re: Sec Country: LSU/UF fact and fiction(long)

"We offered our buses, planes, etc. Again, total crap.This game should have been played this weekend. However, LSU should be more cooperative in trying to reschedule this for 11/19. Flat out refusing to cooperate is just as bad as what UF pulled this weekend. "

uggh I think not...Joe Alleva has this to consider regarding Nov 19th...BR was recent victim to a devastating and business hurting 1000 year flood....last home game for seniors that night....economic impact of home game in community for food, lodging and events is at least 6.5 million, not counting LSU portion of gate and concession....financial commitment to South Alabama who also wants to play ball. There is NO REASON TO BEND ON THIS....Where are your loyalties?

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Every press release from UF said that the game was scheduled for noon Saturday with the caveat that they were monitoring updates for potential changes in time.

The whole waiting too long thing is pointless. The game was never getting moved to Baton Rouge.

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dude there was never a plan of wait until sunday even.

your AD blew it on his way to retirement.

face the facts not fiction

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Only the past solutions have been declined

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past solutions

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past

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Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are gone. The fans, the players, the administrations, and the SEC can cry about it all they want but no one's getting those three potential game days back.

I don't know what solutions Florida has offered. I'm not privy to those conversations. Pretty sure no one here is. As a fan, I wouldn't give a shite if we played in BR on the 19th. I've already suggested it. Buy out the cupcakes, LSU doesn't lose a home game (in fact, they get a better one), and LSU travels to the Swamp in '17 and '18. Florida won't go for it because of the revenue they lose by rescheduling the game outside of Gainesville but realistically, they'd just double the 2017 revenue by having an extra home game then.

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All of the options presented (or demanded) by LSU were within 48 hours of what was expected to be a catastrophic event.

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Damn, you don't even know what we're talking about.
First, LSU demanded nothing, but made several offers for where to play, when to play as well as logistics for travel. There were no demands. Second, the discussions were taking place between 3-4 days out from the expected landfall. It was at 48 hours that UF allowed the SEC to cancel it. Meanwhile everyone else (all other college football teams) had made their arrangements and contingencies.

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Florida AD quite reasonably said this is not the weekend to play a game in Florida.

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Well, he was wrong. And if he had agreed to Monday night, he would've seen it was doable before the deadline to cancel the Monday date.

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Now they are simply asking LSU to show some flexibility in rescheduling.

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Are they? They seem to be asking for one single date - on which LSU already has a home game scheduled. LSU offered up multiple dates, NONE of which were acceptable to UF. UF has offered up ONE date which is not acceptable to LSU.

UF refuses multiple dates, reasonable.

LSU refuses one single date which they already have a home game scheduled - unreasonable.

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At this point, LSU is the unreasonable party

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Too late.

So the game won't get played. If you have a problem with that, maybe you can get YOUR university to make concessions to have the game played, god knows LSU has, and Florida really hasn't.

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I don't know what solutions Florida has offered. I'm not privy to those conversations. Pretty sure no one here is. As a fan, I wouldn't give a shite if we played in BR on the 19th. I've already suggested it. Buy out the cupcakes, LSU doesn't lose a home game (in fact, they get a better one), and LSU travels to the Swamp in '17 and '18

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I'd be OK with this.

Again. I believe buried in your response is a lot of the angst. There has never been a solution floated out there by Florida, not one, when, as the host team it was their job to do so. There has only been media speculation with "sources".

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So the game won't get played. If you have a problem with that, maybe you can get YOUR university to make concessions to have the game played, god knows LSU has, and Florida really hasn't.

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Let me ask you a question? Suppose LSU gets their way and the game is not played. How do you think LSU's win percentage should be viewed in the context of the SEC West standings relative to Bama, AU, Aggie, and OM? Given that you have refused to play you rival from the East?

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Florida won't go for it

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its their only chance

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That is what UF was saying on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and that answer wasn't good enough.

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It wasn't good enough for Saturday. It was fine for Monday night. All the SEC needed to know was when was UF going to agree to reschedule the game. If UF had said, "We're going to tentatively re-schedule for Monday night," the SEC would've demanded an answer by Saturday morning on whether or not the game would be played Monday night. They didn't need to know Thursday morning if the game would be played Monday.

By Saturday morning, I think it was clear that a game could be played in Gainesville Monday night with no problem.

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uggh I think not...Joe Alleva has this to consider regarding Nov 19th...BR was recent victim to a devastating and business hurting 1000 year flood....last home game for seniors that night....economic impact of home game in community for food, lodging and events is at least 6.5 million, not counting LSU portion of gate and concession....financial commitment to South Alabama who also wants to play ball. There is NO REASON TO BEND ON THIS....Where are your loyalties?

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I think you mean what are your priorities.

Is LSU more worried about being the hunt for the SECCG or are they worried about their rent a win revenue.


Ultimately, When/If LSU loses another game, all this bitching will have been for nothing and life will go on.

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Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are gone.

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Jesus, if we wait long enough, 11/19 will be gone to, then will you hold LSU blameless?

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I don't know what solutions Florida has offered.

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Sure you do, they said it over and over and over:

"The game will be played Saturday in Gainesville."

That's all they offered up.

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As a fan, I wouldn't give a shite if we played in BR on the 19th.

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I believe Alleva has even offered that up in a sideways kind of way.

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Florida won't go for it because of the revenue they lose by rescheduling the game outside of Gainesville

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And that's why LSU won't give up their home game on 11/19. The best solutions were being offered up prior to the weekend, when everyone else was making their contingency plans, but Florida took them all off the table.

If Florida wanted this game to actually take place, they have a real strange way of showing it.