Just Canadian NCAA program to drop football

Simon Fraser University, the only NCAA football group in Canada, will disband its program, the university revealed Tuesday.SFU discovered itself in a challenging spot after the Great Northwest Athletic Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 2021 season, requiring the Red Leafs to end up being a football-only member of the Lone Star Conference in 2022. The conference, which is made up primarily of groups from Texas, announced in February it did not renew the relationship with SFU, which lies about 140 miles north of Seattle.

“This is a difficult decision, and not one taken lightly,” SFU president Delight Johnson stated in a statement. “With the current statement that the group has actually not been welcomed to continue in the Lone Star Conference, we do not have a conference to play in beginning in 2024. The continuous uncertainty creates an unacceptable experience for trainees.

“The university has actually carefully thought about all offered options and as a management group we concluded that football is no longer a possible sport for SFU.”

SFU released its football program in 1965 and contended at the NAIA level up until 2001, when it transitioned from Football to Canadian football. After eight years, the school switched back to the American version and ended up being an NCAA Division II program. It put together an 18-99 record as an NCAA school and failed to win more than one game in any of its last 6 seasons.SFU will continue

to sponsor 18 NCAA Department II sports, Johnson stated.