LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A committee appointed to conduct a feasibility study
is recommending that the University of Arkansas at Little Rock hold off on
re-establishing a football program.
The committee began studying the issue after students presented a petition in
2017 calling for the addition of football.
In a report released Wednesday, the committee says the university should
instead focus on improving and investing in its 15 existing athletic programs,
including a new wrestling program that will begin this fall. The panel also said
any addition of a football program should be part of a long-term, strategic
master plan.
The university last played football in 1955, when the school was called Little
Rock Junior College.
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