Florida QB Luke Del Rio fires back at FOX Sports analyst Clay Travis
On Friday, FOX Sports analyst Clay Travis said on his radio show that the Florida Gators are dodging the LSU Tigers by canceling this weekend’s game due to Hurricane Matthew concerns:
Scared of losing and falling in the standings, Florida is using #HurricaneMatthew to dodge LSU.
— @ClayTravis. https://t.co/94dYwmMBje pic.twitter.com/bRRomUvoqm— FOX Sports Radio (@FoxSportsRadio) October 7, 2016
Travis said, “Right now, it seems self-evident to anybody, I think, with a functional brain, that Florida is trying to use the hurricane as an excuse to try to advance their own opportunities to win the SEC East by playing one less game against a top opponent, and that’s a shame.”
Florida QB Luke Del Rio didn’t take too kindly to Travis’ opinion, calling out the analyst via Twitter:
This is hilariously incorrect and very insensitive to those being affected by this Hurricane @ClayTravis https://t.co/GLklHF4DOx
— Luke Del Rio (@Ldelrio12) October 7, 2016
Travis’ solution? Play the game on Sunday or Monday. It seems to be too late for that, though.
But, as Del Rio points out, Hurricane Matthew is already wreaking havoc in Florida and that’s where everyone’s thoughts should be at the moment.
What an idiotic thing to say.
yep, Del Rio is an idiot
Luke Del Who?
That’s funny that is exactly what we said about you…Tennessee who for the decade you were losing to everyone.
Pipe down Bayou Boy!
You look like a UT fan with just the one tooth, better brush it…..
what’s a matter, Del Rio your daddy’s secret love child?
Del Rio obviously hasn’t seen that every other team is still playing at their regularly scheduled time. Not saying Travis’ statement is true but can you blame him for speculating?
Not true. UCF game is still postponed.
Miami did not get impacted by this storm as it was too far out to sea. Talking to family down there, they got a little wind, and no rain. There are no power outages to deal with and they only have to smaller effects of the storm to deal with.
I North Florida, over 1 million people have no power, trees are down all over the place causing road closures and requiring emergency service personnel to respond. The last place these emergency responders need to be is in Gainesville to manage a football game.
Clay Travis is spewing his rhetoric because he is a Vol fan and he needs to realize his views are idiotic with respect to everything that is going on in North Florida.
I was evacuated from Hilton Head and am now in Asheville NC so I understand the impact of what’s going on. I think it’s more the fact that there are plenty of options to get the game in. LSU offering to play it on Sunday or to host it in Baton Rouge (which I realize could have a fiscal impact on Florida) but options none the less. Yet doesn’t seem as though Florida is interested in any of those other options. Would be curious to find out why.
So you were evacuated, would you leave your family at home to deal with the effects of a hurricane to go to a football game?
If you say yes I call BS.
You expect these people to leave their families in the middle of this situation.
I hope your situation turns out OK, and some things are more important than a football game. If you can’t accept that, I feel sorry for you.
You have totally misconstrued everything I said. I’m not saying anyone should leave their families behind at all. There plenty of things more important than football. I’m saying that this is something that can be rescheduled, perhaps November 19th because both schools have cupcake games that week. You are taking this to its extreme expecting the worst in people. Travis says they’re hiding from the game, if this isn’t the case then they need to reschedule it. According to you they need to cancel the Missouri game because we all know it will take more than a week for a million people to get everything under control and back to normal.
They really were not. 52 of the players on the team had families in the hurricane warning zone at the time of the decision. Now, UF has offered to cancel they 11/19 game with a patsy and LSU has refused to do the same. Ask them why….they do not want to give up a home game. Just like UF.
Florida has said the game could be played on Nov. 19th if both UF and LSU were willing to buyout games vs PC and South Alabama. LSU has said they are not willing to do that. For the record the SEC offers insurance against situations like this so LSU wouldn’t have to actually pay anything.
Trippo, I believe the insurance the “SEC offers” is not against situations like this” It is for situations like having to cancel a home game due to things like Hurricanes… Evidently it covers even when you decide against rescheduling a couple days later… IF LSU were forced to cancel the Nov 19 game with SBama due to weather, LSu would be covered. I don’t think it covers the visiting team as the home team does not share the gate with visitors other than to pay a non conference teams contract.
So to say cancelling the SBama game wouldn’t cost LSU anything is BS.
** LSU would *not* be covered
in the case of cancelling to play a make up game
You mean Florida teams ?
Yes I can. He is nothing more than a wannabe. He wants to be anything but the self serving s___head he is. I live in S Alabama and I have lived in Fl a good bit. I was in south Dade county during Andrew. I know what it looks like in the eye of one of these things and in a way it is beautiful but any person that sees that and doesn’t question their mortality is either a fool or to busy messing up their drawers. This damned ball game is not life and death, What Fl is going through is life and death. Good manners say that we are not supposed to be blunt in our internet responses. Sorry, I just can’t do it. Travis can just kiss my old Bama Bama ass. He’s doing nothing more than trying to validate his point of view about a game over the bodies of real people with a lot more guts.
I blame Travis for being an ass about it. He’s trying to be edgy or something to draw attention. That worked out real well for John Rocker years ago, so let’s hope Clay Travis doesn’t start taking his rhetoric too far! lol.
