re: So LSU willing to move a game because of a storm. But UF will not be bullied.

Hurricane Matthew, which ended up being a huge dud. The reason that the site was flipped is because LSU lost a home game vs. South Alabama by postponing the game.

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Exactly why did the play the game in tiger stadium? What was the reason for not only postponing it, but also flipping the site. I dont remember

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The game was set for Gainsville, but there was a hurricane approaching. It was absolutely clear the game couldn't be played there, no matter exactly where the hurricane hit, because wherever it hit, first responders would need to focus on the hurricane and not on a football game in Gainsville. LSU (which knew a thing or two about hurricanes) earlier that week proposed moving the game to BR or a neutral site. Florida's AD wouldn't budge, insisting that the game could still be played there. Of course it couldn't, and in the end the game was cancelled.

Then FLA was told by the SEC that if the game wasn't re-scheduled and played they would be disqualified from contending for the SEC East. So now FLA (which had a chance of winning the East) desperately wanted to play the game another week when they had a bye. The only way that could happen was if we cancelled a cupcake game and played FLA that week, which we did, but on the condition that the game was played in BR. That was agreed on the basis that the next 2 games were in Gainsville.

The bottom line was, FLA desperately wanted to avoid playing LSU in BR on the weekend the game should have been played, and they got what they wanted, and we badly lost the PR war. It was FLA's stupidity and intransigence that led to what happened, but they managed to paint it that we were the bad guys.

It would have been better if we had told then to F... Off, we had given them the chance to play that game in the week that it should have been played and they had refused it, and just got on with out cupcake game. Unfortunately LSU thought it still had a chance to win the West, so it was also keen to play the game so it succumbed.