Arkansas State University looks outrageously tone-deaf in threatening to sue the University of Miami for canceling that September football game due to Hurricane Irma. Their lawyers are waving a contract in demanding UM pay a $650,000 penalty — and yes, legally, they have an argument — but Arkansas State is so on the wrong side of this morally that it loses even if it wins. And Miami wins even it loses for having had the compassion to make a decision that put family ahead of football.
To a major-college program $650K is not an onerous amount. The Hurricanes could pay by Thursday’s contractual deadline, avoid a court case and make this mess disappear.