3. Three Men, Two Eras, One Goal

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the story of three Final Four-caliber coaches—Gary Blair, Vic Schaefer and Mike Neighbors—all on one staff at Arkansas. It’s the story of how things fell apart for Razorback women’s basketball, and how Neighbors—who once was responsible for getting Diet Cokes for Blair—is working to bring it back. We begin where it all started, with Blair and why he decided to leave Arkansas (3:00) and why he thinks Neighbors will be successful (8:37). Then, we visit with Schafer about not wanting to leave (19:20) and why Neighbors is ahead of schedule (20:40). Finally, we go full circle with Neighbors himself about what it was like working for Blair (26:30), what he learned from him (30:00) and how he’s working to restore the program to its former heights (35:10).

Transcript

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0:00.0	How did you end up going to Texas,
0:02.2	Are we on air or not on air?
0:04.0	Yeah, we're recording.
0:05.2	You probably need to edit that.
0:07.6	Why?
0:08.6	I don't need to come across that way.
0:09.8	Because the posse is always there. Always. Welcome to episode three of the Hog Pot. I'm your host Bo Mattingly. This
0:29.9	episode is made possible by our friends at First Security Bank and Ozark Outpost
0:34.4	Castle Clothing and Footwear, located on Highway 412 in Tawnytown.
0:40.0	Did you know there are three current SEC head basketball coaches that at one time were all on the same
0:45.8	staff together at Arkansas?
0:48.5	We're talking about women's basketball.
0:50.6	And while the program has never been consistently elite, there was a time when it was pretty relevant to Hogg fans.
0:57.0	Gary Blair was the head coach.
0:59.0	And under Blair, the razorbacks went to five NCAA tournaments nearly half of the school's
1:04.4	11 total appearances and that includes Arkansas's only final four in 1998.
1:10.0	Do you believe in Fairy Tales? Yes,
1:13.5	and see Arkansas, Lady Razorbucks
1:17.0	are going to the final floor.
1:20.0	And a year later, more than 14,000 fans were in attendance at Bud Walton Arena
1:26.0	as Blair's ladybacks won the WNIT title.
1:30.0	In short, it was Arkansas's most successful era, and then suddenly it was over.
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