After game canceled, Colgate donates meals to those displaced by Hurricane Florence

Like with the FBS slate, an array of FCS games have been canceled because of Hurricane Florence. One of those games was Colgate’s road matchup with Furman on Saturday.

Colgate, a Patriot League program from New York, had hotel rooms and meal plans locked down for the trip to Greenville, South Carolina. But with the game canceled, Colgate said it will provide those rooms and meals to those displaced by the storm.

“We immediately gave up our hotel rooms so that more rooms are now available to those coming inland,” Colgate coach Dan Hunt said. “But we still bought the meals we were going to have and requested that the hotel serve those meals to the people who have been relocated, on us.

“We were going to have Chick-fil-A delivered to the airplane after the game but have sent instructions that those meals be distributed wherever it could do the most good.”

According to Colgate, initial weather forecasts had Greenville “on the very outer edge of the storm.” But things changed, and both sides decided to play it safe.

“At the end of the day, you have to look at the big picture and that’s the safety of everyone involved,” Hunt said. “And by that I mean the teams and families but also the allotment of resources used for the game that could be better used somewhere else.”

Hunt said the team is disappointed to have a game off the schedule, but knows, in the grander scheme of things, that safety is far more important than a football game.

“This is 100 percent the right decision,” he said.

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