Letters to the editor
Issue date: 9/19/08 Section: Opinion
Football team should rally with students
After the Western Illinois and Louisiana-Monroe games, I sighed with relief over the narrow escapes.
Within seconds, though, I was excited.
It was time for the fight song with the football team and "Hard to be Humble" with my peers. This was always the best part of the win. It demonstrated the bond we have as fellow students and, of course, as fellow Razorbacks.
However, after both games, the team never came over. This was disappointing.
Students around me were throwing up their hands and asking where the team was going. It was almost insulting, as if the team was saying, "Well, Coach Nutt is gone, so now we don't have to do it."
We students stand on our feet the whole game. We cheer louder than any other section. The old geezers in the stadium proceed to cheer a little louder because of us.
We are your classmates, neighbors and friends. Within four years, we will share the same Senior Walk. To walk off the field or to sing the fight song to a couple of rows of recruits and an empty section of fans is understandable, but to not come over and rally with the fellow students is not understandable.
I challenge you to take it upon yourselves to do something special to leave your mark on this university and continue the trend and make a tradition to last forever. If you do that, you should be given credit when it becomes a tradition.
On behalf of the student body, I ask the players and coaches to please come over and sing the fight song with us after the game.
Go Hogs! Beat 'Bama!
Scott Howell
Sophomore
Accounting, Management
After the Western Illinois and Louisiana-Monroe games, I sighed with relief over the narrow escapes.
Within seconds, though, I was excited.
It was time for the fight song with the football team and "Hard to be Humble" with my peers. This was always the best part of the win. It demonstrated the bond we have as fellow students and, of course, as fellow Razorbacks.
However, after both games, the team never came over. This was disappointing.
Students around me were throwing up their hands and asking where the team was going. It was almost insulting, as if the team was saying, "Well, Coach Nutt is gone, so now we don't have to do it."
We students stand on our feet the whole game. We cheer louder than any other section. The old geezers in the stadium proceed to cheer a little louder because of us.
We are your classmates, neighbors and friends. Within four years, we will share the same Senior Walk. To walk off the field or to sing the fight song to a couple of rows of recruits and an empty section of fans is understandable, but to not come over and rally with the fellow students is not understandable.
I challenge you to take it upon yourselves to do something special to leave your mark on this university and continue the trend and make a tradition to last forever. If you do that, you should be given credit when it becomes a tradition.
On behalf of the student body, I ask the players and coaches to please come over and sing the fight song with us after the game.
Go Hogs! Beat 'Bama!
Scott Howell
Sophomore
Accounting, Management
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