300. Sam Pittman: Year Six

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this special live edition of The Hog Pod, recorded live at Arvest Bank in Fayetteville, we sit down with Razorback head coach Sam Pittman as he heads into his sixth season leading Arkansas. Pittman opens up about his 39-year marriage to his wife Jamie, the challenges and rewards of coaching in the SEC, and the values that define his program. He shares how the Razorbacks are navigating a new era of college football with the transfer portal and NIL, what he loves about this year’s team, and how he hopes to be remembered when his time at Arkansas is done. Plus, Pittman talks health, family, and why he believes this Razorback squad has what it takes to make fans proud.

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0:00.0	This special edition of the hog pod was recorded in front of a live audience at Arvest Bank.
0:07.8	Home is more important than ever, and Arvest Bank is here to help you with your home loan needs.
0:13.1	For a new home, a refinance, or making improvements to your current home, get started today at Arvest.com slash home for me. That's Arvest.com slash home. Get started today at Arvest.com slash home for me. That's Arvest.com slash home,
0:24.6	the number four me. Equal housing lender, loan subject to credit approval. Welcome in to RVS Bank for the first ever Sam Pitman live hog pod.
0:51.3	It's our second live hog pot.
0:53.5	It's the first inside of a bank. We asked if we could do it in the vault and they said no, coach. So we're out here in the lobby. I've got plenty of loans from Marvest. I can tell you that. Yeah? Yeah. I've been in here before. Does Jamie not handle all that paperwork for you or you got to come in and put your
1:13.0	John Hancock on there? No, Jamie hands a lot of paperwork from credit cards, you know, when
1:18.8	the thing comes out, she'll handle that paperwork. Other than that, I pretty much handle the rest
1:23.3	of it. So we're celebrating your sixth year this year going into, this is our sixth time doing this.
1:29.7	We do this before every season. But what we're really celebrating tonight, and we just alert
1:33.6	you here under this fake interview guide, we're really here to celebrate Jamie spending 39 years
1:41.2	with you. Yeah. How about that? 39th anniversary on Sunday. Last Sunday,
1:49.3	39 years. So tell me how you pulled that off. Man, I don't know. You know, it was, you know,
1:56.8	I couldn't have found anybody better. You know, you end up going our life, you know,
2:03.1	and like the last five days or six days has been 14 to 16 hours,
2:09.2	and that's just regular hours for a coach during the season, you know.
2:13.7	And, you know, you have to marry someone that understands that and someone that is okay with being
2:22.5	alone a lot you know during the season and all that and you know I was thinking driving home I just
2:28.1	don't know how I could have found anybody that I could do what I want to do help me me do that, and allow me to do that.
2:36.2	And then for the first eight jobs or so, she had to go find a job as well, which I had one.
2:42.7	She didn't.
2:43.5	So she had to go look for one, you know, which is difficult, you know, and you have to leave your home and all that stuff.
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