Has There Ever Been 'Bad' Recruiting Visit for Razorbacks?

There's also a question if we would read about it somewhere, but you often wonder

(Walt Beazley / Arkansas Communications)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — June is a busy month for Arkansas coach Sam Pittman and his staff. What used to be a month to re-charge the batteries and take things easy before the grind starts again now is reduced to a week or two in early July.

The thing that crossed my mind this week seeing all the recruiting headlines the last few weeks was if we'd even hear about a bad visit by anybody. Those guys that chase recruits do a great job and one I would never even attempt may have never written about one that sailed off the rails with some big target. I have never wasted a lot of effort thinking about players that "might" be coming or have left pro teams or college teams.

Is it really even worth the effort? Oh, recruiting is important and teams have to get several years of big-time players to build a big-time program. Oh, one-year wonders get noticed, but that's usually by everybody and if they have one of those "once in a lifetime" seasons, that can be pointed to as the reason.

Generally, though, the same teams in the Top 15 of the recruiting rankings since that sort of things existed are there every year and usually end up in the same spot in the final poll. Maybe nothing has changed in 60 years as recruiting, but it's interesting how the biggest names keep right on getting the top players and having the best teams.

Just so everybody knows, the Razorbacks haven't cracked into that Top 15 in the recruiting rankings very often and probably won't this year. In the 247Sports Composite, they are sitting at No. 17 now and that probably won't go up after looking at some of the teams behind them. They will obviously be landing some big names before all the signing starts in December.

The Hogs will likely land in the Top 25 when all is said and done ... mainly because that's where they've always been and other than the folks who always say they'll be in the Top 10 and win 10 games this year predict them to be.

One thing that hasn't changed in over 100 years of college football is not a lot of names at the top.

HOGS FEED:

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FORMER RAZORBACK USES HOGS' TEAMMATE UP FOR HILARIOUS COMPARISON TO DENVER NUGGETS NIKOLA JOKIC

EXACTLY HOW RAZORBACK FANS SHOULD FEEL ABOUT RECENT ATHLETIC YEAR

DON'T EXPECT CONGRESS TO PROVIDE MUCH HELP WHEN IT COMES TO NIL

FORMER RAZORBACK COACH IN JUNIOR COLLEGE HALL OF FAME, BUT AT LEAST LATE IS BETTER THAN NEVER

DECISION BY JIMMY JOHNSON BEFORE DAN HAMPTON ARRIVED IN FAYETTEVILLE WHY HE SHOULD BE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME

RAZORBACKS' QUARTERBACK KJ JEFFERSON HAS LEFT THE YARD FOR CALIFORNIA

WE DON'T KNOW 2024 SCHEDULE YET, BUT WE KNOW TWO TEAMS WHO WILL MOST LIKELY BE ON IT

LATEST TRANSFER RANKINGS MAY BE HELPING WITH RAZORBACKS' BASKETBALL SIGNEES

RAZORBACK BASEBALL HAS PICKED UP A LUNATIC FRINGE OF FANS JUST LIKE FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL

WHAT SCHEDULE COULD LOOK LIKE FOR HOGS, LONGHORNS, SOONERS UNDER NEW SCHEDULE FORMAT ... AT LEAST FOR A YEAR

SEC KICKS CAN DOWN THE ROAD FOR 2024 SCHEDULE FORMAT

DAVE VAN HORN HOPING FRESHMAN HAS PROBLEMS OF LAST THREE OUTINGS SOLVED FOR REGIONAL

SEC, ESPN LOSE IF LEAGUE GOES WITH NINE-GAME CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IN FOOTBALL

IF CHOICE WAS BETWEEN INVESTING IN HOLLAND OR DAVIS, THEN THERE WAS NO CHOICE TO BE MADE

RAZORBACKS GET THEIR LEADER BACK WITH RETURN OF DAVIS

GAME TIMES, TV NETWORKS SET FOR RAZORBACKS' FIRST THREE FOOTBALL GAMES (IF YOU CALL OPENER TV)

ARKANSAS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

FAYETTEVILLE WEATHER UPDATE

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