LSU Game officially cancelled (link)
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LSU only wanted the game played in BR, period. They have declined the other options offered by Florida. It's obvious lsu is trying to avoid another loss by moving the game to their home field. It's Shameful by lsu. They have sunk to this level of cowardly behavior.
Maybe you should lobby your school to play the game on Sunday here or on the 19th here? How embarrassing for you and your school...trying to take advantage of a storm to get a home game in the hopes of improving your chances of a win,,,,shameful.
Yesterday at this time, 100's of thousands of people on the east coast (including sadgator) were just crapping their pants thinking we were about to experience a life-changing catastrophic weather event. 20 to 30 miles further west and we would be talking about utter devastation in our state today.
Anybody who says that cancellation of our game or the unwillingness to agree to change venue yesterday was for any reason other than for respect of the health, safety, and welfare of Florida citizens is a lunatic.
Anybody who says that cancellation of our game or the unwillingness to agree to change venue yesterday was for any reason other than for respect of the health, safety, and welfare of Florida citizens is a lunatic.
Good thing Foley invested in that cloud seeding machine. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to use it next year when A&M is scheduled to come to town.
What nonsense this whole thing is...
What nonsense this whole thing is...
However, we do not think any less of you, or your program, than we ever have.
Your AD has been trying to get out of this series for years. He succeeded this year.
Every muscle in sadgator's body aches today after spending like 36 hours straight boarding up his home (spending hundreds of dollars to do so). He has cuts and scratches all over his hands and bug bites all over his body from working under flood lights all through the night. He then drove his entire family, pets, and most treasured belongings 4 hours to southwest Florida to keep them safe.
sadgator should have been headed to Gainesville right now for an awesome Friday night on University with tickets to the game on the 50 in the West Stands (the one game he planned on going to).
Do LSU fans really think we wanted this game cancelled in exchange for what we just went/are going through?
If you think that...you are a moron.
sadgator should have been headed to Gainesville right now for an awesome Friday night on University with tickets to the game on the 50 in the West Stands (the one game he planned on going to).
Do LSU fans really think we wanted this game cancelled in exchange for what we just went/are going through?
If you think that...you are a moron.
Had my entire home been destroyed (as was predicted yesterday at this time), I would really have enjoyed watching the Gators playing in Baton Rouge tomorrow.
The whining by the LSU fans is transparent and disingenuous bullshit. It's disappointing coming from people who dealt with Katrina. You would think they would understand.
Right before sadgator evacuated at 1:30pm yesterday, he and his little old lady neighbor hugged each other in our front yard both tearing up together thinking it would be the last time we saw our homes standing.
At about the exact same time, UF was making a decision regarding the Gator game. It is outrageous that they did not agree to play it in Baton Rouge.
At about the exact same time, UF was making a decision regarding the Gator game. It is outrageous that they did not agree to play it in Baton Rouge.
A lot of classless LSU fans. Some of the worst I've seen during a situation like this. They just got a huge dose of a reality check. This wasn't South Carolina they were dealing with and the SEC office backed UF through the whole process.
All LSU cares about is their underachieving football program.
All LSU cares about is their underachieving football program.
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THE SEC and Florida officials already look like morons and will look even more stupid when it's mostly sunny and 88 degrees with 10% chance of rain at the scheduled game time.
Consider the opposite outcome based on what was known yesterday. They decide to roll the dice and play the game. The storm comes in 30 miles further west and wrecks the entire coast line. The game is played on a soaked field and multiple players are injured. Media, justifiably, incessantly harp on images of Gainesville emergency personnel at the game at the same time as rescue efforts are underway as close as Jacksonville and St Augustine.
But yeah, that was a risk worth taking for a f*cking football game...
Idiot.
Wow is all I can say. Your either very ignorant when it comes to hurricanes or just flat out dumb.
Thankfully you're not in Daytona Beach, that would be a mess if your stadium was by the beach. Prayers sent to people near the beach areas.
Seems perfectly safe for about 100,000 to go to a football game in Gainesville in less than 24 hours...
Go Canes!
Your pretty ignorant as well. So you don't think flooding on the east coast, in Jacksonville, St Augustine, Daytona doesn't affect a football game that is just an hour or two away?
I'm in Orlando. I have tickets for tomorrow's game. I wouldn't be attending the game tomorrow if it was still scheduled to be played. Sorry more important things going on right now than a college football game.
