I can understand why Wally Hall would prefer not to call us "Little Rock." Because we are local, saying "Little Rock" means almost nothing because it means everything. Everything in Little Rock is "Little Rock." It would be more informative to say "Trojans," because that is more specific. Within the larger college basketball world, Little Rock is specific, but not in the city itself.
However, Wally's disdain for the Trojan program is well known. If he is not on the payroll at Fayetteville, he might as well be. So, his resistance to using the new name for the program is highly suspect. I figure that he knew we did not like being the weaker stepsister of Fayetteville and were making a big to have our own, unique identity; which, of course, he did not like, since being a Porker fan he wants everything else in the state to be subservient to Fayetteville.
No, I do not like the "why" at all.
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