Bad weather forces Duke-UNC to be postponed
February 12, 2014 5:01 pm ET
A source confirmed to CBSSports.com that Wednesday night's Duke-North Carolina game will be postponed because of bad weather.
North Carolina has now released a statement on the matter.
"A makeup date has not been announced at this time. The game will NOT be played tomorrow, February 13th, due to the conditions," per the school.
"Duke's bus is not able to get to their campus to pick up the team in time to be able to make the trip to Chapel Hill so we can't play this evening," UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said. "The safety of the teams and officials is the number one priority and this was the best decision to make at this time. Coach Williams, Coach Krzyzewski, (Duke AD) Kevin White and I will be on the phone with the ACC and make a decision as to when to play the game as soon as possible."
Cunningham previously told the Raleigh News & Observer that the game would be played.
“The (ACC) policy is to try to get the game in, and if you can get your game day personnel and the teams there safely, they encourage you to play the game,” Cunningham told the paper.
A winter storm that the National Weather Service called "potentially crippling" prompted a flurry of cancellations and postponements in the Research Triangle on Wednesday.
Classes at UNC are cancelled and offices closed through 11 a.m. Thursday due to the winter weather.
A university statement discouraged fans from attending the game: "People with tickets to this evening's game are encouraged to stay off the roads."
Winter weather forced several college basketball games to be postponed.
Boston College's game at Georgia Tech, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was moved to Thursday. Wednesday's Vanderbilt-South Carolina game in Columbia, S.C., was also rescheduled for Thursday.
Thursday's game between Stetson and USC-Upstate in Spartanburg, S.C., will be played on Monday.
Farleigh Dickinson's home game on Thursday vs. Wagner was postponed until Monday. Georgia Southern moved its game to Thursday at 2 p.m., at home, against UNC Greensboro. Elon's game against Furman scheduled for Thursday was postponed on Tuesday with no makeup date scheduled.
Below, some photos from the greater Raleigh area.
the snowplow is working as fast as it can.
(02-12-2014 06:16 PM)zibby Wrote: [ -> ]Wussies.
Google pictures of I-85 and US-15/501 from today's snow storm in Raleigh-Durham and come back to us. :)
It was crazy here today.
Lots of folks went to work today hoping to get stuff done before the snow started. The snow started falling at 12pm, and was sticking within 15 minutes, and then folks started scrambling to get home, causing traffic jams and accidents everywhere. Common place were reports of taking 2+ hours to make routine 15 minute trips.
I-85 in Durham looked like a mini-Atlanta for a stretch this afternoon.
I turned to my youngest and told him, "the game will not be played tonight, and I'll bet $5 on it".
Arent UNC and Duke only 8 miles apart?
(02-12-2014 09:03 PM)cuseroc Wrote: [ -> ]Arent UNC and Duke only 8 miles apart?
Yeah and it took some people 3 hours to go 8 miles today
It would have been stupid, as in unsafe, to have played the game tonight. It isn't the snow, it is the ice. It has been rescheduled for the 20th. Duke plays Syracuse two days later.
Ice isn't sh*t to play around w/. Only time I'll drove in it is to drive to and from work. I'd be damned if I'd go to a sporting event driving on ice. Why risk your life for a damn game?
I do have a story tho... First time I've driven on ice I didn't realize I was driving on ice. Went around a bend on a straight-away going 50 in a 45, next thing I know I'm sideways. My crazy ass panics and whips the steering wheel in the opposite direction. How I didn't hit the hill side on the other side of the road or the guild rail on my side of the road is a mystery to me. Thank god there wasn't on-coming traffic. Scariest moment of my life driving.
(02-12-2014 06:16 PM)zibby Wrote: [ -> ]Wussies.
Duke is only 8 miles away. If they had left early enough, they could have walked to the game in 4-5 hours. In my day, we had to walk that far to school in 12" of snow, uphill both ways. And we never lost more than 2-3 kids a year doing it. Man up, Devils.
Dook was just plain scared to make the trip.
The last time this happened (really bad weather) the Heels were playing a heavily favored Maryland team at home. Very few of the fans that occupy the seats in the lower arena of the Smith Center were able to make the game and the students filled the void. The Terps were blown out as the students kept the Smith Center rockin' all game long. Coach K didn't want a repeat. Thousands of students that could not get tickets were being invited to attend the game.........it was more than K could take.
Anybody could have driven through the 17 stoplights that divide the two campuses.
It is important to remember the original purpose of playing college games in public was to provide entertainment for the fans attending. Of course today in reality it is to provide entertainment to people watching TV, but they should at least continue to pretend. I'm sure ESPN was upset.
(02-13-2014 09:25 AM)ken d Wrote: [ -> ] (02-12-2014 06:16 PM)zibby Wrote: [ -> ]Wussies.
Duke is only 8 miles away. If they had left early enough, they could have walked to the game in 4-5 hours. In my day, we had to walk that far to school in 12" of snow, uphill both ways. And we never lost more than 2-3 kids a year doing it. Man up, Devils.
UNC pulled something like this against Texas in the 1940's. The Texas bus was coming in from Greensboro - the nearest rail head, and UNC fans parked their cars all allowing what is now NC 54 blocking Texas from getting to the Stadium. Near Carrboro, the Texas team had to unload and carry their equipment into Kenan, about 4 miles. UNC won the game. Nothing like home cooking.
Speaking of cooking, it was said that Everett Case would turn the heat up inside Reynolds Coliseum during winter games in order to dehydrate the opposing team. Nothing like gamesmanship. Even in the 70's it would not be uncommon for the floor temperature to be 90 or so degrees when it was snowing outside.
