Northeastern Blows Up Football

((HT: Fox25 Boston))

Northeastern University becomes the second school in metro Boston to blow up their football program. The school started the sport in 1933 and finished with a 289-364-17record.

The President of the school, Joseph Aoun, and AD Peter Roby made the decision Friday. The program's 87 players and 10 coaches learned Sunday night at a meeting on campus with Roby, a day after the team won its final game 33-27 at the University of Rhode Island. The Huskies won their final two games to finish 3-8, their sixth consecutive losing season.

In an open letter on the school's website, Roby openly contradicts himself:

"Our goal for athletics is to achieve sustainable excellence in all areas. We do not define success merely through wins and losses. Instead, we recognize that success comes from creating a positive student-athlete experience. The primary motivation for this decision was based on the significant obstacles to providing this experience for our football players."

Then, sir, it's either one of two things...

You yourself think your football players are substandard thinkers and can't create , or you don't want to put forth the effort to make football a "positive student-athlete experience." And if, in fact, the main obstacle was money to invest, recruit, and make the experience positive- then don't put $10-million bucks in to a new multi-purpose arena on campus.

And then there was this spirited discussion this morning on MyFoxBoston...
Awesome television when a news guy and a sports guy disagree...


It is the "chicken-and-egg" angle for all of this...
But we still side with the football team...