Your article on the game time of the LSU-UT matchup at Tiger Stadium was composed in very poor taste, and was based on false information. Let’s take a look at some examples:
With evacuees seeking shelter at the school’s campus, a home football game with more than 90,000 fans in attendance wouldn’t have been feasible.
Less than two weeks from now, it’s going to be the same story.
Wrong. The evacuees (medical patients) in the PMAC have been moving out of there and into other medical facilities. The Center was supposed to be emptied by sometime this week. There will be no evacuees on campus by the time of the game.
ESPN had no qualms about taking a game with the ramifications of LSU-Tennessee, a potential matchup of two top-five teams.
What ramifications? The only ramifications of this decision are that we have to listen to countless Volunteers, like yourself, whine and moan endlessly about the time of the game.
But a game of this magnitude being played at night is just going to get in the way.
Get in the way of what? Yes, Baton Rouge’s population has more than doubled over the last few weeks. Guess what? That’s going to be the case throughout the football season. The best way to try and avoid the ‘chaos’ (which isn’t even the scenario here, buddy) is to travel as late in the day as possible.
What this means is that traffic on game day will be unbearable…
You’ve never been to a game at LSU before, have you? Traffic on gameday in BTR is ALWAYS unbearable, chief. But guess what? We Tiger fans love our team enough to deal with it. I can’t help you if that’s not the case with the Volunteer fans.
…and a hotel might not be found for hundreds of miles. Considering that it’s a night game, fans might have to pull an all-nighter and drive all the way back to Tennessee.
Oh, yes. The old ‘We’re being inconvenienced’ argument, huh? You have no idea how inconvenienced the people of this city and state have been for the past 3 weeks. Further, we had to give up an entire home game because of the disaster. You have no room to complain about a few thousand folks having to drive a little bit to find a hotel room. And how long does it take to get here from there? 11 hours? If so, you would be driving all night to get home, anyway. The travel time will not be shortened because the game is earlier. Thousands of Tiger fans drove 24 hours both ways (in one weekend) to watch us play ASU. So don’t play that card.
And for what? So LSU can keep alive its tradition of playing home games at night?
Sure beats catering to the fear that UT fans have of playing at Death Valley at night.
But in a position to do the right thing during a time of crisis, LSU lost.
Excuse me? You have really crossed the line here, buddy. LSU became a hub for refugee triage, opened its classrooms to countless students of the New Orleans area, postponed the original home opener, and moved the second home game halfway across the country during a time of crisis. As a matter of fact, by trying to manipulate a university to doing something that was not necessary for your own benefit, and as such exploiting the very crisis you speak of, UT loses more than you could ever imagine.
My advice would be to just stay home if you’re not a dedicated enough fan to do what it takes to attend this game. If the mental fortitude of your players is anything like your own, you won’t want to attend this game anyway. Good day.
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