I understand tv decides starting time for network games but

[Newell]

South Dakota State was not a network game. Why would you start that game at night and run the risk of having to cancel?

Start that game at noon and even if you have a 6 hour rain delay you still can play the game. There is a reason the nickname for the school is cyclones. I was born in a place named Storm Lake - last I checked their sports teams were called the tornadoes. They will probably find another opponent to pay half a million later in the season but this was an unforced error. Half a million dollars thrown away.

 

[IASTATE07]

This thread seems new and different.

 

[3TrueFans]

Everyone just needs to stop with this.

 

[Cyclonesrule91]

When was the last time a FB game was canceled due to storms? I can't remember another one.......

So why the hell should we plan gametimes solely on the possibility that "they could be canceled' thinking????

Dumb

 

[heitclone]

How many years in a row have been opened with a night game without issue? It makes total sense to have a knee jerk reaction and pretend this always happens. Can we already start they "Why would they have a 1pm kickoff when its 92 and humid as a frogs ass" threads?

 

[ISUMojoMan]

Weather happens, deal with it. I bet if we played the game att noon and it was a perfect day all the same posters would be complaining about not playing a night game.

 

[awd4cy]

Funny how everyone just says they love 7 pm kicks and that we need more of them. Now there’s all this complaining that they are stupid. I am mad about it being cancelled but blaming the athletic department for this is stupid.

 

[DeereClone]

Where was your outrage over the stupid kick off time when the schedule came out? And in years prior when we’ve done the same exact thing with no issue?

 

[Rogue52]

If the game time had been chosen to be 1 PM as you requested, there would have been another angry tailgating group asking why we are scheduling an early start for a game not on TV.

 

[CYphyllis]

I've been skulking around this board for the better part of a decade and the narrative that they should have preemptively changed the game time at the last minute because of the possibility of a storm might be one of the dumbest damn things I've seen.

I'm aware that people will blame Jamie for anything and everything, but even then I never expected people to actually blame him for the damn weather.

 

[isuno1fan]

Have always hated night games. I prefer 11am but can understand those that don’t like those either. 2:30 is the compromise and anything we control should be scheduled for 2:30.

 

[IASTATE07]

I've been skulking around this board for the better part of a decade and the narrative that they should have preemptively changed the game time at the last minute because of the possibility of a storm might be one of the dumbest damn things I've seen.

I'm aware that people will blame Jamie for anything and everything, but even then I never expected people to actually blame him for the damn weather.

Playing the game in the practice facility ranks right up there too

 

[kingcy]

If the storm goes 10 miles south the game gets played. Getting the forecast correct is a hard thing to do. You just cannot play a game at a different time just by planning for the worse thing that could happen.

 

[Aclone]

That’s it! We need more crystal balls!

(And I’m not talking about the ones on that one website)

 

[Mr Janny]

Playing the game in the practice facility ranks right up there too

I like the totally serious suggestion that we should move the whole thing to the unidome, today. As if logistics were just a trifle.

 

[Trice]

Football games are cancelled at least a few times a season across the country. And the weirdness of the weather this weekend was on everyone's radar (pardon the pun) for days. So to say this was all just some crazy, unknowable scenario we couldn't have had a contingency plan for just isn't true.

Especially given that we had no obligation to a major TV network, it seems entirely feasible to announce early last week that due to the threat of weather the game may be played earlier in the afternoon, say 3:00/5:00/whatever. Then they'll watch the weather and make the call 3 hours before kickoff.

Would that have been a huge PITA and inconvenience? Sure. More of a PITA than filling the stadium full and sending everyone home, to possibly find another opponent and deal with the fallout of a cancelled game? Nope.

Having said all of this, the outrage and anger people some people have over this seems pretty over the top. I'm frustrated too but on a scale of 1-10 this is like a 3. Life's too short.

 

[OldCurmudgeon]

This thread is actually a thing? /facepalm

I'm usually the grouchiest of grouches, but come on. Weather forecast one hour before game time still called for a 20% chance of rain through midnight, before it jumped to 90%. To say that they should have moved the game earlier is just asinine. Remember, if it was just rain, they would have still played. It was the lightning that caused the delay and, ultimately, the cancellation.

 

[RedlineSi]

HOW ARE THERE SO MANY STUPID PEOPLE?!

 

[Aclone]

Especially given that we had no obligation to a major TV network, it seems entirely feasible to announce early last week that due to the threat of weather the game may be played earlier in the afternoon, say 3:00/5:00/whatever. Then they'll watch the weather and make the call 3 hours before kickoff.
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Earlier in the week? You mean like, say, Tuesday or so...when the forecast went from “storms” to “sunny all day Saturday”?

The forecasts were just too fluid. Yeah, I suppose they could have rescheduled the game for, say, 11 AM, and tried to get the game in sometime...but have you ever heard the phrase “20-20 hindsight”?

 

[WooBadger18]

First, where is this dislike of Saturday night games coming from? This is the first I remember hearing it, so it just sounds more like whining than legitimate criticism.

Second, yes, we get storms in Iowa. We also have hot weather. So when you’re setting game times you’re playing the odds. Is it more likely that you will have issues if you have a 1:00/2:30 game, or a 7:30 game? Well, if you have an afternoon game, there’s a good chance it’ll be hot, and that can lead to heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Plus, people will complain that we should have played a night game when it wasn’t as hot and that we weren’t locked in to tv. If you play it at 7, you run the risk of not being able to push it back, but the only time that’s going to happen is when there is a multi-hour lighting storm within 8 miles of Ames. So the smart thing to do is take your chances and play the night game.