In season 16, Toccoa Panthers were relegated from league USA III.5
I know being promoted to IV for the first time is a challenging time,
hrudey, while I appreciate your great concern for OUR team, I must request that you stop slandering the name of this fine franchise. They have fought tooth and nail for this country and clawed their way into D3 to see their dreams ripped out by a 3-19 season in which they RELEGATED back into D4. They need much coddling and encouragement to come back from that type of beating and your criticism is not helping. We must treat them as babies or small children so they don't go down the road of shame like Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Jose Canseco, and Cory Feldman to name a few. We must lift them up in this time of urgency and help them rise from the ashes back to the glory days when they were at the pinnacle of D4.
I had seen that bit about demotion but I thought that was merely more attack propaganda spread by the anti-Panther media in order to attack them for not meeting the expectations one would expect from a D IV team. It's truly sad the length these America-haters will go to to bring down our beloved franchise.
I'm not sure that coddling is the way to go. After all, steel is tempered by fire, not cotton candy. We all expect, nay demand, that this franchise live up to its place in America's hearts, and if the current batch of foreign usurpers can not deliver the goods, we need to know now.