We want to stay over there like mushrooms and you feed them garbage and you throw them in the corner and you don't really think about them till you need them and I hope that they don't talk about us because that's probably a good thing.

And if we're talking about our quarterbacks and receivers and running bags and tight-ins

this season and into the future then that means we're doing our job.

Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly in this episode is made possible by our

friend at Vold Vision, Saracen Resort, and South by Northwest Hospitality.

When I strike, my shoulder goes back and my head goes up. All right, ten on each strike.

Here we go. Keep the feet hot on you. Go ahead.

Razorback offensive line coach Eric Mateos may be new to the staff, but he's certainly not new to the head coach or the Arkansas program.

Nice, rotate, rotate, let's go, rotate.

Mateos spent two seasons as a grad assistant 10 years ago,

learning from a man regarded as the best offensive line coach in the country,

Sam Pittman.

Some of the best coaches in the country are guys at G8 for him and learned under him, and

I'm just part of that group.

He's the reason I'm a Division I football coach.

All right, the second whistle, he's bull rushing.

Second whistle, he's bull rushing.

While Mateos has landed Power Five coaching gates, his background comes from the JUCO ranks, a

quality that has helped to develop his unique work ethic.

When you're coaching junior college, you everything you know I remember I was the

recruiting coordinator assistant equipment I was washing jock straps every night I still feel like I

got to wake up at 5 a.m. and throw the laundry in the dryer at the field house.

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