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Posted on 10/13/11 at 2:19 pm to Cracker
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God shite on the earth and called it War Memorial
Whatever. War Memorial is by no means a nice stadium, but it's nothing more than a smaller version of that rat infested place ya'll play at. Tiger stadium is big and loud. Nothing more.
Posted on 10/13/11 at 8:25 pm to Buster Womb
There are three reasons we keep playing LSU in Little Rock.
1. As noted above, big-bucks boosters in Little Rock like Warren Stephens, who threatened to completely cut ties with UA if games were pulled out of WMS.
2. Whiny fans, not only in Little Rock but in areas south and east of LR, who pitched a huge fit in 1999 when Frank Broyles mentioned the possibility of moving all games to Fayetteville: "They're going to take our team away." Evidently it's not enough of their team to consider actually seeing them play, like, on campus?
3. And I'm serious about this. They are seriously concerned that if we play LSU on Thanksgiving weekend on campus, there will be thousands of empty seats because the students are gone and because people won't interrupt their holiday weekend to drive up for a football game (never mind that they interrupt their holiday weekend now to drive to Little Rock). Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, when Arkansas and LSU both stunk (I remember seeing a lot of empty seats in Little Rock for an Arkansas-LSU game back then too), but I doubt it would be the case now.
I think at the very least, even if we continue playing in LR, the LSU game should rotate to Fayetteville occasionally. Play Ole Miss in LR in even-numbered years to give them their SEC game as specified in the contract. I've made that suggestion to Jeff Long in an e-mail; his response was that many considerations have to be taken into account in making that decision (like whiny boosters, whiny fans and the fear that people won't show up).
That contract to play in Little Rock expires after the 2016 season. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't be renewed, since we leave $1.5 million on the table in tickets/skyboxes that aren't sold every time we play a game in Little Rock instead of Fayetteville. I'm not sure those boosters are giving enough money to make up that kind of forfeited income.
I understand that things were different decades ago. Little Rock to Fayetteville used to be a bad drive any time, and on game day might be 6 hours, and there weren't nearly enough hotel rooms. I remember sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the mountain 40 miles south of campus on game day. But there's a freeway now, you can get from downtown LR to the stadium in 3 hours, and there are actually places to stay now when you get to Fayetteville.
1. As noted above, big-bucks boosters in Little Rock like Warren Stephens, who threatened to completely cut ties with UA if games were pulled out of WMS.
2. Whiny fans, not only in Little Rock but in areas south and east of LR, who pitched a huge fit in 1999 when Frank Broyles mentioned the possibility of moving all games to Fayetteville: "They're going to take our team away." Evidently it's not enough of their team to consider actually seeing them play, like, on campus?
3. And I'm serious about this. They are seriously concerned that if we play LSU on Thanksgiving weekend on campus, there will be thousands of empty seats because the students are gone and because people won't interrupt their holiday weekend to drive up for a football game (never mind that they interrupt their holiday weekend now to drive to Little Rock). Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, when Arkansas and LSU both stunk (I remember seeing a lot of empty seats in Little Rock for an Arkansas-LSU game back then too), but I doubt it would be the case now.
I think at the very least, even if we continue playing in LR, the LSU game should rotate to Fayetteville occasionally. Play Ole Miss in LR in even-numbered years to give them their SEC game as specified in the contract. I've made that suggestion to Jeff Long in an e-mail; his response was that many considerations have to be taken into account in making that decision (like whiny boosters, whiny fans and the fear that people won't show up).
That contract to play in Little Rock expires after the 2016 season. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't be renewed, since we leave $1.5 million on the table in tickets/skyboxes that aren't sold every time we play a game in Little Rock instead of Fayetteville. I'm not sure those boosters are giving enough money to make up that kind of forfeited income.
I understand that things were different decades ago. Little Rock to Fayetteville used to be a bad drive any time, and on game day might be 6 hours, and there weren't nearly enough hotel rooms. I remember sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the mountain 40 miles south of campus on game day. But there's a freeway now, you can get from downtown LR to the stadium in 3 hours, and there are actually places to stay now when you get to Fayetteville.
Posted on 10/13/11 at 8:38 pm to spiderpig
2016 is a date that allows us to have another stadium expansion in Fayetteville.
When (or even before) the current upgrades are finished, freeing up the Broyles Center, I expect there to be an announcement about stadium expansion.
That will coincide with the completion of Razorback Rd/Maple being a four-lane up to Garland, and maybe even the completion of more parking improvements on campus.
Once they announce a stadium expansion in Fayetteville, the current set up is finished.
There's already way too much money being left on the table in NWA. Another 8-10k seats will be the end of War Memorial conference games for sure.
When (or even before) the current upgrades are finished, freeing up the Broyles Center, I expect there to be an announcement about stadium expansion.
That will coincide with the completion of Razorback Rd/Maple being a four-lane up to Garland, and maybe even the completion of more parking improvements on campus.
Once they announce a stadium expansion in Fayetteville, the current set up is finished.
There's already way too much money being left on the table in NWA. Another 8-10k seats will be the end of War Memorial conference games for sure.
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