Florida cancels game vs Northern Colorado

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I don't see our starters playing more than 30 minutes so we should be rested enough for them. Plus getting 30 or 40 reps is always a plus over not playing.
 
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MiramarVol said:
So, the 2 game suspension of the UF players will be upheld through next week since they aren't play this week??
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vflgolfer said:
They will be well rested & fresh for us.
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Believe the gaturds are way more stressed about IRMA turning the swamp into a swamp vs not playing Northern Colorado Technical College. They might have to tread water for several days and fight off real gaturds and pythons, so that could play to our advantage.
 
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Human psychology and group dynamics are a complex and unpredictable thing.

Preparing for and riding through this storm may bring Florida's lads together, help overcome some of the tension that came with the CC scandal, or it might tear them further apart.

Only time will tell.

One thing's for sure: what they're going to experience over the next 3-5 days is most definitely not going to help them in the Practicing Football and Getting Ready for the Next Game department. The distractions and competing requirements are going to stymie the coaches' efforts to keep them focused.
 
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NaturalSelector said:
Everyone in this state needs help, love, and prayers. If that isn't possible, they damn sure deserve your respect and empathy as fellow human beings.
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Perfectly stated. Anyone who thinks about the competitive advantage this tragedy gives our team should check himself into therapy for anger management and low self-esteem.
 
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Jaws said:
Please don't go all LSU fan on us. Your entire fan base is way better than that. Florida should not be made to "forfeit."

Here's the problem with moving it; if half the darn team and most of the coaches have family members who have become homeless and basically lost everything they own, maybe even their lives, Florida can't be expected to walk away from that and go play a game in Atlanta or anywhere else. If UF-UT doesn't happen on 9/16, which we all hope it will, the game can be made up when people aren't dying.
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Do not want a forfeit...not if there is major destruction in the state.

Let's make sure Florida is okay first...the people, the pets, the cities. Only after that is done should football even come up in a discussion.

Stay safe Florida...
 
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NaturalSelector said:
Long time lurker here, Sevierville born and raised, UTK alumnus, and current Gainesville resident.

This will be the 5th hurricane that I have lived through since I moved to the state of Florida. I have lived in southern Florida, Central Florida, and now north central here in Gainesville.

As I help my neighbors and other folks get prepared, the last thing anyone cares about is how football is impacted.

People are going to die in Florida. It is a certainty with any hurricane. People are going to lose their homes, everything they have ever had or ever known. People are going to lose their jobs and the ability to support their families moving forward.

People are going to be without power for weeks on end after the storm, which I assure you from a heat, insect, and safety perspective, is tragic in its own right.

Filling up sand bags yesterday, there was a fella sporting Alabama gear, I was sporting UT, and of course there were endless amounts of Gators.

No one said a word about a kids game. People were offering up their homes, helping each other fill bags, or getting names for people to add to prayer lists.

All the doctors, nurses, and emergency responders that will be separated from their families during the storm, so that they can help take on the flood of special needs patients and patients being evacuated from the coast, need prayers and positive thoughts sent their way. Many of which are Shands/UF University Hospital employees.

All the students at the endless amounts of schools in this state that are stuck, afraid, and a long way from home.

Everyone in this state needs help, love, and prayers. If that isn't possible, they damn sure deserve your respect and empathy as fellow human beings.

When the fire ravaged the smokies, all my friends and co-workers knew I was from "that hillbilly town with the Dolly Parton show". Almost to a person they were donating money, wishing everyone well and giving prayers, and even some going up to help with cleanup, with various men's baptists and catholic organizations.

I never heard anyone talk about how it might help their football team.

This is a football forum, I get it, I really do and the swamp is a football town. However there is a major disconnect between school/sports -affiliation/fandom, and a major catastrophe landing on an entire states head.

Most of this thread makes me sad and disappointed. For those of you in the state with me and even our visitors like Lawgator etc.. prayers your way, stay safe, God bless, and Tennessee and the Big Orange stand united with you.
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Thank you, sir, for an outstanding post to put it into perspective. I've been through a Tropical Storm when in Pensacola, and even that was bad enough to make you understand the seriousness of this.

