Isnt There A Domed Stadium Nearby I Forget

I know exactly what is involved in the operation of a football game.

I worked my way through college supporting a college football team 80 hours a week. 7 Days of long hours every single week. And got my degree on top of it. Going back to the dorm so damn tired I would fall asleep studying . The only day off for 4 months being our bye week weekend. That's 7 days a week totaling 80 hours for 1 weekend shy of 4 months for 5 years. You do the math.

So before you question what I know about logistics of a football game maybe you should ask instead of implying i am stupid.

You can disagree with whether you think the game should of been cancelled but I happen to think without fans the game gets much easier logistically.

No rule saying fans have to attend.

Its crying over spilled milk now but I want a leader of our program that exhausts every scenario before cancelling a football game. I don't believe ours did that.

No I am not a big fan of alleva and I know he doesn't control the weather. But did he exhaust every opportunity to get this game played. I don't think so.

Maybe I wasn't thinking your right to engage someone more worried about if golden girls were available. touche

 

Exactly. And they wouldn't have had even 24 hours. The ASU game was totally different. Way more time to prepare.

 

Last night the radio guys kept saying there is a rule that the game must be resumed by 11:59 PM or else it couldn't be played last night. The thing is, none of the radio guys knew whether it was an NCAA rule or an SEC rule and if it was an SEC rule it would only apply to SEC games which of course McNeese was not. Before you blame Joe Alleva find out whether he did know what the applicable rule was. It's his job to be aware of all the rules governing situations like that. It's not Les Miles job although it is his job to be aware of football rules but that's another topic altogether.

I live fairly near LSU so I could see what the weather was doing at any time during the period the game was in delay mode. And I was catching the reports of when and where there were approaching thunderstorms. Up until around 9:30 it would have been impossible to even consider playing football in TS. By 10 PM the rain had stopped. I could see some lightning in the distance toward the east in Livingston Parish. By 10:30 it looked a lot better and they said on the radio that the McNeese players were on the field while the LSU players were still in the locker room. But no move was made to resume the game. I thought the weather had improved to the point where by 10:45 the teams could have warmed up on the field. Weather continued to improve and they could have resumed around 11:30.

But the LSU, SEC, NCAA and the game officials were monitoring the weather and lightning strikes so I'm not sure when the last lightning strike was detected within the 6 or 8 mile range that would trigger another 30 minute delay. I do know that when the announcement that the game was being cancelled there was still at least an hour and a half left to try to get it restarted so the cancellation decision was a bit premature.

In light of the fact that they didn't play last night, the McNeese team had bussed to Baton Rouge on Saturday morning and didn't have any hotel rooms. But right across from the stadium there is the PMAC. Some cots could have been rounded up for the McNeese players and some food brought in. They could have played the game in Tiger Stadium today at noon. The game would just be getting over as I write this and there hasn't been any rain or lightning today.

 

After the big deluge they said on the 98.1 FM game broadcast that the field was in remarkably good condition and had drained perfectly.

Nobody on this forum really knows whether McNeese even gets a full check. As I said in another post it's possible that the contract contain's an Act of God clause where LSU would pay their travel and meal expenses but no game check if for some reason the game isn't played. Not that that would matter to us but it would matter to McNeese.

When it looked like cancellation was a possibility I wanted the game played for only one reason by then. It's an axiom that a football teams makes it's most improvement of the season between game one and game two. Now LSU has an added disadvantage vs Mississippi State. Moo has gotten their cupcake tuneup under their belts.

And how hard would have been to round up a bunch of mattresses and put them in the PMAC and get them some food. Game could have been played today.

 

if that was LSU at alabama and they rolled out some cots and some MRE's in a similar situation, and we lost we'd be freaking the f out. Thats not fair to an opposing team even if its a rentawin. they are not obligated to be put in an unfair position even with a 500k check.


and im pretty sure they get their money. thats chump change and the check will clear by noon tomorrow.

i agree with red. no one had any real incentive to get the game in after midnight. sucks for the fans and brandon harris but mother nature is a bitch.

 

You would think LSU would have better lawyers who would draw up the contract to cover such a contigency

 

For a once in a 100 year event?