothing more than mere conjecture. (Political BS) I’ll be interested in hearing what they say after the season. We have good players on this team the old coaches didn’t know how to utilize.

  4. TEXASHOG on August 18th, 2008 12:30 pm

    I think the Razorbacks are going to be better than advertised and will hopefully surprise some folks - starting with UT in Austin. I also believe that the defense will get much better, playing against BP’s offensive schemes and philosophy every day in practice. Ones against ones can only help.

    Be patient Razorback fans, in two to three years, the Hogs will be in the [national] hunt.

  5. Walking on Sunshine on August 18th, 2008 12:32 pm

    The AP writers must not have gotten the memo that D-Mac and Felix are in the pros now. Good gosh…if we start 2-0, they’ll have us sniffing the Top 25 !!!!!!

    Tipster, you’re going to have to stop (subliminally, of course) putting LC’s pic up every time you talk about injured players. He hasn’t missed a single practice yet this fall !!! ;)

  6. TipsterHog on August 18th, 2008 5:56 pm

    Pete…perhaps I should have said “37th place” instead of “ranked 37th.” I was mainly just repeating something Bob Holt wrote in Sunday’s Democrat-Gazette.

    Sunshine…as you correctly guessed, that picture was no Freudian slip. Hopefully LC will prove me wrong. As they say…”we’re fixin’ to find out.”

  7. BlindHog on August 19th, 2008 10:20 am

    We are about to see what real coaching can do.

    These guys are throwbacks to old Bear Bryant, Wilson Matthews types. They don’t put the best 11 on the field. They put the toughest 11 on the field.

    It’s supposed to be fun. And, it will be. These guys are going to love it. And, so will we.

  8. GonzoHog on August 19th, 2008 10:39 am

    Not being one-demensional will mean everything when it come’s to opposing defenses. We’ll see guys step up this year that would have barely even played with the old regime still intact. Offensive philosiphy will stand out over everything. Defense is really what my main concern is.

  9. BlindHog on August 19th, 2008 11:06 am

    You can’t not be concerned. With our back 7 you just have to wait and see what kind of scheme they use to put these guys in a position to succeed. We may have to win them all 51-49. The Tulsa game may be 85-84 and pick’em.

  10. GonzoHog on August 19th, 2008 11:23 am

    I feel good about our DBs, even though they are still somewhat of a ? I’ve noticed we could have a little more depth there than I origionally thought. Ramon Broadway hasn’t pushed his was to the top of the depth chart yet, but he still lead’s the defense in interceptions in practice to this point. Darrell Glasper has also caught the attention of Petrino. There could be as much improvement at DB as there is on the offensive side of the ball. Coach Ward has been a proven winner everywhere he’s been, so the DBs could be a pleasent suprise this year. Elton Ford, and Jerico Nelson could suprise a few folks this season. LB is a big concern. Not only are we young, inexsperienced, and thin, we are also small overall. Our biggest LBs are Franklin and Wright, and they are both Freshmen.

  11. BlindHog on August 19th, 2008 1:54 pm

    We are too young, too small, too thin, at linebacker. It will be interesting to see what happens, I hope. There is no denying we could use a big, fast headhunter on the inside and a few more senior enforcers on the outside. In another year or two we may grow and recruit some. It is hard to play defence in the SEC without them.

    I do think that they will improve for the second half. It could be the old Houston Nutt scenerio of a slow start and a fantastic finish. Texas, Alabama, Florida, Auburn is a tough stretch. We will know all there is to know after that. If there is a linebacker left standing he should be ready to go for the second half. What we all hope is that we can outscore one or two of those teams. But, it may not be.

  12. jimmy morara on August 19th, 2008 7:53 pm

    Barring any injuries the Hogs will surprise alot of folks,some of HDN best teams took the field not ready to play,win or lose this team will be ready every game.

  13. BlindHog on August 19th, 2008 8:01 pm

    Agreed.

  14. GonzoHog on August 20th, 2008 8:20 am

    I watched a little bit of the news last night on a re-run, when I got in from work. I watched the sports and they were showing Petrino going through some drills with the RBs. Talk about a coach of detail. This guy doesn’t leave out a thing. You do it his way, to the letter. You probably won’t see a better hands-on coach anywhere out there.

  15. BlindHog on August 20th, 2008 9:09 am

    There was a nice feature on our middle linebacker in the DG this morning.

    Redshirt Freshman, 230 lbs, converted Safety. Doesn’t sound like the perfect resume but the coaches were showing him the love. You just never know.

    Reports on the coaches attitudes, expectations, techniques are all very impressive. It is not like they haven’t had success before. It won’t be too much longer before can see for ourselves just how this is going to pan out.

  16. GonzoHog on August 20th, 2008 9:38 am

    I’m excited about this first game. I want to see first hand what a balanced offense look’s like wearing Razorback uniforms. No more “3 up the middle and punt” A new day is dawning in Hog land. GO HOGS GO!!!!!

  17. LA Hog on August 20th, 2008 1:58 pm

    I have to agreed with all of you, this team could sneak up on some people only because the offense is a unknown. Petrino seems sweat the small stuff, which is very good thing. The linebacker situation is a scary thought, I haven’t heard anything about Freddie Farchild, is he in school or did they kick him out of school period? That stretch of Texas, Alabama, Auburn, and Florida is a big time college football.

  18. Heart of Swine on August 21st, 2008 9:13 am

    Fairchild was kicked off the team several months ago. He was just sentenced to 4 months in jail.