There are people there who will die. Others will never have the same life they had. Some will become homeless. Some may never see there mom/dad/brother/sister again and never know what happened to them.

Stay safe.
 
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Even if we play next week, it could end up like LSU game in 2005. No hotel for UT be in. They have to fly in game morning and then fly back after game..
 
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LWSVOL said:
Even if we play next week, it could end up like LSU game in 2005. No hotel for UT be in. They have to fly in game morning and then fly back after game..
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Gainesville currently projected to be on the left side of the storm. That is best place to be.
 
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willinhf said:
Thank you, sir, for an outstanding post to put it into perspective. I've been through a Tropical Storm when in Pensacola, and even that was bad enough to make you understand the seriousness of this.

There are people there who will die. Others will never have the same life they had. Some will become homeless. Some may never see there mom/dad/brother/sister again and never know what happened to them.

Stay safe.
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I agree, that was a great post, and puts things well in context.

But one thing I learned from 26 years in uniform, serving all over the world including occasionally in some pretty desperate places--and more than once helping out with natural disasters right here at home--is this: things like football on a crisp Saturday afternoon (even if you're listening to the game at midnight inside a sweltering tent in the middle of a godforsaken desert), a comedian's joke, or the laughter of a child playing tag in a home video, these little, relatively unimportant things are still important to hold and cherish.

Football and all other pastimes take a back seat to hurricane preparation, emergency response, and recovery, absolutely. But don't push them away entirely. Listen to the distant game while you're cleaning up people's yards after the storm. Talk trash with the 'Bama guy standing beside you feeding a meal to people in a shelter. Bring the bright and "normal" into the chaotic and abnormal. It helps.

Having been there, both overseas and in storm-impacted areas here at home, I know: it helps.

Go Vols!
 
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SMH! People's lives are about to be destroyed and some of you are wanting to debate which team gains an advantage. Embarrassing.
 
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NaturalSelector said:
Long time lurker here, Sevierville born and raised, UTK alumnus, and current Gainesville resident.

This will be the 5th hurricane that I have lived through since I moved to the state of Florida. I have lived in southern Florida, Central Florida, and now north central here in Gainesville.

As I help my neighbors and other folks get prepared, the last thing anyone cares about is how football is impacted.

People are going to die in Florida. It is a certainty with any hurricane. People are going to lose their homes, everything they have ever had or ever known. People are going to lose their jobs and the ability to support their families moving forward.

People are going to be without power for weeks on end after the storm, which I assure you from a heat, insect, and safety perspective, is tragic in its own right.

Filling up sand bags yesterday, there was a fella sporting Alabama gear, I was sporting UT, and of course there were endless amounts of Gators.

No one said a word about a kids game. People were offering up their homes, helping each other fill bags, or getting names for people to add to prayer lists.

All the doctors, nurses, and emergency responders that will be separated from their families during the storm, so that they can help take on the flood of special needs patients and patients being evacuated from the coast, need prayers and positive thoughts sent their way. Many of which are Shands/UF University Hospital employees.

All the students at the endless amounts of schools in this state that are stuck, afraid, and a long way from home.

Everyone in this state needs help, love, and prayers. If that isn't possible, they damn sure deserve your respect and empathy as fellow human beings.

When the fire ravaged the smokies, all my friends and co-workers knew I was from "that hillbilly town with the Dolly Parton show". Almost to a person they were donating money, wishing everyone well and giving prayers, and even some going up to help with cleanup, with various men's baptists and catholic organizations.

I never heard anyone talk about how it might help their football team.

This is a football forum, I get it, I really do and the swamp is a football town. However there is a major disconnect between school/sports -affiliation/fandom, and a major catastrophe landing on an entire states head.

Most of this thread makes me sad and disappointed. For those of you in the state with me and even our visitors like Lawgator etc.. prayers your way, stay safe, God bless, and Tennessee and the Big Orange stand united with you.
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Thanks, man. Good perspective right there.

