Game Over: Northeastern U. Spikes Its Football Program

Northeastern University is eliminating its football program because it doesn’t want to spend money to improve the Division I team in the long run, The Boston Globe reported. Administrators and trustees said that bolstering the team, which has produced six consecutive losing seasons, would require spending millions of dollars on a new head coach, on recruiting, and on improving facilities. University officials, who insisted that the move was not connected to the recession, have not decided exactly how the program’s annual $3-million budget will be used instead, the Globe reported, but they said players on scholarship would keep their student aid and would be helped to transfer, if they wanted.