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2017 Football Recruits/Commits


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Not sure if you all checked out Gattuo's comments on each player but they're pretty great.

Everybody's great on signing day

 

OK, so Gattuso only gives the class a B+

http://www.ualbanysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15800&ATCLID=211452097

 

Bob Weiner writing for the University now instead of (or in addition to) the Schenectady Gazette?

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Not sure if you all checked out Gattuo's comments on each player but they're pretty great.

 

Everybody's great on signing day

OK, so Gattuso only gives the class a B+

http://www.ualbanysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15800&ATCLID=211452097

Bob Weiner writing for the University now instead of (or in addition to) the Schenectady Gazette?

Don't know, but he is a UA grad. Maybe he ran out of terms to describe somebody's bowling score.

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Tough year. New O Line, unsettled/young QB, C-USA is not a powerhouse, but ODU is not UB, Elon is looking more and more like a forfeit unless they pull a rabbit out of their hats (and one of our likely conference wins goes poof), EB comes back as EB or eb? Let's see how they look when everyone shows up for pre-season. Probably need a new thread for all of this speculation....

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Tough year. New O Line, unsettled/young QB, C-USA is not a powerhouse, but ODU is not UB, Elon is looking more and more like a forfeit unless they pull a rabbit out of their hats (and one of our likely conference wins goes poof), EB comes back as EB or eb? Let's see how they look when everyone shows up for pre-season. Probably need a new thread for all of this speculation....

Have they established that there's the possibility it's going to be a forfeit? Or is that an assumption?

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They will play the game. My guess is they will play a neutral site in Virginia. Most likely JMU or UR as they both have openings that weekend September 30. Slight edge to Richmond because of the bye week and shorter drive. We probably won't play Elon again till the travel ban is lifted.

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They will play the game. My guess is they will play a neutral site in Virginia. Most likely JMU or UR as they both have openings that weekend September 30. Slight edge to Richmond because of the bye week and shorter drive. We probably won't play Elon again till the travel ban is lifted.

 

IMO, we need to forfeit the game and save the money. Maybe by forfeiting the powers that be that lead UA will be able to pressure Sir Idiot Cuomo into being less of an idiot next time around. Or actually, hope we get hit with a penalty that way Sir Idiot Cuomo sees it come out of one of his stupid budgets. Maybe he'll have to cancel the stupid park he's planning downtown (IIRC) to pay the penalty.

 

If we play the game elsewhere, it won't even register on his radar that one of his flagship universities had to cancel something.

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Tough year. New O Line, unsettled/young QB, C-USA is not a powerhouse, but ODU is not UB, Elon is looking more and more like a forfeit unless they pull a rabbit out of their hats (and one of our likely conference wins goes poof), EB comes back as EB or eb? Let's see how they look when everyone shows up for pre-season. Probably need a new thread for all of this speculation....

Have they established that there's the possibility it's going to be a forfeit? Or is that an assumption?

 

 

Assumption/speculation. Hopefully they can work out a neutral site somewhere. If both SBU and UA are going to be out for trips to NC then scheduling home games gets a whole lot harder for them.

 

Meeting prior contractual obligations is exempted from the travel ban. So the question is whether or not membership in the CAA and the playing of league gamesis a contractual commitment...I would think

it may be.

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I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV).....the CAA has a $300,000 penalty fee if the visiting team unilaterally cancels. However, the penalty would not be applicable if the cancellation was due to

"force majeure." Which quick research indicates that Prince Andy's executive order might well be force majeure. So the argument is probably over whether it is essential travel, if the penalty applies and

maybe who ponies up the cost of moving the game to a neutral site 150 miles away. They should put it on the gov's tab.

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So the argument is probably over whether it is essential travel, if the penalty applies and

maybe who ponies up the cost of moving the game to a neutral site 150 miles away. They should put it on the gov's tab.

 

This. All dis.

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Jimbo, as a lawyer who practices contract law as a primary field, I find the application of force majeure limited at best. I don't even think we'd use it as a negotiation tactic. Those clauses are generally boiler plate and inapplicable from a practical perspective. We'd have to see the contract to find out if they modified the boiler plate language. That said, legal applications (and crazy judges) me on the regular.

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