Media with balls - just not in AR

Dig it. The short answer is FSU ain’t the only gig in town in Florida. You wouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you? Or rip up your meal ticket? Or some other tired platitude or idiom if you were covering sports in this state, would you? I wouldn’t.

I enjoy going to stAte, UCA, Harding and Lyons games.

Hell, those campuses are much closer to me than Fayetteville.

I was raised a Razorback fan but that doesn't mean I have a dislike of any other program in the state.

This is the only thing I wanted to hear from Chaddick after that stupid fake punt that will win more media awards than he’ll win games:

Chaddick at presser

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I was raised a Razorback fan but that doesn't mean I have a dislike of any other program in the state.

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I am an Arkansan but that doesn't mean I have a like for any other program in the state. I only care for my alma mater. If the University of Arkansas shut down football I wouldn't find another team - I'd simply move my money.

But, the reason I brought up other schools here was to reinforce and provide reasoning to why we are the only show in town. You might enjoy going to their games but you are one of a handful. Overall, people in this state don't care about the other programs. Which manifests itself through the media and the problems they focus on.

An example-----attendance. There was an article a couple years back critiquing the scanned tickets vs. actual attendance. Here it is: cfb attendance article This caused the state media to critique the numbers and make a big deal about the difference between scanned and actual attendance. However, the only program that the state media focused on was ours. Even some jonesboro homer media used the article to poke fun........ not realizing that they were one of the worst (worse than us) at accurately reporting attendance. In fact, the red pups total attendance for that season was what we easily get for ONE game in a good year (45,631). Did anyone care about jonesboro's god awful attendance or the fact that they pumped up their nubmers. NOPE. Why? Because nobody cares about them unless they can favorably compare them against the Razorbacks.

Another example - wasting money on buyouts or stadium expansion. We are the ONLY program in this state that does not use tax money or student fees to fund our athletic department. Yet when we expand our renovate our stadium everyone in the state - even those who don't donate a dime think they have a right to bitch about money being spent. Never mind that jonesboro wasted money on water falls while their students are forced to pay $300 per semester in student fees and they receive taxes to subsidize their program.

So, yes, we are the only show in town but it's not all that it's cracked up to be.

On a quick tangent -

I used to be against playing instate schools. I liked pissing off other schools because "the mean old Razorbacks" were holding them back by not playing. I also didn't want to give any fan who celebrates Frank Broyles death (astate) the time of day. Or the fans who acted like they won the CWS win we lost against Oregon State (uca, little rock, astate). But now I'm all for it. We need some true rivalries. We need some teams and programs to truly hate and have them hate us back. We also need to galvanize the program. If we lose then the fans of the state of Arkansas can move on and buy new t-shirts. If we win then we need to talk shite and let it be known that only Razorback fans are needed here.

ADD: if you think the "I'm a fan of the state" mentality will fly with other fanbases go to their message boards and talk well of the Razorbacks. Tell them you want every team in Arkansas to do well and you will be in for a rude awakening. They hate us.