Pima Community College is expecting to cut its football program following the 2018 season for budget cuts. The Star goes back in time to look over Pima's first ever season.
Before Pima was known as the Aztecs, it was called the Storm and the team was led by well-known Tucson head coach Jeff Scurran.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima College head coach Jeff Scurran, will lead the college's first football team ever including players from left to right; Marco Valente(left), Andre Gayles, (center), and Kevin Amidan, (right).
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima College football head coach Jeff Scurran meets with the media during the team's first ever Media Day at the college's eastside campus.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community College has built its first-ever football team from a collection of Tucson-area high school players. Representing their school are: 1st row: Eddie Rosas(Nog) ; Steve Adelman(Cho); Coach Jeff Scurran; Roderick Walker( PV); Christian Romero(DV); Steve Robles(Pue). 2nd row: Dwight Jackson(Amp); Mario Martinez(Sal); Ryan Shirley(MV); Charles Kent(THS); Anthony Cobb(Benson); Gordon Clark(Sah); Ryan Sandoval(FW). 3rd row:Josh Kimberling(Sab); Tyrell Hunt(Mar); Rocky Buelna(Cat); Shawn Watson(Proj. More); David Dickert(CDO); Jason Campos(SR).
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community Colleges head football coach Jeff Scurran,CQ,complains about a call to the ref's during the Pima vs, New Mexico Military Institute football game held at Santa Rita high school,Saturday September 29th 2001 in Tucson,AZ.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima College football players from left: Santos Olague (6), George Penrice (80-middle), and Omar Estrella (70) talk among themselves during media day at Pima College East Campus where the college's first ever football team showed off their new jerseys and met the media.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community Colleges Santos Olague runs with the ball during the Pima vs. New Mexico Military Institute football game held at Santa Rita high school, Saturday September 29, 2001 in Tucson,AZ.
Pima's inaugural football season
Dwight Jackson keeps his eye on the ball during kicking practice for Pima Community College at Lincoln Park on Wednesday Sept. 19, 2001.
Pima's inaugural football season
Slug::30 Pima::Pima Community College player Santos Olague,CQ, breaks a tackle and scores in the third quarter of the Pima vs New Mexico Military Institute community college football game held at Santa Rita high School,Saturday September 29th 2001 in Tucson,AZ.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community Colleges Jason Hucks, left, and Marco Valente, #54, right tackle New Mexico Military Institutes John Reeves during there football game held at Santa Rita high school,Saturday September 29th 2001 in Tucson,AZ.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pueblo High School student Hector Rivera, 17, of South Tucson, Ariz., is surrounded by fellow recruits as he pauses to fill out a prospective football student information form for Pima Community College on Wednesday, January 24, 2001. The east campus will be the home for the fledgling team called the Storm and it will have its own colors blue and black with a silver trim, pretty close to the Warriors colors.
Pima's inaugural football season
Jeff Scurran, former Sabino High School football coach, is now going to be the first Pima Community College football coach.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community College Tail Back Santos Olague runs past a Glendale Community College player for a 3rd quarter touch down which tied the game at 14, Saturday August 25, 2001 in Tucson, AZ. This was the first ever game for the Pima Storm playing Glendale who one the National Championships last year. The game was played at Santa Rita High School.
Pima's inaugural football season
Glendale Community College wide receiver Robby Jones tries to catch a pass under pressure by many of Pima Community College players in the first half of the game held at Santa Rita High School,Saturday August 25th 2001 in Tucson,AZ.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community College head coach football Jeff Scurran,CQ,right, calls for a play during Pima Storms game against Glendale Community College held at Santa Rita High School,Saturday August 25th 2001 in Tucson,AZ. This was the first ever game for the Pima Storm playing Glendale who one the National Championships last year.
Pima's inaugural football season
A huge crowd showed up at Santa Rita High School to watch the Pima Community College Storm beat the defending national champions Glendale Gauchos,Saturday August 25th 2001 in Tucson,AZ. This was the first ever game for the Pima Storm.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima Community College Tail Back Roderick Walker makes a big gain with help from his teamates in the first half against Glendale Community College ,Saturday August 25, 2001 in Tucson,AZ. This was the first ever game for the Pima Storm playing Glendale who one the National Championships last year. The game was played at Santa Rita High School.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima College football linebackers Jeff Drumm and Bill Crowely Jr. can't sustain their laughs as they get their mugs photographed by Rodney Haas, a photographer with Pima College's student newspaper, The Aztec Press, during the team's Media Day at the eastside campus.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima college football fullbacks coach and former UA player Kelvin Eafon laughs with player AJ Brown during Media Day at Pima College's east campus.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima College football head coach Jeff Scurran meets with the media during the team's first ever Media Day at the college's eastside campus.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima QB Blake Kinart runs the ball toward the end zone while pushing off Eastern Arizona's Walter Williams in the second quarter of the Saturday 15, 2001 at Santa Rita High School.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima's Santos Olague attempts to out run Eastern Arisona College's Kenneth Walters during a second qaurter run during the Saturday Sept. 15, 2001 game at Santa Rita High School.
Pima's inaugural football season
Arizona Western Matador #7 Sed Clark (FB) makes a run through a hole made clear when teammate #44 Eric Sidney (RB) flipped Pima College's #18 Anthony Lopez on his back during Saturday's Oct. 6, 2001 blow out at the Santa Rita High School field.
Pima's inaugural football season
Pima's inaugural football season
Move was the result of declining enrollment, Marciopa County's decision to stop playing in 2019.
The 2018 season will be the Aztecs' last.
Pima College player, 20, scored twice in last Friday's win.
Ransom's first SEC offer.
Coach will receive an extra $10,000 per year, more shares in a "longevity fund" once reserved for the athletic department's top earners.
The younger Quiroz has been on Aztecs' staff since 2005.
The women's basketball team was named honorable mention.
Monaco talks to the Star about the decision to cut football, and what's next for the program. Today marks Part 1 of a two-part series.
In Part 2 of the Star's Q&A with the Pima coach, he sounds off on the upcoming season and what football means to PCC.
Aztecs lost 28-0 in bowl in final game in program history.