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State of the Hogs: Pittman's high school coach pleased

Admittedly, Charlie Cooper is biased. Sam Pittman’s high school coach thinks the world of the new Arkansas football coach and will shout it to the Boston Mountains.

In fact, when a reporter reached Cooper on Wednesday, the former Rogers High School football coach was driving from his retirement home in Tahlequah, Okla., to do a Fayetteville TV interview to tell his favorite Pittman stories.

Cooper is pleased Pittman has returned to coach the Razorbacks and expects good things.

Cooper is a legend in Oklahoma high school circles. At 76, he’s been retired from coaching for eight years.