All good, I agree with you guys the football game is not important...
From what I can see, Clemson is taking heat for playing yesterday. A lot of resources were diverted there for a football game when there is such an acute need in the region for those resources.
This is a good take.Paladingirl wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 1:18 pmThe players don’t have power, are taking cold showers, and are being offered meals like cereal and bagels. I would bet they are thankful to have food, water, and a dry place to sleep. The university is doing everything they can to take care of all students right now. This was an unprecedented event for Greenville of epic proportion. The football game was rightly not a priority for yesterday. The staff will figure out logistics and will want to play this game.
Astro. No offense. You’re a great guy.AstroDin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:17 amWow, I'm blown away by the pity party postings about the admin not doing enough to ensure a 'game' could be played. I guess that should have succeeded in any planning to ensure a campus full of students is safe.
Sometimes, things that happen in this world and life are more important than football.
My wife and I are the only ones with power on both sides of our families. My mother, who lives near Furman, has two trees down on her house, one of which demolished her carport, and the electric lines going to the house are down. We're hearing midweek about the possibility of power being restored.
As someone else mentioned, have you tried going anywhere in Greenville County? The roads are a nightmare, and people are panic-buying everything. You take your life into your own hands trying to navigate an intersection without red lights around here.
ASTRO. Hope y’all are fineAstroDin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:04 pmGoFu … you're so full of it!
Of course, you can go out - today.
The roads are still a mess in areas—lights are out—and on Haywood, very little is open or has power.
Your take is inconsiderate of all the people without power - my mother was just told maybe Friday.
Glad you're doing fine!
SoCon. Completely agree. WNC was killed with those flood waters. Hope people get to safety !soconjohn wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:04 pmIt's nice to be safe and unscathed by a storm that could have been fatal for those in its direct path...I'll take that 1000% over playing a game...We need to be praying for our friends at WCU...They took a rough hit...Some of the pictures of the devastation up there are tragic...There is still a lot of the season left to worry about one game.
Exactly.FUBeAR wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:03 pmSmall example of 1 of the million things most of us don’t think about … that are absolutely essential to putting 120 young men on a Football Field.
Bottom line: we don’t even know what we don’t know
That’s something highly worthy of considering as one is forming an opinion on an issue…
Your last sentence, “…in maybe forever …”? What about the 2020 season, which was completed only 3.5 years ago in spring 2021?FUATT wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:29 amExactly.FUBeAR wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:03 pmSmall example of 1 of the million things most of us don’t think about … that are absolutely essential to putting 120 young men on a Football Field.
Bottom line: we don’t even know what we don’t know
That’s something highly worthy of considering as one is forming an opinion on an issue…
Again, my understanding is the head of the officiating crew was unavailable, could not get out of neighborhood, and it wasn't as simple as "get a chainsaw bruh" it was truly impassable.
You see the equipment post. Other issues were power overall, trees in parking areas, ability to get Samford safely in and out, their hotel with no power, If no power coaches don't have headset comms... just a million things that make it hard.
I keep coming back... this is going to be the strangest Furman season in maybe forever and we are not even halfway through it.