Arkansas names Ben Hicks starting QB
HawgSports Live: An Arkansas Razorbacks Podcast
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🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Arkansas coach Chad Morris has named Ben Hicks the starting quarterback over Nick Starkel for the Portland State game. He also released a depth chart with 12 true freshmen in the 2-deep. Join HawgSports.com publisher Trey Biddy and Hog fan Keith Grayson as we discuss the QB job and the upcoming game against Portland State.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? This is Trey Biddy with H-H-A-W-G-Sports. |
| 0:04.0 | Ben Hicks has been named the starting quarterback at Arkansas. Chad Morris just broke that |
| 0:08.4 | news today at his noon press conference so we're going to talk about that. We're |
| 0:11.7 | going to talk about the depth chart which has 12 freshmen on it right now and |
| 0:15.2 | Keith Grayson is going to join us talk a little bit about Portland State. All that more on |
| 0:19.3 | Hog Sports Live. |
| 0:27.5 | All right we're going to get to the video real quick where Chad Morris introduces Ben Hicks as the starting quarterback for Arkansas. |
| 0:30.3 | Everything's earned in this program. Nothing's given and Ben has earned the right to start and will be our starter week one going into Portland State, Ben Hicks. |
| 0:40.0 | The competition between Ben and Nick has been impressive to say the least over three weeks. |
| 0:47.6 | Nick has done a great job and has picked up the offense in a few short weeks and has an incredible skill set. |
| 0:57.0 | And we're excited to watch his continued growth |
| 1:00.4 | and knowledge of this offense and the understanding of this offense in weeks to come. |
| 1:07.0 | But we feel very confident in Ben and his complete overall knowledge as you would expect, |
| 1:15.8 | Ben has been in this offense for three years. |
| 1:19.6 | Been here since January. |
| 1:21.6 | Nick has been in this offense for three weeks. |
| 1:24.7 | And but to see the growth of what Nick has done |
| 1:28.0 | over three weeks has been extremely impressive. |
| 1:30.5 | And I think Ben has an incredible command for everyone and where everyone should be. |
| 1:35.7 | We're going to play a lot of young guys. |
| 1:39.3 | And that alone was the main deciding factor. |
| 1:44.1 | Is his ability to know where everybody's supposed to be |
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