FAYETTEVILLE — “Manny!” I remember tweeting just that one word when Manuale Watkins hit the game-winner at Ole Miss his sophomore year.
My thoughts flashed back to the day he was supposed to sign with Missouri State, which was his biggest scholarship offer coming out of high school. The ceremony was set up at Fayetteville High School, cake and all, but at the last minute Watkins decided to walk-on for the Razorbacks and play at Arkansas where his dad, Melvin Watkins, was an assistant.
“My heart was just never at Missouri State,” Manny Watkins said. “I went and talked to coach Anderson that morning and said my heart is here, not at Missouri State.