John Pelphrey has been named men's head basketball coach at Arkansas. Pelphrey had been the head basketball coach at South Alabama since 2003. Pelphrey may be best known for his playing career at Kentucky from 1988-1992 (during which time he sported a kick ass mullet/ Kentucky mud flap -Pelphrey was part of the three mullets: three unheralded, yet mulleted players who helped make up Rick Pitino's first recruiting class at Kentucky when UK was unable-due to NCAA sanctions-to offer basketball scholarships).
Pelphrey becomes the third Arkansas coach in as many weeks. After firing Stan Heath, Arkansas hired Dana Altman as head basketball coach. Altman quit one day later. Hopefully, for the Hogs, Pelphrey will stick around for a while.
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To his credit, Pelphrey may not have actually rocked a mullet while at Kentucky. There were three mullets on the 1992 team (you'll see them in highlights from the 'greatest game of all time' contest between Duke and Kentucky at the '92 East Regional- you know, the game that ended with Christian Laettner hitting the turn around buzzer beater that beat Kentucky), but Pelphrey may not have been one of them. I've scoured every corner of the world wide web but I can't find a photo of a mulleted John Pelphrey. But Farmer and Martinez had them (replete with porn star 'staches to boot).
And oh yeah,
As is the custom in Hogville:
Whooooooo
Piiiiiiiiig
Sooooooooooooooooo-wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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