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re: Was Sunday Considered for making up the game?
Posted on 9/7/15 at 1:55 pm to jrowla2
Posted on 9/7/15 at 1:55 pm to jrowla2
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fine, then cancel the game earlier and go play a scrimmage indoors to get the reps
Blows my mind that we are so inflexible.
In the future they need to have a better plan than to just straight up cancel a game. At least in this case it was such a menial game.
Are you really that dense? They couldn't predict for certainty the weather. We had professional meteorologists who didn't see all those storms coming until it did.
How were we not being flexible? We tried to wait out the storm to play the game Saturday night. It got to the point where it wasn't worth risking injuries anymore. Also neither coach wanted to play after Saturday, which is totally understandable with conference games coming up.
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Posted on 9/7/15 at 1:57 pm to Katy Tiger
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We could have played late. 90,000 were not coming back into the stadium 2-3 hours later anyway.. The game nexst week is on the road. We couldn't clean up a stadium in two weeks? That's a BS answer.
Lol so much dumb here. The cleaning up the stadium part had nothing to do with getting the game in Saturday night. That was about moving it to Sunday.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 1:58 pm to Gray Tiger
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Lets review some of the silliness:
Last minute housing and feeding of the visiting team who have to spend the night in Baton Rouge
Finding another set of officials (who have other jobs) who can be here on short notice or perhaps housing and feeding the ones already here over night in Baton Rouge
Finding contract security personnel(who have other jobs) to show up
Re-assigning police unis from normal HOLIDAY duties to direct traffic
Re stocking the concessionaires on very short notice
Getting the volunteer concession workers (who have other jobs) to show up
Getting LSU stadium security personnel (who have other jobs) to show up
Getting the television truck personnel back or housing and feeding them in Baton Rouge
ALL of this could be planned.
Key word... PLANNED.
This "new lighting fear" requires planning, or the result is a cancelled game.
Every organization and person that shows up for a check on Saturday (and Sunday) does so as a result of a Contract. If you don't want to submit to a rare Plan B occasion, don't sign the contract.
Joe makes $725k to think of that.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 1:59 pm to jrowla2
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In the future they damn well better have a contingency plan
Or else? What will you do besides run to a message board and make a fool of yourself?
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:10 pm to Grassy1
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ALL of this could be planned.
Key word... PLANNED.
Do you understand that in the PLANNING, there are certain guarantees that must be made? Obviously not.
If you PLAN for the visiting team to stay another night you have to make arrangements in advance which would require guaranteed payments to hotels whether the rooms are used or not. Have you ever guaranteed a hotel room and not arrived? You would have every visiting team have to do that? For every game.
You would have to PLAN to have either the current team of officials and or a substitute team to be standing by for the potential make up the game, every game. Do you think this is a freebie?
You would have to PLAN for the law enforcement to have officers standing by for every freaking make up game because you never know what the weather will do. You think that will work?
The Television and radio crews have to PLAN to stay over. For every DAMN GAME?
If you are going to PLAN, you have to have this PLAN in place for every game. Each one. Every week. Got it genius?
I could go on but I think you hope what an idiot you are being. Congratulations for not living in the real world but relax you have lots of company.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:11 pm to Grassy1
EXACTLY !!
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:11 pm to Grassy1
So you expect LSU to have hotel rooms blocked off for an extra day every home game, extra concessions purchased for a possible extra day, and also force all 3,200 of the stadium staff be forced to sign contracts that requires them to show up Saturday and Sunday if necessary for every single home game? Oh and put the BRPD on notice to be ready for an extra day as well.
All for the possibility of something that has not happened in nearly a century?
Hahaha
All for the possibility of something that has not happened in nearly a century?
Hahaha
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:14 pm to Mickey Goldmill
Lsu needs that 100 year PLAN!!!!!
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:16 pm to 24chevrolet48
The advantage of a warm up game is great but not worth the price tag of a short prep week for our first SEC ROAD GAME.
As my grandmother would have said, "Not enough sugar for my dollar!"
As my grandmother would have said, "Not enough sugar for my dollar!"
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:16 pm to Mickey Goldmill
ANY Sunday game possibility would require FAR less in terms of resources ! HOW on earth does Nascar handle rain-outs ?????
Good god man...there was NO contingency plan...nothing,nada !
That's what the problem centers on ! Our highly paid athletic dept. continues to mishandle/the very things the are supposed to be IN CHARGE OF !!!!
Good god man...there was NO contingency plan...nothing,nada !
That's what the problem centers on ! Our highly paid athletic dept. continues to mishandle/the very things the are supposed to be IN CHARGE OF !!!!
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:21 pm to Grassy1
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ALL of this could be planned.
Key word... PLANNED.
Do you really think that LSU does not have a contingency plan? It's not about planning, it would have been difficult to EXECUTE.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:28 pm to Gray Tiger
I don't care if the TV stayed or not.
