When the commissioner doesn’t step up… well, as we all know, athletic directors, like nature, abhor a vacuum.
Joe Alleva on @1045espn's #YMD: "That's a flat out lie. That's example of terrible journalism." on @McMurphyESPN's tweet Thursday
— James Haralson (@jamesharalson) October 7, 2016
Georgia AD Greg McGarity on radio: "Certainly we offered Sanford Stadium (as alternate site), as late as yesterday."
— Seth Emerson (@SethWEmerson) October 7, 2016
McGarity said the SEC purchases loss of revenue insurance for instances like this. Money never came up in discussions with SC, he said.
— Jason Butt (@JasonHButt) October 7, 2016
McGarity said there was not a discussion on Monday. Only Saturday and Sunday, and if neither worked, it would've been likely postponed.
— Jason Butt (@JasonHButt) October 7, 2016
McGarity said UGA football team relocating in Columbia from hotel to use a judicial training facility at University of South Carolina.
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) October 7, 2016
LSU AD Joe Alleva says on ESPN 104.5 in Baton Rouge: “The (UF) game is not going to happen at this point"
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) October 7, 2016
Yeah, this is going well.
Pretty odd year to roll out the "It Just Means More" slogan when it doesn't mean enough to play a very important game
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) October 7, 2016
You wonder what they’d be doing if there were millions in lost revenue at stake. But since there aren’t, this is what we get.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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“And undisciplined AD’s, undisciplined decisions will get you beat. We had undisciplined weather that’s going to cost us. And that’s disheartening.”
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Gator tastes like chicken.
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Per the AJC “McGarity said that the Bulldogs have given up their hotel rooms at a downtown Holiday Inn and will now move into an unnamed “federal facility” for a Saturday night stay.
“It’s not a public facility,” McGarity said. “Right now it’s unoccupied because it’s used in the judicial system.” ”
What?????? We are putting our team up in a federal prison facility? That is about the most weaselish way to avoid calling the joint the joint I’ve ever seen. Nice work, Greg. I can see the sales pitch to recruits now: Come to UGA for the playing time. Stay for the luxurious prison accomodations on road trips.
I guess Guantanamo Bay is booked this time of year.
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My understanding is that it is a federal law enforcement training center The centers in GA have what I would describe as a motel attached to the facilities because the classes they hold there are generally multi day affairs which involve lots of people and require housing. The facilities are a combination of classrooms/auditoriums and open fields and other areas. Not the Ritz but certainly not a prison.
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The National Advocacy Center on the USC campus has their own hotel facility, as well as a deal with The Inn at USC across the street.
The Inn likely is full of evacuees, but the NAC typically only hosts those taking a course there. They also seem to only have king-sized beds, which might have been a reason to choose it as well.
Plus free wi-fi, so the kids will be fine.
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Pretty sure they are at the NAC. Nice place actually. But Mcgarity sure made it sound like the team was being housed in in a federal detention center, didn’t he?
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I’m glad for the sake of our team, but it would have been a lot more in keeping with McCheapskate’s penurious streak to lodge them at a prison. Think of the savings at mealtime. How much can baloney sandwiches, jello and kool aid cost?
He still looks like he got rolled in this situation, but hey, he didn’t have to write any extra checks to anyone for anything, so I guess he’s happy.
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Ft Gordon
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Hey, at least it isn’t CCI.
http://www.palmettohistory.org/exhibits/cci/cci.htm
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I do love the idea that ADGM decided that a prison was perfectly acceptable lodgings for the team.
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Probably was free.
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Agree.
The THUGA jokes just write themselves.
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So now we’ve gone from teams sardonically rooting for, say, the opposing team’s QB to be injured or not able to play in the upcoming match up; to teams now and in the future actively rooting for bad weather for a tough road game so they can simply cancel and refuse to make up that game at any point later in the season.
Oh, they will provide a ‘solution’ (sic) — which involves the home team suddenly having to play at their place instead — but otherwise it’s now basically a shameless race to weasel out of tough road games in effort to increase your chances of getting to the SECC. Hell, UT probably has already commissioned a study on how to get out of that road date at Bama next year (UT AD next October: ‘those clouds over Tuscaloosa look meanacing…you either come play at our place or we ain’t playing ya.’)
What a pathetic mess.
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I don’t really fault LSU here. The only option Florida gave was to inconvenience LSU to play three conference road games in twelve days to finish the season. LSU shouldn’t be forced into that predicament because Florida is currently being hit by a hurricane. LSU offered to fly in on Sunday or Monday to Gainesville or play in any other neutral site within the conference. Florida is weaseling out of a tough conference HOME game. That’s even worse. And the SEC is letting them do it.
