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Wisconsin football offers fast-rising class of 2025 wide receiver

Wisconsin football offers fast-rising class of 2025 wide receiver

Wisconsin extended an offer to class of 2025 wide receiver Bryson Jones on Monday.

Jones is currently unranked on 247Sports, though is a three-star recruit according to Rivals. He has an impressive offer list, headlined by Tennessee, Texas A&M, Penn State, Oklahoma State, Utah, Arkansas and Baylor.

Related:ย Las Vegas Big Ten Championship odds released for 2024 football season

Jones is one of the numerous offers handed out by Wisconsin’s new wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton. As is the case with many top recruits in the nation, the Badgers will need to battle with some of the top SEC powers to earn his commitment.

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Former Ohio State quarterback named wide receiver coach at Wisconsin

Congrats Kenny! #GoBucks

Itโ€™s always great to see former Ohio State football stars have success following their playing careers, but the news that came on Tuesday night might be bittersweet.

Fan favorite Buckeye backup [autotag]Kenny Guiton[/autotag] got a cup of coffee in the NFL, but quickly transitioned to the coaching side. Starting as a graduate assistant at Houston, he quickly moved his way to a wide receiver coach which saw him jump from the Cougars, to Louisiana Tech, and then Colorado State.

Arkansas saw his potential and named Guiton its receivers coach in 2021, and this season he got an opportunity to call plays as the interim offensive coordinator.

Many view him as a rising star in the coach profession and as Football Scoop reported first, another former Buckeye, Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell, agreed as he was named the Badgers’ receivers coach on Tuesday evening.

We are excited to see what Smooth Kenny G can do, especially when he’s not going against the Scarlet and Gray.

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Report: Wisconsin hiring a new wide receivers coach from an SEC school

Report: Wisconsin hiring a new wide receivers coach from an SEC school

Wisconsin has filled its vacant wide receivers coach position with now-former Arkansas WRs coach Kenny Guiton, according to reports from FootballScoop and The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman.

Guiton played quarterback under Luke Fickell at Ohio State from 2009 to 2013 before spending his coaching career at Houston (2017-2018), Louisiana Tech (2019), Colorado State (2020) and Arkansas (2021-2023). He was most recently promoted to interim offensive coordinator at Arkansas after the midseason firing of Dan Enos.

The Badgers needed to fill the position after Mike Brown left to take the same job at Notre Dame. Guiton now joins an offensive coaching staff in Madison which is looking to help right the ship after a 7-5 2023 regular season.

The new wideouts coach will be coaching a position group of C.J. Williams, Will Pauling, Vinny Anthony and others after experienced receivers Chimere Dike and Skyler Bell both entered the transfer portal after the regular season.

Ranking Arkansas’ 10 best wideouts under Kenny Guiton

Treylon Burks is No. 1, obviously. But who are the other nine of the 10 best wideouts to play for Kenny Guiton at Arkansas?

Arkansas wide receivers have been a steady bunch for most of the last decade plus, even if the Razorbacks’ results haven’t always been great.

With news breaking Tuesday night that Arkansas wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton was set to become Wisconsin wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton, the natural question followed: Will any of his wideouts accompany him to Madison?

It’s too early to know for sure, but a rapport must have been built with some as Guiton held the Arkansas gig for three seasons. He even took over running the entire offense for the back half of 2023 after coach Sam Pittman fired offensive coordinator Dan Enos.

Guiton, however, played at Ohio State when current Badgers head coach Luke Fickell was a coach, albeit a defensive one, with the Buckeyes.

So, as we can’t predict a transfer portal entry, let’s look backward instead of forward. Let’s look to what Guiton accomplished with his bunch over those three years.

These are the 10 best wide receivers – through those three seasons, mind you (we know Isaiah Sategna fans; he’ll be here soon enough) – to play for Guiton at Arkansas.

Report: Arkansas’ Kenny Guiton leaving for job at Wisconsin

Guiton is set to join a man who helped coach him when he was in college, per FootballScoop.com.

Arkansas wide receivers coach and former interim offensive coordinator Kenny Guiton is reportedly set to take the same job at Wisconsin.

That is according to FootballScoop.com. Guiton played for Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell when Fickell was a defensive coach at Ohio State.

