FAYETTEVILLE — With a coach’s success comes attention.
Attention from others dangling allegedly more lucrative opportunities with designs on capturing the coach’s employment.
The process allowed the University of Arkansas to lure basketball coach Eric Musselman away from the University of Nevada.
Now it’s the process Arkansas fans fear.
Musselman in today’s South Regional semifinal in Indianapolis against Oral Roberts University becomes Arkansas’ first coaching the Razorbacks to the Sweet 16 since Nolan Richardson’s 1996 Sweet 16 team.
The basketball nation takes notice. Musselman’s name gets bandied constantly regarding Indiana University’s recent coaching vacancy.