34. Inside the Petrino Era with Chris Gragg

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

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Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with former Razorback Chris Gragg and go behind the scenes of what it was like to be a player during the Bobby Petrino era. We start with Chris getting recruited by Houston Nutt and being a part of one of the best signing classes in program history (2:45). He tells us about growing up in Warren, Ark., (10:17) and then the successes with the Razorbacks and getting to the Sugar Bowl (16:00). We talk about what it was like to play for Bobby Petrino and the impact of the motorcycle wreck on the team (20:25). Chris tells us about playing for John L. Smith, and why things just weren’t the same (26:26). Finally, we get into how Chris overcame injuries to make it in the NFL, and what the draft process was like (33:29).

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0:00.0	What was it like playing for Bobby Petrino at this time?
0:02.6	Everybody had bought in by then.
0:04.4	They're going to throw a mallet.
0:05.3	Oh, he's got a man wide open.
0:06.5	He totally fooled the Georgia defense.
0:08.9	Chris Grag, going to have a sandwich, going to walk in.
0:11.6	Did you like him?
0:12.5	Maybe not like him, but if you respected him,
0:15.2	you knew it was he was our coach.
0:17.0	And you were winning.
0:17.7	Right.
0:18.2	And so that had to make it a little bit more bearable
0:21.5	as hard as he could be. He's pretty hard on you, right?
0:23.4	Yeah, he was pretty hard. I can't say that. He was pretty hard. But like you say,
0:26.7	when it makes it better. It makes you see that you can buy into it like that.
0:30.9	This might be why we're winning. We as well do it this is how we are now
0:34.6	oh this is the culture this is the only way that it is it's no other way than doing it like
0:39.2	this now Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm your host Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at First Security Bank,
0:57.0	Corps Brewing Company, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, Sarah's in Resort and Lindsay Golf.
1:03.0	Arkansas's best record over a two-year stretch since joining the SEC
1:09.0	came in 2010 and 11
1:14.0	the razorbacks went 21 and 5.
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