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TMB4405 said:
Yeah when I first heard this yesterday I was wondering why not Friday. Uconn said it could get done but USF could not arrange travel??? That sounds like BS. I don't believe that.
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If USF couldn't arrange travel to get here a little earlier tomorrow then they should be relegated to FCS. This is shady and the AAC is complacent, at best. Complicit at worst.
 
huskymedic said:
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Adam Rittenberg‏ @ESPNRittenberg 44m 44 minutes ago
Florida Atlantic A.D. Pat Chun tells me FAU is still scheduled to fly to Wisconsin on Friday afternoon. Coaches' families will be on the plane, along with the entire travel squad. FAU was able to get a bigger charter plane than normal. Players not traveling with the team have been dismissed to be with their families. Florida Atlantic anticipates remaining in Wisconsin until it is safe to return home.
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If FAU can do that, a team from a "power conference" should be able to do such a thing, right?
 
huskymedic said:
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Adam Rittenberg‏ @ESPNRittenberg 44m 44 minutes ago
Florida Atlantic A.D. Pat Chun tells me FAU is still scheduled to fly to Wisconsin on Friday afternoon. Coaches' families will be on the plane, along with the entire travel squad. FAU was able to get a bigger charter plane than normal. Players not traveling with the team have been dismissed to be with their families. Florida Atlantic anticipates remaining in Wisconsin until it is safe to return home.
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FAU wants their money.
 
Wait, I thought the 15 minute half time was going to make this all go away?!

What an disgrace.

USF doesn't want to travel and get stuck in CT for competitive purposes only.

This idea that a football program is going to have their 18-22 year players head out into the heart of the storm instead of staying in the dorms, would be sheer negligence.

This sucks for UConn. Down to 5 home games.

What else is new? We get effed at every turn.

P.S. spare me the sanctimonious B.S. about some things are bigger than football. Of course they are. But this decision was about football only and this is a football board.
 
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huskymedic said:
Well, that and Kiffin's ego thinks he will win and parlay it into a new job.
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Kiffin heard that the co-eds were good in Wisconsin. He would fly directly into the hurricane if it meant a good night out at the bar with some college girls. Joey Freshwater
 
The most frustrating thing about this is that not only is UConn getting screwed, but they have essentially no recourse against it because the optics of the situation make any retaliation political suicide.

As Whaler points out, neither USF nor the conference has anything to gain from this game. If this is "bigger than football" then forfeiting the game is a small consolation. It's not bigger than football and that's exactly why the game won't be played.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Wait, I thought the 15 minute half time was going to make this all go away?!

What an disgrace.

USF doesn't want to travel and get stuck in CT for competitive purposes only.

This idea that a football program is going to have their 18-22 year players head out into the heart of the storm instead of staying in the dorms, would be sheer negligence.

This sucks for UConn. Down to 5 home games.

What else is new? We get effed at every turn.

P.S. spare me the sanctimonious B.S. about some things are bigger than football. Of course they are. But this decision was about football only and this is a football board.
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We are not allowed to do this because there is a Cat 4 Hurricane coming to S Florida sometime early Sunday!
 
UConn losing a home game without requiring a forfeit for the conference's potential access bowl team better end up meaning we get our Tier 3 rights back next negotiation.
 
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whaler11 said:
You do know that college football players live on campuses right. They don't live at home 10 minutes away and commute.

You've made up the options.

The option is stay in Tampa not with family or go to Connecticut not with family.

They don't want to play distrasted and they don't want to go to Illinois after staying in CT.
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You're still thinking of this in terms of the game instead of real life. Set aside the sports conspiracy theories and realize many of these players can get home to their families with a single tank of gas or the gas already in their cars. If you were on campus in Tampa would you fly to Connecticut knowing you could somehow get to your family? At the very least, cancelling the game lets these kids evacuate, by whatever means necessary, with their parents and siblings by their side.

Check out the roster and tell me if I "made up the options" for the majority of these kids.

USF Athletics
 
NowInStorrs said:
If FAU can do that, a team from a "power conference" should be able to do such a thing, right?
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whaler11 said:
FAU wants their money.
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Bingo Whaler.

