After Kevin Scanlon struggled in a scrimmage shortly before the Arkansas Razorbacks opened the 1979 football season, Coach Lou Holtz had a talk with his fifth-year senior quarterback.
"Coach Holtz got me out of the training room, and he said, 'Look, you didn't play well today, but you're my starting quarterback. I feel you've earned that,' " Scanlon said. " 'But I don't know if you understand what it means to be the starting quarterback at Arkansas. So I want to explain it to you.'"
FAMILY Wife Vicki, son Bryan and daughter-in-law Jenny, daughter Leigh and son-in-law Justin, daughter Laura and son-in-law David; eight grandchildren
NOTEWORTHY Selected by coaches as Southwest Conference Player of the Year and by The Associated Press as SWC Offensive Player of the Year in 1979 when Arkansas won a share of the conference championship and finished 10-2 … Still holds UA season record with 66.