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Here's Thursday's thread, in case you need a refresher:
RECRUITING: - Thursday, Dec. 12 Recruiting Notes, presented by A-1 Discount Tree and Lawn Service
As Luke posted about and the player put on social media, ULM running back Ahmad Hardy is in town for an official visit. The 5-foot-10, 205-pounder rushed 238 times for 1,351 yards as a freshman at ULM. That was the 10th most rushing yards nationally, and he scored 13 touchdowns for the Warhawks...
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I'm mostly setting up the thread here. Today is yard work day for me. I've promised Laura I'll get the yard raked before the rain arrives Saturday. One kid is coming home Monday with friends and the other is coming home Thursday with her boyfriend, so I now have to have the yard perfect for my children.
I have some messages out and should have some updates as the day/weekend progresses.
I did think this was an interesting comment from Coastal Carolina coach Tim Beck.
Arkansas has had more than 20 players enter the portal -- several have visited and/or are visiting Ole Miss -- and Sam Pittman addressed it Thursday. His comments, I though, were interesting.
"We wouldn’t have had financially — and we’ve got money — but we wouldn’t have had financially the money left to go out and get what we might consider big-time difference makers had we just said ‘yes, yes, yes, yes' (to those who decided to transfer for financial reasons)," Pittman said. "And if we’d said that to every one of them, as much money as we have, we would have ran out.
"Listen, let’s go back. Is it very frustrating? Absolutely. And I get that it’s frustrating. But what we decided to do was save a huge pool of money to go into the portal. And that’s what we decided.
"Our donors have been very good financially to us. Revenue sharing coming up here in July, we have money. And so we’re not losing these kids because we don’t have money. We’re losing them because what our value is compared to what maybe they can get elsewhere has been, at times, substantially different. We were a 6-6 football team and we’ve got money, and so we need to use it wisely.
"We have 29 visits already set up coming out of the portal. What’s hard, I think probably on the fan base is that we know more about who’s in the portal than probably anybody does, the availability of us getting them. And so, basically is comes down to those two things. If we weren’t able to match what the number was out there nationally for somebody, then we were saying ‘Hey, we believe that we can go get somebody as good or somebody, two somebody’s for that amount of money.’”
I was told yesterday the quarterback market is wild, with several players having offers in excess of $2 million per year from multiple schools. It's a good day, I suspect, to be Jackson Arnold and/or Maalik Murphy.
Again, more as we get it today...
