135. Mike Neighbors: In the Conversation

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Few coaches are as obsessed with learning and getting better than Mike Neighbors. For proof, look no further than the fact that he keeps track of every mistake he makes in an effort to learn from them. It’s that attention to detail that has the Razorbacks on the rise. Arkansas has finished back-to-back seasons above .500 in SEC play for the first time in school history. And now, they’re holding their own against the nation’s elite. Last season, Neighbors led the program to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. And despite the early exit in March, a lot of progress was made. That first-round NCAA Tournament loss provides plenty of motivation. And when you combine that with what Neighbors and his staff have been building, you have a chance to take another big step forward. Talent alone doesn’t win games. Neighbors knows this. But for a program that has its eyes set on being in the national spotlight, Arkansas is well on its way.

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0:00.0	Hey Razorback fans, I'm Hog Pod producer Bart Pullman, and I wanted to take a second to say thanks for your continued support of the Hog Pod,
0:08.0	which enables us to bring you these great Razorback stories each week.
0:12.0	And we've got another great episode for you here
0:14.3	as Bo Mattingly sits down with Arkansas women's basketball
0:17.3	coach Mike Neighbors to talk about building a program,
0:20.7	his tireless effort to find new ways to improve and why he thinks this is the most talented team he's ever coached.
0:29.0	As always, this episode is made possible by our friends at First Security Bank, Saracen Resort,
0:35.0	Abuelita Maria, and Southby Northwest Hospitality.
0:39.4	And now here's Bo Mattingly with Mike Neighbors.
0:43.0	Are you a better coach now than you were when you first got to Arkansas?
0:47.0	No question.
0:48.0	Why is that?
0:50.0	It's not like you were a bad coach before.
0:52.8	Yeah, I was.
0:53.8	Yeah, I look back on it.
0:54.8	I go, whoa, I can't believe those kids had to play.
0:58.0	Had to play for me.
0:59.2	No, I think experience, it's one of those things, you know, when you don't have any poo poo-poo it a little bit you know like oh experience does matter and
1:08.0	it teaches you and you learn if you're willing to learn from it but you know I made 418 mistakes my first year I charted them
1:14.1	and I wrote them all down and then categorized them and I still I don't make some of
1:19.4	those same mistakes but I still make every year lots of them and if you don't try to make new ones so how do you
1:25.9	chart mistakes is it in in the moment is it it was that year that first year I did it yeah I knew I was
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