(05-02-2014 10:12 PM)Vobserver Wrote:  We probably underestimate UAF's influence in much the same way you discount LSU's. Both have legislative and media influence that is wildly dispropotionate to their value to their respective states, both in athletics and academics.

It's exacerbated a bit in Arkansas because it is smaller with less outside media influence, and it has only one other FBS school it has to suppress.

I'm not kidding when I say that many of their fans, and ours, are conditioned to expect our share of statewide fan identification to be 1% or so to their 99%. But data seems to say otherwise. The 19% that "did not know" is a bit of unexpected opportunity for ASU, UALR, and the other schools as well.

We like having this info from a neutral source, even if some on the outside don't see what the deal is.