SIAP: Why was ND/NCST game played?

[Superfan76]

I hate ND as much as the next guy but that game should not have been played yesterday.

 

[TC4THREE]

My guess is because NC State wanted the ticket revenue so they were going to do everything they could to play it.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

My guess is because NC State wanted the ticket revenue so they were going to do everything they could to play it.

Yeah - they probably get ND at home maybe every 5 years? Probably one of their few sellouts.

 

[DrEss]

Wasn't it great though? I know I enjoyed the sh!+ out of it

 

[BoilerBiker]

No lightning
I enjoy watching rain and snow games

 

[RDUBoiler]

All three of the Raleigh-Durham area teams had home games. It was wet but not terribly windy at the UNC-Va Tech game I attended. The really bad weather was about fifty miles south. That being said, I wish the UNC game had been cancelled given how horribly they played.

 

[nate_h]

If there's no lightning or tornadoes you play the game. It's football. Rain, snow, mud, wind - these are part of the game.

The only other weather I could imagine postponing the game would be extreme heat or cold (like 110+ or below -20)

 

[joe for prez]

Because it's football! Big boy game

 

[indianphil]

Absolutely loved the Kelly presser after the game. Poor Irish...God finally looked the other way. If I am the ND center, I'm transferring come spring.

FWIW, I am starting to become glad ND didnt join the BIG. I'd hate to listen to them cry all the time!

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Because it's football! Big boy game

if you don't like it, go play intramurals brother!!

 

[rgarlitz]

You guys remember Purdue/ND 1993 or Purdue v. Michigan 1995?

Those were crazy bad weather games, but I'm not sure the weather at either was as bad as it was @NCST last Saturday.

 

[tigerchump]

I was at that Purduevs ND clash in 1993,and the Michigan game in 1995 is listed on the Big Ten Network show about the 10 worst weather games in Conference history.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

I was at that Purduevs ND clash in 1993,and the Michigan game in 1995 is listed on the Big Ten Network show about the 10 worst weather games in Conference history.

Was that the game matt pike got knocked silly by Jeff Burris? I was at that one too.

 

[tigerchump]

Was that the game matt pike got knocked silly by Jeff Burris? I was at that one too.

It might have been.I sat in the North End and had trouble seeing the field at times.Purdue lost 17 to 0,just like a game I was at in 1975 and the Irish scored in both games off of turnovers with Luther Bradley picking off a Scott Dierking HB pass and running it back about 99 yards for a score in 1975,and one of their Lineman or LBS running in a tipped pass for a score in 1993.Ugh to both games.

 

[rgarlitz]

I remember watching the 1995 Purdue/Michigan game in my dorm room. The camera men showed shots of rainwater cascading down the aisles.

 

[boiler800]

I hate ND as much as the next guy but that game should not have been played yesterday.

Why not? The weather was the same for both teams. We played some in conditions like that...a 5-0 loss to Michigan comes to mind.

 

[Heiner]

Bucket game in Bloomington when Randle El played. First half was a deluge. Think they beat us too.

 

[jberry5]

I was at that Purduevs ND clash in 1993,and the Michigan game in 1995 is listed on the Big Ten Network show about the 10 worst weather games in Conference history.

I was at the Big House for the 1995 5-0 game. Went there with 3 guys from school who were all Michigan fans. On the drive up they were all scared to death because of the weather forecast and Purdue having Alstott. On the way home none of us could believe how few attempts Alstott had.

I have never been to another game with weather like that. It snowed, it sleeted, it rained, the wind was howling, had to be under zero with the wind chill. Absolutely miserable, but we stayed the whole game, because one slip and it could have ended differently.

 

[rgarlitz]

I was at the Big House for the 1995 5-0 game. Went there with 3 guys from school who were all Michigan fans. On the drive up they were all scared to death because of the weather forecast and Purdue having Alstott. On the way home none of us could believe how few attempts Alstott had.

I have never been to another game with weather like that. It snowed, it sleeted, it rained, the wind was howling, had to be under zero with the wind chill. Absolutely miserable, but we stayed the whole game, because one slip and it could have ended differently.

IIRC, Alstott also got very few carries in the 1993 ND game, though that game was played before he really emerged as Purdue's main feature back.