Mike Neighbors’ dream has always been to be the head coach of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team. His coaching story starts with a conversation on how getting cut from the Razorback baseball team spurred him on to try coaching (2:49). We talk about why he’s eliminated “goals” from the program (7:50) and how he started his coaching career at the high school level (13:54). Neighbors tells us about how having his first heart attack at 29 changed everything for him (16:45), and how that journey led to him getting his first head coaching job at Washington (26:11). Finally, we get into how playing guitar helps him decompress (42:00), and how he’d describe himself as a coach (43:29).
Episode 41: Mike Neighbors
Mike Neighbors’ dream has always been to be the head coach of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team. In this episode we find out the moves he made to make sure he wound up atop the women's basketball program in his home state, including getting cut from the baseball team by Norm DeBriyn and coaching Washington to the Final Four.