I was getting sandbags yesterday to help shore up a flood prone door on girlfriend's patio and it was an interesting dynamic. There were a few very anxious, selfish people, yes. But that was out of maybe 300 people there filling up bags.

Saw one gentleman after he had finished his shoveling an extra hour in scorching heat and humidity helping a lady who was struggling to get some put together. Then he carried them to her car for her. Some young kids, teenagers, offered to help me.

There was a video yesterday locally of a woman hugging a man at a Home Depot. She had come in to buy a generator as her father is on oxygen, and had just missed out on the last generator. She was distraught and the man who bought the last generator simply gave it to her.

And that's all the way up here in Orlando where the current forecast is 105 mph max winds, gusts 120. Sucky, and power out, roof damage, but survivable for folks not dealing with surge.

So there's still a lot of good out there.

Priorities.
 
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BigBadVol said:
SMH! People's lives are about to be destroyed and some of you are wanting to debate which team gains an advantage. Embarrassing.
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Probably because we're in a football forum.... my god... we can be concerned about the state of Florida and discuss football at the same time
 
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NaturalSelector said:
Long time lurker here, Sevierville born and raised, UTK alumnus, and current Gainesville resident.

This will be the 5th hurricane that I have lived through since I moved to the state of Florida. I have lived in southern Florida, Central Florida, and now north central here in Gainesville.

As I help my neighbors and other folks get prepared, the last thing anyone cares about is how football is impacted.

People are going to die in Florida. It is a certainty with any hurricane. People are going to lose their homes, everything they have ever had or ever known. People are going to lose their jobs and the ability to support their families moving forward.

People are going to be without power for weeks on end after the storm, which I assure you from a heat, insect, and safety perspective, is tragic in its own right.

Filling up sand bags yesterday, there was a fella sporting Alabama gear, I was sporting UT, and of course there were endless amounts of Gators.

No one said a word about a kids game. People were offering up their homes, helping each other fill bags, or getting names for people to add to prayer lists.

All the doctors, nurses, and emergency responders that will be separated from their families during the storm, so that they can help take on the flood of special needs patients and patients being evacuated from the coast, need prayers and positive thoughts sent their way. Many of which are Shands/UF University Hospital employees.

All the students at the endless amounts of schools in this state that are stuck, afraid, and a long way from home.

Everyone in this state needs help, love, and prayers. If that isn't possible, they damn sure deserve your respect and empathy as fellow human beings.

When the fire ravaged the smokies, all my friends and co-workers knew I was from "that hillbilly town with the Dolly Parton show". Almost to a person they were donating money, wishing everyone well and giving prayers, and even some going up to help with cleanup, with various men's baptists and catholic organizations.

I never heard anyone talk about how it might help their football team.

This is a football forum, I get it, I really do and the swamp is a football town. However there is a major disconnect between school/sports -affiliation/fandom, and a major catastrophe landing on an entire states head.

Most of this thread makes me sad and disappointed. For those of you in the state with me and even our visitors like Lawgator etc.. prayers your way, stay safe, God bless, and Tennessee and the Big Orange stand united with you.
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Refocus, you could have boarded up 10 more windows in the time it took you to put together that lecture.
 
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Jaws said:
My bigger point was/is, forget the Northern Colorado game, if this thing devastates Florida, the Tennessee game is in serious danger.
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Yeah this thing could make all of us forget football for a while. We definitely need to pray this thing turns and heads east NOW!!!
 
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Godfatha said:
Play the game at the end of the year like 2001. There's no way the game is happening a week from tomorrow. They have more important things to do down there.
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I'd rather get them while they are breaking in a new qb. Not after they've zoned in.
 
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Arrested Devolopment said:
Perfectly stated. Anyone who thinks about the competitive advantage this tragedy gives our team should check himself into therapy for anger management and low self-esteem.
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To be honest I feel teams rally after adversity like this. They will probably play for the victims, state etc....
 
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