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While I agree that it does sort of loo that way, I’ve got to wonder..why have a football team if you don’t look forward to playing good teams? Has the $$$ really become more important than the sport? This situation certainly makes it look that way. To the average fan and to the players, that’s just wrong.
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Have you looked at Florida’s out-of-conference opponents under Foley? I don’t think they ever played one with a pulse that wasn’t another school in FL.
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If LSU offered to play Sunday and UF said no, then yea that certainly changes everything.
UF should be held accountable and be told their game with LSU will be counted as a loss.
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From Joe Alleva’s presser yesterday evening, as reported here:
How truthful his statements are, I’ll leave for someone else to decide.
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Always do important correspondence with email..that way you can prove you contacted them and prove they responded…unless you’re Hillary.
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You know what would be epic? LSU saying they will be there ready to play. SEC sends officials. Foley is left with option of opening the stadium and playing or forfeiting.
At this point, Gainesville is in the clear.
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Weather forecast tomorrow for Gainesville Florida is sunny, high of 88°, winds 0-15mph, and 10% chance of precipitation.
Tennessee fans are gonna be pissed.
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So if UF if sitting at 6-1 and UT is at 6-2 who goes to Atlanta?
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I think the SEC already said 6-1 > 6-2 even if the 6-2 team beat the 6-1 team head-to-head (which got weasel-faced Butch Jones’ attention quickly.)
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would it be wrong for me to root for the explosion of Sgt Carter’s head and the wailing and lamentations of the hillbillies such a scenario would bring? I guess it would, because it require Florida to beat UGA, and I’m not rooting for that, ever.
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But it would be a wonderful upside to a loss to FU.
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Mike Slive would’ve never let it get to this Paaauuulll!
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Just don’t be surprised when the SEC moves the WLOCP up a week to allow UF to play LSU on 10/29.
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No way they do that unless CBS gives their ok.
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Makes you wonder who in the conference headquarters backs Florida but also how our AD could do any worse for us. The Georgia Way for the win.
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Looking like the worst part of the storm will come to Georgia during low tide.
Fingers crossed.
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Only discussed Sunday or Saturday with SC, or game would be postponed? How about a forfeit since you dismissed viable options for myopic reasons? Same with FU, LSU did everything to get the game played and they declined, just give FU a loss by forfeit. Incompetency isn’t just in BM building, SEC headquarters is overflowing with it as well. Grow a pair and run the damn conference by showing some leadership. Who has time for this wimpy, sniveling AD bull? SC and FU have shown their true colors. And, to no surprise, the SEC has shown how they are simply over their heads.
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I spy, with my little eye, somebody suing to get in the SECCG.
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I have one question that I can’t find the answer to on my own: is it still going to be televised or is that now out the window?
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SEC Network at 2:30 EDT
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Fire ADGM over and over, again and again.
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That federal facility is likely reserved for terrorist and radicalized chickens whose addresses point to University of South Carolina.
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I am not even on the “ins” with what McGarity has or has not done…and he is looking like a complete fuckstick.
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Again, with McGarity and certain boosters leading this program we’ll never be a real winner. 10 wins and a great person isn’t good enough yet the people who lead this program can’t get out of it’s way to allow it do any better. These people are clueless about what it takes to be elite
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McGarity should be run out of Athens on a rail. The man is sooooo weak!
He is gutless. A non performer.
Guess he rented port-a-potties for the team. And like Valdosta High did one year in a state championship game, have half time in the bus and drive back home to change.
McGarity once again confirms we are not there yet.
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UGA should be ashamed of how it let the SEC railroaded them again.
Sick and damn tired of it!
Let that damn dunce Al Ford in the replay booth again in Sanford.
Six games into the season. On the road for four of them. Now they play on Sunday for game six.
Plus he parks a key defensive lineman for another game.
Sorry, but the AD is a complete ass.
This is why my money does not go into the program anymore. It does not have one.
I put that money into a high school program
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As bad as Ford is we need to identify who the LJ was in the UT-UGA game because that guy has an ax to grind against Georgia and should never be allowed to work another UGA game. He’s the official who called the non-touchdown a TD when he was less than 5 yards away looking right at it and he also called the bounce-pass a completion when he was 2 yards away looking right at it. And neither gets reversed on review (Ford didn’t even review the bounce-pass). Did they have money on the game? What gives SEC? Still crooked.
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