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re: Universities looking to lock down LR's fans and recruits
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:36 am to TheCheshireHog
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:36 am to TheCheshireHog
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Don't be ridiculous. They can do whatever they want and the vast majority of folks there will still be Razorback fans.
For the most part that's true. But kids growing up these days in central/SE Arkansas, especially kids with parents who don't have time/money to take a trip to NW Arkansas on a Saturday for a game, won't be exposed to live Arkansas football games against SEC competition. Cupcakes are essentially exhibition games when your team is good, and even worse, when your team is bad it's just an embarrassment (ULM/Toledo). That's just not a recipe to breed a strong following in other parts of the state.
If I had grown up in this era in Little Rock, I probably wouldn't have caught Razorback fever as much as I did at a young age.
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Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:51 am to Jon Ham
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For the most part that's true. But kids growing up these days in central/SE Arkansas, especially kids with parents who don't have time/money to take a trip to NW Arkansas on a Saturday for a game, won't be exposed to live Arkansas football games against SEC competition. Cupcakes are essentially exhibition games when your team is good, and even worse, when your team is bad it's just an embarrassment (ULM/Toledo). That's just not a recipe to breed a strong following in other parts of the state.
I keep hearing this argument. My translation is this:
Poor people can only afford going to SEC games at WMS. The non conference games are below us.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 4:38 pm to Jon Ham
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But kids growing up these days in central/SE Arkansas, especially kids with parents who don't have time/money to take a trip to NW Arkansas on a Saturday for a game, won't be exposed to live Arkansas football games against SEC competition. Cupcakes are essentially exhibition games when your team is good, and even worse, when your team is bad it's just an embarrassment (ULM/Toledo). That's just not a recipe to breed a strong following in other parts of the state.
This isn't 1980, where exposure is limited to attendance to games. Proximity doesn't matter in the age of the internet, smartphone and modern day TV contracts where every team is on TV every week.
I've said this before, but when my dad was growing up in southwest Arkansas in the 1960s, practically the only way he could watch the Hogs was for my grandad to drive to Little Rock games. Nowadays he's as connected as I am despite me living 5 hours closer to campus by way of social media, the internet, CBS, the SEC Network and ESPN
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