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Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - FloridaJag - 06-02-2011 10:39 AM
Football fever is spreading in Florida. Ave Maria, Stetson and now Florida Tech. UWF will decide in a few days.
http://www.d2football.com/viewnews.php?id=16885
Since there are no Division II or Division III football-playing colleges in Florida, Tech had originally planned to begin competition at the second-tier NAIA level. Edward Waters in Jacksonville, Webber International in Babson Park and Ave Maria University in Naples, which will play its first-ever game in September, compete at the NAIA level.
"The NAIA is not out but we are aggressively exploring the GSC,” Thomas wrote.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - SpaceRaider - 06-02-2011 02:47 PM
(06-02-2011 10:39 AM)FloridaJag Wrote: Football fever is spreading in Florida. Ave Maria, Stetson and now Florida Tech. UWF will decide in a few days.
http://www.d2football.com/viewnews.php?id=16885
Since there are no Division II or Division III football-playing colleges in Florida, Tech had originally planned to begin competition at the second-tier NAIA level. Edward Waters in Jacksonville, Webber International in Babson Park and Ave Maria University in Naples, which will play its first-ever game in September, compete at the NAIA level.
"The NAIA is not out but we are aggressively exploring the GSC,” Thomas wrote.
I thought I read somewhere a while back that UCF used to be Florida Tech or FIT...
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - chargeradio - 06-02-2011 09:51 PM
UCF was Florida Technological University, and commonly referred to as "Florida Tech" from its establishment in 1963 until December 1978. The only other public _TUs are in Texas, Tennessee, and Michigan. A handful of private schools are similarly named.
The private FIT was founded in 1958 but did not take its current name until 1966, so for more than a decade there were two schools that could answer to "Florida Tech".
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - Burn the Horse - 06-02-2011 10:03 PM
When are they going to stop this madness?! Next thing, these guys will want in to the Belt.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - panama - 06-02-2011 10:22 PM
LOL
No end in sight as long as population keeps shifting to the South
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - Curtzilla - 06-03-2011 12:58 AM
They're trying to distance themselves from Florida - Monroe.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - pilot172000 - 06-03-2011 08:03 AM
My stepmother graduated from FIT, and they are a small small school.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - BMarkey - 06-03-2011 10:16 PM
When I lived in Central Florida a long time ago, we referred to what is now UCF as "FTU".
Florida Tech today is in Melbourne, but has been more commonly referred to as Florida Institute of Technology (FIT).
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - hawghiggs - 06-04-2011 08:04 AM
(06-03-2011 12:58 AM)Curtzilla Wrote: They're trying to distance themselves from Florida - Monroe.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - chargeradio - 06-06-2011 07:28 PM
NPR once made a reference to the "Florida - Louisiana border" in a news story. It's been a while since there's been one of those.
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - canewton - 06-06-2011 09:31 PM
(06-06-2011 07:28 PM)chargeradio Wrote: NPR once made a reference to the "Florida - Louisiana border" in a news story. It's been a while since there's been one of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_West_Florida#Short-lived_Republic
RE: Florida Tech to start football in 2013 - FloridaJag - 06-07-2011 04:26 PM
I 12 is named the West Florida Parkway
http://www2.selu.edu/NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/RepofWFlaPkwy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_12