@Zander in theory that sounds good. But the reality of the hotel business is Hilton/Marriott don’t own any property so it would be corporate reimbursing a franchisee below market and even if a property had 75 rooms available, there would be a challenge the next day that housekeeping would not be staffed or provisioned in most markets, except maybe Vegas and Orlando. Probably what you need is something closer to travel/trip interruption insurance like you might get for a cruise in hurricane season.

I don’t think there is a plan because it isn’t real. But I would think economics would be difficult to renovate the existing grandstand plus duplicate it on the other side at a better value than a new build on campus. Live Nation (Ticketmaster) owns the 20,000 seat amphitheater north of Sac. They would be unlikely to promote outdoor shows that size at Cal Expo and split revenue. And big time shows are still going to Levi’s. There’s limited promoter interest in facilities between those sizes.

I would assume the City of Montgomery, ESPN, and NCAA have some financial arrangement, kind of like why is the championship outdoors in Frisco.

In my part of Florida it is not unusual to get evening storms producing 400 strikes per hour with 0 second flash-bang, 3” per hour rain, and 60 mph wind that appear out of nowhere on radar. And it’s usually gone as fast as it appears. And then we finish outdoor football games and the parade at Disney World steps off. This was an unusual outcome even for the southeast. Anywhere you go there is risk. California could have unexpected wildfire smoke. During the Portland State game they discussed that heat on the field wasn’t far off from the 105 degree guideline to suspend the game.

Keep in mind that there are schools throughout the south and Midwest that have weather like this. No contest is an unusual outcome. But in this case, the city of Montgomery is incentivized to wrap it up and get all the security and ushers off the clock because they aren’t invested in the outcome. Incentives may be different when one of the teams operates the venue.

In reading the NCAA rules, there are 4 options when the game cannot be completed - 1. reschedule the remaining minutes at a later date, 2. Accept the current score as final if both teams agree, 3. Forfeit, 4. Declare no contest. Defers to conference policy to decide which option. In the appendix, this exact scenario is described, for a neutral site out of conference game, choosing an option should be by joint agreement of the ADs, and if they don’t agree, will default to conference policy of whichever team is designated as “home”, in this case would have been governed by SoCon policy.

Should Davis and Mercer find themselves in consideration for playoffs in a couple months, how would a no contest game potentially help or hurt with the committee?

the time zones don’t match how we visualize the states. Alabama and part of Florida are central time but all of Michigan is eastern time.

my trips to PSU were to Providence Park, which was a different kind of dump because it was a baseball stadium. They let the band sleep on the floor of their wrestling room (smelled great, super sanitary, but it was free). I seem to remember realizing too late that towels were not provided in the showers. Only make that mistake once!

Tough day for PSU. While I certainly want us to win, it feels like success has eluded Portland and Northern Colorado for a long time, which has to impact recruiting and attendance.

@AggieFinn interestingly, Hillsboro Stadium is very similar to what is proposed at Cal Expo… an offsite, one-sided facility.

what Im reading is that the NCAA technically has no maximum delay and the longest in recent memory was about 3 hours. Because 3 quarters have been completed, the score can stand as a final result if both ADs agree. Less clear what happens if the delay becomes impractical and one AD doesn’t agree.

the title on my stream changed to “college football scoreboard” for their filler programming but they periodically cut to an image of the empty stadium.

At least on the lightning map it looks like there were a few strikes a few miles away but I haven’t seen new ones pop in a few minutes. In the south, these kind of thunder cells just appear and disappear, they don’t always blow thru on a track like west coast storms. In my area we usually have to go 30 minutes clear for 7 miles.

Game stopped for lightning in the area. Could be awhile because their metric is probably no lightning within a diameter for a certain number of minutes.

minus the cocky crotch grabbing dances. Hopefully stays that way.

I mean I want a bunch more PATs than FG lol

the other games I saw today had oddly missed FG too.

A safety? Anybody have that on their bingo card?

21-3 at half and receiving in the 3rd. Will take it!

Compared to the the Word/Nicholls game and PSU/Tarleton, the focus, preparation, commitment to second and third effort looking really good.

I know they don’t have the benefit of the yellow tv line in real life but ouch on stick awareness.

Refresh. It’s on.