Arkansas Business

This story is from the archives of ArkansasSports360.com.

ArkansasSports360.com launched in 2007 with Jim Harris as its lone voice for commentary and analysis. Though other writers were later added to the staff or featured as columnists during the site's five-year run, nobody was more of a must-read than Harris.

Below we look at the 10 most-read columns of Harris' tenure:

10. Razorbacks Shouldn’t Be Selling Seats This Late

The 10th-ranked team in the nation, according to the preseason coaches poll, and a program fresh off an 11-win season with two Heisman Trophy candidates on offense can't sell out all its games, even the two scheduled for 55,000-seat War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

No, Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long won't be lining up the sure-fire sellout game for Little Rock in scheduling Arkansas State for War Memorial Stadium, now or anytime soon. But Long believes his program ought to be good enough to sell out War Memorial no matter who the opponent might be.

He told me that last year, when at least 2,000 seats went unused before the second game of the season, against New Mexico. One ugly clump of vacancy was situated right behind the south goal posts.

—Aug. 8, 2012

9. Petrino, Staff Preach The Hog Gospel To Recruiting-Loving Fans

In the past three years the Little Rock Razorback Club has moved its “Signing Day in the Rock” spectacular from one large ballroom, to a bigger one, and now to Verizon Arena, where Thursday night’s visit by Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino and his staff turned into part rock show/part religious revival.

The religion, of course, is Razorback football, where more than 1,200 folks paid $65, the price of a Southeastern Conference football ticket in Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium, to hear Petrino and the other coaches go into full detail — with video — of the latest, 24-man signing class.

The arena darkened and AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” rang in the assistant coaches to the main stage, each one entering from the opposite side to the stage and almost sprinting down the middle aisle where “Voice of the Razorbacks” Chuck Barrett welcomed them in.

Then came Bobby Petrino’s rock-star entrance, complete with a fog machine.