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Seems to me they are scared to come to the Brickhouse. They do not want to face the Rowdies.
glad that got decided, the game is way down the list of priorities, at least here. just hope that some of these computer models are way off, otherwise, might be weeks before we can do anything at all. getting some light rain this morning but tonight and tomorrow will be the pits. if the storm becomes stationary or goes back out into the gulf and then back in, a catastrophe in the making.
if this storm is as bad as projected, i agree. It either happens by next Saturday or it won't happen at all.
Keep in mind the number of first responders that will be needed for things other than presiding over a football game.
probably not realistic, but would be interesting if we could buy out the howard game and have SHSU come to our place that week (it's their open date), but it leaves them no open dates during the season....
Suppose there's no power, water, etc in Huntsville. Perhaps the Kats need to use the warm showers in the Westin and workout at the redskins training facilities for a few days...
If you count SHSU football team, they will likely have more students on the field then we will in the stands....
That being said, a trip to the brick house inst easy for opposing teams.
In that case, it should be a forfeit win for us. Sam Houston State will have violated the spirit of hosting the game by failing to provide the necessary accoutrements critical to ensuring the successful completion of said game.
It reminds me of 1999 when Hurricane Floyd decimated eastern North Carolina. ECU had gone down to Columbia and beaten USC and got stuck there for a week. ECU coach Steve Logan is still PO'd 18 years later because after beating the Gamecocks Lou Holtz would only let ECU practice one time for one hour at USC's facilities.
Here they were flooded out of their homes and Holtz wouldn't let them practice at USC when the Gamecocks weren't using the fields. Logan says he told them he'd practice at 2AM if he had to, but to no avail.They ended up practicing at high schools and the hotel parking lot.
The next weekend they played a "home" game at NC State's stadium in Raleigh and defeated a very good Miami Hurricanes team. Logan still complains to this day about Holtz over this incident.
Obviously pray for the safety of the south Texas folks. I also hope the spider fans with airfare can get reimbursed in some fashion.
JOC wrote a piece on UR v URI game on October 26,2002 over a 2 day period because of Meade Stadium flooding- Jim Reid kind of weather.
Lake Meade during the first half and halftime
During play:
Still during play:
At the half(perhaps the longest halftime ever at around 22 hours):
Up 6-0 at half on Saturday.Won 26-0 on Sunday.Not sure how URI personnel got surface(grass) playable within 24 hours.
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/102702aaa.html
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102602aaa.html
The good ol days.
Lake Meade during the first half and halftime
During play:
Still during play:
At the half(perhaps the longest halftime ever at around 22 hours):
Up 6-0 at half on Saturday.Won 26-0 on Sunday.Not sure how URI personnel got surface(grass) playable within 24 hours.
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/102702aaa.html
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102602aaa.html
The good ol days.
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Except when we got hosed up there by the refs in that I-AA play off game in 1984!JOC wrote a piece on UR v URI game on October 26 over a 2 day period because of Meade Stadium flooding- Jim Reid kind of weather.
Lake Meade during the first half and halftime
During play:
Still during play:
At the half(perhaps the longest halftime ever at around 22 hours):
Up 6-0 at half on Saturday.Won 26-0 on Sunday.Not sure how URI personnel got surface(grass) playable within 24 hours.
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/102702aaa.html
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102602aaa.html
The good ol days.
just saw the latest guess and my area is now in line for 24-40 inches of rain. GEEZ, please revise on the next update. it really all depends on how the rain falls, if a ton at one time, get the ark ready, if steady over 3 or 4 days, probably will be OK. my wife wanted to bolt but our kids and grandkids are here and would never think of taking off and leaving them behind. MO is correct, things will take quite a while to get back to normal and the first responders are going to be busy. my son just closed on his first house and he is going nuts about losing his first house within a couple of weeks of buying it. hey i have several friends, one 45, who are in their last days due to cancer so no matter what happens here, small potatoes.
Can't believe this was 15 years ago, feels like just yesterday.
If you are in a location where they are telling you to leave do so.....kids and all. Good luck
Hey Ferrum Spider don't be so quick to judge
we had a good following going to the game
we are all disappointed
Hoping for the best to use our vouchers this coming weekend! If not on to Colgate
we had a good following going to the game
we are all disappointed
Hoping for the best to use our vouchers this coming weekend! If not on to Colgate
quick update 9:30am cdt. had a heavy band come through and wake me up about 6:20 this morning, lasted about 30 minutes then a lull and have had off and on rain, not too heavy since them. still way too early to know what is going to happen over the next few days but if it remains in this pattern, probably will be fine. of course some areas are going to be much different than my specific deal. my daughter made it home from LA about midnight, was minding the grand kids while her husband picked her up from IAH. the eye is over Victoria, a really beautiful little town and slowing way down and weakening. the prob is that it is not breaking up, staying in its shape and that is not good news, need it to spin off and break up. funny, recall growing up in tidewater and going through numerous hurricanes and only knowing it was coming about a day or two before it hit whereas now, we have to watch these systems for days, sometimes weeks as it comes your way.
the decision will be made Monday to play thur-fri-or sat in Huntsville. was on campus this morning and talked to several coaches
Can college play a Saturday game and the next one Thurs night?
Plus there are a load of Sat. games scheduled for tv. I don't think we have much hope of getting a slot
Not really, just trying to respond to FRS without quoting him.
So what is on the U Friday, Texas HS football?
don't want to interrupt the football talk at all so will not bother you with blow by blows down here. saturday, a ton of the rain bands went north and then west over to the south austin region. personally we are fine now but that could change drastically over the next 24 to 36 hours. some people here are already in deep, deep trouble. tried to get my daughter and her fam to evacuate her neighborhood and go to her husband's dads house which has a second floor, they did not and are now trapped in there, no way out. we live about 20 miles west of downtown, near Katy, cannot evacuate east, flooded, can probably go some distance west or north but both directions may have flooding at some point and the last thing i want is to be trapped in my vehicle in a parking lot on an interstate or other highway. the storm is basically stationary and houston is on the bad side and will continue to get the heavy rain bands for days. if the storm does nothing for days, this is going to be a disaster beyond anything i have ever seen in person or anywhere else, 12 million people are at risk here, there will be deaths and thousands of homes, etc., will be unlivable for a long period. based on what i am seeing, there will be no football in huntsville for a long while so start thinking colgate.
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