When Bringing Back Football, Canyons Didn’t Count on This

It all came to me in a midsummer night’s dream. . . .

A good back-to-school gift for College of the Canyons would be a calculator.

The school underestimated the cost of restarting football and adding women’s soccer by about $70,000.

“When you’re dealing with athletic budgets, you’re going to have some oversights,” Athletic Director Len Mohney said.

Mohney said the estimate for a football practice field and the soccer field was between $25,000 and $30,000.

The actual cost is about $100,000, most of it going to the soccer facility.

“That was to level it, put in sprinklers, the whole shot,” Mohney said. “We’re just waiting for that grass to grow.”

He doesn’t know where the money to cover the discrepancy is coming from.

Canyons last played football in 1981.

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Former Cal State Northridge linebacker Marc Goodson, who has gone Hollywood, someday could be the “Son of Kojak” in a flick.

Goodson and his bold dome can be seen in the comedy “BASEketball,” in which he portraits the enforcer on a team.

Before going to Northridge as a junior in 1996, Goodson was in football hiatus and installing kitchen cabinets to make a buck. Last spring, he went to a Matador practice in a limo.

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The next Western State Conference meeting could be in . . . Arizona?

Aviva Kamin, longtime WSC commissioner, is commuting between her Manhattan Beach home-office and Tucson, where she recently started a new job.

She said it’ll be business as usual at the WSC and Chuck Ferrero, Valley’s athletic director, agrees.

“Everyone in our conference would rather have her be the commissioner that way than hire someone else,” Ferrero said. “She’s a very capable person.”

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After years in a coma, Pierce’s football team could snap out of it next season.

The Brahmas, losers of 28 consecutive games, play East L.A. on Sept. 26 and Canyons on Oct. 10.

Canyons and East L.A. are fielding teams for the first time in years.

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The crowd for Canyons-Pierce at 4 p.m. probably will show up at Brahmaland in the same taxi.

One hour earlier, Northridge is scheduled to host Division I-AA power Montana in a Big Sky Conference game at North Campus Stadium.

Montana, which last year averaged 17,987 fans at home and 13,532 on the road, is liable to bring a legion all the way from Missoula.

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An old Neil Diamond-Barbra Streisand hit could be on the lips of Northridge’s football opponents in the fall:

You don’t bring [us] Flowers anymore.

But if the crooners want to see Northridge’s record-setting quarterback from the last two seasons, they can stop by a Matador practice.

Aaron Flowers is a graduate assistant.