About obtaining tickets. Looks like their fans are getting plenty of tickets in end zone, upper level and in lower level near our students. I expect a loud group of ASU Fans on Thursday. They travel well and also have so many that live in Central Arkansas.

It is always a good atmosphere and with Brady's team doing so well this year it is good for the home team that this is not being held in Verizon Arena but too bad for ASU. I look for a sell out but will still have empty seats from our corporate sponsers.

I fully expect to have a lot of ASU fans sitting on my row as most of it does not have season ticket holders.

I look for a good time. Hope the correct UALR team shows up Thursday so that we can have a close game regardless of how it goes.

Just bought six in section 211.

(02-01-2010 09:48 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Just bought six in section 211.

You guys are always loud. Hoping for an exciting game and not a blow out. This appears to be your guys time this year to get that shot at the big dance.

(02-01-2010 09:48 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Just bought six in section 211.

That's the section where I sit. LRTrojan, DollarBill, MJS, ynocpirt, and InsideUALR all sit fairly close to this section, so you can meet most of us. As you come up the steps, which are right across from the concession stand, when you turn right to go up, I'm the first four seats right on the rail. Normally my two grandsons and son in law are there with me, but they have a prior committment that night, so I don't know who will be there, but I will be in my maroon garb. If for some reason we don't make contact, we usually go down by the concession stand area and visit at halftime. Look forward to seeing you down here. Have a safe trip. Of course we hope to send you home disappointed in the results of the game, but I'm not real confident the way you guys have been playing. Hope to see you Thursday.

I just purchased 6 in 211 as well. 3 of us will be well mannered.

(02-01-2010 05:04 PM)hb8 Wrote:  I just purchased 6 in 211 as well. 3 of us will be well mannered.

We good fans love to have well mannered fans from other schools visit us. I always think of you as guests in our home. What goes on on the basketball court is one thing, but you should be well treated in the stands. If you're not, we have security people to take care of those who are ill mannered. Come down at halftime and shoot the bull with us old guys (and a few younger). Like all fans, we know more about coaching than our coaches and don't hesitate to spread our expert knowledge around.

(02-01-2010 05:04 PM)hb8 Wrote:  I just purchased 6 in 211 as well. 3 of us will be well mannered.

All six of you better be, there's a mean SOB in that section that goes by the name of Doc. Look out for him.

(02-01-2010 05:10 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 05:04 PM)hb8 Wrote:  I just purchased 6 in 211 as well. 3 of us will be well mannered.

All six of you better be, there's a mean SOB in that section named that goes by the name of Doc. Look out for him.

You have to be kidding. The closest thing to a conflict I've had in the last 60 years is when I outraced a pregnant woman to a baseball in the stands at the Astrodome many years ago. My son is 45 years old, and he was around 8-10 when it happened, and we still talk about that from time to time.

If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Believe me she wasn't moving very fast. If she had, she would have beaten me to the ball. We were in an upper deck section where hardly anyone was sitting that night. She probably still talks about that rude S.O.B. who would deprive a pregnant lady of a baseball.

(02-01-2010 06:21 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Believe me she wasn't moving very fast. If she had, she would have beaten me to the ball. We were in an upper deck section where hardly anyone was sitting that night. She probably still talks about that rude S.O.B. who would deprive a pregnant lady of a baseball.

Evidently I got something right in that last post about that mean SOB in section 212. You've owned up to it.

(02-01-2010 07:27 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 06:21 PM)outsideualr Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Believe me she wasn't moving very fast. If she had, she would have beaten me to the ball. We were in an upper deck section where hardly anyone was sitting that night. She probably still talks about that rude S.O.B. who would deprive a pregnant lady of a baseball.

Evidently I got something right in that last post about that mean SOB in section 212. You've owned up to it.

Mean? No. Insensitive? Maybe.

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Well arkstfan, you got a good article in today's paper.