It probably would affect a lot of people, but why are you worried about the people of NE Florida showing up, if they can't make it...its extremely understandable. Sounds like your more worried about the dollars than anything else, very sad.
GO Canes!
Damn straight I'm worried more about people than a college football game. I'm worried about every person that has been affected by this storm and every person that has more important things to take care of than attend a college football game under bad circumstances.
It is a shame we have people like you in this country. It's very sad and unfortunate.
It took something like this to finally show your true colors. I can't believe the FSU fans were right about you but nontheless they were.
Oh so UF not getting money from NE Florida is you whole motivation, man its just a game, the people that can't make shouldn't be part of the formula for having a game.
Face it you're worried about dollars not the people that can't make it...prayers to the people of NE Florida...the last thing they need to worry about is being at a game.
I guess you'll wait to play the next game when all these people have fully recovered, good luck with that.
Go Canes!
Directly from the Gainesville PD Twitter account..
Gainesville PoliceVerified account@GainesvillePD
It's 3:15 and all is well. Emergency Ops Center shutting down at 4pm. Folks can return to normal with thanks to #MotherNature!
I get that the SEC and Florida officials are pretty ignorant and will look even more so when it's mostly sunny with a 10% chance of rain at game time tomorrow.
Dang it man, they had 1/10th of an inch of rain in Gainesville today. Winds of 9mph with occasional gusts up to 27 mph.
TEEZ Tabor went outside and reported to teammates that while he was standing still, something blew his socks off.
Turned out that he was just having flashbacks of playing against Tennessee's Juaun Jennings though.
You can say it over and over, but it just isn't true. We offered to play on Saturday or Sunday, in Gainesville or Baton Rouge. That is a fact.
Is that so? Tell me where I am wrong, and show me where a credible source says otherwise. You tell me exactly how it went down. I know for a fact what I said was true.
Fact - LSU offered to play Saturday or Sunday, in Gainesville or in Baton Rouge.
I'm not sure how Florida turning down every reasonable and equitable offer makes Cajuns pu$$ies. I'd also bet that you wouldn't say that anywhere near South Louisiana. If you would, then you are dumber than you sound in this thread.Jesus Christ, I thought Cajuns were tougher than this.....I guess "SOUTHERN COMFORT" was a bunch of bullshit.
Apparently, Cajuns are actually massive pu$$ies, who KNEW?
Foley and the Gators wanted no part of playing on Sunday or Mon. They knew the storm was out on Friday. I will give you guys cancelling Sat., but not to play Sunday or Monday is horseshit. Every body knew including Foley that the storm damage was going to be on the coast. Scared. Trying to back into Atlanta. Can't believe I would ever see the mighty Gators scared.
Separating fact from fiction as we point fingers for Florida-LSU postponement
Fiction: Florida decided to cancel the LSU game
Fact: Florida and LSU were involved in the decision-making process, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his office ultimately made the call. Both athletic directors, Florida’s Jeremy Foley and LSU’s Joe Alleva, said this Thursday.
Foley: “This is the right decision. I fully support the Southeastern Conference’s decision to postpone the game.”
Alleva: “At the end of the day, the Commissioner’s office had the final say on what happens.”
After communicating with each school and monitoring the storm Thursday, Sankey came to the following conclusion.
“It became clear that the University of Florida could neither host nor travel to a game this weekend considering the circumstances,” he said.
Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Saturday
Fact: Hindsight is 20/20. Florida and the SEC got ripped Wednesday and early Thursday for even considering the possibility of playing the game. But by Thursday afternoon, Hurricane Matthew had slightly shifted to the west (toward Gainesville) with the potential of becoming a Category 5 storm.
Fortunately for Gainesville, the hurricane weakened, stayed east and did not cause significant damage in the city. That was an unpredictable outcome, however, and weather projections suggested otherwise Thursday. But come Saturday, many questioned why a game wasn’t being played.
“The developments of the hurricane in the last 24 hours, the projected magnitude of its impact and the unknown aftermath of this storm have resulted in this decision,” Sankey said at the time. “We have to be sensitive to the possible imminent disruption to the state of Florida and in particular the Gainesville and surrounding area.”
Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Sunday
Fact: Again, that’s easy to say after the hurricane had not been as devastating in Gainesville as initially feared. But Matthew still decimated nearby cities such as St. Augustine. Instead of working the Florida-LSU game, the Gainesville Fire Department was deployed to assist surrounding areas affected by the storm.
