UPDATE: ECU-West Virginia still on for Saturday
If the game is called off, re-scheduling would be difficult.
East Carolina has open dates Oct. 4 and Oct. 25, but West Virginia is booked both of those weekends. December 6 could be a possibility, but ECU might be playing in the Conference-USA championship game then.
The Charleston Gazette is reporting that there could be a chance the kickoff time will be modified depending on Tropical Storm/Hurricane Hanna:
Officials from both schools are monitoring weather reports and the path of tropical storm Hanna in the Atlantic Ocean and are all but resigned to the fact that the storm will have an impact on Saturday’s game. Whether the impact will be a change of game time, a change of venue or simply wet and windy conditions at the scheduled time and place could be decided today.
No. 8 West Virginia is scheduled to play East Carolina at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Greenville, N.C.
“We’ll talk [Thursday], probably late in the day,” West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong said Wednesday night. “The bottom line is we can’t create an alternate plan until we know what’s in front of us on Saturday. And we won’t know that until Saturday.”
Here are our options I guess:
As for the game itself, a number of possibilities exist, including playing the game at the appointed time and place. And although moving it to another location further inland in North Carolina can’t be ruled out, it seems a more likely scenario would be keeping the game in Greenville and moving the kickoff to sometime Sunday.
STAY TUNED FOR REGULAR UPDATES ON HANNA.
Dear Hanna,
Please blow away. Rain is the great equalizer.
Thanks,
Mountaineer Nation
I’m going to be disappointed if the game isn’t played this weekend. At this point, it looks like no one really knows what will happen. Maybe a delay, maybe moving the game elswhere, maybe change the start time. I just hope they don’t reschedule the game to another week.