First Arkansas Fruit Just Dropped Off The John Calipari Coaching Tree

Credit: Craven WhitlowIt only took one year for John Calipari’s coaching tree to grow an Arkansas branch.

Darin Minniefield, who served as a graduate assistant under the Hall of Fame coach at Kentucky and with the Razorbacks, has been hired as an assistant coach at Nicholls State.

The Colonels are led by third-year head coach Tevon Saddler, who has guided his alma mater to its first back-to-back 20-win seasons in school history and consecutive third-place finishes in the Southland Conference.

It will be Minniefield’s first full-time gig at the college level. Prior to becoming a GA, he coached in the Houston Defenders AAU organization and worked with John Lucas Enterprises.

While he had no…