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E-Mail chain about Florida game another embarrassment for LSU
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:17 pm
From USA Today:
Disgraceful behavior. You might as well change your name to the LSU Oliver Stones.
USA Today
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An e-mail chain that circulated within the LSU athletic department following Florida’s decision to postpone their Oct. 8 game due to Hurricane Matthew reveals that the dysfunction between the two parties and the Southeastern Conference was every bit as real as suspected.
LSU officials, in fact, seemed to believe that Florida was using the storm to duck the game and enhance its chances at winning the SEC East, a theory that became popular in the ensuing days on social media and LSU fan sites.
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Comments from both Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey have indicated frustration with Alleva for drawing a public line in the sand that LSU would play a home game on Nov. 19 no matter what. As public pressure mounted to get the game played, Florida relented.
Florida’s position from the start has been that the uncertainty of the hurricane’s path, combined with the unknowns regarding what kind of damage to the local community and public services it might wreak, necessitated the game be postponed.
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Frankly, these e-mails are yet another embarrassment to LSU, where Alleva has been on the hot seat for his handling of the Les Miles situation last year. Many people in SEC circles believe Alleva seized on the issue with Florida to help boost his own job status, as his own fan base considers it a win to negotiate his way into an extra home game this season.
Disgraceful behavior. You might as well change your name to the LSU Oliver Stones.
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Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:18 pm to RollTide1987
Gators do taste like pussy
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:18 pm to RollTide1987
Swamp trash
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:20 pm to RollTide1987
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“This is a joke,” LSU athletics director Joe Alleva wrote to communications director Michael Bonnette in response to the SEC’s announcement that Georgia and South Carolina, another game affected by the hurricane, had been postponed until that Sunday.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:21 pm to Aggie Fishfinder
Why did every other team from FLA play? And why did other sports at UF play that same weekend?
UF football was injured and they wanted to use the storm to get healthy. It's pretty simple to explain.
UF football was injured and they wanted to use the storm to get healthy. It's pretty simple to explain.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:21 pm to RollTide1987
Well they weren't wrong
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:21 pm to Ping Pong
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those emails doubled my respect for Joe Aleva
I have no doubt your fellow LSU fans feel the same way. Cry babies have to stick together in these instances after all.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:21 pm to Aggie Fishfinder
quote:which team?
Swamp trash
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:22 pm to BJones
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UF football was injured and they wanted to use the storm to get healthy. It's pretty simple to explain.
Like I said. The LSU Oliver Stones.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:22 pm to Funky Tide 8
It's funny how some Gumps and most of the aggies on here are the only ones blaming LSU for that mess. Whatever I don't listen to the media anymore at all.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:23 pm to RollTide1987
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Cry babies have to stick together in these instances after all.
Does that include your Bama brethren in this thread, or are you just trolling?
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:23 pm to RollTide1987
Serious flaw in the article's logic is that Alleva did what he did so LSU would have an extra home game. Except LSU has the same # of home games as originally scheduled.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:24 pm to TigerFanNKaty
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It's funny how some Gumps and most of the aggies on here are the only ones blaming LSU for that mess.
Oh...everyone looked bad in the aftermath of that debacle. There's no doubt of it. All three parties behaved foolishly. Alleva. however, came off looking like a child while the others came off looking incompetent and stubborn.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:26 pm to BIWO
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Serious flaw in the article's logic is that Alleva did what he did so LSU would have an extra home game.
An extra SEC home game. That makes 10 in two years.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:27 pm to RollTide1987
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LSU officials, in fact, seemed to correctly perceive the fact that Florida was using the storm to duck the game and enhance its chances at winning the SEC East, a theory that became popular in the ensuing days on social media and LSU fan sites.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:27 pm to RollTide1987
And 12 in 3 years. How many does Florida have in that span?
Posted on 10/25/16 at 7:27 pm to RollTide1987
So you're just trolling. Got it.
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