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    The students at the University of Texas - Arlington voted and they want I-AA football back!

    http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/...042104-01.html

    Voters approve 3 sports
    Supporters overwhelmed the opposition with a vote of 1,403 to 711 in favor of the athletics expansion referendum.



    Students passed referendum 04-01 by a vote of 1,403 to 711. UTA’s football program was cut in 1985 by then-President Wendell Nedderman due to chronically low attendance. The referendum says students will pay a $2-per-semester-credit-hour fee to fund a football program and women’s soccer and golf if the start-up costs are raised through outside donations.

    By Brad Rollins
    The Shorthorn Staff

    By a margin of 2-to-one, students approved an athletic fee increase to fund a sports expansion including football, women’s soccer and women’s golf.

    Fourteen hundred students supported the non-binding referendum and 711 voted against the measure. The $2-per-semester-credit-hour won’t go into effect for at least a year and only after President James Spaniolo determines that enough donations have been raised to launch a “credible program.” . . .
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