re: When did Arkansas announce the UA/LSU game will be in Fayetteville?

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Yes, but for a small portion of our t-shirt fanbase, having a game close to home and/or having a chance to get shite faced on the golf course means more to them than the overall advantages of games at home for the program.

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Dale, folks can get 'shite faced' where ever they want to, golf course, country club, Dickson Street, Saline River bottoms... that doesn't play into anything. And don't act like NWA folks don't get shite faced too.

That 'small portion' was at one time the huge majority portion of the fanbase, the football program couldn't have survived without them. That's why games were in LR to begin with, weren't enough folks in the hills that would come to a game for them to make money.

Now, there's enough folks in the hills, they don't need Central Ark and South Ark or East Ark money. Plain and simple. And they will be getting less and less of the total from there.

There's too many options for entertainment these days, and let's face it - a football game is 'entertainment'.

With the advent of ESPN, big screen high def TV's, etc., a lot of folks are starting to make the choice of sitting at home (or gathering at friends house) saving a shite-ton of money in gas, tickets and for some, lodging, getting a MUCH superior view of the game (70,000 seats in Fayetteville and at least 20,000 of them suck). Plus instead of just sitting there listening to commercials on the Super Duper Jumbotron during those DAMN TV timeouts, you can run to the john and be back in plenty of time, go fix you a sandwich and be back in time...

It's getting to the point that staying home and watching is superior in many ways to actually going. True, there's nothing like the atmosphere of being at the game, but in all other aspects - too many reasons to skip that long drive and expense any more.