After years in obscurity, the Red Wolves have rapidly built a program that's the class of the SBC.
There's something to be said for an administration that cares about football.
If you're a head coach, you want administrative support so you can pay for the best assistants (and keep them), get the best facilities possible, and, if you're the sentimental type, be able to leave a program in good hands after you've parlayed Sun Belt success to a different job at a "bigger" school.
If there's anyone in the Sun Belt Conference that has perfected the art of building and maintaining an elite program in almost record time, it's the Arkansas State Red Wolves.