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State of the Hogs: Morris adds guru in Turner Gill

The title for Turner Gill with the Arkansas football team is long: Executive Director of Student-Athlete and Staff Development.

I’d shorten it to staff guru.

Synonyms for guru include: expert, authority, leading light, professional and master. It’s also sometimes traded for spiritual leader. It’s on target for Gill, who has been everything through his 56 years.

I’ve known Gill since he arrived on the Nebraska campus in 1980 when Tom Osborne won a much-celebrated recruiting battle with Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer. The Cornhuskers signed the Fort Worth, Texas, star because Osborne convinced Gill the baseball coach would let him also play shortstop.