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HawgSports Live: An Arkansas Razorbacks Podcast

Eric Musselman to be new Arkansas basketball coach, sources say

HawgSports Live: An Arkansas Razorbacks Podcast

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🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Trey Biddy and Danny Wests of HawgSports.com break down the anticipated hire of Nevada's Eric Musselman to become the new head coach at the University of Arkansas. We'll dive into his recruiting background, his coaching record and more... To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? This is Trey Biddy with hog sports.com. That's H-A-W-G sports

0:04.8

dot com. Eric Musselman to Arkansas is the strong rumors from strong sources

0:10.1

coming out today. Nothing official on that yet, but it certainly looks like that is the case. We're

0:15.0

going to talk about Musselman today. We're going to talk about his recruiting prowess with

0:18.4

Danny West. He's going to join us. We'll dive into this spring game a little bit also and

0:22.1

talk a little bit of recruiting stuff, but mainly today's show is about Eric Musselman on Hawksports Live. The word started leaking out a little bit last night that there would be a press conference

0:39.8

today announcing Eric Musselman is the head coach at Arkansas.

0:43.0

And then of this morning, of course, with Evan Daniels of 24-7 sports reporting his sources are saying that it's going to be Eric Musselman.

0:51.0

Some other reporters have also said that these guys coming out of Minnesota where the

0:55.6

final four is being taken is taking place.

0:57.6

So that's where all the smoke is really coming from.

1:00.5

Now, I made a post last night on it just asked what my thoughts are on

1:05.0

the coaching situation right now and the only guy that makes any sense is

1:09.3

muscleman at this point I mean sure do they want to talk to Chris Beard do they want to feel him out is there a lot of smoke around that in terms of him being interested in Arkansas

1:19.6

Maybe you know there's there's agents involved so it's hard to say all that but the further he advanced in the NCAA tournament the less likely that

1:27.9

Look possible just didn't seem realistic. You know, I don't doubt that they had reached out to Kelvin Sampson. I had very strong sources on that that they were in some kind of talk. I'm not saying they ever offered him the job, but they were in some kind of talk with Kelvin Sampson about the open position. There's been reports that the

1:44.2

deal breaker on that was that he wanted his son named head coach and waiting. I don't

1:48.6

believe that to be true. I think that was just a little bit of sugar from

1:51.0

Houston and I have pretty strong sources that indicate that

1:54.7

that that really did not come up a lot.

1:58.4

Greg Marshall stuff I think that that possibly had legs also I think it did have legs.

2:03.4

But really when you broke it down,

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