The 59-year-old has spent 25 years of his life in Fayetteville and they’ve mostly been good ones. Think about it: he’s been on the bench for nearly all of Arkansas’ great basketball moments for the last 30 years, and there have been plenty of them.
In the end, though, there just weren’t enough great moments during the time he was in charge. Mild-mannered, he was the delayed successor to Nolan Richardson but never came close to matching his legacy. It was probably unfair to expect him to, but the seeming lack of Nolan’s fire and creativity always irked fans.