u Ottawa 1889 2013

[clear the track]

u Ottawa is one of the oldest teams in the History of Canadian Hockey. RMC Queens and McGill have older programs. Very storied programs covering alot of History

I have been told that the hockey program at uOttawa had an annual budget of approx 400K dollars. Half of this total came from an Alumni group. The balance I imagine came from the school and whatever the team itself managed to raise. Apparently this Alumni Group requested the suspension of the hockey program be waived and that Hockey be reinstated for the 2014 2015 season. If not they would pull all sponsorship.

I think the uOttawa hockey program may be in serious jeopardy. As the school has already relegated the program to a Tier II status (this well prior to the teams suspesion) behind Football, Basketball (M/W) and Soccer (W), the school may find the cost of the program to exhorbitant to continue.

This whole mess was entirely avoidable. 124 years of Hockey and poof it will be gone.

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[AUS Fan]

"124 years of Hockey and poof it will be gone."

I think it is gone, if the articles I've read are true.

 

[Gr8northscout]

cancellation

"124 years of Hockey and poof it will be gone."

I think it is gone, if the articles I've read are true.

Leave it to Allan Rock to paint everyone with the same brush......

A) have everyone register their firearms for the actions of a few!
B) cancel a hockey program for the actions of a few!

 

[Dutch]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2015/01/21/ottawa-gee-gees-hockey-saga-takes-another-turn.html

They won't even release the reports they said they were waiting for to revive the program. Huge, huge doubts they'll revive that team. They got the out they wanted to kill the program.

And that lawsuit was pretty much the nail in the coffin, because what it's gonna cost in attorneys is probably way more than the cost of the program.