UWF football's prospects still bright


  • December 7, 2014
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development
The news that the University of Alabama Birmingham shuttered its football program raised some questions about the future prospects of plans to bring football to the University of West Florida. WUWF's Dave Dunwoody followed up on those.
The Argonauts are scheduled to begin play in Division II’s Gulf South Conference in 2016. UWF Athletic Director Dave Scott says there are two major differences between the schools’ getting involved with football. The commitment by UWF was an institutional decision, where the decision at UAB in 1991 was made solely by that school’s athletic department. “The other piece of it being, we’re at Division-II,” said Scott. “I think when you get to a certain level at Division-I it becomes more of an entertainment. You compete against a different environment, and it has a lot more cost. For us we compete at a different level, and it keeps it within its perspective within the institution.”
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