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mily affected by the storm. Security personnel and other emergency personnel were diverted to areas of need. If you wanna play, we'll see you on Nov 19. Otherwise, quit yer bitchin.

LSU offered to play in an empty stadium due to lack of security personnel and fly in and out day of. UF has lost the home game now, and its gone, so don't engage in logical fallacies about "giving up a home game." You did. Willingly. The SEC's insurance will have to pay you something for it.

So, while you would have lost potential revenue playing in an empty stadium, it wouldn't have been more than what you have already lost, and it would have been BY FAR AND AWAY the cheapest to reimburse of any proposed solution. No other teams. No buyouts. No neutral sites. No games on unscheduled weekends. UF could have been paid close to, if not completely in full (as is already being done), AND the game would have been played and this whole mess could have been avoided.

Sure, it's VERY unorthodox. However, there is precedent. The 05 UT-LSU Monday night game, as far as the choice of days, and flying in and out day of. Logistically, the SEC Basketball tournament in Atlanta that was directly affected by a tornado is a perfect model. The games HAD to be played, so they moved to GA Tech and had to substantially limit the crowd. The first few were limited to players' and coach's families and few others. So don't act like this couldn't have been a viable solution. UF just didn't want it, and stalled to be sure it didn't get due consideration.