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A good try, but UALR can't afford football

When the University of Arkansas at Little Rock students presented Andrew Rogerson with a petition asking to add football, the chancellor did the perfect thing.

He listened and said he would get a feasibility study done.

He did, and basically it isn't feasible for UALR to have football unless someone very rich writes a huge check -- about $32 million to get through the first two years -- or someone dies and leaves the athletic department a ton of money.

The increase in the athletic budget would be more than $12 million in the first year to compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision.