FAYETTEVILLE -- Nolan Richardson said he was sad, not angry, when Mike Anderson -- his former point guard at Tulsa and assistant coach at the University of Arkansas -- was fired Tuesday as the Razorbacks' basketball coach.
"I was more sad than anything," Richardson said Wednesday. "Was I disappointed? Yeah. But was I surprised? No. That's just the nature of the beast.
"As I've said to Mike before, 'We're hired to be fired.' Then you move on. That's basically the name of the game with everybody in coaching."
Anderson had a 169-102 record at Arkansas with three NCAA Tournament appearances and two NIT appearances.