Guiton finished his third season coaching Arkansas’ wide receivers. When offensive coordinator Dan Enos was fired around the halfway point of the season, Razorbacks head coach Sam Pittman elevated Guiton to the OC job on an interim basis.

Arkansas then hired former head coach Bobby Petrino to the gig full-time in early December.

Every significant member of the Arkansas wide receiving corps had announced plans to return to the Razorbacks in 2024. However, the transfer portal does not close until January 3, 2024, meaning some could change their minds. The next transfer portal opening is in the spring, for two weeks at the end of April.

Guiton took an Arkansas receiving corps led by two former Division II players this season and Razorbacks finished 107th in FBS in yards receiving per game. The two years previous, Arkansas was 63rd and 86th.

What a hypothetical 2024 would look like under Sam Pittman

Taking a look at what 2024 could have in store for Sam Pittman & Co. now that Hunter Yurachek has confirmed he is returning.

News broke Sunday morning that Hunter Yurachek is retaining [autotag]Sam Pittman[/autotag] the day after Arkansas defeated Florida International.

Fans are almost totally united that this is not the move the program needs to make in order to remain competitive in a SEC that will gain Oklahoma and Texas next season.

Unfortunately for the rank and file fans, they don’t get to call the shots, Yurachek ultimately does.

So let’s take a look at what a hypothetical 2024 could look like with Sam Pittman still at the controls.

Schedule

Arkansas doesn’t have to play Alabama for the first time since the 1991 season, when it was still a member of the Southwest Conference, and gets LSU, Ole Miss, Texas and Tennessee all at home.

The non-conference is UAPB in Little Rock in the season opener, at Oklahoma State, UAB and Louisiana Tech.

At worst, Pittman should go 3-1 in that non-conference.

The SEC road games are at Auburn and Mississippi State, places Pittman won at in 2022, and then at Missouri, which appears to be the toughest game it will have besides maybe LSU or Texas.

It’s not far-fetched to think 4-4 is doable in that conference slate. That would be a 7-5 overall record. Hardly something that would set off firework celebrations, but would be the best overall record of his tenure besides the 8-4 he posted in 2021.

Coaching staff

It’s no secret that members of Pittman’s coaching staff will have their jobs on the line in the season finale Friday against Missouri.

[autotag]Travis Williams[/autotag] will be retained as the defensive coordinator for sure, and Williams will likely want to keep the majority of his staff.

The offensive staff? There’s no guarantee that any of them will return.

Fans have been clamoring for Pittman to fire Cody Kennedy, the offensive line coach.

[autotag]Kenny Guiton[/autotag], meanwhile, after an impressive debut against Florida and a nice showing against FIU, was completely stymied by Auburn’s defense, who turned around and got manhandled by New Mexico State.

Guiton will get one more chance against Missouri to show what he’s got.

Miscellaneous

One could argue that the reason Yurachek hasn’t pulled the trigger on Pittman yet is:

A) the buyout is too large to justify terminating him at this juncture considering what he inherited and

B) joining the coaching search carousel while also going up against Texas A&M and Mississippi State, and maybe even Florida, seems less than ideal. Plus if any other P5 jobs open based on coaches filling those roles.

Yurachek is going to bat for Pittman currently after a rough year. Pittman won’t have that luxury next year. Anything less than bowl eligibility by November next year likely has him canned.

Arkansas – Auburn: LIVE updates, scores and highlights from first half

Arkansas needs a win over Auburn to keep their bowl season hopes alive. Follow along here for all of the first half updates, scores and highlights from Fayetteville.

The Arkansas Razorbacks (3-6, 1-5) need a win to keep their hopes of making a bowl game alive. The Auburn Tigers (5-4, 2-4) can become bowl eligible with a win.

There’s no shortage of reasons for either team to show up motivated and ready to play. Bowl implications, momentum entering a vital offseason and overall morale inside each program. That’s what is on the line for these two teams this afternoon in Fayetteville.

Can [autotag]Kenny Guiton[/autotag]’s offense follow up last week’s impressive performance? Will [autotag]Travis William[/autotag]’s defense be able to slow down his alma mater’s run game? Can the Hogs beat the Tigers in Fayetteville for the first time since 2015?

