43. Matt Zimmerman

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Matt Zimmerman is all-Razorback, no matter what. We sit down with the current radio color analyst for men’s basketball games to talk about his life and career, starting with growing up in Arkansas and the difficulty of transitioning to his new role (5:56). We talk about how he became a student manager with the Razorback basketball team (20:09) and his role in the “Strollin’ with Nolan” game (28:34). He tells us about his time in the Army and becoming a high school coach, and how he ended up on Mike Anderson’s staff at UAB, Missouri and Arkansas (35:35). We get into his transition into his new role as radio analyst (47:38), and finally, he shares a must-listen story about finding a lucky penny (56:14).

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0:00.0	I was out there shooting in Barnhill Arena and Mike Anderson and Scott Egger walking on the side of the floor and I was shooting and I was like this is my chance.
0:07.5	I'm gonna get to practice tomorrow night. They say hey come down here so I run down to the other end of the floor and they said hey you know you've been coming around you can't come around anymore
0:15.0	We're starting tomorrow night and we're done. I was like well I was really wanting to be no no you can't you're not quite good enough
0:21.0	They're not big enough enough. They were right.
0:23.4	And as a 50 year old man, that happened to me again.
0:26.4	I basically was told that, you know, you're not quite good enough, but I found a way to stay. Welcome to the Hog Pive. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by
0:46.7	our friends at Core Brewing Company, Rockin Protein, First Security Bank, and Serra's
0:52.1	in Resort.
0:53.0	Arkansas wins.
0:55.0	Double overtime.
0:57.0	A razorbacks.
0:58.0	Matt Zimmerman has always wanted to be a razorback.
1:01.0	I just wanted to say I was a part of it. I just wanted to be a
1:03.4	razor back. I just wanted to say I was a part of it. I just wanted to be a part of the team.
1:05.9	His first dream was to play for Arkansas, but when that didn't work out he became a
1:10.7	student manager under Nolan Richardson. He got to go to a
1:13.7	Final Four and even got to play a role in the infamous Strolling with Nolan
1:18.4	Yane. And Richardson with 14 seconds remaining is leaving the court.
1:24.0	You find the old footage on there, you'll see me,
1:25.8	I got a short haircut, and I got a suit on,
1:28.5	and I'm behind him.
1:30.1	Zimmerman's story has taken some interesting turns and he's always found ways to add value.
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