I urge every Coach in any sport to spend some quality time with their former players and listen to the stories they share from their time with you. I think WE often get caught up in the Wins and Losses, but true Success are these relationships and memories.
What hurts a lot more than losing a big basketball game is the genuine emotional lockerroom after and having to say goodbye to 12 awesome kids! My heart hurts for them and truly wish WE had another week together.
Proud to have been their Coach!
#PurplePride
I honestly do not know how you could not be a fan of
@CoachSamPittman
1-Humble
2-hard worker
3-genuine
4-sense of humor
5-loyal
6-loves the state of Arkansas
In a Country that is struggling, hurting, and more divided than any other time in my lifetime, there are little eyes and ears that will be in classrooms all across the State tomorrow looking for positive influence and positive relationships. Be a Light!
Despite every national media person and most of country doubting us, Coach Muss and Staff put in a Masterful Plan and Kids executed that plan!
#WPS
#Elite8
Recently got asked about the staff I put together at SHS. Surround yourself with loyal members who share the same passion and have a common goal in mind and great things happen. Greg White, Jeremy Price, and Kyle Pennington all 3 Head HS Coaches now. Im Proud of all 3 of them.
More impressive to me than the most dominate first half performance of all time by DeVonta Smith is his lack of celebration and business like sprint back to the sideline
Losing the last game of any season never feels good, but the emotion that comes with saying goodbye to a group of seniors that mean everything to you hurts so bad!
With all the Uncertainties and Unknowns going on in our World in 2020, one thing always remains a constant and a inspiration of Hope and that is my absolute love, respect, and admiration for my beautiful wife of 13 years. Happy Anniversary
@SonyaStamps
, I love you!
Coaching is the absolute best profession there is. Through the many highs & the many lows, through the critics and the poisons, as well as the sleepless nights, but getting to compete with your staff and your players you genuinely love and respect makes it all worthwhile!
Tonight my mentor
@papashoe2019
goes in the FHS Hall of Greats. Taught me the game of hoops, taught me how to win with class & how to lose with dignity, but more importantly he modeled for me how to be a husband and a father and a Winner in Life! Congrats Coach!
People who criticized DVH last night for pitching moves are silent tonight on his move to Stovall batting 2nd in lineup!
He’s only 5/6 and the first player in Hog history to get 5 hits in a CWS! The best coach in college baseball knows what he is doing!
Met a new friend Mr Darryl Robinson today while walking in the courtyard. Ear buds in and doing his best to keep our campus looking clean. Everyone has a story, and I am Blessed to have listened to his. I truly wish everyone found and celebrated the good in people more often!
15 years with my best friend!
Your Loyalty, Patience, Wisdom, Toughness, and Love continues to inspire me!
Happy Anniversary
@SonyaStamps
I love you!
11 Years Ago today My Life Changed when this Beautiful Angel said “I Do”! This Journey through life Together keeps getting better. I love you Baby and Happy Anniversary!
WE were Blessed to start & finish a high school basketball season & WE are very grateful.The special memories & the lifelong relationships is what 2020-21 season was all about! These Kids brought us all great joy! 22-6 & a Conf Tourney Title
#CollectiveResponsibility
#PurplePride
Our season did not end the way WE wanted it to & it hurts, but Winning a Conf. Championship, overcoming some late season adversity, making special memories with players and Coaches is what I will remember from the 2018-19 season. Proud to be a Part of The Purple Family.
The job
@coachneighbors
is doing with this program this quick is simply unreal! All of us who grew up with him, watched him, and admired him, knew it would happen, but this is a lot quicker than any of us could have imagined!
#WPS
Coaching is about Relationships and Inspiring young people, Teaching them how to deal with Success as well as Adversity. Many times your players teach you these things along the way! Thanks
@krose4_
for all of these things. I love you.
#GodisGood
College Coaches on all Levels,
@GlasperLandon
is still unsigned and available. This young man can flat out play and score the basketball in bunches. 2 time All-State, All-Conf., and 6A West player of the year and many more accolades not mentioned.
A profession that pours into young people, keeps you away from your family, causes sleepless nights, has many highs and lows, provides relationships & memories that last a lifetime,critics that try to divide and rob the joy of players & coaches, you must remain positive and lead!
Senior Breakfast at First Watch this morning! These 6 young men have meant so much to me personally. We’ve laughed together, We’ve cried together, We’ve competed together, We’ve failed together, We’ve succeeded together, and WE will forever be linked together! Love these Guys!
Nothing better as a coach to see one of your former players living out his dream and is excited enough to FaceTime you to let you know! So proud of
@CollinCooper11
.
@UCAMBB
at Duke tomorrow night!
A TRUE paycheck in the coaching profession comes from moments like these when your former players call to ask you to lunch to share their college experiences and talk about their PurpleDogs! Thanks Jackson, Jack, and Barrett for you checking in on your “old” Coach! Love you guys
Every time I walk in this gym a sense of great pride comes over me! This is where it all started for me as a teenage kid and where my coaching journey began! This place was my sanctuary, a place that brought me peace and I place I could go to get away from the craziness!
