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Joe Alleva on ESPN radio right now saying there has been no discussion with him
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:42 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:42 am
about moving the game to 11/19 or any other date. His exact words were that it's a "flat out lie". Says no one at UF or the SEC has contacted him about rescheduling the game.
There goes Florida's narrative.
There goes Florida's narrative.
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Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:42 am to terd ferguson
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:44 am to terd ferguson
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Florida's narrative
Probably doesn't include football at this time. So difficult for some of you to comprehend.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:45 am to terd ferguson
The way they drug their feet on this and are now trying to paint LSU as the bad guy is one final "screw you" from Foley on his way out.
Hope his retirement jorts give him a rash.
Hope his retirement jorts give him a rash.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:45 am to nc14
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Probably doesn't include football at this time
orly? You must have missed their AD doing a press conference yesterday then.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:48 am to terd ferguson
Probably. Can't take my eyes off of this.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:49 am to terd ferguson
Florida should have pushed the game back to Sunday earlier this week as a precaution. Had they done that, people wouldn't be as upset about postponing the game, if it had to come to that, because it would mean the storm was much worse than anticipated. Instead, Florida dug their heels in and decided it was Saturday or not at all.
None of that matters now though. If the game is necessary to decide a winner of either division, it will be played on 11/19. If both Florida and LSU are non-factors after 11/12, the game won't be rescheduled.
None of that matters now though. If the game is necessary to decide a winner of either division, it will be played on 11/19. If both Florida and LSU are non-factors after 11/12, the game won't be rescheduled.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 7:51 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:50 am to terd ferguson
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“At the end of the day, after doing due diligence, we came to the conclusion that Les Miles is the right man for the job, and we’re going to back him 100 percent and support him and help him win at the highest level,” Alleva said.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 7:52 am to terd ferguson
Now they're painting LSU admins and fans as insensitive for trying so hard to get this game to work because of the hurricane. frick them
Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:00 am to terd ferguson
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Did you feel like Florida steered the conversation on this?
I can tell you this: My first conversation with Jeremy (Foley) was on Tuesday. He was confident they were going to be able to play the game. WE had a conference call on Wednesday. They were very confident that they could play the game. They thought, maybe, they would have to move the time to later.
Then, today, it all felt apart. From the very beginning, it just all fell apart.
At the end of the day, they were concerned about safety. Their school was closed. Safety is the main issue. They were not going to be able to have any public safety people there. All of the police have other duties. It was their home game, but, at the end of the day, the commissioner’s office had the final say on what happens.
Moving forward do you think there will need to be some kind of mandate moving forward?
I think there should be some plans in place prior to … like today. There could have been plans put in place that this game could have been handled differently.
Is it fair to the players?
It’s sad. I feel bad for the student-athletes. They work real hard. They were really looking forward to the game, and I’m sure the Florida players were looking forward to the game too.
But, also, we’ve got to remember those Florida players have a lot of families, just like our families here in Louisiana, that are affected by this storm. School is closed. They wanted to go help their families and be with their families. We have to be sensitive to that.
Is there any incentive to make up this game from an LSU perspective?
I don’t know yet. There’s really not a lot of opportunities to make it up. We have … It would be very difficult to give up a home game to make up this game.
Was the SEC there the whole way? They were OK with Florida saying on Wednesday that it wasn’t going to play the game outside of Gainesville?
The commissioner was on the conference calls when we had those conference calls. Those words were uttered, and there was no argument about it.
They didn’t even consider neutral sites?
I don’t believe so. Jeremy said that in his press conference that they didn’t even look at other sites.
Would you have been OK with playing in an empty stadium?
I suggested we play the game on Sunday in front of nobody if there was no police available.
From the outside looking in, it seems Florida was unrealistically stubborn to the game being played there right?
Their whole concern was safety. You’ve got to bring the equipment truck. There’s a lot of safety issues. There was no police. I don’t know if y’all listened to Jeremy’s press conference. I’m sympathetic to what (Jeremy) said. I understand what he said.
They were asking the same thing of your team, though, right?
And we were willing to do it. We were willing to go there. We had a plane. We had busses. We were willing to go. That’s my point I want to make here: We were willing to play the game. We would have done anything to play the game.
Did Florida offer to play on Nov. 19? Was that talked about it at all?
No. I addressed that initially. There has been no conversion at all with anybody about rescheduling the game yet.
Moving the game from South Carolina to Baton Rouge last year … why didn’t that occur this time?
I asked that question. The biggest difference was we knew about South Carolina on Sunday. We kind of had a whole week to prepare and South Carolina had a whole week to prepare, though they did the same thing. They used our plane to come down here, just like we offered them our plane to come here.
This was a little … the decision was made to day, Thursday.
Was playing on Monday discussed?
