LSU Game To Fayetteville, The Scarlet Knights As Well
by KevinHog on Feb 17, 2012 11:10 AM CST
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PrintWell, it has come about per this report that the Hogs will play LSU in Fayetteville after Thanksgiving and Rutgers in a home and home beginning with a game on September 22nd in Fayetteville. The Little Rock crowd will still keep an SEC game. I think their choice of Ole Miss on October the 27th is a good one. You tend to agree with me if we go by the poll that we set up. Ole Miss was the preferred team. And there's a good bit of history of playing Ole Miss at War Memorial as well, so being a history and tradition kind of guy, I like that. Texas A&M would be a good team to select for years when the Hogs are playing Ole Miss in Oxford. That is if the Arlington agreement is not kept. Right now it just says TBD per the report on the link. (Haha, Beau is on the job! He beat me to it by a minute or so. But as you can see, it is a big news item and worth two reports, I think.)
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I'll see you all in New Brunswick!
Starting tailgate planning now and I know the @nyc_razorbacks alumni chapter will be planning a HUGE even for 2013 when Arkansas comes to Rutgers.
Agreed, Kevin.
It’s a huge news item in Hog Country. I skipped on the Rutgers home-and-home, too, which you dutifully noted. That’s a big entry as well, because of the recruiting implications.
Petrino won’t be taking any knees this time!
GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!
by hoosier3 on Feb 17, 2012 2:26 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
TRUE THAT!
It’d be sweet to punch a few unnecessary TD’s or even try a 60 yard field goal at the end with the clock running down (when we’re already up by a few scores)!
Wooo Pig
by generalrazor on Feb 17, 2012 2:58 PM CST up reply actions
Wishing it was still in LR
While I am pleased to add Rutgers to the list, I am disappointed that the LSU game has left Little Rock. Because the University of Arkansas campus empties over the Thanksgiving weekend scattering students across the state to enjoy turkey, it made some sense to hold the LSU contest in easy central Arkansas.
Athletic Director Jeff Long claims fan participation as a rationale, “"Playing the LSU game at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium directly benefits our program in a number of ways including most importantly providing an additional 20,000 Razorback fans an opportunity to cheer on our team and in this great rivalry game,” Jeff Long wants to sell an additional 20,000 tickets, revenue is the real additional benefit of this move, not his suggested benevolent opportunity to cheer on our team. Ole Miss as ersatz LSU is hard to swallow.
I understand your thinking
But I can also understand Jeff Long wanting that stadium to be the focus of a national CBS broadcast and being able to have recruits on campus for the game. I don’t buy the road / travel excuse at all, however. I think it will be interesting to see just what the crowd is like in Fayetteville. The debate about it has gone on for a long time. Will they come during Thanksgiving weekend? I suppose it is going to depend some on the season we are having. If the game is for a trip to Atlanta and another step towards a national championship season, possibly, then I think everybody will eat their turkey in a hurry and fill DRRS to the max. In the seasons when the Hogs are having a so-so year or maybe even a losing season, I think Fayetteville is going to be a harder draw at that time of year than Little Rock would have been, just because games in Little Rock are more of a rarity and the central location. I don’t recall the exact attendance for the 2008 LSU game in Little Rock, but I was there and so were a lot of other fans to see the Hogs cap off a losing season with a win over LSU.
The recruiting argument
I have seen a number of sources cite the ability to host recruits as another argument in favor of holding the game in Fayetteville. I wonder whether the fact that it is a holiday weekend will also affect the recruiting.
by BirmingHAM Hog on Feb 18, 2012 12:35 PM CST up reply actions
bogus
this is the beginning of the end for fayetteville who I have always followed since 1968. Gus will reap central ark. if he plays his cards right also u.c.a. And I agree, revenue is fine but keeping the WHOLE state behind you without the transparent attempt of mississippi to placate the masses will lead to revenue ( the latest Fayettville God) being switched to other scools. As far as travel problems leading to this-don’t ____ down my back and tell me it’s raining.
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