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For sometime now there has been rumblings about the lack of an equal playing field in the RSEQ. McGill threatened and tried to leave and now the Bishop’s Gaiters football program announced that they were officially leaving the RSEQ to go play in the Atlantic University Sport Conference (AUS) in the Maritimes. As a former U Sports head football coach who coached 7 seasons in the ‘Q’, as well as having coached at Acadia in the AUS for a number of years, and now a high school coach out West, I can say that this was foreshadowed in some capacity.
Being the former McGill Redmen head football coach, I lobbied for McGill to move out of the RSEQ and into the Ontario University Association (OUA) in 2012. That proposal was rejected by the presidents of the OUA universities and not the athletic directors. McGill remains in the RSEQ to date. There were many reasons similar to what Bishop’s has expressed with their recent approval to move out of the RSEQ. I am going to discuss those reasons as well as give my own personal opinion on this move and what I think will be the ripple effect on many levels both in the AUS, the RSEQ, and beyond.
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