And, fortunately, I’ve found a place in my alma mater that will tolerate it and will allow me to try some things that are a little bit different.” I had major chest pain, then it changed me, the way I looked at how none of us are guaranteed that next morning. My papa always said there’s pain that hurts and pain that changes you. “It will give you some perspective at a young age. “A heart attack at 29 will do that to you,” Neighbors said. He has two children, ages 25 and 19, from a previous marriage and two from his current marriage, ages 18 months and 3 months. I’ve been called all kinds of things that people try to use as, I think, a nice way of saying I’m weird. “Got a couple big wins, got a contract extension. “I think we moved up to supply closet last year,” Neighbors said. He was raised in little Greenwood, Arkansas, 75 miles south of a campus he hopes eventually will feature something named after him.

Neighbors, 52, is an Arkansas boy who finally came back home in 2017 to turn his alma mater’s program into a winner in the SEC. “My little boy doesn’t like it when I take the phone away.” When the phone stopped ringing and a recent call was connected, there was a rustling and rattling and a 3-month old baby wailing in the background. He’s a trivia savant, a regular at the local pubs. He’s obsessed with 1980s nostalgia and loves hair bands. It also encapsulates the way he moves from one simple joy to the next in life. He calls it “functionally fast.” It’s innovative, and proven in his track record as a coach. His teams embody the way he approaches life, playing with a controlled chaos. Neighbors is a hoot, one of the sport’s great personalities. You need to wave off that high-five and go two arms, and just brace yourself because it’s impactful.”

If you’ve never gotten a Morgan Valley hug, you have not lived. “We’re still really good friends,” Neighbors said. They reached the Final Four together in 2016. Neighbors can’t wait to see UConn assistant Morgan Valley, who was on his staff at Washington in 2015-17. The Razorbacks will visit the World Trade Center and the 9/11 memorial, Nike headquarters, the Statue of Liberty and Central Park. Who’s he kidding? Neighbors is giddy for this trip because he’s giddy about most things on most days.Īrkansas will arrive Saturday, practice in Hartford and travel to New York on Sunday afternoon to tour the city into Monday, the type of cultural experience many teams lost out during the strange COVID season of 2020-21.

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