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[The Franchise]

Don't be surprised if the game gets cancelled / rescheduled. The storm may not hit Miami, but there may be some perceived Public Relations issues if all of the east coast of Florida is under water and without power by Saturday.

I laughed.

Laugh all you want. All you are showing is your ignorance. If you think the schools aren't having conversations about this very topic with the ACC then you are fairly simple minded

I'm in Palm Beach. North of here is mostly gator fans, with the exception of few of our finest ( Stay safe UKnowIt), so the heck with how they feel. We have the feather people in box and need to drive the nails in now. Donna is not here anymore and I doubt our new President is prepared to see everything he has done to have a winner go down the drain because north Florida people can take a power outage. Play the game if at all possible.

I respect your opinion. My comment wasn't about where Miami fans live. It was regarding public perception of pushing forward with a football game 1-2 days after a category 4 hurricane destroys the entire east coast of Florida north or Palm Beach. University leadership has to consider this. They may come to the conclusion to push forward with the game, but don't be surprised in the least that there will be some public backlash. I get that a lot of people on this board are too tough to have a little hurricane ***** up the game for them, but this hurricane is going to cause serious problems for the state of Florida.

LOL at this dude and his fears of "public perception" as some sort of dopey justification for cancelling an event that is very important to a ton of people and has huge financial implications.

Not a goddam thing is going to happen to Dade or Broward that wouldn't happen during a normal rain storm. Cancelling this game just to appease a few idiots who think it's wrong for the people of South Florida to go on with their lives because some people a couple hundred miles away had problems is idiotic, reactionary and feeble at best.

 

[Notsince1985]

My flight into Miami tomorrow afternoon is still on

Should be able to do that. Where are you coming from?

Chattanooga through Atlanta

 

[MovingZen]

My flight into Miami tomorrow afternoon is still on

From where? Mine from Charleston got cancelled!

 

[Notsince1985]

My flight into Miami tomorrow afternoon is still on

From where? Mine from Charleston got cancelled!

Chattanooga

 

[Notsince1985]

Kristen M. Clark ‏@ByKristenMClark 9m9 minutes ago
.@FLGovScott's office talking with [MENTION=9112]FLorida[/MENTION]state, @UF about Saturday football games:

As Hurricane Matthew bears down on Florida with the potential for catastrophic damage to coastal areas, state and university officials are potentially re-evaluating a couple major college football games still scheduled for Saturday.

Rick Scott spokeswoman Jackie Schutz said the governor spoke directly today with Florida State University President John Thrasher about the status of the Seminoles' game against the University of Miami Hurricanes, where kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Miami Gardens.

Schutz said the governor did not express an opinion about whether the game should continue as planned, be cancelled or be relocated, rather Scott was "reaching out to learn more about the university's process" for making such a decision.

Schutz said staff in Scott's office have also been in touch with University of Miami officials, as well as officials at the University of Florida -- which is scheduled to play Louisiana State University at home in Gainesville at noon Saturday.

University leaders told Scott's office they would let the governor know soon about how they'll move forward with Saturday's games, Schutz said.

Earlier Thursday, Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter tweeted that Scott should move the Florida-LSU game out of Gainesville, using the hashtags #CmonMan , #GeauxTigers and #StaySafe .

 

[Notsince1985]

Christy Chirinos ‏@ChristyChirinos 22s23 seconds ago
Christy Chirinos Retweeted John Morales
If anyone was wondering where Matthew's eye was now...it's past Miami.

 

[Caniac16]

Canes football twitter just tweeted up a hype article on the game. I think t's obvious UM wants this game played no matter what happens with this hurricane up north.

 

[Notsince1985]

Clay Travis ‏@ClayTravis 2h2 hours ago
The irony of Louisiana’s senator demanding UF move game and citing Katrina is that LSU refused to move UT game after Katrina.

 

[Classic]

Kristen M. Clark ‏@ByKristenMClark 9m9 minutes ago
.@FLGovScott's office talking with [MENTION=9112]FLorida[/MENTION]state, @UF about Saturday football games:

As Hurricane Matthew bears down on Florida with the potential for catastrophic damage to coastal areas, state and university officials are potentially re-evaluating a couple major college football games still scheduled for Saturday.

Rick Scott spokeswoman Jackie Schutz said the governor spoke directly today with Florida State University President John Thrasher about the status of the Seminoles' game against the University of Miami Hurricanes, where kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Miami Gardens.

Schutz said the governor did not express an opinion about whether the game should continue as planned, be cancelled or be relocated, rather Scott was "reaching out to learn more about the university's process" for making such a decision.

Schutz said staff in Scott's office have also been in touch with University of Miami officials, as well as officials at the University of Florida -- which is scheduled to play Louisiana State University at home in Gainesville at noon Saturday.

University leaders told Scott's office they would let the governor know soon about how they'll move forward with Saturday's games, Schutz said.

Earlier Thursday, Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter tweeted that Scott should move the Florida-LSU game out of Gainesville, using the hashtags #CmonMan , #GeauxTigers and #StaySafe .

I'd have liked this update to be more definitive RE: FSU @ Miami.

