Arkansas defensive line coach Charlie Partridge started recruiting highly recruited receiver Corey Holmes while at Wisconsin and that relationship has Holmes looking to visit the Hogs.
Holmes, 6-2, 176, 4.48 seconds in the 40 yard dash, of Fort Lauderdale, (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas reports having 26 scholarship offers from schools like Arkansas, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina, Michigan and Miami.
The Hogs are also are getting help from Holmes' teammate and running back Madre London, who played his freshman year at Bryant.
"He said the fan support is ridiculous," said Holmes in Sunday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "He tells me that all the time. He said it's a good program to be a part of. He mentioned if you're on the football team that you're known around town and that's always cool."
Holmes said he and London hope to visit Arkansas this summer. Another teammate, highly regarded defensive lineman Anthony Moten was also mentioned as a possibility to visit but committed to Florida on Tuesday.
In addition to the Hogs, he is looking to visit UCLA, Notre Dame, Oklahoma , Miami, Auburn, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt during the spring and summer.
"I definitely want to take my five official visits," Holmes said. "Hopefully I can narrow it down to a top five maybe in the near future...towards the season. I want to narrow it down when it comes time to making my official visits."
Academics, coaches, a winning program and playing time will get a hard look from Holmes when he visits schools.
"I want to go to a school with good academics and a school where the coaches care about their players," said Holmes, who reports a 39-inch vertical. "I want to go to a program that's on the rise and that's looking to be successful in the next couple of years. Definitely a school where I'm looking to have early playing time."
Holmes, who has a 3.5 grade point average, plans to major in communication or journalism so he can stay in the sports field after his playing days are over.
"I hope to be doing some sort of sports broadcasting," Holmes said. "That's what I want to get into."
Holmes isn't short on personality. He attributes that to his father, who's a major at the Broward County Sheriff's office and his mother.
"He's definitely a people person who likes to talk to people a lot," he said of his father. "My mother is a flight attendant so I get from both of my parents. My mom is that outgoing lady who's on the loud speaker on the airplane talking to people."