82. Marvin Caston: An Unexpected Ride

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

There’s something to be said for the “pull” of the Razorbacks. You come to the University of Arkansas from outside the state, and you end up never wanting to leave. And in Marvin Caston’s case, that’s exactly what happened, even though he didn’t know it at the time. Caston is the product of hard work growing up in northern Louisiana. He worked from a young age to help provide for his family, and football provided a way to have some fun. And though his Razorback career wouldn’t get off to the best of starts, he ended up being a part of Houston Nutt’s 1998 and ’99 teams that went 17-7 over a two-year stretch. And when the opportunities arose to keep helping the university and its community—first in the compliance department and now with the Razorback Foundation—he jumped at the chance. Marvin Caston may not have originally planned on being a Razorback, but Arkansas is lucky to have him.

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0:00.0	I never forget I was struggling my first year and a year and a half here I just was I just I was struggling
0:05.7	and my phone ring one night and it's my mom phone in dawn and my mom says, what's wrong with you?
0:14.0	You know, how things going what's wrong with you?
0:16.0	You know, he put on the floor, my mom, everything good, I'm fine.
0:18.0	She said, uh-uh, I'm your mother.
0:21.0	I heard when you hurt.
0:22.0	Something they're right, what's going on. Can't
0:25.1	be the good mother. That's what I had a good mother. She said something ain't
0:29.0	right and I said mom I'm just this is different I got I was recruited for this guy to play this this guy. I'm not playing at
0:34.8	time. She said put your head down and do episode is made possible by our friends at
0:54.5	Core Brewing Company. First Security Bank, Serra's in Resort, and Lindsay Golf.
0:59.9	There's something to be said for the pool of the razorbacks.
1:05.0	You come to the University of Arkansas from outside the state and then you end up never
1:11.0	wanting to leave.
1:12.0	At least that's what happened to Marvin Kastin,
1:14.8	even though growing up he had a different dream. I said, coach Rob,
1:19.3	why you didn't recruit me man? I wanted to be a tiger.
1:21.9	He said, where are you from? I said, I'm from Wensburg. He said, where are you from?
1:23.0	I said, I'm from Wensburg.
1:24.0	He said, Kasten, I said, Coach, I wanted to come.
1:26.0	He said, eh, we just dropped the ball and recruited.
1:29.0	Kasten is a product of hard work.
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