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I agree with his opinion on the 100 man operation and my group's tailgate is ruined because of this; but why is this feeling lost? The game is still going to be played. Tonight would have been fun, but Saturday won't be? Why not? They probably could have avoided this, but the response to the storm was their larger focus, as it should have been. I can live with them screwing up the time of a football game because they were focused on providing food and water to people after the worst tropical storm/hurricane in almost 20 years.
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common sense says the state chose that site to operate from for the same reason we chose to build a stadium there. it's centrally located, and close to major roads. get over it, some things are more important than a college football game. if the state even took into consideration a football game when trying to plan for hurricane relief then they should all be fired.
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Doesn't the fact that Jacobs is raising this as a question make some of you want to reconsider your position? Or your position that Jacobs is always wrong?
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It's easy to say in hindsight that the move to Saturday is no big deal and it certainly isn't a big deal, but the fact that the school was scrambling to make arrangements with Yale bowl yesterday tells me the game came close to not happening which would have been very difficult to take. My sense is that UCONN had to do some heavy lifting to pull this game out of the landfill, kudos to them and to UTC.
The fact that the school reached out to Yale, and that Yale publicly stated they had no problems hosting the game, should tell you that the game never came close to being cancelled, despite the chicken little hysteria found on this board.
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You misquoted me and never apologised. You are an idiot.
And how can someone with such a bleeding heart quote a right wing nut job like Ayn Rand on each of his posts?
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This is Chicken Little Hysteria. Ayn Rand would be ashamed of you. OMG no toilet for 5 days!!!!
I'll try one last time before I heed Ayn's advice.
1) If no toilet for 5 days is nothing more than an inconvenience, then what do you call having to go to a football game on Saturday instead of Thursday?
2) If Jacobs is spot on, why is the game no longer fun just because it's being played on Saturday instead of Thursday? Why is playing Fordham so much more thrilling on a Thursday night than a Saturday afternoon?
3) You said we "prepared for a disaster that didn't happen." Now you want to claim that's not what you meant? Fine. If you think the state government was "over-prepared" and ready for a Katrina like disaster, then how do you explain only having 100 soldiers at the Rent? Do you think 100 soldiers could have handled the Katrina aftermath? Do you still think we were "over prepared"?
Since I am such an idiot, it should not be difficult to address these questions.
I'm far from a bleeding heart, but the death of Jazz gave me some perspective and is still a reminder of how unimportant one game of football is in the grand scheme of things. You should be so lucky to have but half the common sense of Ayn rand.
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I really have no dog in the fight, and I truly couldn't care less whether we play on Thursday or Saturday, but I think questions 1 & 2 are a little unfair since at the time this whole argument really started, nobody knew that we'd be playing on Saturday.
Are you kidding?
Check page 9 of the thread, I asked him the same questions before the Saturday announcement was made.
The press release said the game was "postponed", but metsfan reacted as if the game was cancelled. We knew Yale was available a day after the announcement, yet he claims that information means the game was close to being cancelled. How does an alternate venue publicly acknowledging their availability mean the game was close to being cancelled? It means the game was always going to be played because a backup plan was available. And still today he mocks the people without power (and indoor plumbing), but it's unfair I ask him to explain what is so inconvenient about changing plans?
Jeff Jacobs' editorial ran today that he agreed with. After learning the game was postponed, Jacobs' respone was "the thrill is gone". It's unfair to ask him why he no longer believes "we'd all pull through this together and have some fun" just because the game was rescheduled?
He hasn't changed his whine after learning new information.
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Dude what is your problem? You have been stalking me throughout this entire thread, misquoting me and taking things I have said out of context. Do you hate the Mets?
I posted about an hour ago that the move to Saturday is not a big deal. Like many others in this thread my only fear was that the game would be canceled.
I agree with Jeff Jacobs that with a little elbow grease the game could have been played tonight. I do not agree with him that the thrill is gone on Saturday and I never said I agreed with that but that was only a small part of his argument.
I am not mocking people who have lost power (my power was lost on Sunday and restored on Tuesday). I mocked you for claiming that that means disaster and for quoting Ayn Rand on your posts. I will say this for Ayn Rand, if she were in charge of the country the game would be played tonight because there would be no FEMA. Of course if she were in charge we might not have the Rent or UCONN for that matter.
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Wait a second, Jeff Jacobs never said "the thrill is gone" There you go misquoting again. Nice job wingnut.
Engaging in conversation is stalking?
"OMG no toilets!!!!" No, that's not mocking anyone without a usable bathroom, that's you being taken out of context. Go ahead and keep calling me names, because that's the foundation of any solid argument.
I didn't say no toilets meant disaster, I said the disaster has resulted in no toilets, which is more of an inconvenience than rescheduling a football game. If you're concerned about being taken out of context, perhaps you should extend the same courtesy?
FYI, sometimes quotes can be used to paraphrase, it's not misquoting someone, it's paraphrasing, and I clearly take Jacobs out of context, I summarized his opinion.
Why didn't you tell us whether or not the 100 soldiers at the Rent was the overpreparation for a Katrina-like disaster that you were referring to in your early rants?
Ayn Rand is right-wing? Ayn Rand had no use for political parties. You should stop pretending like you understand her objectivist philosophy.
you didn't specify what you agreed with and didn't agree with in the article. you said (paraphrasing) his article was "spot on".
if you're going to agree with something before you disagree with it, you can't accuse people of taking you out of context Senator Kerry.
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Let's clear one thing up - it isn't a central location regarding Irene. Most of the damage was done in Southern and Eastern CT.
I have been involved extensively in business continuity planning and having only 1 recovery site is a real risk depending on the disaster. You need much more flexibility built into the plan. 1 recovery site may be also disabled in the disaster not very nimble or Bush 41 would say "not prudent".
I have been involved extensively in business continuity planning and having only 1 recovery site is a real risk depending on the disaster. You need much more flexibility built into the plan. 1 recovery site may be also disabled in the disaster not very nimble or Bush 41 would say "not prudent".
They didn't designate the Rent as the primary location after Irene hit, it was done long before Irene hit. Yes, there should be more flexibility, but it is perfectly located with respect to getting the most supplies to the entire state geographically.
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Bad plan by poor decision makers. I agree with those who said there should have been alternatives with some degree of flexibility depending on the type of disaster, and the related logistics. I trust each of any alternative sites or satellite locations they came up with would have their own scheduling conflicts depending on the time of year, so if someone suggests the Rent, the first question should have been "What happens if it's during the football season", duh!! As for responsibilities, the adjutant general for the Connecticut National Guard is responsible to the Governor, so I would say Gov. Malloy should be the one ultimately responsible for approving this plan, noting it is my understanding he is the one who would not allow for any change in the plan that would allow for the game to be played tonight.
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Southside, Gate Parkway. Don't see too many UConn games around here!
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