USCBatgirl21
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@ClemDent Even App State cancelled their game, and they are farther away than you.
quempsum is the only college in NC or SC (that I can find) not to reschedule or cancel
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And you're not protesting enough. To hold a football game while other South Carolinians are fighting to save people from the effects of a natural disaster is the very definition of arrogance and thumbing your nose. Whether the storm ends up being nothing is beside the point.
Especially after reading Tanner's rationale for canceling our game....much more focused on the needs of the state as a whole.
Dabo has a plan. 3 days to plot his answers to any questions as to why they played. Then the followers of Dabo will scream and shout to his greatness.
USCBatgirl21
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I've been calling them Jonestown 2.0 for some time, but the more I think about it, Jim Jones wasn't that charismatic a leader. Now Manson, that SOB was scary good at getting people to fall under his spell. I may have to change my nickname for them to "The Family 2.0".
Im am not sure that this one is one of those cases. I believe that the NotreDame game was indeed a case where the game should have been cancelled.
I would propose one mistake has been made from a PR standpoint alone. It's a difficult task to defend Clemson's position at this point in light of the fact that all other schools in the NC/SC have either cancelled to moved time slots.
USCBatgirl21
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@EssoClub2 now that is how you have fun with your rival. You're good people. I don't care what others say!
Point taken, however the optics as you have evidently seen just on this thread are not flattering.
I'm not bashing you but questioning the judgement of their decision.
I was looking for a "gif" of this pitch, when I stumbled back on this video. I got caught up watching it. "Cant we all just get along"
Some people don't like the fact that they are playing, but that isn't probative.
This was the point I proposed, from a PR angle it is not the easiest decision to defend. I hope that no harm comes to anyone fan, players, coaches, etc, but as I have had to ask many times during my career involving major decisions concerning the business "Is the risk worth the reward".
You never want to end up on the wrong side of that debate.
I get what you’re saying, but VA is potentially going to get a mess of rain, and it could very well cause problems that police headed to the Tech game could be needed elsewhere. I’m pretty sure they were one of the first teams to cancel their game, so good on them. And I feel the same about them as I do about the Tates pretty much.
probably something to the effect that he prayed about it and God told him it was ok to play.
for the record though, last year a 30 mpH wind took down an 80 ft oak last year after the ground got saturated with rain. It ain't always about the wind....js
UPC has only one thing to consider: how its own constituency views the decision in the long run. As long as they satisfy their own constituency, no one else matters. And I would apply the same logic to Harvard
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In fairness, Clemson is the school farthest away from where the hurricane made landfall in either state. And they are not even expecting rain until Sunday.
I understand that you want them to be the devil. But there's absolutely no reason for them to cancel their game just because there's a hurricane affecting people over 300 miles away.
I understand that you want them to be the devil. But there's absolutely no reason for them to cancel their game just because there's a hurricane affecting people over 300 miles away.
UPC has only one thing to consider: how its own constituency views the decision in the long run. As long as they satisfy their own constituency, no one else matters. And I would apply the same logic to Harvard
King, I hold you in high esteem however, PLEASE don't ever compare Harvard to Clemson ever again or I may have to reevaluate my estimation of your status HA
Any comparisons will be drawn by the schools themselves, not by you and me, Partner.
I'm guessing your position is that Harvard would have called the game, eh?
I wonder if they will urge those fans that live in areas being affected to not risk getting on the roads to come to the game. Highly doubtful
As you and many others know, the Ivy League has it's own set of unique standards. I will leave it up to others to decide for themselves if they think how it may or may not be a standard to follow.Any comparisons will be drawn by the schools themselves, not by you and me, Partner.
With that said keep in mind the schools are relatively small (enrollment wise) and so the same rules applied to P5 schools don't really work well with smaller schools and vice versa.
Not that one is better than the other, they are just different.
My nephew holds two degrees from Harvard, including a PhD in Psychology. I'm proud of him. You aren't my nephew, are you?
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It shouldn't but people will take chances when their team is playing. We'll know when we see how many people are in the stands.
It will be a greatly reduced crowd, and I'm certain a greatly reduced complement of law enforcement, etc.
It's really not a school's responsibility to tell people whether or not they should try to come to a sporting event. People are capable of making their own decisions. If someone has to cancel their plans for any reason, it's not Clemson's problem, and shouldn't affect the others who don't have to change their plans.
Clemson is playing a team from Georgia, and it's parents' weekend. Canceling the game would have caused more problems than playing it does.
Actually, I hope everyone errs on the side of caution and the stadium is completely empty.
That won't happen. either. But there will be fewer people there and the traffic control will be commensurate with that.
2 ??? WOW, JUST WOW. Well based on that alone, no I am not your nephew, but a tip of the hat to him.My nephew holds two degrees from Harvard, including a PHD in Psychology. I'm proud of him. You aren't my nephew, are you?
I was more than ecstatic to get by and get a major and minor. Then I got my student loan statement and lost a lot of my enthusiasm. But hey all of my relatives are very proud of me.
As they should be. His was a Masters and a PhD - each in the same discipline. He graduated from Furman before moving on to Harvard with a fellowship of some kind. He's now on the faculty of the business school at Texas-Austin.
