The College of Colorado’s soccer staff, led by head coach Deion Sanders, will play the College of Central Florida Saturday in Orange County, Florida.
Hurricane Helene has wreaked havoc in latest days throughout a number of states, together with Florida, with a dying toll over 40 and an anticipated $15 billion to $26 billion in property injury.
Regardless of this destruction, Colorado’s social media staff posted on social media Friday a computer-designed graphic exhibiting security Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig standing on a Florida seaside with water as much as his knees.
The submit stated “24 hours,” an obvious reference to the countdown to the sport Saturday. The submit was later deleted from Colorado’s social media account.
The picture additionally had an indication within the background that stated “Watch out for Sharks,” an obvious reference to Silmon-Craig’s nickname, “Shark.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Colorado soccer program for remark however had not acquired a response earlier than the time of publication.
Flooding has been one of many largest damaging forces of the hurricane, starting alongside Florida’s coast effectively earlier than Hurricane Helene made landfall, with quickly rising waters reported as far south as Fort Myers on the state’s Gulf Coast.
FOX Climate’s Ian Oliver stated the surge shortly flooded streets round St. Pete Seaside Thursday night, with excessive tide a number of hours away.
The hurricane made landfall in Florida’s Massive Bend area, after intensifying right into a catastrophic Class 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph.
The monster hurricane is unleashing a probably “unsurvivable” 20-foot storm surge, catastrophic hurricane-force winds and flooding.
The Nationwide Climate Service in Tallahassee issued a uncommon excessive wind warning for a number of counties within the Massive Bend forward of the strategy of the eyewall.
The Nationwide Hurricane Heart (NHC) stated there’s a vital threat of a life-threatening storm surge alongside the complete west coast of the Florida Peninsula, in addition to Florida’s Massive Bend area due to Hurricane Helene’s large dimension.
Because of the storm, Saturday’s sport between Colorado and UCF was moved inland to Orlando.
Sanders spoke concerning the climate earlier than the Baylor sport, saying the staff was getting ready as if it was not going to rain. Sanders bickered with a reporter who requested about his plans for the rain.
“I’m a type of good weathermen … 30% (likelihood of rain) is 70% (likelihood) it gained’t. Let’s do drills that say, ‘It gained’t rain,’” Sanders stated at a press convention this week.
The sport will mark the first-ever assembly between Colorado and UCF. The Knights grew to become a Division I program in 1996 and joined the Massive 12 in 2023.
