It's like we're waiting for a girl to call you back and keep looking at the phone

clicking the phone then I miss a call from it I miss a message text message like what's going

on and so at the same time trying to be respectful of him and he was great to deal with what was really

cool is because he didn't have an agent him and I just sat across the table from

each other with that initial exchange 15 to 20 minutes

to talk about the terms of his contract.

He asked for some things, I asked for some things back,

and we had it done. We had it done. Welcome into the hogpot.

I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at Bold Vision, Saracen Resort, and

South by Northwest Hospitality. Arkansas Razorback basketball has a new man in charge, John Calipare.

The head coach of your Arkansas Razorbacks, John Calipari.

But behind every coaching hire,

there's an AD who had to bring it all home. In this episode, Hunter

Yurochak takes us through the entire process. For Mus's departure, I called

him and asked him, are you interested in that position?

And he was very candid, look, I'm not going to pursue that, but if they call me, I'm going to listen.

The initial meetings with Cal.

If I've got Hall of Fame coach John Calipari on the hook, what I think I may have

him on the hook, he's my number one candidate. I'm going to ride it out with him until the

end. Getting a deal died. I was going to give him as much time as he needed to tell me no, and

thankfully that didn't happen.

Introducing the Hall of Famer as Arkansas's new head coach.

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