We’ll get answers to all of those questions and more as this important conference clash gets underway in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Follow along below for live updates, scores and highlights from all of today’s action between [autotag]Sam Pittman[/autotag]’s Razorbacks and [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag]’s Tigers.

Beyond the Box Score: Arkansas ends multiple losing streaks with win over Florida

How exactly did Arkansas come out with the win over Florida? Let’s take a closer look at the numbers behind this impressive Razorback victory.

Arkansas hasn’t had a lot go their way this season. That changed on Saturday as the Hogs were, finally, on the other end of a one-possession ballgame.

With the 39-36 overtime win in Gainesville, [autotag]Sam Pittman[/autotag]’s team did something that no other Razorback team had ever been able to do before – win in “The Swamp.”

The Hogs were also able to snap their six-game losing skid and remain in contention for bowl berth, as hard as that may be to believe.

Saturday’s win felt like a major win for the program and one that could give the team momentum to keep those victories coming. Pittman likely saved his job for another season and [autotag]Kenny Guiton[/autotag] made an impactful statement in his first audition for the permanent offensive coordinator gig.

Let’s take a closer look at the numbers behind Arkansas’ impressive and historic overtime win over the Florida Gators.

Guiton, Jefferson video proof Arkansas never quit on the season

Some wanted to move on from KJ Jefferson and the season. But Jefferson never quit, never wanted to do the same.

Different people like different things. Some may dig tea instead of coffee. They may like steaks well-done, not medium-rare. Orange juice with pulp preferred over sans pulp. The boss you hate may be one your co-worker loves.

Heck, have you seen the way people vote in elections?

In other words, no one can account for personal taste.

The suggestions, or outright assertion, some fans that Arkansas’ players had quit on the season a few weeks ago was always wrong. A bunch of teenagers and 20-somethings who have dedicated their lives, most of them, to the sport they play at the university weren’t about to give up just because things weren’t going their way. What they needed was motivation, like a teacher who finally ‘got you’ when you were in high school.

That teacher turned out to be Kenny Guiton, the man promoted to offensive coordinator two weeks ago when Arkansas coach Sam Pittman fired then-OC Dan Enos. Guiton was the team’s wide receivers coach. Pittman said a big reason he promoted him was because of the rapport he had with the offensive players, not just receivers.

Arkansas responded with a season-high 481 yards in a 39-36 overtime win over Florida, the program’s first in Gainesville. Afterward, video surfaced of Guiton and quarterback KJ Jefferson – the only man dragged more than Pittman and Enos by the angries of the fan base during the Razorbacks losing streak – celebrating the win in the bowels of Ben Hill-Griffin Stadium.

Jefferson had looked out of sorts under Enos. He looked a little slower. He looked a bit more indecisive. He was taking a beating behind a porous offensive line.

Turns out, he isn’t slower. He isn’t indecisive. When upright, he’s still the same quarterback who earned preseason All-SEC second-team honors, the same quarterback whose darkhorse Heisman hopes before the season were legit (if definitely darkhorse). Jefferson’s 92 yards rushing were the fourth-most of his career and his 255 yards passing more in line were with his 2022 and 2021 results. Arkansas’ win more in line with the same.

Jefferson has been born again under Guiton. At least for a day. But like those born again, they know every day is a challenge. Every day is a job at which perseverance and piousness must lead the way.

If Guiton and Jefferson can keep the faith and walk the path, Arkansas can turn things all the way around and end things on a high note. And then, just maybe, the switch from Coke to Pepsi will make lasting change.

Postgame Twitter Bonanza: OMG! Finally, Arkansas fans let out sigh of relief

Arkansas fans are excited and relieved with the win over Florida on Saturday.

Not only is the excitement evident, but the sigh of relief is even bigger, for Arkansas fans after the Razorbacks went into the daunted Swamp on Saturday and defeated the Florida Gators 39-36 in overtime, thus snapping a miserable six-game losing streak.

There were still many doubters in Razorback-land coming into the game, despite the Hogs being only a 3-point underdog. And although it looked at times like the streak would move to seven, KJ Jefferson hit Tyrone Broden for a 4-yard touchdown pass in the extra period to stop the skid.

Fans and others took to Twitter … err, X … following the game to finally display their cheer for the Razorbacks.

Here is what was being posted: