FAYETTEVILLE -- Professionally, 2018 will go down as one of Dave Van Horn's finest years.
The University of Arkansas baseball coach led the Razorbacks to a national runner-up finish, received a five-year contract extension and pay raise that makes him one of only a handful of $1 million-per-year college baseball coaches, and he was announced last week as a member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.
At a glance
2017 Blaise Taylor, ASU football
2016 Jeff Henderson, Olympic gold medalist
2009 Mark Martin, NASCAR driver
2007 None
But Van Horn, who in his 17th season has become the dean of major-sport coaches at Arkansas, also demonstrated some persuasiveness.