If this was the Illinois game week the message from Tampa would have been "it will be far safer for the team to remain away until after the worst is over". As a conference game involves no loss of revenue or potential liability, it was too easy for USF to call it off.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
It's amazing what people can do if there's incentive and equally amazing what they won't do when there's not.
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Yup, their incentive is to cancel rather than risk losing to UCONN (distracted) and Illinois (not enough time to prepare) Gotta protect the undefeated season.
 
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BTW in the schedules I have seen IIlinois is @ USF on Friday.

I'm sure USF is considering canceling this game too so as not to distract from the recovery efforts......#sarcasm
 
formerlurker said:
You're still thinking of this in terms of the game instead of real life. Set aside the sports conspiracy theories and realize many of these players can get home to their families with a single tank of gas or the gas already in their cars. If you were on campus in Tampa would you fly to Connecticut knowing you could somehow get to your family? At the very least, cancelling the game lets these kids evacuate, by whatever means necessary, with their parents and siblings by their side.

Check out the roster and tell me if I "made up the options" for the majority of these kids.

USF Athletics
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You are so far gone on this topic it's not even worth discussing.

These kids are going to be in lockdown on campus getting ready for Illinois.

They aren't going to be carrying their siblings who live 100 miles away through waist deep water.

They aren't evacuating Tampa. If they were evacuating how would one argue against a charter flight?
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
There is the real world and then there is the self righteous Boneyard.

It pains me to be on the same side of an argument as @Chief00 and @freescooter but here I am. It's clear as day what went into this decision. It wasn't so that players can be with their families. If I see that one more time I might poke my eyes out with a stick so I can never read this board again.
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It pains all of us, believe me.
 
whaler11 said:
You are so far gone on this topic it's not even worth discussing.

These kids are going to in lockdown on campus getting ready for Illinois.

They aren't going to be carrying their siblings who live 100 miles away through waist deep water.

They aren't evacuating Tampa. If they were evacuating how would one argue against a charter flight?
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Did you look at the roster!? They have five players that are not from Florida. FIVE. And if you can't wrap your head around the fact that the majority of the in state players are doing everything in their power to get "home" then you're right, it's not worth discussing. Lock down my ass. Many of these kids live within 45 minutes of campus. Again, if that was you, would you fly to Connecticut? I'm open to your theory, but answer me that question.
 
Chief00 said:
We should make those dudes travel up here in December and get stuck in a snowstorm.
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Chief00 said:
We should make those dudes travel up here in December and get stuck in a snowstorm.
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No joke this is what should happen. Push back the AAC championship game 1 week. Get it done Dave Benedict! My guess is this is being considered but it's conditional on UCONN USF being a meaningful game. IE UCONN needs to have a certain number of wins.
 
metsfan2323 said:
No joke this is what should happen. Push back the AAC chapionship game 1 week. Get it done Dave Benedict!
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What about Army-Navy? What if Navy wins the west division?
 
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Not only would it be negligence to send out 80 college aged kids to go directly into hurricane conditions, but their families likely would rather have them safe and accounted for in Tampa with shelter, food and water.
 
It's not just about the players. The coaches, staff, and everyone else involved in making away trips happen deserves the same consideration. None of the coaches or support staff are staying in dorms.

Maybe the conference got involved to protect USF from being upset, but the most rational decision is they made the prudent decision to give those able to get out time to get out. Or time to prepare.

As of Tuesday my family in Orlando were struggling to find food, gas, and plywood.

I think they could/should have made it happen tomorrow, but I don't have all the info. It's disappointing

Saying this is on the conference because someone was scared that the 17.5 point favorites would lose?

That's a reach.
 
formerlurker said:
Did you look at the roster!? They have five players that are not from Florida. FIVE. And if you can't wrap your head around the fact that the majority of the in state players are doing everything in their power to get "home" then you're right, it's not worth discussing. Lock down my ass. Many of these kids live within 45 minutes of campus. Again, if that was you, would you fly to Connecticut? I'm open to your theory, but answer me that question.
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None of them are allowed to go home. Do you not have any idea how college football works? Yeah USF is going to have players scattered all over the state and not prepare for Illinois. Your argument is ridiculous.

I've lived through a bunch of hurricanes. Of course I'd get on a plane to Connecticut if I was just going to be in a dorm hundreds of miles away otherwise. This isn't 50 inches of rain and they aren't first responders.
 
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