Ground stop strands ASU football team

We're still following the breaking news. This FAA issued ground stop. It happened just before 2 o'clock Arizona time. And Robbie Baker's here because this is affecting tomorrow's games. Yes. So Utah, Arizona. Utah still hasn't left Utah as far as we know. That would be like a 12 and a half, 13 hour bus ride. I think if the Utes were going to try to take a bus from Utah down to Tucson. And then, of course, the longer trip, Arizona State Football posted this. They said wheels up to Orlando. And then about four years later, Forty minutes later, had to retweet and said, we spoke too soon. They got stuck, of course, at Sky Harbor. Tyson Brown posted this on Twitter, or his Instagram account, excuse me, saying maybe it's Friday the 13th that this all went down today, but you can see the players. They got on the charter flight, then they were removed from the charter flight and were kind of stuck in kind of a holding pattern in their terminal there. They were on a charter, so it was different than if they were on a commercial flight. But I also, just before coming out here, kind of some breaking news, spoke with Graham Rossini, the athletic. And then as of now, as of 445 on Friday, Graham told me that the game is still on as scheduled tomorrow. So you have to factor in this is a four and a half. ...hour-ish and change flight to Orlando. You're also factoring in a two-hour time change. It's a 3.30 kickoff in Orlando. So I do sports journalism. I do not do math. But if you factor, you know, 7 or 8 o'clock, they would maybe, this is hypothetical, but if they left at 7 or 8 o'clock, that's, you know, 9 or 10 o'clock, a four-hour flight. They're landing maybe at 1.30 or 2. The game's at 3.30. I mean, you're, they're threading the needle on this thing. That's close. I'm just kind of, you know, hypothesizing here, but I think the thought is get back to the facility and let the guys decompress a little bit other than just sit in an airplane terminal for an indeterminate amount of time. Yes. Just... Understand the logistics for ASU football here. Their gear shows up in a truck, right? They ship that out ahead of time. Part of it, yes. Part of it is on the plane, too. I mean, they do have some gear that travels with them and stuff, too. So are they putting shoulder pads on when they're in row three? Like, when are they getting the pads on? This is unprecedented for everybody. I mean, this is not obviously, I mentioned Utah's travel to U of A for a big noon kickoff game that is supposed to be scheduled to be played right here on Fox 10 tomorrow. biggest game in college football tomorrow, a big top 25 matchup, and the Utes are still in limbo, ASU in limbo, and as you're going through Twitter right now, you're getting Trickles of, okay, Arkansas, they were able to leave. Okay, this team hasn't been able to leave. And some of the journalists and student journalists that traveled with, you know, travel a lot for Arizona State football and some of the other print outlets, you know, they basically, following them on Twitter, they landed in Orlando and then found all of this out. So they're like, okay, we're here now, but what's going to happen now? All the news is happening in Phoenix, so it's crazy. Yeah, okay, so there will be some games tomorrow, we know. Some games, yeah. Maybe they should just move the Territorial Cup to tomorrow, you know? ASU Arizona's here, logistically this works out. That's not a bad idea, actually. I'm an idea guy. If Graham's listening. I give solutions. Yeah. I try. Boy. All right, thank you, Robbie. Really appreciate that update on ASU football there.