Stadium Debate... again

[razorprep]

Any truth to the rumor that after this year LR will only get 2 lesser non-conf games, and Fay will get all SEC and all big non-conf games??  A friend who's in the know told me that's the latest from the hill!!

[Anti-OtisII]

PLEASE NOOOOOOO!  Do we have to start this crap all over again?

BTW, welcome to the board.

[mikeirwin]

The only way they'd do that is if tickets sales at RRS were lagging which they are not at this moment.
The LSU game will continue to be in LR unless the week of the game is changed.

[razorprep]

I know...  I know...
Either way is fine with me...  I typicall travel to NWA about three times...
I hope there's no truth to it...  just what I've been told!

[idochog]

The only way they'd do that is if tickets sales at RRS were lagging which they are not at this moment.
The LSU game will continue to be in LR unless the week of the game is changed.

That has been talked about for awhile, I wish they would move the LSU game after Thanksgiving by 1 week and put it on a Saturday.

[razorprep]

I personally hope the LSU game stays in LR, but you never know...
With the new baseball park being built in NLR - any chance the baseball team might play a series in central arkansas??

[PorcineSublime]

Wouldn't hurt my feelings if they played a non-conference series there. Baum Stadium would be hard to beat for atmosphere though.

[razorprep]

We'll have to wait and see what the new baseball park in NLR is like, but I'd love to see the baseball Hogs come for a series!

[ghg1]

With the new baseball park being built in NLR - any chance the baseball team might play a series in central arkansas??

No.

[mikeirwin]

With the new baseball park being built in NLR - any chance the baseball team might play a series in central arkansas??

No.

Yes.

[RBLtoHOG]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

[mikeirwin]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

[ocelot_ark]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Nice logic. Who's to say that those games wouldn't have been wins had they been played in RRS? Who's to say that the RRS losses wouldn't be losses in LR? When are we going to stop blaming losses on whether or not the fans do their part and start putting the blame on the man who calls the plays, recruits the players, etc.??

[Macgyver_Hawg]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

If the stadium is why we win or lose I'm giving up on Razorback Football.  And if Fayetteville is too hard to win at because of the stadium then the team shouldn't be division 1.

[hogsanity]

The only way they'd do that is if tickets sales at RRS were lagging which they are not at this moment.
The LSU game will continue to be in LR unless the week of the game is changed.

That has been talked about for awhile, I wish they would move the LSU game after Thanksgiving by 1 week and put it on a Saturday.

Cant move the lsu game back a week cause thats the SEC title game weekend.  And I dont know with the new 12th game if they can move it up a week either.  Now, they could make it to where the LSu game is not our last LSU game, but then that is rivalry weekend in the SEc so then tn/vandy/  ms/msu/ bama/aub and sc/clem would have to be changed to.  Looks like the LSu game will ALWAYS be the fri or sat after thanksgiving.

[mikeirwin]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Nice logic. Who's to say that those games wouldn't have been wins had they been played in RRS? Who's to say that the RRS losses wouldn't be losses in LR? When are we going to stop blaming losses on whether or not the fans do their part and start putting the blame on the man who calls the plays, recruits the players, etc.??

Has something to do with SEC winning percentage under Nutt.
RRS: 11-8
WMS: 8-1

[hogrocker]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Nice logic. Who's to say that those games wouldn't have been wins had they been played in RRS? Who's to say that the RRS losses wouldn't be losses in LR? When are we going to stop blaming losses on whether or not the fans do their part and start putting the blame on the man who calls the plays, recruits the players, etc.??

Has something to do with SEC winning percentage under Nutt.
RRS: 11-8
WMS: 8-1

Might that have something to do with the fact that, LSU excepted, we generally play the tougher opponents (TN, AL, FL, AU) in RRS?

[Jim Harris]

Any truth to the rumor that after this year LR will only get 2 lesser non-conf games, and Fay will get all SEC and all big non-conf games??  A friend who's in the know told me that's the latest from the hill!!

Matt Shanklin would like that, including playing LSU up on the Hill, but nothing has been decided for 2007's schedule.

[mikeirwin]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Nice logic. Who's to say that those games wouldn't have been wins had they been played in RRS? Who's to say that the RRS losses wouldn't be losses in LR? When are we going to stop blaming losses on whether or not the fans do their part and start putting the blame on the man who calls the plays, recruits the players, etc.??

