Well, you guys called it. Finlandia is closing its doors after 126 years. Really sad, although not surprising. I had held out hope that they would really make it (you know, that old mentality of a goal line stand). But as all of you mentioned, it was a tough challenge for many reasons. I believe one of the mistakes they made was not recruiting primarily from the Upper Peninsula high schools. There are a lot of good 8 man hs teams there. They would never have been an upper tier program, but I believe could have been a decent one in their league had they followed that philosophy. Trying to bring players in from states like Florida was never going to work, unlike how it did for other schools at times in the past (Mount Union, Olivet, etc).
I also just noticed that Dufrane had left and Joby Sullivan had been named interim hc. Dufrane must have seen the writing in the wall" or he had some inside info this was going to happen soon. All too bad, but reality of life.
