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committee or department. Their job would be to promote UALR athletics in print, on radio and TV. Top community leaders need to be recruited to be on this committee and find ways to get out information about our programs.
Now let's face it. There are only two sports most people care about.
Football and basketball. Sorry, but all the other sports are minor. And we're limited because we don't play football, which I still think is a mistake, but I understand that the money has to come from somewhere.

There will come a point when someone stands up and says, we're pulling out of the Fayetteville system and going on our own. We're in the state capitol, the center of the state, and we don't need to be beholden to Northwest Arkansas. That's got to happen for UALR to ever move forward as a major institution. Who has the guts? There needs to be lobbying of the state legislators to get this done. And until that happens, we'll all still be griping that all the sports stations talk about is the Razorbacks.

Amen, brother!

ASU and UCA do a far better job of promoting their schools across the state than UALR.

(09-13-2009 05:11 PM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote: [ -> ]ASU and UCA do a far better job of promoting their schools across the state than UALR.

No doubt about that. UALR still is primarily a commuter school. I think they now have about 600 students in on campus housing and there's a waiting list. It's pretty hard to recruit kids from around the State and then tell them there's no place on campus for them to live. Plenty of apts around campus, but most mom's and dad's want their freshman on campus. The planned 500 bed "honors" dorm will allow UALR to recruit the best and brightest around the State and offer them a place to live. I bet promoting around the State picks up some when that is completed.