Quote:rfc17 --  Yes, that was the intent of the original post.  Thanks for clarifying.

 

JaguarsWoman -- FIU is 5 hours away and FAU is 4 hours away from UF.

 

Josh - the expense of bringing an entire football team on charter flights to Gainesville is immensely greater than a school like FAU getting on a few charter buses to make the 4 hour road trip.  

 

UF will lose about $3m on that game based on the following:

***$1m payout to Idaho (which they would have paid anyway).

*** Lost income from the ticket revenue.

*** Expenses paid (security, etc.) for the game that will not take place

*** Lost concessions from having a full house for a 4 hour game.  Yes, they did get some concessions from those that did not leave the facilities but not nearly what they budgeted.

 

Hence, scheduling a team like FAU, FIU, USF, insert any Florida or Georgia team here, would have made scheduling a make-up game much easier and financially feasible.    This was such a remote occurrence that perhaps this is more for discussions purposes only than something they'd consider for the future. 

 

Lol, chartering a plane or a bus (if I was a coach I would not let a team bus my team four hours, we would be flying too) is pennies in the grand scheme of things for a school like UF.

 

Again, scheduling a more local team as opposed to Idaho has nothing to do with money at this point.  It has to do with the Gators not having a bye week for 11 weeks.  Cash/distance traveling is not an issue here.

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