The school administrators at Division II Florida Tech put their egos aside earlier this week and came to a hard, honest and fiscally prudent determination.
Unlike many of their delusional big brothers at the FBS level, they decided not to put a Band-Aid on their budgetary deficit by cutting their cross country or rowing team and instead decided to take the plunge and discontinue a football program that had become a money pit.
“We didn’t just suddenly come to the decision to drop football this week; it’s been a conversation for quite some time,” Florida Tech athletics director Pete Mazzone says.