If I heard correctly on "Round Table" the SEC is responsible for financial compensation for a home loss in this scenario.
It was the REC AND St. Nick putting their powers together and orchestrating it.
May he ever live in their worst, most delusional nightmares.
Clay Travis suggested yesterday that Saban will win all but the LSU game - and will lose it on purpose to ensure Orgeron becomes the LSU coach so he can beat his brains out the next four years. He even said it would be the most Nick Saban move possible.
So they should force LSU to buy out a OOC game and leave South Alabama in the lurch?
I did hear that one of the satellite photos showed that the hurricane had two eyes....
We should rent space in Clay Travis's head; there is plenty of unoccupied room there
I know that LSU would have a much bigger grievance against Florida if this were the case, but I think that any cancelled conference games should count as a loss when determining conference rankings. Florida could be 6-1 at the end of the season, but would be counted as 6-2, so UT would have a tie breaker if they lose twice.
I'm not really taking a side because frankly something that is bad for LSU is possibly good for us pragmatically speaking. Florida using a loophole to possibly edge out Tennessee despite a h2h loss is possibly better for us than the probable rematch game in the SECCG if we make it there. I just think Florida's AD intentionally slow-played this decision making process with the SEC and the SEC front office did not step in and tell everybody involved what's what. It is early in the Sankey era but he's not looking like the quietly strong commish that kept the schools under tow like Slive. This game could've been played in a safe environment with enough lead time to assure Florida could safely make the travel but Sankey didn't use his authority to get it done. It says a lot that traveling to LSU to avoid hurricane postponement is okay for South Carolina to Sankey but not for Florida.
Just imagine his head is being as he thinks it is. He'd float away like a helium balloon................ WAIT! HEY!!!!!
Because yeah, nobody in baseball EVER played a doubleheader while football does all the time.
Those are fair points. I don't know what exactly is involved or who did what. But this whole 'they're scared' argument doesn't really make much sense to me.
Well, for starters the situations were different. Hurricane Joaquin was never a threat to make landfall in the Carolinas - they're suggesting this one might turn back and hit Florida again. It was rain, but everyone knew where everyone was. In this situation, you have people hiding out. I also wonder what role the unfortunate circumstance of having the FSU-Miami game the same weekend...and moved to Tampa...played in all this. Presumably, they could have played in Tampa if not for that I'm guessing.
South Carolina did just one year ago - almost to the very day.
This is complicated by the fact that the also have to consider what is best for the CONFERENCE. They don't work in isolation here.
They didn't need much luck to kill Florida.
You mean like Auburn did in 2013?
If that's what this is about then don't be too surprised if they're in line for the Final Four and the committee justifies excluding them on that very basis.
I wouldn't go that far with it. They're trying to win a PR battle here so they must care somewhat.
You mean like the time we played ATM at the end of the season on short rest?
Then it's fair to question why Miami and FSU were able to play as well as UGA and S Carolina....but not Florida......how can these unforseen circumstances not cause two games to be cancelled but this one absolutely must be?
You do realize that LSU has been on both sides of this kinda situation as well. They gave up a home game during Katrina to travel to asu in 2005 and provided aid and all the allotted home team finances and then some to South Carolina last year. I don't blame Florida on a competitive advantage of not playing at tiger stadium but a financial deal like the one LSU gave usce last year is actually more profitable to Florida than it being in gainsville. If they didn't want to play at tiger then it should have been played at Ladd, JHS, BDS, Ga dome, or even Hoover but the fact of the matter is that Florida is looking very stupid and cowardly for waiting til Thursday to make a decision, and the decision being no immediate plans of rescheduling while USCe-UGA and Miami- FSU games are still on. I'm not calling them cowardly, I'm more stating how things are going to be played and Louisana reporters should go after them for not making a decision by Wednesday until a mutual compromise is made.
