FAYETTEVILLE -- Remy Cofield the deputy AD and general manager of Arkansas athletics was introduced on Thursday afternoon.

Cofield was hired in early March from the Boston Celtics of the NBA. When asked to describe the lay of the land with his job Cofield made it clear it's not that simple.

"The lay of the land I think is a little much," Cofield said. "I’m trying these last two months to just kind of get my feet wet. I was telling Kyle this is the second time I’ve been down here you know, seeing the area and I didn’t really know where the media room was so, that’s the biggest thing for me. But coming down to Arkansas, it’s been fantastic ever since I stepped foot down here. People have been really really nice. There’s a lot of different places to explore. My family is happy with it, they enjoy being here. So we’re just happy to start and get going."

A new revenue sharing is the talk of college athletics right now. Cofield was asked if this will make things more equitable for the schools as opposed to the wild NIL spending some have done in recent years?

"I think we have to just find the right players," Cofield said. "I think overall when you’re competing with money, the money is the money. I think at end of the day we've got to get the right people for Arkansas. I think that’s the biggest thing, and our fanbase wants us to be extremely competitive. I’m extremely competitive, all of our coaches are extremely competitive. We’re going to get the right players for Arkansas, that’s the most important for us. We’ll compete with some of the money issues that are going to be out there. I think a lot of the cap stuff that we’re going to see going forward is going to level it out a little more so that we can compete from a money standpoint. But I think it starts with the players, we've got to get the right players for us."

Cofield talked about the skills he learned working with the Celtics that he can apply at Arkansas.

"I’m very collaborative," Cofield said. "I work with a lot of different people. I’m able to kind of be a chameleon in some ways. I also think that this position, this role, leans more so into strategy. I think being able to kind of look at a cap, not just in the present year but two years, three years from now, giving my opinions to coaching staffs of how they could go about going around the cap and figuring out ways to get players that they want in, I think that’s important. And then of course we have great staffs that do a lot of the recruiting, they have scouts on their staff, they have personnel staffs. We have some of the best in the country across the board. So we’re going to lean on them a lot to do a lot of the heavy lifting there, and we’ll continue to give them advice on how we could put rosters together in a way that’s very beneficial to (I think he meant “not”) only the athlete, as well as the university."

Cofield isn't ready to do a breakdown on percentages that will go to each sport with the revenue sharing.

"We can’t talk about percentages and how we allocate those funds currently," Cofield said. "But I do know that we will be making sure all of our sports teams have a way to compete at a high level. We want to make sure that the teams that are participating in our rev share at a high level that they have what they need as well. Even our other teams that are not participating in rev share, we want to do everything we possibly can to make sure they’re part of a structure that helps them get the players they want and that the need to be on a competitive level. We’re working through all that. There’s no easy explanation for all this stuff. We’re just trying to figure out the best course of action for our team, our university."

While Cofield will have a staff he currently has none. How many will he have will it is finalized?

"Enough to make this all go," Cofield said. "I think at the end of the day we want to make sure we’re bringing people, I think it’s quality over quantity at this point. If we get the right people in to help us do what we want to do, and it’s not just me it’s for the entire department. We’re going to be leaning on some of these people to make some big decisions going forward and put us in a position to be successful in the long term."

Cofield, who has lived in Boston and Philadelphia, has a simple message for athletes considering Arkansas.

"Come to Arkansas, you’ll figure it out once you get here," Cofield said. "I think being in Boston, I’ve always been a city kid. I grew up in Boston, went to Philadelphia, went back to Boston, been there the last 14 years. Just coming down here, I used to come down here to watch Muss’ pro days and things like that and over the last five years I was doing the SEC primarily, that was a lot of what I was doing, and you come down here, the 10-minute drive from the airport is like cows and chickens and things like that. I came down here with my wife, I tried to tell her, ‘have an open mind. We’ll figure this thing out’. But I think both of us when we got down here, we started going out. We started meeting the people. There’s a sense of it, you just don’t want to leave.

"I think there’s a lot of people that live here that are coming from other places, I’m talking about LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, all these different places, bigger cities. They come down here and they don’t want to leave. I think that’s a testament to what Arkansas is. It’s not just about the big businesses that are here, which is a beautiful thing to have on top of it. It’s just about the culture that’s down here that’s being built out. If you’re not a part of it, you’re missing out. You really are."