East Carolina is FBS. That is where the game is. So it is FCS at FBS. Same situation as SDSU at ISU.
Jamie pollard
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East Carolina is FBS. That is where the game is. So it is FCS at FBS. Same situation as SDSU at ISU.
People who bought 2nd or 3rd hand might be in trouble unless they saved their tickets.
**** like this reminds you there are a good amount of morons in every fanbase, including ours.
Games in september will almost always be scheduled at night, when we get a choice. Avoiding the hot weather and taking advantage of the few good tailgating dates we have most years is worth the extremely small risk of what happened last night.
Plenty of 11am and 2:30 games given to us by the tv people later in the year.
The people demanding a refund or thinking SDSU shouldnt get their check are equally laughable. Costs were incurred by both ISU and SDSU, even with the cancellation, and your ticket price paid for those, even if the game had to be cancelled. If you're lucky you'll get a free ticket to the replacement game if one is scheduled. It sucks, absolutely. I'm sure losing out on a large chunk of the concession revenue yesterday also sucked for ISU AD.
Games in september will almost always be scheduled at night, when we get a choice. Avoiding the hot weather and taking advantage of the few good tailgating dates we have most years is worth the extremely small risk of what happened last night.
Plenty of 11am and 2:30 games given to us by the tv people later in the year.
The people demanding a refund or thinking SDSU shouldnt get their check are equally laughable. Costs were incurred by both ISU and SDSU, even with the cancellation, and your ticket price paid for those, even if the game had to be cancelled. If you're lucky you'll get a free ticket to the replacement game if one is scheduled. It sucks, absolutely. I'm sure losing out on a large chunk of the concession revenue yesterday also sucked for ISU AD.
Bingo. Had yesterday's game started at 2:30 and guys were going down from the heat and humidity, these same fans would be screaming at Pollard for scheduling a 2:30 game on Sept 1st.
I wish that they could have looked at the forecast and moved the game up 2 hrs. Not sure of the logistics on that but they would have gotten 3 quarters in
Unlikely that's even possible. A lot of logistics that go into the game- for example, call times for a lot of the staff who run security, concessions, fan assistance, etc.
And even a couple hours before the game they weren't calling for the weather to be as bad as it ended up being.
As the game started, John Walters literally said "There is a 30% chance of storms tonight".
Correct. This stuff is extremely difficult to do. Not as easy as JP just tweeting out at 10 am that the game will kick off at 5 pm instead of 7 pm. There are just so many logistics to have to get in order in such a short time. Pretty much impossible.
I don’t think some people understand how many moving parts go into a P5 college football game.....
CycloneErik
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I didn't have tickets, but if there's a refund party, I want one.
I think burning a refund would be a level I haven't reached yet. It's up to Pollard to make this happen.
I think burning a refund would be a level I haven't reached yet. It's up to Pollard to make this happen.
I think the frustrating and legitimate issue with yesterday is the lack of contingencies. There weren’t definitive weather forecasts or anything but we knew about the threat in plenty of time. With that there should have been contingency plans created such as the possibility of moving the game earlier or to Sunday. You would hope to get everything off as planned but you have planned for the worst case scenario.
I think another big legitimate criticism is the lack of decision making last night. We all knew the storm from Nebraska was coming. If we weren’t going to play after the first round went through we weren’t going to get anything in. Why did it take so long to make the decision.
I think another big legitimate criticism is the lack of decision making last night. We all knew the storm from Nebraska was coming. If we weren’t going to play after the first round went through we weren’t going to get anything in. Why did it take so long to make the decision.
Yeah I corrected it, Still almost never happens, and still looking at the weather today, does not look like much of a chance getting it in today either, and trying to figure all that out last night was not going to happen. I honestly do not know how ECU could possibly have everything in place today, but good on em.
One thing i will ***** about- our traffic management. That **** is horrible after games. Amazing how long it took to get out of the lots even though half the crowd was already gone before the game was officially called. I swear they were letting maybe 1-2 cars out from the S-lots at at time. We have no control as far as flow and should be doing things to force traffic away from the stadium (and then take alternate routes from there), such as routing postgame S16th traffic to Duff instead of university. They were even allowing some vehicles to enter the stadium lots for some reason during the outflow, which seemed like a poor decision.
Again, it isn’t near as simple as some clueless people seem to think.
You say that they should have considered moving it up a few hours. When, oh wise one, should that decision have been made? At 8 am when the forecast was fine until 10? At 12 when the forecast was fine until 10. At 5:30 when AGAIN the forecast was fine until 10?
The storm in Nebraska had nothing to do with the initial delay. The storm popped up out of nowhere and had it moved along like most, we would have played at 8:00. The game was called when it was obvious they wouldn’t get in any game before the big storm came in.
Probably because most of the thing delaying us was the small cell that for the most part was going south of ames. The local conditions were fine for a game, for the most part, and if not for the lightning radius we could have resumed play. That little cell between ames and des moines kept back-building instead of just passing us by, and once we got to the point where the end of that was going to be too late with what was coming from NE, they called it.
The NCAA would promote playing in my back yard if there was enough $ in it for them...
This is just unbelievable to me that there are people out there like this.
If only you were our AD instead of JP, then we could have easily got this game in and everyone would have been thrilled.
As others seem to not get this isn’t something you do Friday or Saturday. It is something you plan for early in the week like finding possible hotel accommodations for SDSU on Saturday. You work with all staff on the potential of an earlier start. Personally I think Friday or early Saturday they should have moved it up to 5 or 6. That doesn’t mean it is neccessarily the only or right solution. The game was likely going to go to 10:30 or so anyway so you want to give cushion and to let people leave before the storm. The main issue is there doesn’t seem to have been any planning for the possibility of the storms affecting the game.
The problem was it was to short well before they called it. As soon as that second cell formed it wasn’t possible. They still took 30 minutes to an hour to call it.
