Can Razorbacks Put Noise in Background Before Practices Start?

With all the speculation and whirl of things flying around Hogs football, nobody seems to wonder if the players are able to ignore it

Arkansas Razorbacks quarterbacks Malachi Singleton and Taylen Green during passing drills at a spring practice inside Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark. / Andy Hodges-allHOGS Images

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With just a week before the annual gathering of the media at SEC Media Daze in Dallas, a single question popped up that probably should have come earlier. With all the discussions and swirl of questions around Arkansas football right now, are the players listening to any of it?

While about every list possible (mainly to overcome boredom) has been analyzed, debated and speculated, the players are going through summer practices and squeezing in trips home. It's hard to imagine they can't help but hear at least some of the chatter.

Everybody's talking about it between asking if it's too early to book Final Four reservations. Players will usually tell you at the time they don't pay any attention to it.

They hear it. Ignoring it is impossible these days because it's impossible to go anywhere and not hear people talking about the state of things around a football program.

The thing about sports is by the time a definitive answer arises, it's too late for anything to be done about the situation. With the schedule facing the Razorbacks this year, that starts in the second week on the road against Oklahoma State and finishes with a brutal November against three-of-four opponents ranked in the preseason Top 25.

There will be plenty of rambling next week. There will be enough interviews and prepared lines from players and coaches with a lot of cliches and using a lot of words to say very little to keep everybody busy for a couple of weeks.

Practices start then and finally a few answers to questions will reveal themselves, including if the players have been listening. They don't have to say it because it's usually reflected in how they practice.

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