It really wasn’t discussed. Although, to be quite frank, we would have made it happen in Tiger Stadium if we had that opportunity to play on Monday.
What kind of demands can you make in these kinds of situations?
All I could do is offer opportunities. That’s all I could do – plead and beg and try to make it happen.
What is your official stance on the Nov. 19 date?
I haven’t come to a decision on that yet, but it would be pretty damn tough to play on the 19th and then play A&M on Thursday. Got to do what’s in the best interest of the team.
How much do you make in revenue on a home game?
A lot.
In 2005, Mike Slive made a decision on a Thursday for LSU to play Tennessee on the upcoming Monday, two days after Hurricane Rita hit, right?
Yeah. That was the commissioner’s decision to do that back then.
Did you think this commissioner would decide to do that this time?
It was his power to do that.
Did you feel like Florida steered the conversation on this?
I can tell you this: My first conversation with Jeremy (Foley) was on Tuesday. He was confident they were going to be able to play the game. WE had a conference call on Wednesday. They were very confident that they could play the game. They thought, maybe, they would have to move the time to later.
Then, today, it all felt apart. From the very beginning, it just all fell apart.
At the end of the day, they were concerned about safety. Their school was closed. Safety is the main issue. They were not going to be able to have any public safety people there. All of the police have other duties. It was their home game, but, at the end of the day, the commissioner’s office had the final say on what happens.
Moving forward do you think there will need to be some kind of mandate moving forward?
I think there should be some plans in place prior to … like today. There could have been plans put in place that this game could have been handled differently.
Is it fair to the players?
It’s sad. I feel bad for the student-athletes. They work real hard. They were really looking forward to the game, and I’m sure the Florida players were looking forward to the game too.
But, also, we’ve got to remember those Florida players have a lot of families, just like our families here in Louisiana, that are affected by this storm. School is closed. They wanted to go help their families and be with their families. We have to be sensitive to that.
Is there any incentive to make up this game from an LSU perspective?
I don’t know yet. There’s really not a lot of opportunities to make it up. We have … It would be very difficult to give up a home game to make up this game.
Was the SEC there the whole way? They were OK with Florida saying on Wednesday that it wasn’t going to play the game outside of Gainesville?
The commissioner was on the conference calls when we had those conference calls. Those words were uttered, and there was no argument about it.
They didn’t even consider neutral sites?
I don’t believe so. Jeremy said that in his press conference that they didn’t even look at other sites.
Would you have been OK with playing in an empty stadium?
I suggested we play the game on Sunday in front of nobody if there was no police available.
From the outside looking in, it seems Florida was unrealistically stubborn to the game being played there right?
Their whole concern was safety. You’ve got to bring the equipment truck. There’s a lot of safety issues. There was no police. I don’t know if y’all listened to Jeremy’s press conference. I’m sympathetic to what (Jeremy) said. I understand what he said.
They were asking the same thing of your team, though, right?
And we were willing to do it. We were willing to go there. We had a plane. We had busses. We were willing to go. That’s my point I want to make here: We were willing to play the game. We would have done anything to play the game.
Did Florida offer to play on Nov. 19? Was that talked about it at all?
No. I addressed that initially. There has been no conversion at all with anybody about rescheduling the game yet.
Moving the game from South Carolina to Baton Rouge last year … why didn’t that occur this time?
I asked that question. The biggest difference was we knew about South Carolina on Sunday. We kind of had a whole week to prepare and South Carolina had a whole week to prepare, though they did the same thing. They used our plane to come down here, just like we offered them our plane to come here.
This was a little … the decision was made to day, Thursday.
Was playing on Monday discussed?
It really wasn’t discussed. Although, to be quite frank, we would have made it happen in Tiger Stadium if we had that opportunity to play on Monday.
What kind of demands can you make in these kinds of situations?
All I could do is offer opportunities. That’s all I could do – plead and beg and try to make it happen.
What is your official stance on the Nov. 19 date?
I haven’t come to a decision on that yet, but it would be pretty damn tough to play on the 19th and then play A&M on Thursday. Got to do what’s in the best interest of the team.
How much do you make in revenue on a home game?
A lot.
In 2005, Mike Slive made a decision on a Thursday for LSU to play Tennessee on the upcoming Monday, two days after Hurricane Rita hit, right?
Yeah. That was the commissioner’s decision to do that back then.
Did you think this commissioner would decide to do that this time?
It was his power to do that.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 8:02 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 8:16 am to sicboy
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In 2005, Mike Slive made a decision on a Thursday for LSU to play Tennessee on the upcoming Monday, two days after Hurricane Rita hit, right?
Yeah. That was the commissioner’s decision to do that back then.
Did you think this commissioner would decide to do that this time?
It was his power to do that
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