Originally posted by lawgator1@Sep 24, 2005 11:17 PM
everybody loves a gator!
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The obvious. Since when does a visiting team make demands about a road game? It doesn't happen.Originally posted by lawgator1@Sep 23, 2005 3:11 PM
Wait, I'm not following. I thought that LSU said no to postponing the game at all. They wanted Saturday or, worst case, Sunday.
Then UT said, well, we can't do that so its Monday night or we forfeit. In which case LSUis out krillions.
So they folded like a cheap tent and said okay to Monday.
What am I missing?
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Originally posted by red55@Sep 25, 2005 7:11 PM
The obvious. Since when does a visiting team make demands about a road game? It doesn't happen.
First Tennessee offered to play our home game in their stadium. How kind.
Then they tried to get ESPN to move the game to the afternoon.
Then they tried to have the game moved to December.
Then they refused to play on Sunday night in Baton Rouge.
Tennessee really doesn't want to play LSU do they?
This forfeit business in nonsense. Was it a forfeit due to an unavoidable disaster befalling the Tennessee team or simply a transparent ploy to avoid the game and force a postponement to a date when they are healthier and more experienced for a football advantage. LSU has been hit with two real disasters and has not forfeited any games yet. We've had all three opening home games moved.
I think a forfeit would have given LSU positive reputation for prevailing in the face of adversity and would have labeled Tennessee as losers, quitters, and whiners. When Tennessee thought about it they came to the same conclusion and backed off of that forfeit story very quickly. It would have killed them in the polls.
Whoever is in charge of public relations in the Tennessee AD ain't doing his job very well. They have made one PR blunder after another.
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Originally posted by red55@Sep 25, 2005 6:11 PM
Tennessee really doesn't want to play LSU do they?
This forfeit business in nonsense. Was it a forfeit due to an unavoidable disaster befalling the Tennessee team or simply a transparent ploy to avoid the game and force a postponement to a date when they are healthier and more experienced for a football advantage. LSU has been hit with two real disasters and has not forfeited any games yet. We've had all three opening home games moved.
I think a forfeit would have given LSU positive reputation for prevailing in the face of adversity and would have labeled Tennessee as losers, quitters, and whiners. When Tennessee thought about it they came to the same conclusion and backed off of that forfeit story very quickly. It would have killed them in the polls.
Whoever is in charge of public relations in the Tennessee AD ain't doing his job very well. They have made one PR blunder after another.
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Originally posted by lawgator1@Sep 23, 2005 3:11 PM
Wait, I'm not following. I thought that LSU said no to postponing the game at all. They wanted Saturday or, worst case, Sunday.
Then UT said, well, we can't do that so its Monday night or we forfeit. In which case LSUis out krillions.
So they folded like a cheap tent and said okay to Monday.
What am I missing?
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Originally posted by GvHm6@Sep 26, 2005 2:16 PM
"LSU athletic director Skip Bertman was adamant about the game staying put and being played on Saturday. Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton had several biting sound bites. "You decide you're going to play Monday or decide you're not going to play the game," he said."
- Shreveport news article
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Originally posted by orangetd88@Sep 26, 2005 2:37 PM
That's what I was saying all day Friday.
Man, I'm backing up a Gator's argument.
Again I ask, is Tuscaloosa freezing over?
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