(05-01-2014 06:35 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(05-01-2014 05:57 PM)Louisianafanrcajun90 Wrote:  

(05-01-2014 04:16 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Asked who their favorite college team was,
51% picked the Hogs
13% AState
5% UALR

Now get those 148,000 UALR fans and 385,000 AState fans in the stands!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/...ansas.html

I would say this is encouraging news for stAte. We are similar with one monolithic university that every fry cook and cashier is a fan. It's about winning the hearts and minds. That takes decades or a national championship. I would say stAte is moving on up! Does UALR really have 148,000 fans???? I forget that school is even there.

Frankly, I am shocked that only 51% self-identified as Razorback fans. I knew that support was a mile-wide and an inch deep but 51% was surprising.

Doesn't surprise me, the Nate Silver estimate in 2011 pegged Arkansas fan support at 990,000 but this poll would tab it at 1.5 million. That would mean at least a third of those self-identifying aren't big enough fans to have been picked up by Silver's data.

Silver's data in 2011 would have been based on 2010 when Arkansas was coming off a 10-3 season while AState was coming off consecutive 4-8.

Also looking at google data which is often used to gauge fan interest, astate is more searched than Arkansas state red wolves, few researchers would look for AState.