Clay Travis, VFL.
:)
He should never engage a troll like Clay Travis.
You folks that are crying about this game are wasting your time. It just don’t matter. Tennessee has problems in the locker room. If you think their record and rankings are going to make a difference in late November, you’re wrong. The luck will run out and that’s what you’re depending on. Your best RB is questionable because because he is sick and tire of hearing a just good QB being the best on the team. That fumble last game came because he was trying to regain his stardom. Instead he became a fool. That’s the problem in this locker room, there are a lot of people that are equal to or better than just your QB, yet they are to defer to his greatness. It doesn’t take a PHD to see it has gotten old.
Hurd has a concussion, nothing more. I’m glad a bama troll knows what’s going on in our locker room,we appreciate the info. Mo
Move on…..he wont be the only one hurt over your next two games….
The Tide comes into Knoxville next Sat. Let’s see how you like being in over your head. Hell, you can’t beat aTm in a give away contest, yet you run your mouth about how great you are. PLEASE!
It is the SEC Not Florida who made the call. If you are uninformed STFU. The game will be played November 19th. Then Florida can give LSWho the same beating they gave Ole Siss.
I am Absolutely giddy over the Obsession that bama fans have for Tennessee football… They have been bloviating the same generic message since the App State game….bama fans love them some Big 🍊range!
You want to see obsession? Click on a Bama article and count the UT fan posts…….
No thank you….I will stick to articles that are worth reading….but u just keep on trolling Tennessee football….Hey it’s OK to come out of the closet and reveal your Big 🍊range heart !
Ole Eugene just don’t know how good that juice is after squeezing it out of them Orange Vols.
Eugene your post history shows a different story…..Seems as you have spent plenty of time on Bama articles yourself….
Sankey made the call because he was late to the party and he let Foley string him along like the little be-itch he is…
go ahead an talk your schidt… It’s easy to do now ain’t it? Remember, our OL which wasn’t the greatest to begin with is busted up and LF7 was on the sidelines for this one, BUT LSU was still ready and willing to come to your house and play… That’s more than can be said for UF… I hope they do reschedule the game, but I don’t believe it’s gonna go as you hope…
Ha! Lsu will f*ck up the gaytors more than a hurricane ever could
Del Rio may not be scared, but it is clear Foley is. The game easily could have been played on Sunday. The other alternative mentioned is UF-UGA move their game back a week and UF-LSU could play when that was scheduled. No other teams would be impacted. Not sure they can pull that off. Sankey got played by Foley.
my money is on Foley will reject moving the UF/GA game…. I’m sure GA wouldn’t cooperate much either…. I don’t know if the SEC can force the move or not… I doubt it.
Should move up the uga- uf game, it’s not like people actually go to jags games
Travis is an idiot. This isn’t about players being afraid to play anyone, so calling out a team in this case is just stupid. The fact that these administrations couldn’t work this out is just ridiculous, and they are both to blame. No leadership on the issue out of the SEC office on this is probably a bigger issue. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason they couldn’t postpone it to Sunday (could be something I don’t know). I don’t blame either side for not wanting to postpone… I don’t blame Florida for not wanting to play in Baton Rouge, but sooner or later cooler heads have to prevail. I don’t see how this couldn’t be moved like GA/SC was by a day. Sounds like some sort of options will have to mandated by the league office for this kind of thing in the future… but no reason a league game shouldn’t be able to be played before the end of the season, and postponing by a day or two seems to be the best option.
Oh.. but good on Luke Del Rio for letting Clay Travis have it. Well done Luke!
The game could have easily been played on Sunday. Foley didn’t want to because he wants to work the system. That is the real story.
South Alabama a cupcake???? Ask Miss St and SDSU about that. LSU could easily crawl away with another L after that cupcake comes to town. Canceling that game might be the smartest thing they could do.
To all the Florida fans talking about how bad it would be to make the players leave during this hurricane and all that, I understood where you were coming from. I legitimately understood you. And then I saw where the Florida women’s soccer and volleyball teams both traveled to play away games during this. So is the football team the only people that the hurricane affected? Now it definitely seems like UF was hiding from playing the game. There’s really no excuse now
The soccer and volleyball teams obviously don’t love their families.
The “leaving your family home to deal with the hurricane” is complete and total BS. Is UF planning on not playing any game the rest of this month? I promise you families will be dealing with the effects of the hurricane still.
How many actual UF kids have families in Jacksonville, Gainesville, etc. areas? I bet maybe a dozen or so. This is a college pulling g kids from all over the country, not a high school pulling kids from the Gainesville Public School District. If it means that much to them,eave them behind to help clean up the yard and pull down the storm shutters.
I can tell you that LSU kids did have families living in hotels, trailers, etc and the LSU campus was a refugee camp after Katrina and Rita when the ASU and UT games were played. I can tell you they have families still not living in their homes TODAY because of the BR floods this year.
Florida is not that good — terrible offense withno playmakers, journeymen QBs and and overrated D– mark this down—they will lose 3-4 games and thei coach will be on the hot seat!
You see 4 more losses on our schedule? LSU isn’t even good this year, nobody is afraid of them. Please do more research before you make yourself look like an idiot.