Southern Miss officially off the schedule for 2014 (Archive)

Fido

11/22/2013, 6:07:46 PM

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...Southern Miss was previously scheduled to travel to BYU on Nov. 8, 2014, but that game has been postponed to a date to be announced. USM is still slated to host the Cougars on Oct. 17, 2015.

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scott715

11/22/2013, 6:11:08 PM

I don't want to play them in 2015. The series should be cancelled and they should pay us a fine. Or at least play them when they are better.

Fido

11/22/2013, 6:33:40 PM

Postponing the game actually helps--maybe they will be better in 2015 when we play @ Southern Miss) then they are now (0-10).

And the only home game we have announced for 2016 so far is Utah State on Thanksgiving weekend. Our road games that year are Arizona, Utah, West Virginia, Boise State, and Cincinnati so a "lesser" team to help fill that schedule is not a bad thing.

The only non-conference game they have announced for 2016 is @ LSU. Perhaps 2016 works for both sides. I guess we will wait and see.

Fido

11/22/2013, 7:25:02 PM

Oh....they rescheduled us to a future year and added their money game in Alabama that they needed to balance their athletic budget.

Mars

11/22/2013, 10:58:29 PM

Fido wrote:
The only non-conference game they have announced for 2016 is @ LSU.

I wonder if BYU will buy that game away from them. I could see it happening.

Cougarbib

11/22/2013, 11:42:56 PM

BYU does not buy anything.

BYU ought to bump up payouts and buy some home games.

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Fido

11/23/2013, 4:14:27 PM

Here is the BYU-Southern Miss series contract: http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/2012/12/26/3805412/southern-miss-moves-to-cancel-byu-series-football-independence" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm fascinated by the cancellation section:

The parties agree that if one party cancels, forfeits, unilaterally delays or postpones, or fails to appear at, any game (these and similar actions hereafter referred to as "cancel"), actual damages--including those relating to public relations, radio and television broadcasts, lost profits, and other consequential damages--would be difficult or impossible to calculate. The parties further agree that processes, including litigation, to determine damages would be both unnecessarily expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, the parties agree that if one party cancels (hereafter, the "defaulting party"), the defaulting party shall pay as liquidated damages to the other party One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), to be paid no later than thirty (30) days following the scheduled date for the game, regardless of whether alternate arrangements can be or are made for a replacement game. Moreover, the defaulting party shall not be entitled to any guaranteed payment and it shall pay all attorneys' fees and/or collection costs the other party incurs in collecting the liquidated damages. However, if the defaulting party's cancellation is (i) caused by conditions entirely beyond the control of the defaulting party, such as war, government restriction, or an act of God, (ii) made and communicated to the other party within one year after the defaulting party joins an automatic-qualifying BCS conference, or any other conference, whether currently existing or newly created, that includes at least four (4) schools that currently belong to an automatic-qualifying BCS conference, or (iii) mutually agreed to in writing by the parties, then no liquidated damages or other fees or costs in this Section 3(B) shall apply.

It makes me wonder if BYU agreed to move this to a year in which they more needed a game and just scheduled Savannah State as a cheap replacement--maybe even getting to choose the date for the rescheduled BYU-Southern Miss game to better match BYU's schedule needs in exchange--or if they charged Southern Miss $1mill to move the game, using some of that money to pay for the addition of Savannah State. But I doubt that will ever be publicly shared unless someone gets one of these public records requests or something.