(02-02-2010 11:00 AM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Well arkstfan, you got a good article in today's paper.

Funny that both Brady and Catalina come to Little Rock and then we get a story. Apparently the D-G can't afford long distance phone calls.

(02-02-2010 11:19 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(02-02-2010 11:00 AM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(02-01-2010 05:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  If she wanted a baseball maybe she should have thought of that before she got pregnant.

Well arkstfan, you got a good article in today's paper.

Funny that both Brady and Catalina come to Little Rock and then we get a story. Apparently the D-G can't afford long distance phone calls.

Yes, I forgot about the Catalina story. As far as the long distance calls, they've got to save the money on calls and sending our beat writer on the road, so they can have another writer to cover the pigs.

Oddest thing to me about today's paper. It's the first time I recall such public admission that Arkansas just got pounded in recruiting and took an ASU committment. Don't blame the kid, if I lived in Russellville, I'd be thrilled to be a Hog too I suppose, but the paper admitted he was an ASU recruit (unusual) and admitted that a ton of players they thought were headed to Fayetteville have picked other schools.

The internet ain't so bad, the people interested in recruiting knew those facts and would have called them on it.

I give the D-G credit for scaling back what it does on national stories because between ESPN and the net, they can't compete. I think they are missing the boat though on not covering UALR, ASU, UCA and UAPB better. They could be a definitive source and choose not to be.

I've met Wally Hall a few times and I think he really wants great success for all but because they are not a definitive source he is about in the dark as everyone else. He was a Dickey Nutt defender to the end. If UALR were to lose every remaining game, he'd argue in favor of Shields as if it weren't worth even contemplating change.

Somewhere along the way the local media has accepted the fall of ASU and UALR much as the fans have.
http://arkst.posterous.com/a-new-swagger

I may be crazy but I happen to think that strong programs at ASU and UALR are good for the Hogs. It's easy to dismiss a loss to Kentucky (look at the tradition, look at the support, look at the TV coverage and national press), but an AD at Arkansas can't explain away ASU or UALR being successful so easily. I don't think it is an accident that 7 years after ASU takes UA to OT in the NIT and 8 years after Newell knocked off Notre Dame that Arkansas had a team that won the national championship.

(02-02-2010 01:13 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I don't think it is an accident that 7 years after ASU takes UA to OT in the NIT and 8 years after Newell knocked off Notre Dame that Arkansas had a team that won the national championship.

If Steve Wiedower had hit those FTs in the 2h at Barnhill in '87 there would have been no Razorback National Championship. It was dumb luck that they beat stAte, and that Nolan was allowed to stay long enough to win one.

(02-02-2010 10:47 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(02-02-2010 01:13 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I don't think it is an accident that 7 years after ASU takes UA to OT in the NIT and 8 years after Newell knocked off Notre Dame that Arkansas had a team that won the national championship.

If Steve Wiedower had hit those FTs in the 2h at Barnhill in '87 there would have been no Razorback National Championship. It was dumb luck that they beat stAte, and that Nolan was allowed to stay long enough to win one.

And I seem to remember that you guys got homered in the second half by the refs pretty good.

According to the Big 8 refs working the game, you were allowed to slap the ball out of the hand of a player attempting to inbound the ball and the forearm shiver was legal as well.

(02-02-2010 11:05 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  According to the Big 8 refs working the game, you were allowed to slap the ball out of the hand of a player attempting to inbound the ball and the forearm shiver was legal as well.

LOL - my 4th grade coach kept us undefeated by having the guy inbounding the ball shake it in the face of the defender, and then draw it back, only to have it touched by the defender and the technical was called. Surely Division 1 refs didn't miss what 4th grade refs called. Ironically that coach was a big Razorback fan, who took me along with his son to see Sydney Mo vs. the Russians in LR. One and only time I called the Hogs. I'm so ashamed. :)

The whole state shook when Goshien got clocked. It was so obvious that we got jobbed.