B.C. Lions owner Amar Doman is willing to help pay the bills to get the SFU Red Leafs football team back on the field.
SFU senior director of athletics Theresa Hanson said cutting the program “isn’t a money issue.” She tied the decision to the Red Leafs losing their spot in their Texas-based Lone Star Conference after this coming season and the dwindling number of NCAA Div. II teams on the West Coast making it so that “there’s no assured path forward for the program.”
That includes trying to get back into the Canada West Conference, the U Sports circuit where SFU had its football team from 2002-09 before it moved its athletic programs en masse to NCAA Div. II in 2010.Article content There’s been ample backlash. There’s been a social media campaign, with Doman and CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie among those showing support. The players, with support from the alumni, filed a notice of civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday, seeking an injunction to stop the disbanding of the team.
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