Win At Life said:
The AR neutral site game deal was struck when we were in different conferences. Now that we're in the same conference, it makes less sense, but Jerry dick won't let us back out of the deal. I fully expect neither school to want to renew the deal once it expires. They only stupid in how all this went down is that in an era of conference realignment, our lawyers struck a 1000 year deal with no unwind clause for conference realignment. All our lawyers should be fired for this. But instead, I'm sure they all got big raises. F--k lawyers.
The deal was re-negotiated with the conference alignment. We got a few things out of it:
1. 2012 and 2013 were home/home games and not at Jerryworld to innagurate the new conferences
2. We got LSU on Thanksgiving weekends. Had we not made the long term deal, we would have been likely playing Missouri or somebody that doesn't mean squat to us as our Thanksgiving annual game. Yeah, a few years of playing Arkansas in DFW is well worth that tradeoff alone.
3. We got Thanksgiving day when the LSU game is at Kyle, even though the tiggers wanted it on Friday or Saturday.
Jerry and Arkansas got the contract extended in DFW for a few more years.
My God, some of you are beyond hope with actually knowing what the deals were and not being able to look past the hissy fit tears on your cheek. The game won't always be in DFW, odds are after this agreement is up it will go back to a home and home series - then you'll probably beetch and moan about the fact that it's in Fayettville every other year and how much of a PITA it is to get there and having to spend time around inbred hillbillies and what not.
Grow the F up, enjoy the fact that we get some really good exposure out of the game, we get a game in DFW, we have been winning the damned game consistently and admit that it's still a fun game. Or quit watching, whatever. But quit complaining and making up **** about the series that just doesn't exist.