The Arkansas begins a critical season for coach Sam Pittman when the Razorbacks meet the Alabama A & M on Saturday afternoon in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Arkansas did not have a winning mark in the Southeast Conference in five seasons under Pittman, a former deputy coach of Georgia. So, after the overall record of 7-6 from last year, the Razorbacks seek to make progress.
“During the camp, I think we did everything as a staff we wanted to accomplish,” said Pittman. “Each year you have to improve.”
The Alabama A&M program is at a different stadium with the football championship subdivision team under the first -year coach Sam Shade. The Bulldogs were 6-6 last season.
It will be the very first meeting between the teams.
The Arkansas quarter-arre, Taylen Green, tries to rely on the 2024 season during which he launched for 3,154 yards and totalized 23 affected in total (15 passes, eight rush). Green joins John Mateer from Oklahoma as the only active QB in the country for launching more than 3,000 yards and rushed for more than 600 meters last year.
Green should have a lot of weapons with the Razorbacks in their second season since the former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino returned to the team as an attacking coordinator.
“We learn that we have a good group of fairly dang wideouts,” said Pittman.
One of the convincing scenarios concerns the second-year receiver Monte Harrison, a former Baseball player from Major League who was 30 years earlier this month. He made two captures in his first season with the Razorbacks.
“He continued to work and now he is one of those guys you want to go,” said Pittman. “He’s really a guy you want to go.”
Shade has spent the last three seasons for kilometers from division II before being hired at Alabama A&M.
The quarter Cornelious Brown IV will remain the starter of the Bulldogs, offering new staff a level of comfort.
“He has played so much football, so it is difficult for the other guys behind him to push to be in this place right now because he has just played so much ball,” said Shade. “We sort of relying on this experience.”
The quarter-Arrière JD Davis II, a transfer from western Michigan, will be one of the backups.
“He has done a lot of Spring Ball improvement so far,” said Shade. “He wants to be there.”
The Alabama A&M recipient, Duke Miller, missed the pre-season training time with a boot on foot, so his status is troubled. Shade said he liked how the precipitated attack had clicked for the Bulldogs during some of their melee work at the end of the pre-season.
– field level media
