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

The other side of the story.

facts

You schedule it for sunday or Monday, you could have still cancelled it if you needed to.

And South Carolina, so they make plans on Sunday. well every one knew the storm was coming well before Thursday so this point is plain stupid. Plans could have been made Monday. shite all they had to do was say on Monday they are pushing the game to Monday, if they still can't play, it will be moved to a later date.

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10. Fiction: Giving up a home game to play Florida will cost LSU millions
Fact: The SEC has a new lost-revenue insurance policy that went into effect this year. LSU reportedly makes $3 million per home game, and insurance would cover that. It already has to account for one Florida home game.
That policy — or the league itself — also may be able to pay the Nov. 19 contract buyouts for the Presbyterian (Florida) and South Alabama (LSU) games, which would be less than $2 million in total.

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And you think that is the full economic impact? It has been estimated that LSU home football games generate tens of millions of dollars for the Baton Rouge community. THAT is a fact.

I was not in the room or on the conference calls, so I can't say with 100% certainty exactly who said what, but I do know that it was a FACT that Foley refused to even consider alternative options for the game as late as Wednesday because we heard it straight from his lips. And by then , those options were limited.

The very idea of LSU being forced to give up a home game and play three conference road games in 12 days to make up for Foley's inability to plan and Sankey's inability to lead is asinine. LSU has had to play a road game in Tempe, AZ, play a non-conference game on their bye week and play a scheduled SEC game on Monday due to hurricanes here, now we're being asked to bend over backwards for a hurricane that hit another state?

Here is another FACT: The Nov 19th option still costs both teams a game. We only get 6 home games a year and, as a season ticket holder, I want to see LSU play them all!

There is only one option that makes sense: MAKE Florida and Georgia move the cocktail party and play the LSU - Florida game on the 29th. All games are played, everything is settled on the field.

No they haven't otherwise they'd move their Sunbelt game. Theyre mad at UF for not playing in BR and doing what LSU wanted to do which is give them an extra home game. UF isn't dumb enough to blast their proposals over the airwaves while playing the victim card.

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This is a Florida - LSU problem not a Georgia problem.

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also not a USA or Presby problem.

but somebody somewhere is getting fricked in this deal.

it's up to LSUs ad to ensure LSU ain't the one getting fricked.

it's up to Florida to convince someone to take a fricking. and right now it appears no one is interested in taking a fricking for their incompetence.

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Not quite. The precedent that when a natural disaster risks your home game, you move to the away teams stadium to get the game played.

The precedent that LSU has been a party in in more than one occasion.

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There is more than one precedent, they just chose the one you liked the least. It's no more complicated than that. Y'all are babies.

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they just chose the one you liked the least.

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there is no precedent for canceling a conference game due to weather. i don't think that's ever happened before actually. the two precedents we do have, though, is moving the game to the visiting team's stadium OR playing the game one or two days later in the home team's stadium. Foley and Sankey chose option C: postpone the game without a plan and then put yourself in a situation where you are screwing over several teams in the process

Fact: Ya'll need to stop making flippant comments about buying out an easy home game win against USA... Karma an errything.










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I'm just sayin.