HawgBeat – How to watch Arkansas football’s Red-White spring scrimmage

FAYETTEVILLE — After holding 14 spring practices, the Arkansas Razorbacks are set to wrap up their spring soccer schedule Saturday with their annual Crimson-White spring scrimmage at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

Head coach Sam Pittman will be capable of showcase his new-look staff and workers publicly for the primary time after seeing loads of modifications for the reason that conclusion of the 2022 season, which led to a 55-53 triple extra time victory over Kansas within the Liberty Bowl.

Since then, Pittman has employed 5 new on-field assistants — offensive coordinator Dan Enos, tight ends coach Morgan Turner, defensive coordinator Travis Williams, co-defensive coordinator Marcus Woodson and secondary coach Deron Wilson. Pittman additionally added a brand new director of energy and conditioning in Ben Sowders.

The Head Hog advised reporters Tuesday that he thinks the general well being and tradition surrounding his program is pretty much as good because it was when the Razorbacks went 9-4 with an Outback Bowl win over Penn State in 2021.

“I feel our energy coach, our new coaches have loads to do with that,” Pittman stated. “We have got a number of good youngsters on our staff which are working extraordinarily exhausting. It could be exhausting to be extra happy.”

Arkansas additionally misplaced 25 scholarship gamers to the switch portal from the beginning of 2022 the season to the top of the switch cycle, and it introduced in 12 scholarship transfers, 9 of which have participated this spring. The staff additionally added 20 scholarship freshmen, 12 of which have been capable of take part within the spring practices.

“I’ve actually been happy with my new coaches,” Pittman stated. “I feel to a person we’ve gotten higher…We have to preserve all people on the staff. Everyone on the staff goes to have some worth to us, however all people on the staff has to get higher.

“I feel now we have preferred our new schematics that we’ve accomplished offensively and defensively. I feel our new guys coming in have … the gamers have accepted them nicely. Once more, should you went again and stated ‘Can we be at this level after the top of our final common season sport?’ I do suppose profitable the bowl had one thing to do with a bit little bit of life again in this system.”

So far as what the Razorbacks are making ready to do Saturday, Pittman stated they’ve a two hour tv window that they plan on making an attempt to suit 104 scrimmage performs into.

“To begin out we’re going to kickoff,” Pittman stated. “We’re solely going to kickoff as soon as with these teams, that’s 1s, 2, 3s. We’re going to punt twice with these teams, 1s, 2s and 3s. We’re going to attempt to get 9 discipline targets in in some unspecified time in the future.

“We’ll go on the market and we’ll run 9-12 performs with the 1s versus 2s. I’m speaking about offense, we’ll begin with the 1 offense versus 2s. Then the two (offense) versus the 1 (protection) after which 3, 3. The following time we come again can be 9-12 and it’ll be good-on-good. It’ll be 1-on-1, 2-on-2, 3-on-3. After which the remainder of the scrimmage is situational, nevertheless it’s good-on-good.”

Whereas the staff may not go full velocity like a traditional sport, Pittman did point out that will probably be a “dwell sort out scrimmage,” which can function extra contact than the thudding they have been doing all spring.

Beneath are particulars on methods to watch/take heed to the Razorbacks’ Crimson-White scrimmage, storylines to search for, a roster with numbers and extra: