In September 2021, Sam Pittman smiled as he sat at the table for his postgame interview after Arkansas beat Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas, ending a nine-year losing streak to the Aggies, their longtime SEC (and SWC) rivals.
Pittman took in the significance of the win, a momentous hurdle cleared in his rebuild of a Razorbacks football program that had won seven games and lost 27 in the previous three seasons, two 2-10 seasons under Chad Morris and one 3-7 season in Pittman's first year.
He pointed to the back of the room, to two men he said had inspired him.
"I think this is what should happen at Arkansas," Pittman said. "I'm not saying we should win every game. But we're the University of Arkansas. When you look at Eric and Dave, they're doing it ... [softball coach Courtney] Deifel, everybody. University of Arkansas, it should happen to us."
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