Papabear wrote:
U of A in my opinion will pullout of War Memorial stadium, they have enough regional support that they don't need State wide support. I don't think that Arkansas stAte will take the Razorbacks place should they leave.
Gotta agree with that. As a I-A, Arkansas State is required to play at least four home games in our primary venue and we won't change that to be WMS. A typical season we will have only five home games, a few years we will have six. So in theory we would never be able to play more than twice in Little Rock in a season and we are unlikely to do it when we can.
Right now I see us coming to LR for games like Oklahoma State. There are some name schools that are willing to give return games but only away from campus (see Oklahoma State vs. ASU and vs. La.Tech played in Shreveport, Middle Tennessee vs. Louisville which will be played in Nashville, Arkansas vs. Illinois and North Carolina in basketball).
There is some speculation that ASU vs. SMU could be moved to War Memorial in 2007 but I don't see that happening unless the AD is unhappy with the Indian Stadium turnout in 2006 for Army or unless someone puts up some money to convince ASU to move the game. I just don't see SMU traveling enough fans that someone would want to capture that game. The only other Little Rock talk I've heard was that La.Tech wanted to play ASU there and ASU reciprocated by demanding the return game be played in Shreveport. Last I heard those talks were dead.
So availability of WMS sure doesn't look like an issue. The question is what games make sense to play in LR. I think you'll have a stronger idea once the Southland deal gets done and you get a feel to which teams inspire fan interest. If UCA-McNeese has title implications, the Cowboys will bring enough fans that it would probably be worthwhile to move. Outside that, I'd wager UCA will shoot for a non-conference game in September to help spur people to be interested in driving to Conway for the league games.
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