“Just Leave Me Alone”: Razorback Signee Provides Insight into Hogs’ Rash of Decommits

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Other coaches tampering with future or current Arkansas football players is part of a Pandora’s box that just keeps opening.

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In today’s college football, the “transfer portal and name, image and likeness (NIL)” era, one drawback that wasn’t predicted as much in the beginning is finally starting to garner attention — in Arkansas and across the country.

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Until now, when a player made the decision to decommit or transfer from a program, the majority of fans would opine about loyalty and the lack thereof from this generation of players.

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Not a lot of insight is ever really given about what factors contributed to that decision or what went on behind the scenes.

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CJ Brown Discusses Arkansas Recruiting Situation

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Host Tye Richardson brought up the fact that, according to Pittman, Arkansas lost out to some recruits as a direct result of the bad season.

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He asked Brown about coaches from other schools potentially reaching out and trying to lure him away from the struggling Hogs.

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“I’m going to lead with – no matter how many games they won or lost, there was no thought in my mind that it was an option to decommit,” said Brown, who tallied 55 catches for 1,254 yards and 15 touchdowns as a senior.

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