Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson, Jr.is an American basketball head coach best known for his tenure at the University of Arkansas, where he won the 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014, Richardson coached teams to winning a Division I Basketball National Championship, an NIT championship, and a Junior College National Championship, making him the only coach to win all three championships...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 December 1941
CityEl Paso, TX
I'm interested in a major college coaching job, period, ... I have an agent who's working on finding me a job either in college or in the professional ranks. I said years ago that I want to win another national championship, and the only way I can do that is to be coaching.
Panama played with their heart. That's why we won, ... Today, my players understood the system I've been trying to teach them.
I hope I never have to watch that Pop Wright shoot like that again.
Arkansas, as a state, is not that far away. So you can get more fans in there and get you the same atmosphere that say Kentucky has when they play in Atlanta.
They programmed him so hard. God, they wanted him to get to that NBA.
In my estimation, he is truly one of the finest young basketball coaches around at this point in time.
Basketball is all about decisions and we took the best ones, especially from the third quarter on.
We didn't go there to go out. We didn't go there to go eat. We didn't go to Dallas to do those kinds of things. We went to Dallas to play basketball, and that's what we emphasized.
We used to couldn't play quarterback. The coaches were calling the plays, but we weren't even smart enough to go out there and hand the ball off.