Hurricane Irma Causing Games To Be Rescheduled/Cancelled

[huskymedic]

 

[pepband99]

This wording is "interesting" to put it mildly.

 

[huskymedic]

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 1h 1 hour ago
Just spoke to a really good source at #GaTech who said UCF is cancelling the GT game because UCF released their players and can't practice.

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
So the biggest issue with playing the game in general is that Frost let his players go home instead of a plan they had to stay together.

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
Apparently many of the UCF football players are stuck away from campus and that is part of the cancellation along with them not come to ATL

Justin Rowland‏ @justin_rowland 40m40 minutes ago
Why not switch the home & home?

Kelly Quinlan‏@Kelly_Quinlan 40m40 minutes ago
GT offered to do that, UCF declined per my sources.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Can't wait for GA Tech to sue UCF and the AAC.

 

[huskymedic]

Adam Rittenberg‏@ESPNRittenberg 10m
Sources: The Georgia Tech-UCF game scheduled for Saturday in Orlando will not be played, as UCF continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. It's unlikely the game will be made up later in the season. WSB television in Atlanta first reported the likely cancellation. UCF had to cancel last week's game against Memphis as it braced for the hurricane. Its campus remains closed through Wednesday.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

It's incredible how badly some schools are handling this.

 

[huskymedic]

Ivan Maisel‏ @Ivan_Maisel 7m7 minutes ago
Why has no storm in history taken as big of a bite of CFB schedule as Irma? Is it that CFB used to start in late Sept.? Size of Irma?

 

[huskymedic]

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 1h 1 hour ago
Just spoke to a really good source at #GaTech who said UCF is cancelling the GT game because UCF released their players and can't practice.

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
So the biggest issue with playing the game in general is that Frost let his players go home instead of a plan they had to stay together.

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
Apparently many of the UCF football players are stuck away from campus and that is part of the cancellation along with them not come to ATL

Justin Rowland‏ @justin_rowland 40m40 minutes ago
Why not switch the home & home?

Kelly Quinlan‏@Kelly_Quinlan 40m40 minutes ago
GT offered to do that, UCF declined per my sources.

Brandon Helwig‏ @UCFSports 41s41 seconds ago
Kelly had it first from the GT side. FWIW, I heard decision was made above Frost, even though lack of prep time wouldn't have been ideal.

 

[huskymedic]

>>ORLANDO, Fla. (UCFKnights.com) - Heeding Governor Rick Scott's call for public universities to assist with hurricane preparation and recovery, the University of Central Florida agreed to host up to 1,000 National Guard members and 250 vehicles on campus. That amount of personnel — in addition to the number and types of vehicles — meant that in and around Spectrum Stadium was the best place to stage recovery operations.<<

 

[huskymedic]

Based on above - definitely can't see Illinois @ USF happening in Tampa this Friday. Saw this yesterday.
Marines await Hurricane Irma at Raymond James Stadium

 

[shizzle787]

This is borderline insane.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

10 games for UCF? Utterly insane. And I can't comprehend not switching the home and home.

 

[zls44]

10 games for UCF? Utterly insane. And I can't comprehend not switching the home and home.

Yes, yes, in the wake of the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic coming ashore as a 4, then again as a 2, the football is what matters.

Its not the football game. You don't just have the teams show up with some refs and say "go play guys!". You need a MASSIVE public safety commitment- fire, police, ambulance- to staff the game?

So...DO YOU REALLY THINK STAFFING UCF-GEORGIA TECH IS THE BEST USE OF THEIR TIME RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!?

Good God, some of you are utterly hopeless.

 

[huskymedic]

And I can't comprehend not switching the home and home.

Need players to play?

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
Apparently many of the UCF football players are stuck away from campus and that is part of the cancellation along with them not come to ATL

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Based on above - definitely can't see Illinois @ USF happening in Tampa this Friday. Saw this yesterday.
Marines await Hurricane Irma at Raymond James Stadium

Good.

 

[huskymedic]

Orlando Sentinel: Hurricane Irma forces UCF, Georgia Tech officials to cancel game

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Yes, yes, in the wake of the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic coming ashore as a 4, then again as a 2, the football is what matters.

Its not the football game. You don't just have the teams show up with some refs and say "go play guys!". You need a MASSIVE public safety commitment- fire, police, ambulance- to staff the game?

So...DO YOU REALLY THINK STAFFING UCF-GEORGIA TECH IS THE BEST USE OF THEIR TIME RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!?

Good God, some of you are utterly hopeless.

My mother is in Ft. Lauderdale. Aunt and uncle in Punta Gorda. Few downed trees with minimal damage. Never lost power (either of them). This was not the beast they were predicting. After sending Memphis back home and now this the level of incompetence at UCF is unbelievable.

Fortunately for them there's a bunch sanctimonious self righteous jack offs who provide then cover preaching from their high horse.

 

[zls44]

My mother is in Ft. Lauderdale. Aunt and uncle in Punta Gorda. Few downed trees with minimal damage. Never lost power (either of them). This was not the beast they were predicting. After sending Memphis back home and now this the level of incompetence at UCF is unbelievable.

Fortunately for them there's a bunch sanctimonious self righteous jack offs who provide then cover preaching from their high horse.

Oh, cool, everyone- it wasn't a bad storm, Jimmy's parents said so.

Problem solved.

 

[Exit 4]

Missing two games on the schedule for any reason including acts of god has to be (or should be) an automatic disqualifier from the AAC champ game, regardless of whether its in conference or a non conference game.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Need players to play?

Kelly Quinlan‏ @Kelly_Quinlan 45m 45 minutes ago
Apparently many of the UCF football players are stuck away from campus and that is part of the cancellation along with them not come to ATL

Here's what I don't get...both UCF and USF stayed in FL to be close to family during the storm. But now, they can't field a team to practice and play? Obviously safety comes first but the planning was terrible. If USF/UCF spent the weekend outside of Florida they could've at least played 1 game versus missing 2. And check Twitter, UCF fans are pissed about this.

 

[uconnric]

Under the circumstances UCF made the right decision.

 

[huskymedic]

If USF/UCF spent the weekend outside of Florida they could've at least played 1 game versus missing.

Both UCF games were home games - they weren't going anywhere to start with.

 

[businesslawyer]

Can't wait for GA Tech to sue UCF and the AAC.

Stop it. They're not suing the AAC. The AAC has no role in the contracts between a member and a member of another conference.

But thank you for stirring the pot unnecessarily. That doesn't happen enough here.

 

[businesslawyer]

Ivan Maisel‏ @Ivan_Maisel 7m7 minutes ago
Why has no storm in history taken as big of a bite of CFB schedule as Irma? Is it that CFB used to start in late Sept.? Size of Irma?

The answer is the size of Irma. What hit was manageable. What was supposed to hit was not.

 

[Chin Diesel]

This is what happens when you have a businessman as a governor and not a football fanboy.

Gov Scott identified all his HS and universities as resources for staging equipment and placing evacuees.

This makes prepping for a BCS game difficult.

The size of Irma over 3 days from Keys to Tallahassee is over 400 miles. No one thought Jax would be a primary target, yet it's getting flooded.

Over 6m without power.

Football as king in the south is taking a hit to its reputation in Sep 2017.