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03-15-2008, 09:08 PM
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| | I'm Your Huckleberry
| Did the SEC get it right?
I realize there were very few realistic solutions to the quandry facing Slive and company after the weather last night.
I haven't been able to post all day, but I did want to say this question is not a result of a UT loss.
Watching the games and considering that GA is forced to play two games in less than 12 hours makes me think about the decision to continue the tourney.
1. Given the fact that fans were discouraged from visiting the downtown area in Atlanta today should the SEC officials simply packed things up and given their automatic bid to the Vols?
2. With a noon tip off, why couldn't they hold a lottery to fill the GT arena? Or at the very least offer tickets at a first come, first serve basis? | 
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03-15-2008, 09:11 PM
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| | Senior Member
| they did exactly right. | |
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03-15-2008, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Lexvol  I realize there were very few realistic solutions to the quandry facing Slive and company after the weather last night.
I haven't been able to post all day, but I did want to say this question is not a result of a UT loss.
Watching the games and considering that GA is forced to play two games in less than 12 hours makes me think about the decision to continue the tourney.
1. Given the fact that fans were discouraged from visiting the downtown area in Atlanta today should the SEC officials simply packed things up and given their automatic bid to the Vols?
2. With a noon tip off, why couldn't they hold a lottery to fill the GT arena? Or at the very least offer tickets at a first come, first serve basis? |
I'm not sure what the best decision would have been, but telling all the fans that they're SOL doesn't seem to be it.
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03-15-2008, 09:12 PM
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| | Wave yo hands in the aiya
| I think any of the options was fine. Each solution had problems and they didn't have much time to pick one. | |
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03-15-2008, 09:16 PM
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| | Give me 3 more!!!
| They couldn't get it right?
Play the game at a damaged Georgia Dome? NO
Rip off some fans, but reward others?NO
Give a team a doubleheader?
Reward Co-champs and break their contract to the NCAA?NO
They had to make some tough decisions and they've did the best job possible. The only way to make it fair to the fans was to let none or all see the games. And they obviously couldn't let all do it. One team was going to get screwed and it hapened to be UGA-UK(UGA is overcoming that right now). They worked hard to figure out some solutions and while it may not be perfect, it's about as good as it could have gotten. | |
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03-15-2008, 09:16 PM
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| | I'm Your Huckleberry
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Originally Posted by volsforever27 I'm not sure what the best decision would have been, but telling all the fans that they're SOL doesn't seem to be it. | If I had made the trip I would be incredibly frustrated. I realize this was a freak occurence, and likely will never be repeated. However, it does seem to be a tremendous knock on the fans who did make the trip.
On some level I think it speaks volumes about a football conference's inability to cater to the needs of its basketball fans. | |
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03-15-2008, 09:19 PM
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| | trolololololololololololo
| If I understand the rules right...
The SEC should have canceled the rest of the games and forfeited the league's automatic bid.
IMO it was unfair to all the teams playing, and the UGA-UK winner most of all.
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03-15-2008, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Lexvol If I had made the trip I would be incredibly frustrated. I realize this was a freak occurence, and likely will never be repeated. However, it does seem to be a tremendous knock on the fans who did make the trip.
On some level I think it speaks volumes about a football conference's inability to cater to the needs of its basketball fans. | Same here, I know it was a lose/lose situation, and no matter what you do you're going to make some people mad, but an all or nothing approach just didn't seem like the right way to go IMO.
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03-15-2008, 09:20 PM
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| | I'm Your Huckleberry
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Originally Posted by milohimself If I understand the rules right...
The SEC should have canceled the rest of the games and forfeited the league's automatic bid.
IMO it was unfair to all the teams playing, and the UGA-UK winner most of all. | It is incredibly unfair to Georgia. | |
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03-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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| | Have *patients
| I wonder why they didn't have an opportunity to play the remainder of the tourney at Philips since the Hawks were off on Saturday and away on Sunday. Reports from SI said there was no damage there, but they did cancel an event there for Sat night.
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03-15-2008, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by TennTom I wonder why they didn't have an opportunity to play the remainder of the tourney at Phipps | Why would they play a basketball tournament at a mall? | |
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03-15-2008, 10:14 PM
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| | Have *patients
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Originally Posted by GAVol Why would they play a basketball tournament at a mall? | It's an arena...I edited Philips....you knew that though  | |
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03-15-2008, 10:16 PM
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| | Raditude
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Originally Posted by TennTom I wonder why they didn't have an opportunity to play the remainder of the tourney at Philips since the Hawks were off on Saturday and away on Sunday. Reports from SI said there was no damage there, but they did cancel an event there for Sat night. | if you were there or even looked at photos of the Phillips Arena you could see that there was some damage
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03-15-2008, 10:16 PM
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| | Looser Mod
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Originally Posted by TennTom It's an arena...I edited Philips | I know . . . but it was too good an opportunity to pass up.  | |
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