41. Mike Neighbors

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mike Neighbors’ dream has always been to be the head coach of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team. We start our conversation with how getting cut from the Razorback baseball team spurred him on to try coaching (2:49). We talk about why he’s eliminated “goals” from the program (7:50) and how he started his coaching career at the high school level (13:54). Neighbors tells us about how having his first heart attack changed everything for him (16:45), and how that journey led to him getting his first head coaching job at Washington (26:11). Finally, we get into how playing guitar helps him decompress (42:00), and how he’d describe himself as a coach (43:29).

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0:00.0	Was that always your goal to be the Arkansas coach?
0:02.4	Absolutely.
0:03.4	I introduced to you the ninth head basketball coach of the University of Arkansas
0:07.8	women's basketball program, Mike Neighbors.
0:11.2	I never had a plan B. Every decision I made, every move I made was does this move
0:15.6	helped me get the Arkansas job? Even at a point that had you in the final four in Washington,
0:21.1	your big picture goal is still to be at Arkansas.
0:23.4	Yeah, you can go back and probably find the audio or certainly the written part where
0:28.4	when I got the Washington job, the head coaching job, somebody asked me is this the dream
0:32.4	come true and I said well
0:33.4	being a head coach but Arkansas will always be my dream job. Welcome to the Hog Puyve. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at Core Brewing Company,
0:54.0	Rockin Protein, First Security Bank, Serra's in Resort, and Lindsay Golf.
1:00.0	Mike Neighbors had a dream.
1:02.0	He wanted to become the women's head basketball coach at the University of Arkansas.
1:07.0	And he spent a lifetime doing everything in his power to make it happen.
1:12.0	I never looked at another job that I didn't feel like could help me be the head coach here
1:18.0	someday.
1:19.0	A native of Greenwood, Arkansas, neighbors got a start coaching girls high school basketball.
1:23.8	But at 29 a heart attack changed his plan. And that heart attack changed me.
1:28.6	It accelerated my declaration of becoming the razorback women's coach.
1:33.7	I called Coach Blair.
1:34.6	I said, I don't care what it takes.
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