(04-12-2017 04:41 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  It's about business for the city. The city doesn't want to pony up for upgrades to keep Arkansas, so the claim they can get the same return from UALR. Which is hogwash.

Bluff will be called.

I agree the deep south is different than the rest of the US when it comes to football and spending education dollars on sports. You don't have the student revolts and rejections of fees, the State laws prohibiting transfers, etc. And all the new move ups in football are from this region it seems. It shows up in other Statistics, such as the spending on research at Universities versus the spending on Athletics. While the ratio is 7:1 to 12:1 among schools in the B1G and P12, its down below 2:1 in the SEC, and if you remove the four AAU schools it below 1.5:1. This points to a very different set of priorities.

Given that, the same numbers which would make any Northern or Western public schools say, hell no to adding football, in Arkansas or Alabama or Louisiana they may well say yes.

People wonder where the school could get the money? From donations from local businesses that wants football games more often at War Memorial Stadium. They lost a lot of business when Arkansas went down to 1 game per year. It is not just students been filling out petitions, local business leaders for the past several years have been doing it as well. They see that Arkansas games will not be played in Little Rock anymore.

Now, the person involved at Little Rock in charge as the director of Athletics donation drive is the son of SFA's head football coach Clint Conque who moved over from UCA, Chasse Conque. Son of a football coach have driven the fever for Little Rock to add football. He was first hired in charge of donation drive at UALR.

http://lrtrojans.com/staff.aspx?staff=1

If he can get donations for baseball, basketball and swimming and diving? I think he could fund raise a drive for a football team which I think would work. He hired women's basketball coach, Joe Foley, away from Arkansas Tech. Tech's Golden Sun team have made several D2 basketball tournaments under his helm, and brought his success to Little Rock's women's program.