(02-13-2014 12:26 PM)XLance Wrote: [ -> ]Dook was just plain scared to make the trip.
The last time this happened (really bad weather) the Heels were playing a heavily favored Maryland team at home. Very few of the fans that occupy the seats in the lower arena of the Smith Center were able to make the game and the students filled the void. The Terps were blown out as the students kept the Smith Center rockin' all game long. Coach K didn't want a repeat. Thousands of students that could not get tickets were being invited to attend the game.........it was more than K could take.
Anybody could have driven through the 17 stoplights that divide the two campuses.
XLance - I suspect the opinion of your Super Rams had a great deal to do with the decision. Super Rams are paying 5 figures for their seats and the games they pay to see are Duke, NC State, and whomever else is a top 20 team. But they pay first and foremost for Duke. Bubba would be a fool to piss them off when these people plan for this game for an entire year. I've been in the party room at the Smith Center before both a Duke, Clemson, and NC State and that little get together is as important to them as the game itself. Given the current set of issues, that groups needs to meet and talk amongst itself. The game is secondary to them.
(02-13-2014 03:30 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-13-2014 12:26 PM)XLance Wrote: [ -> ]Dook was just plain scared to make the trip.
The last time this happened (really bad weather) the Heels were playing a heavily favored Maryland team at home. Very few of the fans that occupy the seats in the lower arena of the Smith Center were able to make the game and the students filled the void. The Terps were blown out as the students kept the Smith Center rockin' all game long. Coach K didn't want a repeat. Thousands of students that could not get tickets were being invited to attend the game.........it was more than K could take.
Anybody could have driven through the 17 stoplights that divide the two campuses.
XLance - I suspect the opinion of your Super Rams had a great deal to do with the decision. Super Rams are paying 5 figures for their seats and the games they pay to see are Duke, NC State, and whomever else is a top 20 team. But they pay first and foremost for Duke. Bubba would be a fool to piss them off when these people plan for this game for an entire year. I've been in the party room at the Smith Center before both a Duke, Clemson, and NC State and that little get together is as important to them as the game itself. Given the current set of issues, that groups needs to meet and talk amongst itself. The game is secondary to them.
Yea but the bottom line is that that game should have been postponed by 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
It was unsafe for anyone to try and attend the game. Even if both teams, the officials, and a small percentage of the fans were able to get there that evening, they
still had to try and get back home at 11:30-12 midnight. There isn't a conspiracy here.
If nothing else they tried way too hard to play the game.
(02-13-2014 03:56 PM)dawgitall Wrote: [ -> ] (02-13-2014 03:30 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-13-2014 12:26 PM)XLance Wrote: [ -> ]Dook was just plain scared to make the trip.
The last time this happened (really bad weather) the Heels were playing a heavily favored Maryland team at home. Very few of the fans that occupy the seats in the lower arena of the Smith Center were able to make the game and the students filled the void. The Terps were blown out as the students kept the Smith Center rockin' all game long. Coach K didn't want a repeat. Thousands of students that could not get tickets were being invited to attend the game.........it was more than K could take.
Anybody could have driven through the 17 stoplights that divide the two campuses.
XLance - I suspect the opinion of your Super Rams had a great deal to do with the decision. Super Rams are paying 5 figures for their seats and the games they pay to see are Duke, NC State, and whomever else is a top 20 team. But they pay first and foremost for Duke. Bubba would be a fool to piss them off when these people plan for this game for an entire year. I've been in the party room at the Smith Center before both a Duke, Clemson, and NC State and that little get together is as important to them as the game itself. Given the current set of issues, that groups needs to meet and talk amongst itself. The game is secondary to them.
Yea but the bottom line is that that game should have been postponed by 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It was unsafe for anyone to try and attend the game. Even if both teams, the officials, and a small percentage of the fans were able to get there that evening, they still had to try and get back home at 11:30-12 midnight. There isn't a conspiracy here. If nothing else they tried way too hard to play the game.
That I don't disagree with, but I don't think Bubba has enough control or gravitas to make any big decision at UNC. The new Chancellor is not the strongest figure either. It would not surprise me if they had to poll the governing structure of the Ed Foundation to actually get a decision. UNC is a mess right now in the upper echelons. It's going to take them several years to work out it.
(02-13-2014 03:30 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-13-2014 12:26 PM)XLance Wrote: [ -> ]Dook was just plain scared to make the trip.
The last time this happened (really bad weather) the Heels were playing a heavily favored Maryland team at home. Very few of the fans that occupy the seats in the lower arena of the Smith Center were able to make the game and the students filled the void. The Terps were blown out as the students kept the Smith Center rockin' all game long. Coach K didn't want a repeat. Thousands of students that could not get tickets were being invited to attend the game.........it was more than K could take.
Anybody could have driven through the 17 stoplights that divide the two campuses.
XLance - I suspect the opinion of your Super Rams had a great deal to do with the decision. Super Rams are paying 5 figures for their seats and the games they pay to see are Duke, NC State, and whomever else is a top 20 team. But they pay first and foremost for Duke. Bubba would be a fool to piss them off when these people plan for this game for an entire year. I've been in the party room at the Smith Center before both a Duke, Clemson, and NC State and that little get together is as important to them as the game itself. Given the current set of issues, that groups needs to meet and talk amongst itself. The game is secondary to them.
Most were already in Chapel Hill when the game was posponed.
Ironically, if this game had been between teams 508 miles apart instead of just 8, the game probably would have been played, because the visiting team would have already been in Chapel Hill.