Why give up on your dream to be a head coach to come back to being assistant at Arkansas?

I've had other Power Five programs come after me year one and even this year, but I wasn't just going to

go anywhere. I was going to go somewhere where I knew the coach and knew that the athletic director and knew the athletic department was behind a program and so in my mind

Arkansas is a top 10 program in the country when it comes to athletics and for me in the SEC it's a top if not the top program one of the top two

good communicate communicate I think I can coach the game now. I think I can run a program now and why

not learn from who I think is one of the best coaches in the country and being one of the best

athletic programs in the country and being one of the best athletic programs in the country. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made

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Basketball has taken David Patrick literally all over the world.

Born in Bermuda, Patrick grew up in Australia where he discovered basketball, a game that would become his life.

In high school he moved to America helping him catch the eye of coaching like

Jim Beheim as Syracuse where he was part of a Final Four team before transferring

to finish his career at Louisiana Lafayette.

Then it was onto a pro career that would take him back to Australia, England and Spain.

It tries to head off for Dave Simmons, who jams it down.

And the cambre cannons.

All along the way, Patrick never really had plans to become a coach.

And you know, after my college experience and getting hurt, you know, playing,

it's just like, what am I going to do?

But that all changed when he unexpectedly decided to accept a meager $5,000 a year job as an assistant and immediately became an elite

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