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From Mavericknation
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Arlington, Texas
UTA Football
So, after many efforts, it is time now, to revive football at UTA. What began two years ago with a determined student body president and an aggressive alumni base, and could not be accomplished using traditional, orthodox means to restore what rightfully belongs on this campus has left behind a spirit - an un-dying spirit.
For all the efforts in the past that have gone into bringing football to the campus of UT Arlington, where it once reigned supreme, it seems this time we were not stopped on “forward progress” or held for a loss on downs. A pioneering group of students from every background, who determined at once to play football at an all but abandoned Maverick Stadium, used their own entrepreneuerial spirit to reclaim their rights to wear the Maverick jersey.
The dedicated young men enlisted a local marketing firm, Acopious LLC, to take the reigns and the return was a touchdown. Acopious LLC raised more than $20,000.00 for this fledgling outfit, which has since grown out of its tattered uniform and into a living, breathing and highly exalted orchestration of talent and resources.
The UTA Football club will play their inaugural season this year at Maverick Stadium, which is likely to be one of the best fields in the league. Their season will include six games at home and five on the road, and if you think they are doing this for the glory that usually comes with football, think again. The Mavericks want nothing less than for UTA to field an NCAA sanctioned team, notwithstanding whatever shortcomings they may have.
Taking a page from history, the men, and there are more than 50, marched across campus to let their cause play out on campus. Two years ago, students and alumni marched together for the same cause. It seems that Road March is quite the tradition on this campus, of course, referring to the ROTC cadets who actually marched from the campus at the University of Texas at Arlington to Fort Hood, an Army Installation Base, more than 40 years ago. The march took them 160 miles to Killeen, Texas, the home of Fort Hood. While their own heroic efforts continue to make exciting conversation for students, alumni and journalists even today, lest no one forget, the leaders they were and are now have followers.
In 2004, more than 3,000 students turned out to vote overwhlemingly in favor of a proposition to restore football at UT Arlington. The referendum was solely defeated by President Spaniolo after great pressure from the city of Arlington who chose to buy-in deep into the Jerry Jones $1 Billion stadium for the Dallas Cowboys now defunct dream team led by then coach, Bill Parcells. Despite their efforts then, the passion has not failed.
In fact, what bubbled under the surface for more than two year has now come to fruition. UTA will take the home field, for the first time in 20 years, on March 03, 2007.
Good Luck Team, many are counting on you.
Go Mavs!!
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