The youngest of three children who were raised by their grandmother in El Paso, Texas, when the children's mother passed away, the future Arkansas men's basketball coach still recalls his grandmother going off to work every day to make enough money to support Richardson and his two sisters, as well as her own six or seven kids who were still living at the house. Things weren't easy even with the welfare subsidies. But she did it, working for minimum wage at the nearby Hardees Chicken restaurant to make ends meet.
Nothing comes without hard work.
It's a simple notion, really, but one that Richardson takes to heart every day. I don't mind working. People here have more degrees than thermometers, but none of them can outwork me. I'm going to work for what I'm going to get. The 16-month investigation, which ultimately found no major violations, centered around the certification of forward Sunday Adebayo and included allegations of payments to players.