Solution to all these cancellations in the future

[MikeJackets1967]

Indiana has already scheduled Charleston Southern for Oct 7. Seems I heard USF already has a game too, but not sure about that.

GT ought to bring in Jackson State and play them on the 7th.

 

[Longestday]

The solution is to count missed games as a forfeit for whatever the reason. This will promote teams to not want to miss games.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

GT ought to bring in Jackson State and play them on the 7th.

I heard we tried to get Ga Southern for tomorrow, but it was too short notice. Why not Jackson State for the 7th, if they are available?

 

[Longestday]

I think GT does not want to play anyone on the 7th... they want extra time for Miami.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

The solution is to count missed games as a forfeit for whatever the reason. This will promote teams to not want to miss games.

But in this case, that would mean punishing Tech for UCF's forfeit, or do you only consider the team who actually cancelled the game?

 

[MikeJackets1967]

I heard we tried to get Ga Southern for tomorrow, but it was too short notice. Why not Jackson State for the 7th, if they are available?

Jackson State would make more playing GT than they would for any of their games this season.

 

[Deleted member 2897]

Georgia State is looking for an FBS opponent. Either location would require minimal travel obviously.

 

[4NatlChmps]

Very slippery slope to let a Univ decide themselves that they are "justified" to cancel a game.....should be NCAA or some 3rd party....in this case the most egregious element is that USF and UFla are both hosting games at home in areas that suffered far more damage and impact than Disney-Orlando. BTW, the theme park was open on Monday I believe (Tuesday latest)

 

[Jmonty71]

Very slippery slope to let a Univ decide themselves that they are "justified" to cancel a game.....should be NCAA or some 3rd party....in this case the most egregious element is that USF and UFla are both hosting games at home in areas that suffered far more damage and impact than Disney-Orlando. BTW, the theme park was open on Monday I believe (Tuesday latest)

I was questioning the same, while watching the game last time.

 

[Jmonty71]

So..... Let me ask a hypothetical question. Say we win 5 games and a UCF win would make 6 and had made us bowl eligible. Does the team suffer, because of this cancellation? Of course, I really hope to win more than 5. But, just curious.. Can this cancellation end up hurting us?

 

[LibertyTurns]

Very slippery slope to let a Univ decide themselves that they are "justified" to cancel a game.....should be NCAA or some 3rd party....in this case the most egregious element is that USF and UFla are both hosting games at home in areas that suffered far more damage and impact than Disney-Orlando. BTW, the theme park was open on Monday I believe (Tuesday latest)

Disney opened Tuesday, but that's a business that operates like a business. UCF is probably run by a bunch of elitist academics whose first thought is looking for a government handout instead of getting their business back up and running like they're responsible for doing. We got our crew in Monday afternoon and activate our facility for a Tuesday morning start. Been up & running all week but it's different for us because we're trying to make money, allow people to earn a living, etc.

 

[MikeJackets1967]

Georgia State is looking for an FBS opponent. Either location would require minimal travel obviously.

It would be great to see GT beat Georgia State 63-7

 

[orientalnc]

Disney opened Tuesday, but that's a business that operates like a business. UCF is probably run by a bunch of elitist academics whose first thought is looking for a government handout instead of getting their business back up and running like they're responsible for doing. We got our crew in Monday afternoon and activate our facility for a Tuesday morning start. Been up & running all week but it's different for us because we're trying to make money, allow people to earn a living, etc.

I know it would be strange for a university to be run by academics, but you are probably right about that.

 

[MikeJackets1967]

I know it would be strange for a university to be run by academics, but you are probably right about that.

Academics run the schools the schools of the Ivy League and other schools like Vanderbilt,Duke,Tulane or Northwestern.

 

[AE 87]

So..... Let me ask a hypothetical question. Say we win 5 games and a UCF win would make 6 and had made us bowl eligible. Does the team suffer, because of this cancellation? Of course, I really hope to win more than 5. But, just curious.. Can this cancellation end up hurting us?

Apparently, GT can appeal because of the cancelled game.

 

[FightWinDrink]

We could always schedule Ga State on the 7th for a hopefully ez win. That's pretty much what happened with the LSU Florida reschedule. both teams canceled an OOC cupcake game to make up their conference game and presbyterian and south alabama (their former opponents) played each other instead. Just a thought. Not jumping at the thought of it or anything but throwing it out there.