Will Your Team Be Playing Ball This Weekend? Should They?

As things spiral out of control in New Orleans and as the rest of the Gulf Coast deals with the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, I thought I would ask the question.

Who will be playing College Football in the Southeast this weekend? Should they be playing?

LSU and Tulane have already cancelled their home games. That was an obvious no brainer. By the time you read this, I'm predicting that Miss State and Ole Miss will pull their games offline as well. Not because I want them to. But because of this simple question.

Should the Emergency and Safety Personnel of Mississippi be directing traffic for a football game? Or should they be helping people rebuild their lives, find lost love ones, and maintain the peace in Biloxi, Gulfport or across the flood ravaged state?

Additionally, will the Mississippi Department of Transportation want to encourage an event that causes people to get in their vehicles and travel across the state? Something they've been begging people not to do all week?

For that matter, will they even have power in Starkville and Oxford?

The same question could go for Alabama and Auburn's home games. Are there enough security personnel in that state to manage the Mobile and Gulf Shores areas and still wrangle 160,000 combined fans at those game sites?

Maybe it isn't an either or situation. Maybe they can do both. I certainly hope so. No fan is more eager for football than me.

As a Georgia Fan, my concern is what happens if 5 SEC schools drop their games this weekend. Will the SEC think about cancelling the entire slate of games out of sympathy? I seriously doubt it, and I hope not. Because Boise's scheduled off weeks don't jive with ours.

Just something to mull over as we all eagerly await football season.

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