(03-09-2018 08:21 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 04:08 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 03:36 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 03:05 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 08:47 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, it's been a PR failure for ARK-ST. Even during the hurricane, they seemed more worried about the "fan fests" and whatnot that they'd organized around the blue-chip program visiting their school than anything Miami was going through.

It's been a bad look for ARK-ST all around.

LOL. That's why they're simply turning DOWN an (probably not in good faith) offer for Miami to still go to Jonesboro. They don't want any 'fan fests' around a Miami game at all anymore. They just want Miami to just pay them the heavily discounted payday for the game Arkansas State went to Miami for and Miami earned their income from (I'd say they had their 'fan fests' but that would presume that anyone actually attends Miami football games - well other than the visiting fans).

Arkansas State isn't begging Miami to come play them. Its actually suing to NOT have them come to Jonesboro using Miami's risible offer of a game in about a decade or so.

I think the obvious conclusion is that stAte feel that Miami thinks they should get a 'free' home game, and can take advantage of a random hurricane somewhere in the Atlantic Basin to stiff Arkansas State out of the return game and the cancellation fee.

Please. Alone among all the games that got canceled, ARK-ST showed clear butt-hurt when Miami didn't show up. They were crestfallen. And that hurt pride is what's probably driving all this.

ARK-ST basically was treating the Miami game like a Homecoming, they had all kinds of activities around it. It burst their widdle bubble when the Canes didn't show.

Sad that they weren't able to keep any perspective about i.

LOL. Sorry to burst you bubble, but its pretty obvious Arkansas State ain't in awe of the P5.

They are basically telling Miami...take your insulting offer to come back in 8 years and shove it. You wouldn't dare do this to a P5, so don't do it to us.

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By the way, congrats on your wonderful schedule last year too. You guys got to host a big bad P5 last year (went 1-10 vs FBS). I'm sure that was exciting for USF to host the second worst team in the P5 and a bottom 20 team in all of FBS last year. And then you got to play a 6 win Texas Tech team in a bowl (3 of their wins were total garbage - coming against Kansas and Baylor and against a FCS). Wow....I know were a sucky G5 team (oops I mean G4 - LOL)....can we please get to play some hot garbage from the P5 like USF? You guys are so cool, playing that awesome schedule. We could never be like you. LOL, actually most, if not all Sun Belt teams had a far tougher schedule than USF did.

You guys only started to act like you don't want to play Miami after they dumped you. Before then, you planned your whole season around the game which is why you couldn't be classy about the cancel. Arse sore indeed, like some high school dude who tells he never liked the hot girl after she laughed at his elaborate prom proposal.

I think that Ark State is more like the kid who refuses to be bullied. Good for them.

BTW, I'm not particularly a stAte fan, but rather a fan of a school that had this BS happen to us in 2016 - but at least when it happened to us, we were paid handsomely for the inconvenience - LSU paid us 1.5 million bucks and Florida paid for a FCS team to come play us - net benefit to my school - well over 1 million bucks and a bowl game. I'd rather have gotten a shot at LSU to be honest. But USA's contract had some pretty nasty cancellation provisions in it. It was also reported that USA could sue LSU for breach and UF and the SEC for intentionally interfering with their contract. Thankfully, it was LSU that was on the hook for it, and not Miami.