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When all this recruiting stuff is over, new Arkansas coach John Calipari will need to take a moment to do something truly Razorback.
Don’t get this twisted. He has hit the ground running and has crushed it in landing so many high profile players for his first roster.
There’s no doubt Arkansas fans appear to be nothing but grateful for how well things have gone. It’s just everything so far has felt, well, a little blue.
The only image of Calipari out on the recruiting trail is from early on when he was out in one of his signature blue suits.
His high school recruits are former Kentucky commits. Most of his portal findings have been former Kentucky players with possibly more to come.
It’s been an impressive haul that has created a lot of buzz around the Natural State.
However, from the moment word started leaking out about Calipari on a Sunday night no one who follows the Hogs will ever forget, every part of the process has been tinged by the words “former Kentucky.”
The splash needs to be big, the support universal and it should tie directly to the basketball program.
Those parameters open the door to one major move – spearhead an effort to get a statue of Nolan Richardson to be installed outside of Bud Walton Arena.
While the former Razorbacks coach still displays the cognitive skills of a 40-year-old, he’s no spring chicken.
He’s 82. America was still reeling from the shock of the attack on Pearl Harbor a few weeks before when Richardson was born.
There’s no doubt he deserves it. His 1994 national championship is the only universally recognized national championship Arkansas has ever won in one of its three major sports.
Yes, in Arkansas Frank Broyles is honored for a 1964 championship in football for the Hogs’ undefeated season, but Alabama is recognized across the country as the national champion from that year as the AP and Coaches Poll winner.
