FAYETTEVILLE — When the Arkansas and Arkansas State football programs meet Saturday afternoon inside Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium for a historic first time, it will be the equivalent of Hell freezing over to some.
There are many on both sides of the aisle who thought the Razorbacks would never allow this to happen.
That’s due in large part to the long-standing policy of legendary former Arkansas coach and athletic director Frank Broyles to vehemently oppose scheduling in-state teams.
Broyles is no doubt figuratively spinning in his grave over this development.
As he stated many times before his passing in 2017, Broyles felt like it would split the state’s fan base at a time he was only interested in creating one dominant in-state program.