The College of Central Oklahoma is providing to accommodate sports activities followers left stranded with no Oklahoma Sooners soccer recreation to observe on Saturday.
“I perceive tough selections generally should be made in extraordinary circumstances, and people selections should think about the impression on everybody concerned,” UCO athletic director Stan Wagnon stated in an announcement posted to social media.
“Subsequently, I’ve made the choice that each one SEC followers with nothing to do at the moment in Norman could present their OU-Ole Miss agme ticket to achieve free admission for at the moment’s video games at UCO.”
These occasions embody a soccer recreation at 1 p.m. CT between UCO and Missouri Western, and a males’s basketball recreation with the Bronchos hostimg Oklahoma Christian. Wagnon’s missive emulated the assertion issued by Oklahoma athletic director Roger Denny after the choice was made to delay the Sooners’ recreation till Sunday.
UCO is situated in Edmond, Oklahoma, roughly a 32-mile drive (taking 42 minutes) from Norman.
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The SEC introduced late Friday evening/early Saturday morning that the Sooners’ matchup with No. 19 Ole Miss was delayed to Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. ET in mild of the bottom cease issued by the Federal Aviation Administration for all airports on Friday. That delayed the kickoff occasions for a number of school soccer video games on Saturday.
However solely Oklahoma had its recreation moved to Sunday due to Ole Miss’ lack of ability to depart Oxford, Mississippi earlier than Saturday afternoon. That prompted an offended response from the Sooners athletic division, citing the difficulties the rescheduling locations on followers touring to and staying within the Norman space for Saturday’s recreation.
“I perceive that tough selections generally should be made below extraordinary circumstances,” Denny wrote. “However these selections should additionally think about the impression on everybody concerned. Put merely, this determination is not honest to our athletes, our establishment, or to Sooner Nation. However we have been given no different selection.”
Wagnon additional mocked Ole Miss’ competition that this system “explored each avenue” to fly out of Oxford on Friday and get to Norman for Saturday’s recreation.
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“If any SEC followers ‘discover each avenue’ however are unable to seek out their strategy to Edmond, I invited them to tune into the MIAA Community and watch UCO’s nationally ranked volleyball crew play within the convention championship match at 6 p.m,” Wagnon wrote.
The Bronchos (23-8) will face Pittsburg State (24-1) within the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Affiliation championship last after defeating Fort Hays State within the semifinals on Friday.