re: E-Mail chain about Florida game another embarrassment for LSU

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None of which were viable at the time they were proposed as they had no idea just how bad the storm would be at the time.

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This ignores the fact that several other football games where played in the state of Florida AND in areas that suffered a heavier impact from the storm.

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This ignores the fact that several other football games where played in the state of Florida AND in areas that suffered a heavier impact from the storm.

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Link please.

This coming off season will be the suckiest of all off seasons. No doubt in my mind.

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Yeah. Let's laugh at a potential devastating storm that could have really effed up the Florida coast and the surrounding communities near Gainesville. Fortunately the storm whimpered out. As a LSU fan you should be able to sympathize with that thought

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Hurricane Katrina and Rita both hit Louisiana in 2005. LSU was told by the SEC offices that they had to play Tennessee on the Monday night, two days after Rita hit.

Just a little bit of what was happening on campus besides the players having on average of 12 to 16 friends and/or relatives living with them. It was reported that at the time of the UT game the LSU team had lost an average of 13 pounds per player.

Just a little bit of what was happening on campus during this time:

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LSU had been designated as a rescue center. The PMAC became the nation's largest triage unit. The basement gym became a morgue. The Carl Maddox Fieldhouse was occupied by uninjured evacuees, the outdoor track served as a helipad and Alex Box Stadium was a refugee processing center.

Martin recounted seeing a man die in front of him, his first up-close experience with death. He said mothers were giving birth in the locker room

One man lying on a cot called him over just to talk because he had "nobody and nothing left."

Martin and others unloaded innumerable supplies, including body bags.

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https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2015/07/lsu_workers_viral_email_still.html

So yeah, LSU fans know what it's like to go through two hurricanes and still play a game on a Monday night. We aint skeered like the reptiles.

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postponed but Alleva's contingency plan was to move the game to Tiger Stadium. Not really fair for Florida but whatever.

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Know how I know you aren't well versed on the story?

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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.


Lol, playing into the stupidity of their fans

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No that article is playing into the stupidity of you. How can cancelling a home game against South Alabama on the 19th and playing UF at home on the 19th add a home game to LSU's schedule.

If anybody with the least bit of sense had written OR read the article they would realize that LSU has the same number of home games. They do however have one less road game but make up for that next year when they travel to UF for the 1st of two road consecutive trips in tow years to Gainesville.

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Here's something that's fascinating...the emails, which according to a national writer make Alleva look bad...were obtained through a Baton Rouge station's FOA request.

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The only thing bad about it was the article itself. I don't think it makes the LSU AD look bad. Why wouldn't anybody release them. Did the article's writer have to even ask or were they just sent to him?

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The Central Florida game WAS postponed until November 5

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Easy one - both teams - Tulane and Central Florida had a bye week on November 5th. UF and LSU didn't have that luxury. Ask Georgia what they said to the Gators and SEC about moving the cocktail party. What did A&M say about the possibility of moving the Thanksgiving day game?

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North Carolina had more time to observe the storm and prepare for it. Florida did not have the same luxury as they are a few hundred miles further to the south.

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I've been on the coaching changes board today and seen some really stupid shite, but this takes the cake. Are you implying that the hurricane that started as a tropical depression a week earlier snuck up on a poor unprepared Florida? Funny

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At the time the decision was made they had no idea just what kind of impact the storm would have in the surrounding areas. You can't very well have a game when all of your police and fire department personnel are off doing recovery operations.

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Yeah, well LSU did it in 2005 after two fricking hurricanes.

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frick Florida and props to LSU/Alleva for not losing their own skin. It does force you to question floridas intrinsic motivation to play that game that weekend.

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Florida's motivation was that they thought they could win the SEC East with only playing six SEC games and without having to play LSU this year. They wanted it cancelled. SEC didn't agree and now the dumbasses are coming to Baton Rouge in November.