Their absence in Gainesville and that of other first responders — as well as law enforcement — prevented a home game from happening this weekend.
“You had no resources. You had no personnel. The resources in Gainesville are overstressed already,” Foley said Thursday. “You cannot plan and hope that come Sunday this would all work out. One thing our staff does a great job of is plan for the worst and hope for the best. You can’t plan something and hope it all works out.”
Jay Logan, the associate athletic director for event and facility management at Mississippi State, told SEC Country the storm also could have affected the hundreds of members of Florida’s on-site staff — ticket takers, bag checkers, ushers, parking attendants, concessions workers, etc.
And the school, which canceled classes Friday, could not project how much help or shelter the city of Gainesville would need to provide for evacuees. UF Health Shands Hospital, for example, took in hundreds of evacuee patients.
“Just because the weather’s good (on game day) does not mean that everything is good elsewhere,” Logan said. “People need hotels. Food and water. There may be people still without power. There may be people who need some basic necessities because they’ve been relocated from wherever they are. … Some of the people working the games may be having to take care of those people.
“You’ve gotta look at it far enough out: Can hotels accommodate fans coming in, as well as residents being relocated? You have people that are dislocated by a storm that may be moving into hotels, may be consuming things that teams would use, and people’s safety would take priority over these teams coming in and using rooms to play a game.”
Fiction: Florida could have played at LSU
Fact: LSU offered to host the Gators, but they could not make the trip with such short notice and a hurricane potentially affecting their travel. Last year, South Carolina began planning Sunday to play the upcoming Saturday in Baton Rouge instead of Columbia, S.C. So that comparison is apples to oranges.
Others have pointed to Florida’s soccer and volleyball teams making road trips Sunday. The traveling party for football is three times the size of those two teams combined and requires security personnel and police escorts.
“To try to put a road trip together of 150-plus people in a day and half,” Foley said, “not knowing the condition of the roads, not knowing the conditions of the airports, trying to get equipment out there, that’s not in the best interest of safety, not in the best interest of people that would be involved in that trip.
“You aren’t going to put your team on the road and still have the same issue about traveling equipment trucks through this kind of weather. Traveling a team without any security because security forces are being deployed where they should be deployed. Would there be gas for the buses? Could you get buses? There’s so many unknowns.”
Alleva understood Foley’s concerns.
“Traveling, there’s a lot of safety issues,” Alleva said when asked if Florida was stubborn for not coming to Baton Rouge. “There were no police. I don’t know if you all listened to Jeremy’s press conference, but I’m sympathetic to what he said. I understand what he said.”
Fiction: Florida should have played since Miami and South Carolina did
Fact: As Foley said, Gainesville’s resources are already overstressed and the ability to handle a hurricane differs from city to city. Sankey explained this Saturday on CBS.
“Each of those is their own unique set of circumstances,” he said. “There’s a point at which you need to make some decision. Thursday afternoon that storm was strengthening. It was passing north of Miami by projection (mostly missing the 305 area code) and Gainesville was well inside the hurricane zone. Emergency personnel were being pulled away that could staff that football game. We have to remember that security issues and demands are very different today than they were a year ago.
“We didn’t know how players’ families would be impacted … and you had a bunch of evacuees who were moving from the coast into the Gainesville area. A number of those things are different than what we saw in Georgia-South Carolina where there was bus travel involved, we could secure space for the team to stay without displacing evacuees. Local emergency personnel were still available to staff the game. We have to understand those differences.”
Fiction: Florida was scared to play LSU
Fact: Just stop. No scholarship players in the SEC are afraid of a football game.
And the Gators and quarterback Luke Del Rio weren’t trying to dodge a home matchup against an LSU team with an interim coach, a sidelined Leonard Fournette and several injured starters on the offensive line.
Fiction: Florida was the only in-state team that didn’t play this weekend
Fact: On Wednesday, Central Florida postponed its game against Tulane to Nov. 5, rather than playing on Sunday or traveling to Louisiana.
UCF must be scared of the Green Wave.
Fiction: Florida still hosted recruits after the game was postponed
Fact: Fox Sports’ Clay Travis and rival fans started this false rumor.
Miami fans got upset when former Hurricanes commit C.J. Henderson sent out a tweet Friday that showed his location being Gainesville, Fla.
SEC Country reached out to Henderson and the 4-star cornerback said he arrived on Thursday before a decision had been made on the game.
