When the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga recently announced the school’s men’s track and field team had the nation’s highest team grade point average for the second year in a row, every Mocs fan’s first thought might understandably be: Let’s go for a three-peat.
Oops.
You can’t three-peat without a team, which is what UTC no longer has when it comes to men’s track, thanks to the administration’s decision to cut the sport last winter over financial and Title IX considerations.
“At least we’re going to go out on top,” Mocs track coach Bill Gautier said. “How many people can say that?”
Not near as many people as should stand in front of UTC chancellor Steven Angle’s office and shout at the top of their lungs: “This stinks!”