Though the update includes LSU @ UF information, and that game seems more likely to be cancelled than ours given expected landfall is on the coast, almost parallel to Gainesville. That said, both games should be able to be played safely, in my very humble opinion.

I'm super please that brainless beanpole of a man Rick Scott didn't voice an opinion, because when he does, it usually sucks. Keep your nose outta my football.

Those crazy cajuns in Louisiana are politicizing the hurricane in an effort to strong arm UF to handoff the home field advantage. Which I think is dastardly and, also, absolutely ******' hilarious. Because of the hypocrisy and because it couldn't happen to a more piece of **** school and fanbase than the Gates.

 

[TC7D]

I laughed.

Laugh all you want. All you are showing is your ignorance. If you think the schools aren't having conversations about this very topic with the ACC then you are fairly simple minded

I'm in Palm Beach. North of here is mostly gator fans, with the exception of few of our finest ( Stay safe UKnowIt), so the heck with how they feel. We have the feather people in box and need to drive the nails in now. Donna is not here anymore and I doubt our new President is prepared to see everything he has done to have a winner go down the drain because north Florida people can take a power outage. Play the game if at all possible.

I respect your opinion. My comment wasn't about where Miami fans live. It was regarding public perception of pushing forward with a football game 1-2 days after a category 4 hurricane destroys the entire east coast of Florida north or Palm Beach. University leadership has to consider this. They may come to the conclusion to push forward with the game, but don't be surprised in the least that there will be some public backlash. I get that a lot of people on this board are too tough to have a little hurricane ***** up the game for them, but this hurricane is going to cause serious problems for the state of Florida.

LOL at this dude and his fears of "public perception" as some sort of dopey justification for cancelling an event that is very important to a ton of people and has huge financial implications.

Not a goddam thing is going to happen to Dade or Broward that wouldn't happen during a normal rain storm. Cancelling this game just to appease a few idiots who think it's wrong for the people of South Florida to go on with their lives because some people a couple hundred miles away had problems is idiotic, reactionary and feeble at best.

No where in my post did I say that I was afraid of public perception. I'm telling you what the politicians and school are going to think long and hard about. And judging by some of the press now coming out about the issue, I was correct. So you can be as tough and sarcastic as you want about the hurricane, but people are thinking long and hard about playing this game. That was my point.

 

[Notsince1985]

John Morales ‏@JohnMoralesNBC6 9m9 minutes ago
Hurricane threat over for Miami and becoming extremely extremely unlikely for Broward.

 

[the storm]

A lot of Charleston will be under water.

My flight into Miami tomorrow afternoon is still on

From where? Mine from Charleston got cancelled!

 

[Problem2]

Man up FSU

 

[58-7]

Tropical storm winds were supposed to begin at 3:00 PM. 18 minutes ago.

I'm become less and less convinced about the seriousness of this storm.

Once it's 5:00 or 6:00 and next to nothing has still happened they'll push the time the storm will hit back to 8:00 pm.

It's similar to the end of the world people who continuously push the apocolypse back as each prediction is wrong.

 

[ThomasM]

Man up FSU

I said it yesterday and I'll say it today. I believe Miami wants this game so much more than FSU. FSU wouldn't have minded one bit had this game been cancelled. After the fact they'd talk about how disappointed they are they couldn't play, but they'd be breathing a sigh of relief. Now, they are going to come down and get hammered, because they really don't want to be there.

 

[The Franchise]

Clay Travis ‏@ClayTravis 2h2 hours ago
The irony of Louisiana’s senator demanding UF move game and citing Katrina is that LSU refused to move UT game after Katrina.

Louisiana is a half notch above Haiti on the 3rd world status meter. Backwards idiots.

 

[ThomasM]

Tropical storm winds were supposed to begin at 3:00 PM. 18 minutes ago.

I'm become less and less convinced about the seriousness of this storm.

Once it's 5:00 or 6:00 and next to nothing has still happened they'll push the time the storm will hit back to 8:00 pm.

It's similar to the end of the world people who continuously push the apocolypse back as each prediction is wrong.

It's a serious storm. Trust me, you wouldn't want to be near the eyewall of this monster.

 

[CaneOil]

Now the national media is starting to get on Miami and UF for entertaining the idea of playing on Saturday. This is gonna end badly.

Link?

Go look at Stewart Mandel and Andy Staples tweets. Also LSU just sent a letter to governor Scott saying their game needs to be relocated.

Relocated GTFOOH. They'll do that to Miami too, No F way come down and take your *** kicking like a man!

 

[Problem2]

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LOL at these FSU writers

Holy ****

Come get your reckoning you bums

 

[section9]

Man up FSU

I said it yesterday and I'll say it today. I believe Miami wants this game so much more than FSU. FSU wouldn't have minded one bit had this game been cancelled. After the fact they'd talk about how disappointed they are they couldn't play, but they'd be breathing a sigh of relief. Now, they are going to come down and get hammered, because they really don't want to be there.

Jimbo does NOT want to play this team in Miami Gardens at the Rock.

Tell you what. Let's compromise and play the game on Monday Night.