He has family in Gainesville and planned to spend the weekend with them as well as attend the Florida-LSU game on an unofficial visit. But he cut his trip short and left early Saturday morning because of the postponement.
UF did not bring in any recruits after the game was canceled and host them on campus during the weekend.
Fiction: Florida does not want to reschedule the LSU game
Fact: ESPN’s Brett McMurphy reported — twice — that Florida offered to play the Tigers on Nov. 19 and they refused. Alleva claims those conversations haven’t taken place.
Regardless, Foley made it clear he wants to reschedule.
“The University of Florida is 100 percent behind whatever scenario they can come up with that allows this game to be played. If the 19th is one of those dates that allows it to work, the Gators will be there,” he said. “It’s not an issue about Florida not wanting to play LSU. I think and I hope everybody understands that.”
Fiction: Giving up a home game to play Florida will cost LSU millions
Fact: The SEC has a new lost-revenue insurance policy that went into effect this year. LSU reportedly makes $3 million per home game, and insurance would cover that. It already has to account for one Florida home game.
That policy — or the league itself — also may be able to pay the Nov. 19 contract buyouts for the Presbyterian (Florida) and South Alabama (LSU) games, which would be less than $2 million in total.
Fiction: Florida decided to cancel the LSU game
Fact: Florida and LSU were involved in the decision-making process, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his office ultimately made the call. Both athletic directors, Florida’s Jeremy Foley and LSU’s Joe Alleva, said this Thursday.
Foley: “This is the right decision. I fully support the Southeastern Conference’s decision to postpone the game.”
Alleva: “At the end of the day, the Commissioner’s office had the final say on what happens.”
After communicating with each school and monitoring the storm Thursday, Sankey came to the following conclusion.
“It became clear that the University of Florida could neither host nor travel to a game this weekend considering the circumstances,” he said.
Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Saturday
Fact: Hindsight is 20/20. Florida and the SEC got ripped Wednesday and early Thursday for even considering the possibility of playing the game. But by Thursday afternoon, Hurricane Matthew had slightly shifted to the west (toward Gainesville) with the potential of becoming a Category 5 storm.
Fortunately for Gainesville, the hurricane weakened, stayed east and did not cause significant damage in the city. That was an unpredictable outcome, however, and weather projections suggested otherwise Thursday. But come Saturday, many questioned why a game wasn’t being played.
“The developments of the hurricane in the last 24 hours, the projected magnitude of its impact and the unknown aftermath of this storm have resulted in this decision,” Sankey said at the time. “We have to be sensitive to the possible imminent disruption to the state of Florida and in particular the Gainesville and surrounding area.”
Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Sunday
Fact: Again, that’s easy to say after the hurricane had not been as devastating in Gainesville as initially feared. But Matthew still decimated nearby cities such as St. Augustine. Instead of working the Florida-LSU game, the Gainesville Fire Department was deployed to assist surrounding areas affected by the storm.
Their absence in Gainesville and that of other first responders — as well as law enforcement — prevented a home game from happening this weekend.
“You had no resources. You had no personnel. The resources in Gainesville are overstressed already,” Foley said Thursday. “You cannot plan and hope that come Sunday this would all work out. One thing our staff does a great job of is plan for the worst and hope for the best. You can’t plan something and hope it all works out.”
Jay Logan, the associate athletic director for event and facility management at Mississippi State, told SEC Country the storm also could have affected the hundreds of members of Florida’s on-site staff — ticket takers, bag checkers, ushers, parking attendants, concessions workers, etc.
And the school, which canceled classes Friday, could not project how much help or shelter the city of Gainesville would need to provide for evacuees. UF Health Shands Hospital, for example, took in hundreds of evacuee patients.
“Just because the weather’s good (on game day) does not mean that everything is good elsewhere,” Logan said. “People need hotels. Food and water. There may be people still without power. There may be people who need some basic necessities because they’ve been relocated from wherever they are. … Some of the people working the games may be having to take care of those people.
“You’ve gotta look at it far enough out: Can hotels accommodate fans coming in, as well as residents being relocated? You have people that are dislocated by a storm that may be moving into hotels, may be consuming things that teams would use, and people’s safety would take priority over these teams coming in and using rooms to play a game.”
Fiction: Florida could have played at LSU
Fact: LSU offered to host the Gators, but they could not make the trip with such short notice and a hurricane potentially affecting their travel. Last year, South Carolina began planning Sunday to play the upcoming Saturday in Baton Rouge instead of Columbia, S.C. So that comparison is apples to oranges.
