It’s a touch funny how sometimes the closest of friends can wield the sharpest of knives on each other.
College football hall of famers Frank Broyles and Darrell Royal, for instance, were great friends most of the year. But not when they led the Razorbacks and Longhorns onto the gridiron on an annual basis with the prime objective of destroying each other’s dreams of a national championship.
Sixty years later, we see a similar kind of dynamic playing out between Arkansas’ basketball coach and the most famous broadcaster in college basketball. Over the last few decades, John Calipari and Dick Vitale have mostly been chummy but have also fired off a few barbs at each other.