The Search for Calipari Thread

[Doc Hogaday]

https://twitter.com/will_whitson2/status/1778146346370752671

[RedRiverHog]

https://twitter.com/will_whitson2/status/1778146346370752671

What I just saw was JT telling the rest of the college world to hold my beer.

[Silence Of The Hams]

Is the press conference at 6 viewable anywhere?

[Spiderham]

Is the press conference at 6 viewable anywhere?

SEC network + will carry it live but I suspect all the major Arkansas TV stations will also have it.

https://x.com/choatemason/status/1778071942869791213?s=61&t=Y0HnJInXBN48z6WJDbQHzQ

[Spiderham]

Can somebody run to Trumbo's Men's Shop or raid Frank Broyles old wardrobe trunk and get the younger Mr Calipari something that isn't burnt orange Longhorn colors?
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[DirkPiggler]

Pretty damn good idea. 
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They're all over the place.  Saw the same thing on one of the rotating electronic billboards on 530 coming into LR a few minutes ago.

[DirkPiggler]

I mean, look whose name is on our baseball stadium.

A lot of downstream beneficiaries from Wal-Mart money.

However, maybe Tyson just made it "cool" for the big names to get directly involved in athletics.

Plenty of current upper execs at Walmart give to the program as well.  As others have said, there are plenty of mega wealthy people with Walmart ties who are Hog fans and not related to the Walton family.

[AporkalypseNow]

They're all over the place.  Saw the same thing on one of the rotating electronic billboards on 530 coming into LR a few minutes ago.

Oh, now THAT is really going all out.  Kudos.

[AporkalypseNow]

What a crazy turn of events...

https://twitter.com/HogsPlus/status/1778156288846786565

[Barton Fink]

Believe the formal press conference is at 6:30.

[JJHawg]

What I just saw was JT telling the rest of the college world to hold my beer.

Did he bring the dog?

[WaywardMemphian]

That's advertisement, not the same has giving money to pay athletes. They probably wrote that off as a business expense.

Something Walton pays the red that the AMP runs cause there's no way most those shows make money. There's no major league pro teams coming to NWA anytime soon. The Razorbacks being the Defacto sports entertainment, they should aupport they/them being damn good  as it is a quality of life issue for the Walmart so they can attract talent. Entertainmemt is a biggie like those stacked Amp lineups.

[CardHog]

I can't believe we were dogging on the wife earlier.  At 65?  Not bad.

[BASS]

They're all over the place.  Saw the same thing on one of the rotating electronic billboards on 530 coming into LR a few minutes ago.

I49 in nwa too

[The Whyte Boar]

From this vantage point it looks like Cal is going to handle NIL like it needs to be handled. He is going to get personally involved in schilling for donations and he will direct exactly how it is to be used.  Hopefully, his example will show what we need in football going forward. 

Spend big money on a big time coach.  Offer him the support and watch people get excited about it.  Football is harder no doubt, but no reason we can't follow the same plan there.

[Son of Spam]

It must be a nice change of pace for him to be somewhere he is actually wanted.

[piglosopher]

https://twitter.com/will_whitson2/status/1778146346370752671

Compare that to Muss's welcome at USC. Well...There was no welcome at USC.

[DrMongoose]

Ok. Is that money Wal-Mart paid to put their name on the stadium all going to NIL or a general fund? It seems that if we already had money from Wal-Mart going to NIL, we wouldn't be losing players just because Lasso Tits sucks.

We also would not have been hamstring to let Tits go after last year, due to his buyout amount.

that ad space is sold by Learfield IMG College (or whatever it's called now),they handle all the advertising/media rights for the Hogs.

[animal]

Got my Tyson wangs on the grille right now. Not sure how they'll do on a Blackstone flat iron but whatever. This is quick and dirty. I did my 8 bucks worth...everybody has to #answertheCal

[Lurk]

It must be a nice change of pace for him to be somewhere he is actually wanted.

Just that ought to reinvigorate him. This is going to be good.