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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Chad Morris is wading carefully through a discussion of the trials and travails of his first season at Arkansas – the Razorbacks are 1-5 – when he is interrupted. Barry Lunney, the Razorbacks’ tight ends coach, appears at the glass doors to Morris’ office. He smiles and hands an iPhone to the head coach, who disappears into the hall to talk with an important recruit, Little Rock’s Hudson Henry.