re: Question re: Arkansas games at WMS

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I find it a bit archaic that Arkansas still holds games at WMS. It seems pointless. Play your home games at home, where they belong. If people really want to see Arkansas football, they can and will travel to Fayetteville. That cool little creation called the interstate makes it easy.

We have moved past the days where War Memorial Stadiums and Legion Fields are needed.

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Ditto, and it's sad that other fans can see this while our own cannot.

Others have probably explained the reasons, but WMS was a necessity back when Fayetteville was a tiny college town in the middle of the freaking Ozark Mountains that was practically impossible to get to. Northwest Arkansas had an absolutely tiny population, Razorback Stadium had a capacity smaller than that of War Memorial, and the political/power/money people were all in Little Rock. All of those reasons are nonexistent anymore with the creation and growth (and money) of Walmart and its vendor community (NWA is exploding and has been for the better part of three decades), the creation of I-540, the shift in economic power to NWA, and the decade-old renovation of Razorback Stadium to a 70k+ capacity.

Plus, it's so stupid when I hear people say "how will people follow the Hogs?!!?" Erm, they have these things called computers, televisions, radios and the internets.