SFU fumbled the cancellation of its football program, writes Kirk LaPointe.
Rare is the day that a community can instantly galvanize as it has in being steamed with Simon Fraser University over – of all things that ought to bring pride and ought not to go awry – the sudden suffocation of its respected football program.
The SFU Red Leafs had been affiliated with the Lone Star Conference . It announced in February it would be dropped from the LSC after this season but suggested it would play on and find an alternative. Then, two months later, rather than conclude its LSC stint and lobby to compete in the Canadian U Sports division in 2024, SFU stunned most everyone in announcing the program was done after 65 years.
There is also the kind of business chaos that comes with a suddenly shuttered stable company of employees who have moved house to be with you. The coaches, crack-backed and blindsided, have been offered buyouts and are searching for hard-to-find gigs. The athletes, some of them informed amid their final exams, are scrambling to find the few available scholarships elsewhere to play.
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