It's quite remarkable after a nationwide grounding that every FBS college football team will get to its destination tonight or early tomorrow. Great work by all the logistics people.
And then there's Ole Miss-Oklahoma.
I’m pretty confused as to how every other team found a way to deal with flight issues and make sure they can find a way to play on Saturday but Ole Miss
Idk what’s going on but from the outside as an observer, it’s fairly pathetic and a bad look when EVERYONE ELSE figured it out
the logistical nightmare this is about to be with three events all starting in a two-hour span.
and one of those events requiring most of the people who are supposed to be working the other two.
@blinkinriley@GeorgeStoia@soonernationx Bingo.
Let’s fuck over 100,000+ people because Ole Miss can’t possibly be asked to drive 7 hours to Norman.
Wouldn’t want to inconvenience them at all
This is why everyone is so mad.
Making Ole Miss get to Norman by 3pm Saturday inconveniences like 200 people total
Moving the game to Sunday inconveniences/fucks over HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
Under the radar here: there are now FAR more logistics OU has to figure out than what Ole Miss had to figure out for travel.
They have to re-staff and schedule an 80,000 seat venue on 36 hours notice - security, police, concessions, operations. In addition to three other athletics events happening at two other venues. Refunds, parking, recruit visits. 24 less hours to flip the venue before next week’s game. An actual nightmare.
Under the radar here: there are now FAR more logistics OU has to figure out than what Ole Miss had to figure out for travel.
They have to re-staff and schedule an 80,000 seat venue on 36 hours notice - security, police, concessions, operations. In addition to three other athletics events happening at two other venues. Refunds, parking, recruit visits. 24 less hours to flip the venue before next week’s game. An actual nightmare.
I am going to need someone to explain to me like I am 5 years old how OU is the one being punished for Ole Miss not getting on a bus this evening and driving to Norman or not figuring out a way to get on a plane before 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.
That is the biggest bullshit.
@GeorgeStoia@soonernationx No I don’t believe we should have actually gone through with forfeiting the game. But why not leverage that option? How is the SEC supposed to explain to their TV partners that they’re losing an entire game?
Just didn’t seem like we fought this hard enough.
@spicy_kit25@GeorgeStoia I mean isn’t Blake right though? Ole Miss drug their feet on purpose to get the extra day in and knew Sankey would side with them.
You think if we were Georgia, Alabama or Texas this would have played out the exact same way?
@GeorgeStoia lol yeah. Kinda missing my point though. Does Oklahoma request the A&M game be moved to Sunday now, to ensure our players have the full week to recover and prepare?
Or does our administration grin and bear it?
As long as we keep trying to “be the nice guy” and play by the book, we will continue to be walked all over in the SEC. Ole Miss and LSU care about WINNING, and they go to these kind of lengths to achieve that. When will our administration take a stand?
@MikeFifeSLC@GeorgeStoia@soonernationx Nah, just pissed off for the players, the fans, the recruits, the businesses in Norman, the people working the game, etc.
All we can hope for now is we beat that ass on Sunday.
@Oklahoma_AD Request to move the A&M game to Sunday night. It’s not fair to our players to have a short week to prepare.
Meanwhile, Ole Miss plays WOFFORD