Your contention is that Sun or Mon should have been alternatives is mentioned in the article but Foley had reasons tied in to the possible aftermath of the hurricane for not going with that. I live in Florida and Gov. Scott and anyone else of authority had extremely dire warnings about the possible damages, destruction and loss of life from this hurricane. That it veered more east and spared the state some of that destruction is a blessing but it made Foley look skittish. I guess he won't be taking a retirement job with the National Hurricane Center because he didn't do any better forecasting the final path than they did. Ultimately LSU and Alleva were the greedy.... unbending ones and now they not only lost the home game they shouldn't have had on the field they also have to go Gainesville the next two years. But Foley was a good businessman and I ask again why in hell would he allow the best home game of the year to get cancelled unless he had strong convictions about it not being played that weekend? As McElwain said.... "they got what they deserved"... 8)
Well it's done, the Gators won and everybody should just move on. They ended up with the best of the deal, LSU lost and has to play 2x in a row at UF.
Yep it sure did work out well for Florida except for this year's home game revenues which must have taken a pretty big hit..... from the UF admin to local businesses. Hopefully everyone it hurt can hang in till next year when there should be an extra home game and a good high ticket volume one at that. I suspect that LSU next season will be an early sellout.... 8)
Heck no Terry..... that stopped with the Great Recession and hasn't recovered. It's a big reason I let my season tickets go because I could no longer sell the 95 degree dud noon games and then not even the mediocre Missouri type games. The LSU game would have been by far the largest crowd of the year.
Delusional is continuing to believe that a great and successful AD like Foley would readily give up his most lucrative home game in what was otherwise a very mundane home season because he and his team wanted to "duck" playing an LSU without Leonard Fournette. That's crazy talk man.... unbelievable actually. Here are the last few lines of the article: Finally, on Thursday, five days after the game would have initially been played, came a major breakthrough: Florida head coach Jim McElwain was the SEC's savior, agreeing to travel to Baton Rouge to play at LSU this season in exchange for the Gators getting the home game back in 2017. LSU would keep their home game, but the SEC would get their make-up game. It was the kind of outreach for the betterment of the conference over individual benefit that Sankey, constantly at the negotiating table for a week, had been hoping for since the beginning. The SEC, facing the first major crisis of his leadership, had reached a conclusion that preserved the legitimacy of the league championship, ensured all games were played, and kept both teams eligible for a conference championship. It wasn't pretty, but in the end the SEC got it right. The storm had passed and while the Florida Gators weren't the most prepared for the hurricane, they were the most instrumental in ensuring that the game was still played.
So the Gators lost two home games this year but will get one of them back next season. But the whole thing is their fault. That is delusional. I don't think the LSU AD, or Corey ever understood the full magnitude of what could have happened with that storm and why the HAD to be cancelled and find it convenient to blame the Gators. Had that storm moved another 50 miles east as it well could have it could have devised the whole state and decisions had to be made and cancelling the game was the only reasonable alternative. And it the game was to be made up this year the logical date was the date it was made up, however the logic of Florida losing two home games doesn't make sense. So yes Corey it is nonsense to blame it on Foley. So Dave is not delusional. Having said this I agree with Terry and will have no more to say.
Distance from Crescent Beach, Fl to Gainesville is 72 miles. Distance from Columbia S.C. to Charleston is 113 miles Rarely has Columbia been affected by tropical storms as they normally are turning up the coast as this one was forecasted to do and did toward N.C. There's no basis of comparison between SC-Ga on Sun and LSU-UF. And with that.... I'm done here also.... Gators went to LSU's Death Valley and stole the Tigers manhood... and that feels damned good!
I could sit here and quote that article line by line showing that Foley was either inept, or at best incapable of doing his job. LSU worked a thousand times harder to get that game played than Foley did. The only credit Florida gets is in the closing line of the article, which I knew would be the one that Dave highlighted. I don't have a dog in this race, but from an outside perspective, Foley was either unprepared at best or was operating under some paranoid perspective that believed there was some other motive. If this was a basketball game, or a tennis match, bet your ass that the game would have gone on using one of LSU's suggestions. Anyway, the lines here are predictable and it's all water under the bridge now.
Corey, the guy that wrote that article doesn't necessarily have all the facts. In fact it is nonsense but as you say it's water under the bridge.
Interesting point of order.. it appears that the 'They got what they deserved" really stuck in some folks side. I don't think we've heard the end of this.