thank you... there are not evacuees IN the stadium, and by next week, we will have all of the folks out of N.O, so we won't need clear roads... we will play... the media just does whatever they can to make people listen... if you believe this rumor, you also believed the one that there was gun fighting in the dome
From WWL the had a statement from the chancellor(sp) telling LSU students to STAY INDOORS and to make sure ALL DOORS ARE LOCKED. That really sounds like a safe atmosphere.
but you can set up a tent ANYWHERE... you cant play an LSU game anywhere... set them up in a park on campus if they need room that badly, which they dont...
I'm calling this rumor bullchit. LSU cannot afford the income loss. The AD cannot afford to refund season tickets. The team cannot afford the distraction. The students return to classes next week and that will disturb the relief efforts every day as much as game traffic on Saturday. It would snowball and affect other schools we play as well. Next week the situation will be different with much more help coming in and most of the rescue effort completed. The rebuilding effort will take months and the the load LSU is carrying will be spread around. We cannot allow this tragedy to keep the rest of us from resuming something like normal lives. Louisiana needs this football season to happen.
agreed Red... LSU will be helping out, but they will not be letting themselves go broke in the process... We need something to pay for our stadium, and that something is football season
Absolutely! The first chance they got, former mayor Guilioni went to a baseball game and urged New Yorkers to do the same. He acknowledged the importance that sport plays in an effort to return to normalcy. And if Skip doesn't know this, we should all contact him....
that is why I suggested we play THIS Sat, but got laughed at... not even this sat... monday, but again got laughed at... They got all but 2,500 of the 25,000 of the dome evacuees out of there as of today... by Monday, there will be no one on the road, and we could have played, but at the very least, we will roll on the 10th
The difference from this and 9/11 and the thing that people forget I think is that the number of dead outnumbered the living and misplaced. That was an office building that was destroyed not homes. And this is not only about the people they are rescueing what about the people that got out in time now living out of bags in hotels and with family. How many of them thought about graping their LSU season tickets, figuring they would be back home in 2-3 days. This event is gonna completly change the infrastructure of our state. You think we were hurting by loss of business before just wait. And dont you think it will be a sombering effect to watch kickoff and see all those empty seats where season ticket holders should be sitting. I understand everyones love for LSU and the reasons for returning to normal life as quick as possible, but this is not something we can rope off and tell people not to go back in this area to go to WORK. These people HAVE NO WHERE TO GO, TO LIVE, TO ENJOY LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. We are housing people here in Killeen at the civi center. Killeen is 9 hours away from N.O. thats a pretty long way from home. AND from they people I have talked to so far they DO NOT plan on going back. This is by far the WORSET ThING that could ever have happened to our state. I understand all the reasons for playing and when added up against the reason why they shouldnt, come on its not even close.
so I guess life totally ends and never moves on? I understand it is bad, but you have to start the next chapter soon
