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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

193. Kevin Scanlon: Making Arkansas Home

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Scanlon is an Arkansas legend, on and off the field. He’s not a native son, but he might as well be. After all, he chose to make the state his home and understands what it means to be a Razorback. In this special episode of the Hog Pod, senior contributor Clay Henry sits down with Scanlon to bring you his story, from the 1978 Orange Bowl and Lou Holtz, to where he is today with Stephens Inc.

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Host & Executive Producer: Bo Mattingly (@SportAndStoryBo)

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0:00.0

It's hard to believe that Arkansas men's basketball is turning 100 this year.

0:05.4

And what better way to celebrate 100 seasons than with the first ever featured documentary

0:10.5

telling the complete story of the program's century-long tradition.

0:15.0

Arkansas greats like Nolan Richardson, Sydney Moncrief, Joe Klein, Scotty Thurman, and more

0:21.0

take you through this three-part series beginning with the early days at

0:24.7

Schmities Barn. You'll hear never before told stories from the Roland with

0:28.8

Nolan days and the 94 National Championship finishing with this team becoming a consistent national

0:35.0

power under coach Eric Musselman as the razor banks begin the story of their next century.

0:41.2

All episodes are streaming now exclusively on Hogs Plus.

0:45.0

Subscribe today to get access to the entire three-part series,

0:49.0

as well as the best shows and stories designed for you, the Razorback fan. Visit Hogs Plus. and this state so much. Coming to this state changed my life and so having the opportunity to

1:04.6

stay here to live my life here to give back to the state in any way that I could I

1:08.7

jumped at it and I'm not the only one. There's a lot of former razorbacks to do that

1:12.3

and we come here and we're first

1:14.5

razorbacks, right? And then hopefully we're raising back, graduates the University of

1:17.9

Arkansas. But along the way we become Arkansas and this becomes home. And so it felt like home to me that people are so wonderful and accommodating.

1:25.8

It's where I wanted to live my life and my wife felt the same way.

1:27.8

She's from North Carolina.

1:28.8

We met in North Carolina State, but she moved out here.

1:31.5

It was here for my senior year,

1:32.8

and we spent our life here, raised our family here,

1:35.2

and this episode is made

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