FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas football team had a bad experience with graduate transfer quarterbacks last year with both Ben Hicks and Nick Starkel bombing out.
But the NCAA portal can be a valuable tool in plugging in the one missing link for an elite college baseball program like Dave Van Horn’s Razorbacks. The Arkansas coach found one who can hit bombs.
For the second straight year, one of the nation’s best programs went to the portal hoping to add a veteran for a young team. Like Trevor Ezell last year, the UA baseball team may have hit it big in the portal with the arrival of slugger Cole Austin.