Whew, wow! Calm down a little. Not sure if I can understand what all you are trying to say here but will give it a try. The offer to move the game time and pay expenses was an accomodation to UM and for its benefit. There was no benefit in ASU making these offers other than the fullfillment of the contract and playing the game. Just as you point out, moving the game would have created alot of difficulties to ASU, ESPN, its fans and the entire Jonesboro community. Sorry, but I am unaware of any ASU fans claiming your team enjoyed some stay at Disney. Perhaps someone may have made a poor attempt at a joke but I have never seen anyone making this claim and I follow ASU news closely. I will add that I live a short distance from Miami during the winter months. I have lived through hurricanes at other east coast locations, earthquakes on the west coast and tornadoes in the mid west and Arkansas. I never gave one thought to leaving south Florida or my home at any time.
Again, I have no knowledge of any fan or ASU official asking that our game be scheduled in 2017. We had our own schedule to complete. After the game's cancellation however, our AD did ask UM to reschedule in 2020 and 2021 so your AD was aware of our desired dates early on. Your AD asked that we not prusue the matter further until after the season ended which we agreed to do.
Arkansas State is also a FBS school and also spends similar time to UM on its scheduling. We have games now scheduled for years out, including P5 games. UM had dates available during our desired time frame but wanted to reserve these dates for FCS competition, a lower football division with less competitive teams. It was not impossible to reschedule our game but merely inconvenient for UM to do so during 20/21.
Your words such as "how horrible you have treated us", "wanting to "catch us unaware", "less depth" or the "secret renovation" of our $20 million locker room/new end zone facility is too silly to offer any response. All that ASU is guilty of is asking UM to honor its contract for a return home game in a timely manner.
Wait, you come to our board, and then you tell ME to "calm down a little"? How rich.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond as if everything you said is truthful.
You found our board, CanesInsight, even though it is not associated with Rivals or Scout or ESPN or 247 Sports. However, I would simply direct you to "A State Nation", which is affiliated with 247 Sports. A moderator/writer (under an anonymous "log-in name") for that website wrote several scurrilous attack articles at the time, ripping Miami and its fans for the cancellation of the game.
That same moderator/writer went on to post in numerous threads where he and other ASU fans told breathless lies about how Miami's football team was going to Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in order to practice and avoid the storm.
Furthermore, there were numerous other lies told about Miami, its AD, its coach, and everyone else involved in the discussion. There was a lie told about how Miami's AD (or one of his employees) balked when visiting the ASU locker rooms, even going so far as to say that the facilities were inadequate and that ASU should give its home locker rooms to Miami for the game.
As for the rescheduling of the game in 2017, yes, you can ALSO find plenty of discussion of this, as well as numerous articles (some even written by ACTUAL sportswriters from Arkansas) which discuss Miami's "horrendous" actions, presenting the issue as if Miami should (a) forfeit the game, (b) make immediate payment, and/or (c) give some other sort of future (but nearly immediate) restitution. All you have to do is Google this nonsense, there are plenty of articles out there.
So, sure, taking you at face-value, I can understand it if you are "unaware" of the disinformation campaign that ASU fans and websites perpetuated against UM and its fans, even if you claim to follow ASU news "closely". But do not continue to maintain your ignorance any longer. Go out there and search for the articles that were written. Go back and read the old threads on A State Nation. You don't have to take my word for it, you can find out for yourself.
As for the rest of your nonsense, please, do NOT compare ASU to Miami in any way, shape, or form. I realize you need to schedule 12 games per year, but that is where the comparisons end. ASU is not under any consideration for a Final Four playoff berth. Miami is. You'll forgive our need to assemble a strong "strength of schedule" rating. I'm sorry this is not the same concern for ASU, but I literally gave you two examples of Top 25 teams that suffered THIS YEAR due to their weak strength-of-schedule ratings.
You can say whatever you want. You can believe whatever you want. I've already made it clear that there was, literally, nothing that the ASU AD could offer that would have made UM play that game on that weekend. But you keep brushing that off as if there was some magic combination of niceties that would have obviated the threat of a Category Five hurricane destroying South Florida. So, just stop repeating yourself. Nobody cares what your AD offered. Nothing mattered. The game was NOT going to be played.
So now we are down to the issue of rescheduling. And the ONLY thing that matters is that Miami offered dates, and those dates "aren't good enough" for ASU.
We can argue a million other issues. But you need to be honest. This is ONLY about ASU's AD (and fans) having hurt feelings. And that you don't want to "appear weak". You can't accept the game offered because your AD (and fans) are just being pouty babies. There is nothing "wrong" or "inadequate" about playing a game in 2024 or 2025. Your AD (and fans) are LITERALLY getting ****ed off by a few years on the schedule.
That's it. Nobody is going to remember or care about "the Jonesboro community" losing all of that "economic impact", particularly when it is not even relevant to this case (i.e., if Miami had played the game, the "economic impact" to Jonesboro would have been disastrous for a hastily-rescheduled Friday game).
What this ENTIRE CASE boils down to is that Miami offered a game, and it's not "soon enough" for the ASU AD (and fans).
Seriously.
And you wonder why people laugh at Arkansas and its residents.
