Pima College will hold an open forum Monday night to discuss the future of its football program. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. at the PCC District office, 4905 E. Broadway Blvd., C-105.
Pima is reviewing whether to keep its 17-year-old football program after the Maricopa Community College District announced that four schools — Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa and Glendale — will no longer play football after 2018. The district’s decision leaves Pima without a handful of football opponents starting in 2019.
Pima hopes to make a decision “soon” on the future of football, chancellor Lee D. Lambert said in a news release. The college will weight the costs, long-term viability of the sport and liability issues.
Lamber, athletic director Edgar Soto and football coach Jim Monaco will take part in Monday's discussion. Soto called football “an important path to college” for the Aztecs’ players.
“But the landscape of football in Arizona is changing,” he said, “and Pima is trying to figure out where we fit in.”
