State of the Hogs: T.J. Smith works hard to make a difference

FAYETTEVILLE — There are interviews and then there are conversations. You learn the difference after 50 years of talking to college football players.

It was a conversation on Saturday with Theodore Frederick Smith, Jr., on Saturday at the Arkansas football media day. Almost half of the one hour given to the media with the upperclassmen on the team ended up with Smith.

The fifth-year senior dazzled in that 30 minutes. His smile flashed often. He showed the ability to engage that has made him a huge hit with the youth of Washington County.

T.J. Smith as he’s known gives huge quantities of his spare time to serve youth at the Boys and Girls Club of Fayetteville and says yes every time the Book…