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Instead of focusing on a couple of shaky performances as a backup in a disaster-filled season, let's hold off on judging Allen's potential until he gets a chance to lead the team this season.

Nate Olson of Sporting Life Arkansas wrote an excellent profile of NLRHS coach Brad Bolding. Bolding's efforts to build a high-quality public school football program in Central Arkansas is important to the future of the Razorbacks.

News and notes from around the conference.

Here's a collection of reactions to what happened during Draft weekend and how it all relates to the Razorbacks.

The conference has had some prolific freshman rushers of late. Who is next in 2013?

When Bret Bielema was introduced as the Razorbacks' new coach in December, he described how his teams like to play, and we saw several of those traits in the spring game even though it's largely still a Petrino roster.

We know Bielema wants the Razorbacks to be a tougher team physically, but he's also training them to be tougher mentally, which is just as important.