SFU names special adviser as it looks for feedback on its cancelled football team
Bob Copeland, who was the University of Waterloo’s athletics director during one of the most turbulent times in the school’s history, will help determine the future of Simon Fraser University’s embattled football program.
“He and the firm he works with have just done incredible work. We are so lucky he’s available. We definitely feel he’s the right person for this … we’re excited about moving forward.” Copeland was Waterloo’s athletic director in 2010 when the university suspended its football program for a year after nine players tested positive for steroids. It was Canadian university sports’ biggest doping scandal.
Johnson announced April 4 that Simon Fraser was discontinuing its football program, effective immediately. She added the decision wasn’t financially based, rather on the Texas-based Lone Star Conference’s announcement it would not renew its football affiliation with Simon Fraser past the 2023 campaign.
“What is sought here by the plaintiffs is a mandatory injunction that would, in effect, order SFU to reinstate and run a currently cancelled varsity program. The plaintiffs have failed to satisfy the legal requirements … and they have not satisfied the court that a mandatory injunction is available at law, just, and appropriate in the circumstances.”“I’m pleased he understood the position of the university,” she said.
“After Dr. Johnson’s statement today, we are satisfied we can take the first steps toward a new working model for football at SFU,” Bailey said in a statement. “We believe we are on a constructive path to finding a conference to play in 2024 and beyond.”
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