It's come so far and I think about coach to Brian when he first got here, you know, they're playing at the fairgrounds. I mean other teams would come in and laugh at them and this is terrible. I know I'm talking about the University of Texas because they had a brand new ballpark and now they're playing this new school in the league Arkansas and not

only would they laugh at them they'd beat them by 15 runs and they flipped that

around a little bit and we got the you know the stadium up the road there up on

razorback that was great at the time and then obviously the vision to move it off campus

was a great vision by Frank Broiles and now all the expansions and then

Hunter coming in and putting in this facility it's as good as it gets. It's. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our

friends at Core Brewing Company. First Security Bank, Serra's in Resort, and

Lindsay Golf. Did you know there was a time where Arkansas baseball wasn't much of a priority for

Razorbank Athletics.

And all of a sudden the bus drives across the outfield at the old fairgrounds

and it stops in the middle of center field and they start taking all the band instruments out

and all the players run into the dugout and he's okay we see you tomorrow boys.

And I thought what is this?

And they said we can't practice baseball if the bands practice.

In the past few decades hog baseball has risen from practicing on the old fairgrounds in North

Fayetteville into a national powerhouse, winning regionals, making frequent

appearances in Omaha. But it's not the ninth time.

But it's not just the coach or the players or the fans or even bomb stadium.

Brass Burns that were running from the dugout all the way the foul pulling both sides.

I wanted seats in there and he just looked at me like, why?

We only average 1,800 a game.

We got 3,300 seats.

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