LSU and Florida to makeup their game November 19th @LSU

Submitted by Bambi on

Shockingly this news has been out for 2 hours and no post here, but link.

We all know the whole story to this point, but the two sides have come to an agreements. The original game was supposed to be in Gainsville but the two sides have agreed to buyout their non-conference games on the 19th and play in Baton Rouge instead. The 2017 version of this game will now be played in Gainsville instead of Baton Rouge.

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WolverineHistorian

October 13th, 2016 at 7:15 PM ^

There was no way to reschedule this game in November without one of these teams losing a home game for that original date.

Still think it should have been Florida who got the home game as that's where the game was originally going to take place. But it's not a complete loss for the Gators since they get the next two at home.

Jim Delaney would probably look at this arrangement with confusion while drooling into a cup.



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SpikeFan2016

October 13th, 2016 at 11:34 PM ^

I don't believe Gainsville had a mandatory evacuation. 

 

Gainsville is nowhere near the Atlantic Coast and wasn't even close to as damaged as places like Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, SC. It's strange how UF was the only school unable to play on Sunday in the region (several teams in the Carolinas and Georgia did). 

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HAIL-YEA

October 14th, 2016 at 2:55 AM ^

They could have waited to cancel like FSU and Miami did, Florida didn't want that game. The cancelled on tuesday, the storm was gone by thursday. I guarantee they cancelled that game not knowing they could not play in the sec title game unless they played it. When they found out about that rule, the game was rescheduled. Also LSU is broke right now, they could not afford to give up a home game so I don't blame them for demanding the home game they cancelled be replaced with a home game.

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Frank Chuck

October 13th, 2016 at 7:01 PM ^

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UF schedule next year, though, is amazing. Tenn, LSU, aTm & FSU all at home with only 3 true road games (Mizzou, Ky & SCar).

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A Michigan win over Florida in the season opener will pay dividends down the road if UF becomes a 10 win team and wins the SEC East.

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grumbler

October 13th, 2016 at 11:27 PM ^

Brandon was genius.  He got UM/OSU/PSU all in synch (one road/one home per season).  He couldn't do that and accomodate MSU as well, but he foresaw the future a lot better than some here have.  Playing OSU and MSU both away is a lot better than both PSU/OSU away, this year and in the future.

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Bambi

October 13th, 2016 at 7:15 PM ^

This isn't a Delaney/Sankey/conference thing. LSU's AD said in a press conference, multiple times, that LSU will have a home game on November 19th. He made it a clear point and something that had to happen. As a result, I'm sure Florida made the switching the 2017 game a sticking point.

So basically this is an AD thing, not a conference thing. So the initial issue of @MSU twice in a row was Brandon's fault. Getting the @MSU and @OSU in the same year fixed is now on Warde.

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Commie_High96

October 13th, 2016 at 8:15 PM ^

Also being on Warde is hiring Harbaugh, which will return MSU to being as irrelevant to our schedule in upcoming years as Rutgers. Seriously, if we had to play MSU on the road the same year as we played OSU on the road before 2008, it would not have been a concern. There are many, many people on this board who only started watching UM in the 2000s. There are some of us who remember the 1980s and 1990s when MSU won 1 game per decade. I never really considered MSU a rival growing up cause we beat them every year, still hate Norte Dame more cause we they were a real rival in the 1980s.

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JonnyHintz

October 14th, 2016 at 3:42 AM ^

Money. If your budget is set and plans for 7 home games, and all of a sudden in the middle of the year you're dropped to 6, that's a HUGE setback in revenue. You're quite literally pushing a $10 million swing in revenue once you factor in tickets, concessions, merchandise, parking, and advertising.

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JonnyHintz

October 14th, 2016 at 3:54 AM ^

Take Michigan for example. Say average ticket price for a game is $75 and 109,000 fans show up. Ticket revenue alone is over $8 million. Now say the average fan spends $5 on concessions. That's an additional $500,000. Then merchandise, which many people don't buy but the ones that do spend a lot. Plus whatever you pay for parking and however much of a cut the school gets of that. You're talking $10-$12 million MINIMUM that the athletic budget accounts for and is counting on for a balanced budget. That one game could be the difference between a profit and a loss. Not necessarily a HUGE deal for Michigan, but a school like LSU that is struggling financially right now, that loss of revenue is MAJOR.

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Mr. Yost

October 13th, 2016 at 8:12 PM ^

UF should've told them to go fuck themselves. The game was at our place it'll remain at our place. If you wanna tell the world you're too scared to play, so be it.

If you need the revenue from another home game...schedule that same FCS school the week after your last game, play no starters...you'll still win by 5 TDs.

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tlo2485

October 13th, 2016 at 8:24 PM ^

UF had more to lose by not having the game played, so LSU had the leverage of otherwise just refusing to play. Florida still has some hope in the Alabama-less East division down there. This is my reasoning, at least, because at first I had the same thought as you. It also gives Florida a really favorable schedule next season with only 3 road games in conference, so there is that.

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Needs

October 13th, 2016 at 9:22 PM ^

LSU made all kinds of offers to get the game played the first time. They offered to play on Sunday or Monday in Gainesville or to relocate it to Baton Rouge and send the revenue back to UF. Florida wasn't interested in finding a solution then. Don't know why they should be blamed for refusing to give up a home game that both their AD and flood ravaged local businesses were relying on for operating revenue.

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drzoidburg

October 14th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^

I wouldn't have agreed to play on the road either if Florida, but sunday/monday yes. Now by refusing they get LSU at home the next 2 years LSU gets blame as well though for being pricks about playing on the 19th and crying that if they moved the sun belt game to oct 29 they want Bama to play that week as well. Really, i thought this was the best conference, they cowardly schedule the sun belt week 11 precisely because it's like a bye, and then whine that even that is too much a week before Bama Then there's the fact to everyone else's mind they gave up on the season when they fired their coach, so who cares when or if they play South Alabama. Hell, i don't many of their fans would care if they canceled the 19th and played at Florida either. There's a reason those tickets were going for $12. Now next year their home schedule will be awful too

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UMfan21

October 13th, 2016 at 8:04 PM ^

this is kind of dumb. they could have had this same agreement and played on the original date saving both programs the buyout money and a cupcake win.

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