Has something to do with SEC winning percentage under Nutt.
RRS: 11-8
WMS: 8-1

Might that have something to do with the fact that, LSU excepted, we generally play the tougher opponents (TN, AL, FL, AU) in RRS?

Okay compare Arkansas vs LSU in WMS vs Arkansas-TN, AL, FL and AU in RRS.
WMS 3-1
RRS 6-6
No comparison in the winning precentage.

[hogrocker]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Nice logic. Who's to say that those games wouldn't have been wins had they been played in RRS? Who's to say that the RRS losses wouldn't be losses in LR? When are we going to stop blaming losses on whether or not the fans do their part and start putting the blame on the man who calls the plays, recruits the players, etc.??

Has something to do with SEC winning percentage under Nutt.
RRS: 11-8
WMS: 8-1

Might that have something to do with the fact that, LSU excepted, we generally play the tougher opponents (TN, AL, FL, AU) in RRS?

Okay compare Arkansas vs LSU in WMS vs Arkansas-TN, AL, FL and AU in RRS.
No comparison in the winning precentage.

You may be right.  To know for certain, you would have to compare the records and stats of TN, AL, FL, AU, GA and TX the years we played them in RRS with LSU's records and stats the years we played them in WMS.  As I recall, LSU wasn't terribly dominant prior to the Nick Saban era.  If we're gonna make these comparisons, let's do it apples-to-apples.

[ghg1]

Has something to do with SEC winning percentage under Nutt.
RRS: 11-8
WMS: 8-1

Since Nutt took over only 4 SEC teams have played at WMS, and 3 of those are the historical bottom feeders.

RRS
Alabama (4)
Ole Miss (4)
Auburn (3)
Tennessee (2)
Georgia (2)
Miss State (2)
Kentucky
Florida

WMS
LSU (4)
South Carolina (3)
Miss State
Kentucky

[hogrocker]

My point exactly, G.

[Kevin n Hog Heaven]

Fayetteville fans are bandwagoners plain and simple. LR fans are not. Its something special to them. You wont see stupid girls that know nothing about football, spend three hours getting ready for a game and then want to leave at halftime in LR. Plus way better tailgating! 

[Anti-OtisII]

I wish they would move LSU to Fayettenam.... Its only about a 45 minute drive from the Fort and Little Rrock is about 2 hours

Since Nutt arrived the Hogs have only lost once to the Tigers in LR.
Drive more, see a win. Drive less, watch 'em get beat. Not a hard decision if you think about it.

Since these kind of arguments are pointless anyway, I will give it to you the other way.  Since the Hogs joined the SEC, the Razorbacks are UNDEFEATED (1-0) against LSU in Fayetteville.  During that same time period they are only .500 (3-3) against LSU at War Memorial.  So maybe we need to move the LSU game to Fayetteville so that we can be quaranteed a win.  That was the same kind of logic used by some to justify moving more SEC games to LR until last year's buttkicking by LSU.  Since we joined the SEC, we have also defeated both Tennessee and Bama in Fayetteville, but have never beaten those team in LR.  The only SEC team that we have played against both in Fayevetteville and LR in which we have only beaten in LR is.........Kentucky.  The Hogs have lost all of their home games against both Florida and Georgia in Fayetteville, but they have never played those teams in Little Rock so it is hard to say that they could have won those games if they had been played at WMS.  Kind of like we have gotten our butt kicked by Miami at WMS both times we have played them.

[ocelot_ark]

Yeah...I know this doesn't come into play for you alumni, or those of you who didn't even attend the UofA, but IMO if you actually fork over THOUSANDS of dollars every semester for tuition (in my case, out of state), your games should be in the town where your tuition checks are cashed. The freakin' University owes a LOT more to the students than it does central AR.

[ghg1]

UA's record against SEC teams that have played at both places. 

Alabama
RRS -- 3-2
WMS -- 0-2

Ole Miss
RRS -- 7-1
WMS -- 7-6-1

Miss State
RRS -- 3-0
WMS -- 2-0-1

LSU
RRS -- 1-0
WMS -- 5-8

South Carolina
RRS -- 2-0
WMS -- 3-1

Tennessee
RRS -- 1-2
WMS -- 0-2

Auburn
RRS -- 2-3
WMS -- 1-0

Kentucky
RRS -- 0-1
WMS -- 1-0

[hogrocker]

My point exactly, G.