re: Joe Alleva all talk

Alleva is waaaaay too passive. He's getting bullied around and has no idea how to fight back with these people. He should have had a press conference Monday morning and made it known to the media and general public was the options were for the game Saturday and that LSU would be a host as the hurricane was en route to the Florida coast. He should have made phone calls to anyone who would listen from ESPN etc. make the media work with you and get them on your side with assurance that at the end of the day, the game is much too important to cancel it if there were available options like playing it in Baton Rouge like South Carolina did last year. The precedent was there. LSU had a game plan that was proven successful and Florida didn't want to do it.

At that point with all of the options on the table and BR being the easiest and proven solution, sankey should have told Florida that they were playing the game in BR and to deal with it.

Alleva I feel is a pushover and doesn't know how to play the game and others like foley absolutely do. Just look at the media today. They are blaming LSU for this game not happening now it's amazing. Foley and sankey have the media critiquing LSU now as if LSU didn't bend over backwards to make it happen.

I agree, if there was one thing Alleva could've done, it was get out in front of everything at the beginning of the week and announce contingencies were being proposed.

But considering this board didn't expect the game to be played in Gainesville as early as Monday, I feel like Alleva and Sankey couldn't have anticipated the feet dragging from Florida. They kept pushing back a decision from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday evening.

I don't think a cancelation was ever considered as a possibility until everything was too far down the rabbit hole. Alleva might bare some responsibility for that, but Sankey should've recognized where this was heading sooner. All he had to say at the beginning of the week was "I don't care what you do, but cancelling is not an option".

Alleva handled this perfectly. Called the BS and showed that LSU would be more than capable of doing whatever it took to get the game done within the next 3/4 days

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Personally I don't see what else he could have done to make the situation better. I just see how he could have made it worse.

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Bingo

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Things did not get interesting on thurs. They got interesting on Wednesday when anyone with common sense and access to the weather channel would tell you that keeping the game on Sat without agreeing to develop a contingency plan was ignorant and irresponsible.

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Wednesday night the storm shifted a little towards the coast. Alleva said that Thursday is when things started to look bad for the game happening. Florida's excuse (among others) was basically that the game could not happen this weekend because of the players wanting to be with their families in this possible dire time. It's obviously an exaggeration, as I've said before, but it's hard to force a team to do something when they act like bitches and use that. As Joe said "you can't argue with safety", as much as I know he wanted too. Florida played this situation and used a hurricane in their favor. They also know that the media will be hesitant to criticize them. I've been watching people on ESPN hesitant to criticize Florida all day. There are many articles out there being writen about it, though. I can tell you nobody blames Alleva at all. If anything he looks really good for going out of his way to accommodate Florida.

In most cases a team does not act this way. Florida used every excuse in the book to not play this game. They held all the cards.

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I can't find fault in him lately. He's been on point. He called out Florida, the SEC, and McMurphy earlier today. Not much more he can do really

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He should have called them out on Tuesday/Wednesday when they were clearly dragging their feet and on Thursday he should have demanded that the game be played somewhere Sat/Sun or Monday or its a Forfeit.

Fight for once.

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Expecting LSU to fly into the cone of uncertainty that was being evacuated doesn't exactly scream "safety"

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I agree. They had no incentive to play the game this weekend. As soon as they saw their out with the storm turning, they ran with it. Now they're hiding behind "safety".

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CEO could and would have had this game rescheduled

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Lol...no.

That's the AD's job, not a head coach's.

What exactly would you expect CEO to do in order to get the game rescheduled?

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He has zero clout with the SEC.

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I assume you realize that he has limits to his ability to control such a situation.
Sankey got played by Foley, who was arrogant and intransigent but ultimately this was a Sankey flustercuck.
Florida could have easily postponed the game until Sunday or Monday with the SEC's encouragement.
Strange that FSU v Miami is being played and South Carolina v Georgia (moved to Sunday) is being played but UF couldn't make this happen.
No Alleva had little leverage and can't be blamed for this.

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So the Sunshine Pumpers are going to rally around Joe Alleva and try to make a (weak) case for him being a strong AD?

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So, anyone who disagrees with you is a sunshine pumper? Also, I saw no one making that case.