Email to Commissioner Sankey and to AD Foley

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TO: watchgregrun@gmail.com; gsankey@sec.org
CC: alleva@lsu.edu; hvincent@sec.org; athletics@lsu.edu

Commissioner Sankey,

I am appalled to read below's article and your public comments about LSU. In a situation that you and Jeremy Foley clearly mismanaged from the beginning, you criticize LSU in an effort to deflect blame from yourself and absolve yourself from responsibility. It is clearly a failure in leadership, and I request an official apology to LSU and its administration.

LSU was scheduled to play at Florida Saturday October 8th. Despite multiple options being available to play the game on the scheduled weekend (and LSU willing to do whatever was necessary to play the game), you and Mr. Foley allowed the game to be cancelled/postponed. By now, in hindsight, I'm sure you realize that decision was in error.

To make matters worse, you and Mr. Foley then try and point to LSU as the "bad guy." Is it really any surprise that LSU did not want to suffer (financially and otherwise) because of your initial error? LSU's position was very reasonable and logical ... We're not giving up $21 million because of a bad decision that LSU tried to prevent and a situation that was completely, 100% avoidable. LSU was put in a bad situation that you and Mr. Foley put LSU in, and to top it off you criticize LSU. What planet are you living on? ... this is outrageous!

There are two parties to blame here: yourself and Florida AD Jeremy Foley. It is absolutely appalling that, in an effort to save your own job, you make public comments like below criticizing LSU and Joe Alleva.

As stated above, I request an official apology to LSU and its administrators. If you are unwilling to do that, I request your official resignation as SEC commissioner, effective immediately.


Thanks,


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TO: administration@gators.ufl.edu; jeremyf@gators.ufl.edu; footballmail@gators.ufl.edu
CC:alleva@lsu.edu; athletics@lsu.edu; watchgregrun@gmail.com; gsankey@sec.org

Mr. Foley,

I watched as you again threw LSU and its administration "under the bus" in your Thursday press conference regarding the rescheduling of the LSU-Florida game.

It is appalling to me, and certainly speaks to your character, that you continue to intentionally try and make LSU out to be the bad guy in a situation that you single-handedly created and manufactured. You made a decision regarding the originally-scheduled LSU-Florida game, you got roundly criticized nationally for your decision, yet you never once took ownership of said decision. Instead of admitting your own motivations and failure of leadership to plan accordingly, you decided to point the finger at LSU in an effort to save face.

You may be a good man deep down, I do not know and will probably never know. But I do know that you lost my respect throughout this situation. Instead of being truthful and forthcoming with the public, you decided to deflect blame and point the finger elsewhere, at LSU and its administrators. In a situation that Florida (and you as its representative) deserved every bit of criticism and blame, you thought it would be best to drag LSU's name through the mud. I'm sure LSU administrators were stubborn in the end and, as you say, "drew a line in the sand." How can you blame them for not wanting to lose a dime over a problem that you single-handedly created?

I would demand an apology, but what's done is done. I hope that you realize that your actions not only affect the University of Florida and Louisiana State University, but also affect the fans of both schools that care deeply about those two programs.


Sincerely,

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