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Turkey Day game in doubt
By Josh Moon
Montgomery Advertiser
GRAMBLING, La. -- A disagreement between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University officials has left this year's Turkey Day Classic matchup between the two schools in doubt.
Problems arose earlier in the week and were severe enough that Tuskegee stopped selling tickets to the Classic on Tuesday.
Tickets went back on sale at TU's student union center on Wednesday and remained on sale the rest of the week. However, all Golden Tiger fans who bought tickets at the TU ticket office were warned the game might be canceled.
Tuskegee ticket manager James Arrington said earlier this week that he thought there was a "50 percent chance the game won't be played."
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ASU researching its options
By Josh Moon
Montgomery Advertiser
Arkansas-Pine Bluff athletic director Craig Curry said he was contacted last week by Alabama State officials and asked if the Golden Lions would be willing to replace Tuskegee in the Nov. 25 Turkey Day Classic.
Tuskegee and ASU officials have been trying to settle a dispute over the game for more than a week now and neither side is certain that the Golden Tigers will be participating in the game.
As a backup, ASU officials contacted Curry.
ASU and Pine Bluff are scheduled to play on Dec. 4. in a game rescheduled from Sept. 18 because of **** Ivan.
"I talked with them, last week was the last time," Curry said Monday evening. "As of right now, we're still scheduled to play a game on Dec. 4. I have not been told otherwise."
Pine Bluff was left with a long break between games when its game against ASU was rescheduled originally. If the game remains on Dec. 4, Pine Bluff will be idle for the next three weekends.
"With such a long break, we would obviously be in favor of any scenario that moves the game up," Curry said. "When I was asked (by ASU officials) about rescheduling the game for Thanksgiving, I told them that we would definitely be interested in moving the game up."
However, Curry isn't sure where ASU's negotiations with Tuskegee stand.
He isn't alone.
ASU head coach Charlie Coe said Monday he was informed that ASU president Joe Lee and Tuskegee president Benjamin Payton were scheduled to talk about the situation Monday afternoon.
But as of late Monday evening, nothing had been decided.
"I'm not sure what's going to happen," Coe said. "I'm trying to not to get involved in that. My job is to coach the team. I'll let them handle whatever is going on. We haven't been told anything definite yet."
Numerous messages left by the Montgomery Advertiser for Lee and Payton throughout the day on Monday weren't returned.
The two schools have been attempting to work through the disagreement since early last week.
The cause of the problem hasn't been revealed by either side and speculation that it involved ticket distribution was discredited by officials from both schools.
Whatever the problem, it led TU officials to halt the sale of Turkey Day Classic tickets for one day last week and left ASU officials unsure of the Golden Tigers' participation in the game.
"I'm confident we will have a Turkey Day game," Lee said Saturday. "I'm hopeful that it will involve Tuskegee University."
The prospect of playing on Thanksgiving Day against a team other than Tuskegee isn't appealing to the ASU players.
"I wouldn't like that at all," ASU linebacker Deon Lewis said. "It just wouldn't be right. Since I came here in 2001, that's been one of the games that I really looked forward to each year. It would be a shame not to play them."
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THE TURKEY DAY CLASSIC IS THE GRANDDADDY OF ALL CLASSICS!!!
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