GoBigRed26
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RE: Any MOVEMENT/ UPDATE BRING UALR BACK FOOTBALL
(01-12-2017 05:47 PM)arkstfan Wrote: Some history. I hope this doesn't bore anyone.
The school now known as UALR began as Little Rock Junior College and it was owned and operated by the Little Rock School District.
It became a four year college at a critical juncture. Just as the integration crisis was hitting Little Rock. The state basically forced the LRSD to shut down for a year and at that point the district withdrew support for the college and it became a private college. The school had been a very successful junior college program but they dropped football just ahead of the move to become a four year college (two years before). Football dropped 1955, four year program started in 1957.
While there had been off and on talks about making LRU part of the UA system, it didn't happen until 1969 when LRU was on the verge of financial collapse.
So there had been no football at UALR for 14 years and no real move to bring it back. The legend that UA told them they couldn't have it is just legend.
Now would UA demand they have everything privately funded and fully squared away before they would allow UALR to add football? Without question.
Way to go. Ruin a good story with facts.
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2017 12:35 AM by GoBigRed26.)
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arkstfan
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RE: Any MOVEMENT/ UPDATE BRING UALR BACK FOOTBALL
(01-12-2017 08:11 PM)StAteRedWolf Wrote: (01-12-2017 05:47 PM)arkstfan Wrote: Some history. I hope this doesn't bore anyone.
The school now known as UALR began as Little Rock Junior College and it was owned and operated by the Little Rock School District.
It became a four year college at a critical juncture. Just as the integration crisis was hitting Little Rock. The state basically forced the LRSD to shut down for a year and at that point the district withdrew support for the college and it became a private college. The school had been a very successful junior college program but they dropped football just ahead of the move to become a four year college (two years before). Football dropped 1955, four year program started in 1957.
While there had been off and on talks about making LRU part of the UA system, it didn't happen until 1969 when LRU was on the verge of financial collapse.
So there had been no football at UALR for 14 years and no real move to bring it back. The legend that UA told them they couldn't have it is just legend.
Now would UA demand they have everything privately funded and fully squared away before they would allow UALR to add football? Without question.
So the UofA allows the UAM and UAPB's football programs to exist because they are privately funded?
They were already in existence when UA took over. Adding and maintaining are different critters. When the old AIC was voting on whether to stay NAIA or move to the NCAA, the UAM officials were told they had to vote against the move to the NCAA but if the rest of the league voted NCAA, they could follow.
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doberman1
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RE: Any MOVEMENT/ UPDATE BRING UALR BACK FOOTBALL
Rest assured u of a hasn't done any other school in the state any favors.
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01-20-2017 03:22 AM |
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Phlipper33
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RE: Any MOVEMENT/ UPDATE BRING UALR BACK FOOTBALL
I mentioned this in the Bubbas Cup thread as well, but it seems more appropriate here.
Is there any chance Little Rock could start (restart?) tennis teams for both the men and women? Adding those two sports would bring them up to 15 total conference sports, more in line with the rest of the conference. I've seen it mentioned that Little Rock cancelled a sport around the time that Denver left the conference but I'm not sure what sport that was. Was the shutting down of that sport a result of financial issues for the school or some other issue? Adding a sport like Tennis isn't going to raise revenue like football, but it should be relatively low level expense to add it.
As far as I know there's no pressure from the conference to add more sports, so ofcourse Little Rock doesn't really need to add Tennis, but I think it makes more sense than trying to add football at this point.
I admit I don't really know much at all about the university, I've always been an Aggie fan (and I went to A&M) but I try to follow the local schools in DFW as well. I live only a couple miles from UTA now so I'm trying to follow them more closely, and learn more about their conference. Still haven't made it to a basketball game there yet but I've gone to a couple baseball games of theirs when they play at the Rangers ballpark.
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FoUTASportscaster
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RE: Any MOVEMENT/ UPDATE BRING UALR BACK FOOTBALL
Need to go to CPC. Class of the conference and a world-class game-day experience.
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