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Oklahoma State Looking to Make Bank Against Hogs on ABC
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – One has to wonder if Oklahoma State will huddle a lot more in its game against Arkansas on ABC in Week 2 of the college football season. If so, it’s, as the 1990s rap song used to put it, all about the Benjamins.
A major network game that will draw audiences looking to skip commercials during the Texas vs. Michigan game has the potential for a lot of eyeballs and Mike Gundy and his braintrust at Oklahoma State are hoping the Cowboys can make the game pay off in more ways than just television money.
ESPN is reporting OSU will enter the game with QR codes on the backs of players’ helmets that link to the school’s NIL fund in hopes curious people will scan it and possibly send a little cash their way so the program can finish making its down payment on running back Ollie Gordon with a little left over to nab a lineman to be named later.
While the Cowboys tend to take longer than the typical no-huddle team to get the play off while looking over the defense and shifting formations, it’s unlikely the Hogs will see Gundy suddenly start having Alan Bowman lead huddles for the sake of hoping a nice medium close-up will make it possible for Bill in Broken Arrow to scan the back of his head and donate a tank of gas worth of change to the program.
If that starts happening, then the odds of Arkansas pulling off an early season upset will go way up because the Cowboys will clearly be more concerned about their NIL coffers than the Razorbacks. However, based on Gundy’s firm statement last week that players need to stop having their agents calling up the football offices trying to negotiate better NIL deals, it seems money has definitely been an early season distraction.
It’s not much to work with, but it might be the opening Arkansas needs to steal one early and build a little momentum much in the way Missouri was able to do with its long field goal win over Kansas State last year. It definitely sounds like an easy way to get into the heads of players if the Hogs want to talk a little trash.
Every little advantage counts. These QR codes might be an advantage in the long run, but, for one afternoon, it might be the Razorbacks’ missing link.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Arkansas will need more than Robinson’s coerced contribution | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Wally Hall
Wally Hall is assistant managing sports editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock after an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he is a member and past president of the Football Writers Association of America, member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, past president and current executive committee and board member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 10 times and has been inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and Arkansas Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
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Move over, Anthony Richardson. There’s a new quarterback athletic marvel at the NFL scouting combine.
On Saturday in Indianapolis, Arkansas’ Taylen Green broke Richardson’s top marks at the position since 2003 for both the vertical leap and broad jump. Green’s 43½-inch vertical topped Richardson’s previous high by three inches, while his 11-2 broad jump beat the Indianapolis Colts signal-caller’s measurement by five inches.
Then, Green reeled off a 4.36-second 40-yard dash time. That stood as the second-best time for any quarterback since 2003, trailing only Reggie McNeal in 2006 (4.35 seconds). Richardson, for comparison, logged a 4.43-second mark in 2023.
Green didn’t even bother with a second attempt after his initial time.
The testing profile created quite the stir around the 6-6, 227-pound passer, who had widely projected as a developmental option for teams on Day 3.
NFL Network’s Charles Davis said Green told him that no teams had approached him about working out as a receiver, adding that he would not be interested in a position switch.
Green started for the Razorbacks for the last two seasons after playing the first three years of his career at Boise State. Known for his running ability and ample arm strength, Green threw for 2,714 yards and 19 touchdowns last year while adding 777 yards and eight scores on the ground.
It was a banner day for Arkansas, as running back Mike Washington Jr. also stood out among his peers with a group-leading 4.33-second 40-yard dash as well as strong marks in the vertical leap (39 inches) and broad jump (10-8).
Rex Nelson
Rex Nelson has been senior editor and columnist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2017, and he has a biweekly podcast called “Southern Fried.”
After graduating from Ouachita Baptist University in 1981, he was a sportswriter for the Arkansas Democrat for a year before becoming editor of Arkadelphia’s Daily Siftings Herald. He was the youngest editor of a daily in Arkansas at age 23. Rex was then news and sports director at KVRC-KDEL from 1983-1985.
He returned to the Democrat as assistant sports editor in 1985. From 1986-1989, he was its Washington correspondent. He left to be Jackson T. Stephens’ consultant.
Rex became the Democrat-Gazette’s first political editor in 1992, but left in 1996 to join then-Gov. Mike Huckabee’s office. He also served from 2005-09 in the administration of President George W. Bush.
From 2009-2018, he worked stints at the Communications Group, Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities, and Simmons First National Corp.
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