Florida Gulf Coast University will have a football team one day, says one of its most ardent supporters, and there’s no time to waste. Ben Hill Griffin III on Wednesday said he donated $12,500 to create the school’s first-ever football scholarship, h… more »

The lights of the FGCU soccer field light up Wednesday and Thursday nights for dozens of games of flag football played by students and staff of FGCU and Edison Community College. The popularity of the sport has exploded in the last two years with hundre… more »

The chairman of the Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees has had a bit of time to digest the football feasibility study numbers that were distributed during the Jan. 18 meeting. And he finds them impossible to swallow. At least for now.… more »

Florida Gulf Coast University would have company within the Atlantic Sun with four conference members that field the sport. Three Atlantic Sun Conference schools already have been or are preparing to enter an arena where Florida Gulf Coast University… more »

Florida Gulf Coast University’s decision on whether to field a football program certainly won’t be a two-minute drill. And even if FGCU eventually decides to make the move, despite the massive financial and gender equity concerns, it will be at least… more »

Florida Gulf Coast University introduced new athletic director Ken Kavanagh on Thursday. It didn't take long for Kavanagh to face the "F" question - football at FGCU. "It's an institutional decision," Kavanagh said. "Any time you're talking sports… more »

ESTERO — Jo-Ann Nester was right at home with Florida Gulf Coast University’s athletic director search committee during Thursday afternoon’s conclusion of the six finalist interviews. Nester is FGCU’s interim athletic director, having taken over the… more »

ESTERO — Blake James has had his eyes on this prize for years. The University of Maine athletics director has made December trips to Southwest Florida to watch his Black Bears play hockey in Germain Arena since he took over as the school's senior ass… more »

ESTERO — Mike Moore, who led Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis through its transition to Division I, was the third to be interviewed for Florida Gulf Coast University’s athletics director opening. Thursday afternoon, Moore, who has be… more »

ESTERO — Bradley athletic director Ken Kavanagh had heard about Florida Gulf Coast University's newish, impressive facilities and the almost constant warm weather of Southwest Florida, but when he saw and felt it back in November, it hit home. Kavana… more »

ESTERO — The only of six finalists hoping to be Florida Gulf Coast University's new and second athletics director who is not or has not been an AD, Bob Heller toured campus, met with several groups and interviewed with the 10-person Search Advisory Comm… more »

ESTERO — Former Butler University athletic director John Parry, who led the Indianapolis program to Horizon League heights and national prominence, was the first to interview with Florida Gulf Coast University’s 10-person athletic director search commit… more »

NAPLES — Beginning Tuesday, five men and one woman will interview over the next two weeks to determine who will thrust FGCU athletics into the big, bad world of Division I sports. If I was on the hiring committee, I would ask the six finalists one quest… more »