Just got word that the State of Arkansas is losing one of the best Referees in the business Paul Hively! True Class and Character, I’m pretty sure I’m telling him all these things in this pic!
Long overdue, but Super Excited that The Legend is Finally recognized as a member of the Hall of Fame! Anyone who has been fortunate enough to play for him, work with him, or call him friend already knew he was a Hall of Famer on and off the Court!
Nothing better than having your former players call and text you with “Good Luck Coach”, “Pulling for you Coach”, “Wish I was getting ready to play another game with you Coach”. We are all so Blessed to get to lead young people and build life-long meaningful relationships.
Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful wife and mother to our 3 awesome kids. Through life’s ups and downs
@SonyaStamps
consistently leads all of us with her BIG Heart. We Love You baby!
Coaching to me is all about personal relationships. Extremely proud of former player & former staff member
@RonnieBrewerJr
.
Watching him grow from a young kid to a successful adult has been a Blessing! Hate to see him leave the Purple, but so proud of his next move! Love you kid
In a Conference full of outstanding Coaches who year in and year out do a tremendous job. I would like to Congratulate Lamont Frazier
@RHS_Mounties
for being selected by our Coaches as the 6A West Conference Boys Coach of the Year. Well deserved!
Sitting & reflecting tonight on the Journey and how incredibly Blessed I have been in this business. Such incredible memories and relationships during my time at SHS and I am so thankful for that. Now getting to be a part of this awesome PurpleDog Tradition and Program is Special
Watching how Coach Van Horn and all these players have handled the heartbreak and disappointment of coming up short makes me even more proud of this TEAM than ever before. What an incredible CULTURE
@RazorbackBSB
has! These kids are Champions!
#WPS
Thanks for coaching me hard and loving me harder!
Thanks for modeling what a GREAT coach, a GREAT Father, a GREAT Husband, and a GREAT friend looks like!
#NationalCoachesDay
This business there will always be critics and second guessing, TRUE FANS are the ones who stick together no matter what! Give major credit to
@MountieB
and Coach Frazier for their effort tonight. Our Kids will bounce back!
Picked in Vegas and by experts to win 4 games!
Toughest schedule in country and sweep the rivalry games, win a New Year’s Day bowl game, and win 9 games!
#WPS
These two coaching Legends have given so much to so many over the years. It is a Blessing to call them my friends. Nothing like an afternoon of storytelling from Charles Smith and Jerry Bridges. Can’t thank them enough for their wisdom and mentoring.
Getting to work with and build positive relationships with young people has got to be the most rewarding job in America! Very Blessed to get to do what I get to do for a living!
As a kid growing up in Athletics nothing was bigger for me than “The Battle of The Bulldogs”. Going to watch this great rivalry, Playing in this great rivalry, & Coaching on both sides of this rivalry has always been Special!
A good FB team got beat by an Elite FB team.
1-more talent
2-more depth
3-home crowd
Hogs 4-1 through 5 games with 2 dominant performances on National TV! Flush it and move on and beat Ole Miss!
#WPS
What an unbelievable run by
@RazorbackMBB
. Beat Auburn, Beat Kentucky, beat Tennessee, beat Gonzaga, and make it back to an elite8 is SPECIAL! We all wanted to win tonight, but lets put this all in proper perspective!
#WPS
Not sure there is anything better than being in a profession where you get to work with and teach young people how to deal with triumphs and setbacks. Having a front row seat in the Competition is JOY!So proud of
@FayBulldogsBB
and
@FayBulldogsFB
For giving everything today!
Nothing Better for a coaching staff than to see your kids give everything they have until the Final Buzzer! Came up a little short but couldn’t be more proud! A work in progress!
No clue how this season will go the rest of the way, but the best college baseball coach in America is winning games and leading the overall SEC race with a depleted roster! DVH could win national coach of the year every year, but the job he’s doing this year is unreal!
#WPS
So proud of these 2 former RedDog players of mine
@Tre_Turbo
@c_owens05
.
We were last to leave last night sharing stories about our TEAM pictured behind us. Proud of the their accomplishments on and off the court and the men they have become.
Anyone who knows
@coachneighbors
knew he was gonna turn it quickly! A preseason top 25 national ranking and then getting a 5-Star commitment today. Here we go!
SR. Dinner tonight at Juicy Tails. Gonna miss Caden, Nigel, Ornette, Alex, Jadyn, and Rex. We’ve been through many ups and downs together. I hope that when my time as a Coach has passed that I will not be judged by W’s and L’s, but by how many genuine relationships I’ve had!
Enjoyed the afternoon visiting with
@EricPMusselman
and staff before watching a workout. Love the Energy, Enthusiasm, and teaching throughout the session.
#WPS
Ultimately Hog Fans and Critics will Determine the success of
@coachchadmorris
by his win-loss record, but his positive influence and desire to make these young men good husbands, fathers, and community leaders is what he is all about!
#ManOfCharacter