Why Florida postponed its O'Connell Center renovation, and fired its contractor

Rob Foldy-USA TODAY SportsFlorida announced in late February that it was postponing its announced renovations of the O'Connell Center one year, from the period from March 2015 to December 2015 to the same span in 2016.

But we didn't really know why back then, just that, in Florida's words, "an aggressive schedule, escalating costs associated with the rehabilitation project and a change in the construction management team contributed to the decision."

Thanks to fantastic work from The Gainesville Sun's Jeff Schweers in a detailed story on the decision published Saturday, we can decipher that sentence: Florida fired contractor Charles Perry Partners Inc. (CPPI) after the Gainesville firm failed…