40. Sam Pittman

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sam Pittman was recently introduced as Arkansas’ new football coach, and we sat down with the Head Hog to tell his story. We start with how he fell in love with the Razorbacks as a teenager (4:00), and how getting offered the head coaching job is one of the highlights of his life (9:10). We talk about what he looks like as a head coach (21:31), and how he plans to recruit at Arkansas (27:36). Finally, we get into how he wants to build a staff (36:07) and how he plans on making this his final coaching stop (39:29).

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0:00.0	It's kind of surreal to be honest with you, Bo, right now to sit here and talk to you as a head coach of the University of Arkansas.
0:07.0	It's kind of crazy, but I do know this, I want our goal in all honesty is to make the people of Arkansas proud of
0:17.5	Arkansas football because this is a proud damn steak. State. Welcome to the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our
0:36.6	friends and core brewing company Rockin Protein First Security Bank, Sarzan
0:41.6	Resort, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, and Lindsay Golf.
0:47.8	It seems possible that Sam Pittman didn't even realize it was his dream, not until just a few weeks before actually landing, his first D1 head
0:55.8	coaching job. Yeah, it was exciting. The smile on your face right now is enormous.
1:01.0	Oh my gosh, it was exciting. But when the Arkansas job became available
1:05.2	Pippin made it known he wanted it. Thinking to himself why not me? Why wouldn't my
1:10.4	32 years of coaching experience at seven different power five schools
1:14.8	and my lifetime love for the razorbacks be enough to help the hogs out of the
1:19.5	SEC basement. That along with them in a hell of the hurt.
1:23.0	That, along with his reputation as one of the nation's best recruiters,
1:26.6	was enough to convince Arkansas A.D. Hunter Urocheck
1:29.7	that Pittman was the right guy at the right time.
1:32.6	Yes, sir!
1:37.8	It was awesome.
1:38.7	Pittman returns to Arkansas after a four-year stint at Georgia,
1:42.4	where he helped the Bulldogs to three straight SEC titles
1:45.6	and a trip to the 2017 National Championship game.
1:49.1	We went out recruiting to win the SEC East. That's what we did. And guess what? We hear. We hear.
1:58.1	Prior to that stint at Georgia, Pittman was the Razorback's offensive line
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