Others have pointed to Florida’s soccer and volleyball teams making road trips Sunday. The traveling party for football is three times the size of those two teams combined and requires security personnel and police escorts.
“To try to put a road trip together of 150-plus people in a day and half,” Foley said, “not knowing the condition of the roads, not knowing the conditions of the airports, trying to get equipment out there, that’s not in the best interest of safety, not in the best interest of people that would be involved in that trip.
“You aren’t going to put your team on the road and still have the same issue about traveling equipment trucks through this kind of weather. Traveling a team without any security because security forces are being deployed where they should be deployed. Would there be gas for the buses? Could you get buses? There’s so many unknowns.”
Alleva understood Foley’s concerns.
“Traveling, there’s a lot of safety issues,” Alleva said when asked if Florida was stubborn for not coming to Baton Rouge. “There were no police. I don’t know if you all listened to Jeremy’s press conference, but I’m sympathetic to what he said. I understand what he said.”
Fiction: Florida should have played since Miami and South Carolina did
Fact: As Foley said, Gainesville’s resources are already overstressed and the ability to handle a hurricane differs from city to city. Sankey explained this Saturday on CBS.
“Each of those is their own unique set of circumstances,” he said. “There’s a point at which you need to make some decision. Thursday afternoon that storm was strengthening. It was passing north of Miami by projection (mostly missing the 305 area code) and Gainesville was well inside the hurricane zone. Emergency personnel were being pulled away that could staff that football game. We have to remember that security issues and demands are very different today than they were a year ago.
“We didn’t know how players’ families would be impacted … and you had a bunch of evacuees who were moving from the coast into the Gainesville area. A number of those things are different than what we saw in Georgia-South Carolina where there was bus travel involved, we could secure space for the team to stay without displacing evacuees. Local emergency personnel were still available to staff the game. We have to understand those differences.”
Fiction: Florida was scared to play LSU
Fact: Just stop. No scholarship players in the SEC are afraid of a football game.
And the Gators and quarterback Luke Del Rio weren’t trying to dodge a home matchup against an LSU team with an interim coach, a sidelined Leonard Fournette and several injured starters on the offensive line.
Fiction: Florida was the only in-state team that didn’t play this weekend
Fact: On Wednesday, Central Florida postponed its game against Tulane to Nov. 5, rather than playing on Sunday or traveling to Louisiana.
UCF must be scared of the Green Wave.
Fiction: Florida still hosted recruits after the game was postponed
Fact: Fox Sports’ Clay Travis and rival fans started this false rumor.
Miami fans got upset when former Hurricanes commit C.J. Henderson sent out a tweet Friday that showed his location being Gainesville, Fla.
SEC Country reached out to Henderson and the 4-star cornerback said he arrived on Thursday before a decision had been made on the game.
He has family in Gainesville and planned to spend the weekend with them as well as attend the Florida-LSU game on an unofficial visit. But he cut his trip short and left early Saturday morning because of the postponement.
UF did not bring in any recruits after the game was canceled and host them on campus during the weekend.
Fiction: Florida does not want to reschedule the LSU game
Fact: ESPN’s Brett McMurphy reported — twice — that Florida offered to play the Tigers on Nov. 19 and they refused. Alleva claims those conversations haven’t taken place.
Regardless, Foley made it clear he wants to reschedule.
“The University of Florida is 100 percent behind whatever scenario they can come up with that allows this game to be played. If the 19th is one of those dates that allows it to work, the Gators will be there,” he said. “It’s not an issue about Florida not wanting to play LSU. I think and I hope everybody understands that.”
Fiction: Giving up a home game to play Florida will cost LSU millions
Fact: The SEC has a new lost-revenue insurance policy that went into effect this year. LSU reportedly makes $3 million per home game, and insurance would cover that. It already has to account for one Florida home game.
That policy — or the league itself — also may be able to pay the Nov. 19 contract buyouts for the Presbyterian (Florida) and South Alabama (LSU) games, which would be less than $2 million in total.
Did they? Because I heard from Frangie that the LSU team was holed up in Tampa and would take buses to Gainesville. So how could they fly in on Sunday if they were already there Saturday?
I like how you think you can just move about 150 people a thousand miles on a few hours notice. You are so out of touch with reality, well, this is a good place for a political comment but we have a separate board for that.
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