69. Tyler Wilson

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Wilson was always talented. He set records in high school as a quarterback and pitcher at Greenwood High School. Then, he came to Arkansas and rewrote the record books. After playing briefly as a true freshman in 2008, Wilson sat for two years behind Ryan Mallett, but burst onto the scene against Auburn in 2010 after an injury to the starter. And then in 2011, he quarterbacked Arkansas to its first 11-win season since 1977, and entered 2012 as one of the top QBs in the country. And though things went sideways quickly for the Razorbacks in Wilson’s senior season, he still left Arkansas as one of the best to ever do it. But it almost didn’t happen. How did one of the best quarterbacks in school history almost never suit up for the Hogs? How does he look back on that fateful 2012 season? And does he still have lingering doubts that he picked the right sport?

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0:00.0	There's not many college players that have ever had to deal and handle with as much on the plate
0:09.1	as I felt like I had to handle.
0:11.1	You know, there's been a lot of people jump off the bandwagon as my responsibility as a leader to keep everybody in this organization and this team in that locker room together.
0:19.0	And that they're like, okay, you're in a microcosm of your own situation Tyler like congratulations to pat yourself on the back.
0:25.0	No I'm not patting myself on the back.
0:27.5	I just felt like the weight of the world, there are two and a half million or
0:32.4	three million people live in Arkansas, I felt like I was trying to hold that up. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by
0:50.8	our friends at Core Brewing Company,
0:52.8	First Security Bank, Serra's in Resort, and Lindsay Golf.
0:57.7	Tyler Wilson was a very talented high school pitcher
1:01.1	and quarterback at Greenwood High School.
1:03.8	But baseball was his first love, and he almost didn't play football.
1:09.6	But by the fall of 2010, every razorback fan knew his name.
1:15.0	That one's caught down.
1:17.0	Whoa!
1:18.0	Whoa on a rung.
1:19.0	There's not a backup in the country that can throw a ball like that.
1:22.0	Wilson would go on to rewrite the school record books,
1:24.8	including quarterbacking the Hogs
1:26.7	to their first 11-win season since 1977.
1:30.5	Tyler Wilson and the Arkansas Razorbacks 11 wins this year.
1:34.6	And entered a senior year as one of the top quarterbacks in the country.
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