Students Pass Referendum To Restart Foorball


The vote was 1004 to 625. That is a large number that passed by the students.

(04-07-2023 09:50 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Students Pass Referendum To Restart Foorball


The vote was 1004 to 625. That is a large number that passed by the students.

Yeah but enrollment is 30k for undergrads, right?

It's not a done deal. It has to go to the Texas legislature and then potentially back to the college for another vote.

The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

(04-07-2023 10:21 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

Yes, the more schools who can barely get 1,000 people for basketball games on their best day, desperately need these football programs.

(04-07-2023 10:55 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:21 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

Yes, the more schools who can barely get 1,000 people for basketball games on their best day, desperately need these football programs.

Don't compare football attendance with basketball attendance below the MDL...

(04-07-2023 10:55 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:21 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

Yes, the more schools who can barely get 1,000 people for basketball games on their best day, desperately need these football programs.

They are assuming, like student debt, that the taxpayers of Texas who get no benefit from this will gladly fork over the extra $millions annually. Besides, by the time it gets going almost all those voters will be long graduated and not paying increased fees.

(04-08-2023 12:02 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:55 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:21 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

Yes, the more schools who can barely get 1,000 people for basketball games on their best day, desperately need these football programs.

Don't compare football attendance with basketball attendance below the MDL...

Why not? Most of the WAC schools don't draw flies for football either.

(04-08-2023 12:02 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:55 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(04-07-2023 10:21 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  The WAC would become more stabilized with UTA bringing back football. Hopefully Arkansas-Little Rock follows suit in the OVC. I hope New Orleans tries again.

Yes, the more schools who can barely get 1,000 people for basketball games on their best day, desperately need these football programs.

Don't compare football attendance with basketball attendance below the MDL...

Look at this huge crowd for Kennesaw State! They don’t get fans for their basketball games either.

https://twitter.com/kennesawstfb/status/...xOTIwaDS3Q

FBS BABY!

(04-08-2023 12:11 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  FBS BABY!

The more the merrier!!! We need a conference that will play on Mondays on the CW!!

If they want football hopefully they will get a team.

This is a great first step for them. Another team in the AWFC would be awesome!

(04-08-2023 12:11 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  FBS BABY!

If they add football, there's a massive chance C-USA adds them.

UTA should have made this move when they were an SBC school.

Maverick Stadium is still available but aging. But if they're aiming for the WAC, there's a stadium available down the road. (No, not that one...)

(04-08-2023 01:49 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  Maverick Stadium is still available but aging. But if they're aiming for the WAC, there's a stadium available down the road. (No, not that one...)

They can play in an old, empty baseball stadium like Georgia State. Oh boy

There is a huge, HUGE difference between "students vote in favor of a student fee increase" and "school actually takes concrete steps to reestablish football"

(04-08-2023 01:33 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  If they add football, there's a massive chance C-USA adds them.

"What we're hearing"

1. Judy MacLeod has a meeting with the UTA student body president Monday morning at a Metroplex donut shop TBD

2. Decisions, decisions: TAMU-Tarleton or UT-Arlington? Or maybe both?

3. Supposedly, Judy is interested to changing the two-division format from "East" and "West" to "Texas" and "Not Texas"

(04-08-2023 02:02 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(04-08-2023 01:49 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  Maverick Stadium is still available but aging. But if they're aiming for the WAC, there's a stadium available down the road. (No, not that one...)

They can play in an old, empty baseball stadium like Georgia State. Oh boy

Your football envy is showing again. Maybe Seattle will start a team soon and get out of the I-AAA mindset.