FAYETTEVILLE -- Nevada football Coach Jay Norvell can easily relate to University of Arkansas coaches Sam Pittman and Eric Musselman.
Like Pittman, Norvell spent 25-plus years as an assistant coach -- many of them in Pittman's home state of Oklahoma -- before getting his first shot as a major college head coach well into his 50s.
Musselman's four-year tenure as men's basketball coach at Nevada overlapped two years with Norvell, who moved to Reno, Nev., for the 2017 season after one year at Arizona State as passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach.
Norvell, also like Pittman, has a reputation as a players coach and one of the game's "good guys," which he exhibited in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Friday.