But I bet they would have, they signed contracts with their customers also.
I didn't say it would be easy to implement, but when we have the power to pick and hugely pay our opponent... which is only a few a year... we have the power.
If LSU offers me a contract and I like the money, and then they throw in Plan B, which is a RARE occurance, it's my decision to take it or leave it.
There are some games that are crowded into the middle of the season that a Plan B may not be possible. A team that's less than 2 hours away, on a Labor Day weekend... I think there was room.
FWIW, I do live in the real world, and run a company and other crazy stuff, and even engage in contracts with LSU.
It's not like running a country.
People who excel in their field have contingency plans.
Others choose not to excel, and many find that acceptable.
But I bet they would have, they signed contracts with their customers also.
I didn't say it would be easy to implement, but when we have the power to pick and hugely pay our opponent... which is only a few a year... we have the power.
If LSU offers me a contract and I like the money, and then they throw in Plan B, which is a RARE occurance, it's my decision to take it or leave it.
There are some games that are crowded into the middle of the season that a Plan B may not be possible. A team that's less than 2 hours away, on a Labor Day weekend... I think there was room.
FWIW, I do live in the real world, and run a company and other crazy stuff, and even engage in contracts with LSU.
It's not like running a country.
People who excel in their field have contingency plans.
Others choose not to excel, and many find that acceptable.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:28 pm to tickfawtiger
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ANY Sunday game possibility would require FAR less in terms of resources ! HOW on earth does Nascar handle rain-outs ?????
Good god man...there was NO contingency plan...nothing,nada !
That's what the problem centers on ! Our highly paid athletic dept. continues to mishandle/the very things the are supposed to be IN CHARGE OF !!!!
Please explain, specifically, how it would require fewer resources. You're also forgetting that the storm was not predicted ahead of time so it would have been impossible by 10pm Saturday to turn around and execute a plan to put on the game Sunday.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:31 pm to Mickey Goldmill
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So you expect LSU to have hotel rooms blocked off for an extra day every home game, extra concessions purchased for a possible extra day, and also force all 3,200 of the stadium staff be forced to sign contracts that requires them to show up Saturday and Sunday if necessary for every single home game? Oh and put the BRPD on notice to be ready for an extra day as well.
All for the possibility of something that has not happened in nearly a century?
Hahaha
I think they'd sign a contract for that, knowing that it only happens once a century.
Then again, this new lightning fear rule may result in a higher frequency.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:31 pm to Grassy1
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I didn't say it would be easy to implement, but when we have the power to pick and hugely pay our opponent... which is only a few a year... we have the power.
If LSU offers me a contract and I like the money, and then they throw in Plan B, which is a RARE occurance, it's my decision to take it or leave it.
So again, Lsu is expected to pay to block off basically an entire hotel for an extra day every single home game to house the other team, officials, etc? And purchase all the extra concessions that will almost always be wasted? That's a responsible use of athletic department money?
This post was edited on 9/7/15 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:33 pm to tickfawtiger
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HOW on earth does Nascar handle rain-outs
these are completely different things. NASCAR has to have a dry track for the cars to even stick, they shut down with any rain. this was not a "rain out", LSU plays through rain all the time, it was a lightning storm, an exceedingly rare event.
This post was edited on 9/7/15 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:38 pm to Grassy1
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But I bet they would have, they signed contracts with their customers also.
The contract doesn't say "we have to show the LSU game no matter when it is going on or what else is playing.
Hell NO channel HAS to show the LSu game. they all choose. thats why we were on the SEC Network Alt channel.
that like 10th in line.
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FWIW, I do live in the real world, and run a company and other crazy stuff, and even engage in contracts with LSU.
what if LSU asked you not work for an entire work day so 1 time roughly every 100 years they could use your services?
Would you take that deal with no money down?
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:38 pm to Mickey Goldmill
Nascar ROUTINELY races the day after a rain out....HOW can they possibly do this ? I don't know, but possibly PLANNING !
Nascar rain outs DO happen and they manage to pull off their races....who can you not understand ????
Less resouces would be required because LESS fans would attend, how can you not understand that ????
Even the "cancellation process" was totally botched ! The A>D. was in no way prepared for ANY of this....the Question is WHY NOT ??
Nascar rain outs DO happen and they manage to pull off their races....who can you not understand ????
Less resouces would be required because LESS fans would attend, how can you not understand that ????
Even the "cancellation process" was totally botched ! The A>D. was in no way prepared for ANY of this....the Question is WHY NOT ??
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:39 pm to Penrod
quote:That's all the reasoning I need.
Simple. We've got a standard week to prepare for State. Miles would have to be an idiot to cut that prep time for a game against Mcneese.
Posted on 9/7/15 at 2:41 pm to tickfawtiger
Look I'm asking a simple question. How would you handle housing the opposing team and the officials? If you have a better solution than blocking off nearly an entire hotel every single game (wasting thousands and thousands of dollars), then please share.
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