Ed Orgeron and Houston Nutt share a lot more in common than a love for Fayetteville and a unique command of the locker room.
Both men, Southerners through and through, consider stints on the Arkansas football staff under Ken Hatfield in the 1980s as foundational to their decades-long college coaching careers.
Both men also coached under the legendary Jimmy Johnson, who played a heavy hand in influencing their own player-first coaching mentalities.
Both men have been blessed with twins: boys for Orgeron, girls for Nutt.
And both coaches did time as the head coach at Mississippi in the 2000s.