(03-08-2018 01:16 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 12:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 09:03 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 08:53 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 08:35 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The shadow of all of this is that from a policy standpoint siding with A-State is essentially telling schools in Miami's position to be more concerned with contracts than with the safety and welfare of their student athletes and their families.

Also, it is kind of funny that people act as if the laws in Arkansas and Florida are somehow miles apart.

If Miami was so concerned about their players' welfare, they had 3 days to put their players on a plane and send them to Jonesboro, AR hundreds of miles away from any hurricanes....you know.....like they were suppose to do. The universities in the rest of Florida plus Georgia Southern were all able to fly their teams to their respective away games or move the location of their home game before Irma even hit the states. FIU, a school in the same city as Miami, even moved their home game to Birmingham, AL without any hassle whatsoever. Miami has just been uncooperative from the beginning.

The, "you should have gotten them out of the city" argument is rather stupid to be frank with you.

There are more concerns than just their physical location at the time of the storm hitting.

I agree with you to some extent that they were uncooperative. But, the issue is at what point does their uncooperativeness jump the rail from caution and concern, of whatever degree, to being a bunch of ass holes just looking to get out of a game.

There is nothing that has been presented, or can be presented, that says they were anything other than perhaps overly cautious.

Actually I believe Miami offered to bus to Orlando any student-athlete who wished to leave.

And that makes Miami's cautious actions more or less likely to have been veiled attack on A-State?