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Bomber36 said:
I think it comes down to this.....if they somehow lost to us and then had to spend a week away from home trying to prepare for another tough game, they could get back to Florida at 2-2. Now they have a good chance of being 3-0. I think it may be that simple.
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Ya think? Somebody figured it out.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
The internet keeps thinking that CCSU volleyball picture is UConn. The girl in the pic is probably 40 by now too.
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I just saw one of my neighbors daughters in that thread...it was disconcerting to say the least.
 
formerlurker said:
So, you'd leave your family to fend for themselves if you had a flight to safety?
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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.
 
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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it's an absolute joke. why fly to safety? who thinks that's a good idea?

if it ends up being that bad down there classes will be cancelled anyway.
 
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uconndogs said:
Nice try Chief, but I'm fine. Honestly, the shtick won't work on me.

The leader of 40,000 student university believed it would be best not to put 100 student athletes and staff in an aircraft and have them rush home in an attempt to beat the storm. Said leader probably also felt it would be better to have those student athletes and staff near the university prior to the storm in order to best coordinate storm preparation (evacuation, etc.). Not illogical.

That this all needs to be explained to you is a little sad.
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Why would they rush back to school to be in a category 4-5 hurricane?
 
So now we have effectively gone from 7 to 5 home games with Fenway and this absurd cancellation.
 
I wonder what the plan is from here for the team. Are they planning on being with their families in FL. throughout the storm? Are they evacuating with their families? Did the University not have the resources to assist players and coaches families if the game was played? And what changed between Plan A and Plan C? I get the importance of making arrangements for relatives as we got my wife's mother out of Boca today. It just seems they were floundering and settled on the bailout option. Not angry and it's not a "wrong" decision under the circumstances (unless they're practicing on Monday), but it was fumbled around going from one bad option to another.
 
Jimdish255 said:
I wonder what the plan is from here for the team. Are they planning on being with their families in FL. throughout the storm? Are they evacuating with their families? Did the University not have the resources to assist players and coaches families if the game was played? And what changed between Plan A and Plan C? I get the importance of making arrangements for relatives as we got my wife's mother out of Boca today. It just seems they were floundering and settled on the bailout option. Not angry and it's not a "wrong" decision under the circumstances (unless they're practicing on Monday), but it was fumbled around going from one bad option to another.
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Honestly, if they haven't started evacuating by now, they're going to have a hard time getting gas and will spend forever on the interstate trying to leave. Might be too late to evacuate.

The scheduling was definitely handled poorly. Either cancel it or don't, but don't announce that it'll be at 10:30 and give details about tailgating and everything, then say that halftime is cut to 15 minutes, and then less than 24 hours later say that it's actually canceled.
 
Jimdish255 said:
I wonder what the plan is from here for the team. Are they planning on being with their families in FL. throughout the storm? Are they evacuating with their families? Did the University not have the resources to assist players and coaches families if the game was played? And what changed between Plan A and Plan C? I get the importance of making arrangements for relatives as we got my wife's mother out of Boca today. It just seems they were floundering and settled on the bailout option. Not angry and it's not a "wrong" decision under the circumstances (unless they're practicing on Monday), but it was fumbled around going from one bad option to another.
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they'll be on campus watching film on Illinois
 
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uconndogs said:
Nice try Chief, but I'm fine. Honestly, the shtick won't work on me.

The leader of 40,000 student university believed it would be best not to put 100 student athletes and staff in an aircraft and have them rush home in an attempt to beat the storm. Said leader probably also felt it would be better to have those student athletes and staff near the university prior to the storm in order to best coordinate storm preparation (evacuation, etc.). Not illogical.

That this all needs to be explained to you is a little sad.
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I think the best evacuation prep would be to consider spending 1000 miles away from a cat 5 hurricane and play a schedule during football game while they're at it. But I'm sure they'llbhave an easy time packing up their families that all surely live within driving distance of campus and using their unlimited funds from all the money they make playing football to get those families out of harms way. Smart move
 
I wonder if they asked the players what they would prefer? There's a good chance classes will be cancelled anyway and I'd imagine practices for the week would be impacted if the worst unfortunately happens down there. Personally I'd rather be up in sunny CT in a dry hotel room sharing the practice facility with UConn for a few days than riding out a hurricane in my dorm room. There at least would have been another 100 or so people out of harms way up here.
 
I don't think anyone here thinks that family, loved ones or anyone for that matter should not be as safe as possible. The argument comes down to why was it important for a group of kids to be in Florida vs CT. I argue that even if the majority of the kids are from Florida they will not be with their family anyway. Also as a parent I would rather my son be in CT and stay there after playing football then staying put in Florida.
 
Chief00 said:
Why would they rush back to school to be in a category 4-5 hurricane?
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I didn't say they should, but that was the original plan which the USF President, rightly imo, nixed.
 
whaler11 said:
They don't want to play distrasted .
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You are not allowed to bring up the elephant in the room. It's not PC.

I hope it can be rescheduled. Where there is a will there is a way. It will involve shuffling other games.
 
JMick said:
they'll be on campus watching film on Illinois
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The tweet spelled it out. They were afraid their charter would be grounded in CT. I'm not buying the story about consulting with "agencies" who advised them not to leave for safety reasons. That was the absolute safest course of action. You didn't want to get stuck here just be honest about it.
 
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metsfan2323 said:
You are not allowed to bring up the elephant in the room. It's not PC.

I hope it can be rescheduled. Where there is a will there is a way. It will involve shuffling other games.
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Reshuffling isn't happening. We'll have to deal with it.
 
Odd how UCF and Memphis put 2+2 together and are playing on Friday IN FRIGGING FLORIDA.

This storm came out of the blue so there was no way that simple solution could have been used. Rentschler couldn't get the policemen and firemen in place or something.

Oh both of those teams have something to gain and the AAC has nothing to gain from UConn winning.

But let's talk some more P6! Complete Mickey Mouse organization. The headquarters should be in Orlando.
 
I think this game could have been played as scheduled but USF didn't really want to do it and a cat 5 hurricane is a pretty serious matter, no? What the league ought to do is play this on 10/21 when both teams have a conference game with a western division foe. They are st Tulane and we have Tulsa. And there really should be a plan to make UConn whole by giving us an extra home league game next year, most likely USF. There ought to be some consequences for cancelling this game scheduled far far far from the hurricane. They shouldn't be overly severe but they should be fair. It would have been different if USF couldn't get here but they would have left well ahead of the hurricane and could have stayed until it was safe to return. So while this is sort of bogus, I am told that there was also pressure from the Governors office to stay home. Their EMS folks didn't want the prospects of a plane load of football players stuck in no mans land if the timing was off. Optics would have been awful.
 
What if we play down there on Friday night in exchange for home games the next 2 years? After the Friday game we get the hell out of dodge and into the beautiful fall weather. They can stay where they want to be in the middle of a Cat 5.
 
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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.
 
This is as simple as USF doesn't want to play back to back road games with a huge distraction and travel headaches.

If you believe anything else God bless ya. It's that simple.

Especially since they have been straight garbage. If you think a Bulls player is allowed to even go out in the rain you are lawst.
 
I had bought 4 chairbacks. Wonder if the school will be willing to offer a swap to another game.
 
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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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