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I'm not sure about Central Arkansas, but most of the schools in the SLC began as State Teacher Colleges. No engineers, no scientist, just teachers. After graduation they were making small salaries & didn't have much to return to the university in the way of financial support. The larger schools have many CEO's of billion dollar companies who support their college in a big way. Many of the students at teacher colleges had to work (some more than one job) to put themselves through school & had little time to develop a close relationship with the school. This is a situation that all of these schools face & it is difficult to overcome. Traditions & school pride were in short supply. Except for a hand full of schools, all FCS schools are in a similar situation. We just have to be happy for the people who show up for the games & not worry about the others.

Nail on the head right there. My father graduated from Arkansas State Teachers College (now UCA) and has always said as much. We also have the unique situation of everyone in the state pulling for one university and every other college just kind of blends into a white noise.

Hello everyone,

EWU fan here. I love coming on and reading about other Universities. The struggles you speak of are the same that we are having at EWU. We are a college located in a small college city that is located 20 min. outside of bigger city Spokane. However, many people in Spokane choose to cheer for WSU Football or Gonzaga Basketball. Over the years we have made strides, started to become relevant in the FCS, increased student enrollments, and some of those Spokanites have taken notice (and many more haven't.)

Our attendance at games is up, but our small (very small) stadium is at capacity. We would like to expand, however their isn't much University money to do so. We are also a college where most of our students are in our education program. This is slowly changing, but our alumni don't have high profile jobs to be contributing large amounts of money to the program. The only reason we were able to get the red rug is because of a successful Michael Roos (Tennesse Titans OL) was all about making a change and made a huge donation. It may be ugly for opponents, but we love it, and it has given us an identity. I apologize for barging in on your board, but thought I would share that some of the struggles hold true across FCS.

I'll pass it along lol. There are games I wish we could establish more of a run game as well. We look forward to hosting you.

In the past we have had our band, along with other teams bands come for playoffs. I don't think that is up to the NCAA as it is up to the individual university. I do know that the NCAA is pretty heavy handed when it comes to the commercials, it all seems to be run by them. Again, not positive, just what I have seen in the past. Again, looking forward to seeing some of you guys in Cheney . Lots of tailgating out front of the stadium. If you come up above there is a EWU alumni tent with beer and food by donation. If you are up that way I will donate for you to have a beer and some good conversation!

The SLC is the Big 12 of FCS football: spread offense, dink and dunk passing, can't run the ballot. little defense. Clint Conque was the poster boy for this type of team.

The MVC is the SEC/Big 10 of FCS football. Big boy football, run the ball, use run to establish pass, stop the run, be more physical on both sides of the ball.

You can win in SLC playing the more wide open and less physical brand of ball but you would have to have vastly superior athletes than what we have had to compete nationally.

I. for one, want us to be able to take the field against the top teams nationally and compete.

35 months ago we hired the right guy to build the team to do just that.

In my humble opinion he is 1-2 years ahead of schedule.

We are 10-2, won a playoff game,beat a pretty good FBS team, and the two games we lost were due, at least in part to too many turnovers.

Ironically, the two games we lost were where we had to pass more.

It took guts to continue running the ball at asu!!

I'm 100% confident the staff knows what they are doing. I love Dez and all star WRs want the ball thriwn to him more.

Campbell has really only had 2.5 recruiting classes to get his type athlete. Each class has gotten more athletic than the last. We need more speed at RB and LB.


We need more size, strength and experience at OL. We need depth and ability at DB.

We are getting there. We have the right head coach and staff. We do not have national championship talent.., yet.

This team has ability and guts.

Let's enjoy them and look forward to even better teams in the very near future.

Yeah....no. This state is more divided than most think. I couldn't care less for the pigs. Most A-State fans either. I've met quite a few Henderson State fans that don't follow them. As soon as we quit saying (not you personally) that uaf is the school that represents the state, it will happen. They've been irrelevant for decades and as long as they are elitist and non-inclusive they will remain that way. Nobody outside of their fans even considers them for national championships.

Hello everyone,

EWU fan here. I love coming on and reading about other Universities. The struggles you speak of are the same that we are having at EWU. We are a college located in a small college city that is located 20 min. outside of bigger city Spokane. However, many people in Spokane choose to cheer for WSU Football or Gonzaga Basketball. Over the years we have made strides, started to become relevant in the FCS, increased student enrollments, and some of those Spokanites have taken notice (and many more haven't.)

Our attendance at games is up, but our small (very small) stadium is at capacity. We would like to expand, however their isn't much University money to do so. We are also a college where most of our students are in our education program. This is slowly changing, but our alumni don't have high profile jobs to be contributing large amounts of money to the program. The only reason we were able to get the red rug is because of a successful Michael Roos (Tennesse Titans OL) was all about making a change and made a huge donation. It may be ugly for opponents, but we love it, and it has given us an identity. I apologize for barging in on your board, but thought I would share that some of the struggles hold true across FCS.

The 4,000 people that show up to reddie games aside, the airways and TV are Razorback dominated. That's just the plain truth. 90% of my college friends are razorback fans. I work with UCA, HSU, UALR, etc. grads in an office of about 55 and about 90% blindly follow the hogs. As frustrating as it is, denying that is just not logical.

Pockets of dissent do not equal a divided fan collegiate fan base.