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What if colleges could only use home state athletes?

Jimmy Cinnabon

By Jimmy Cinnabon
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4 hours ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

Imagine, hypothetically, that NCAA athletes had to be residents of the state in which a college is located.  In other words, Penn State could only use Pennsylvania wrestlers, Iowa could only use Iowa wrestlers, Ohio State could only use Ohio wrestlers, etc.

How would this change the current landscape of best D1 wrestling programs, if at all?

I imagine Penn State and Ohio State would still be the top 2.  But how about colleges like Illinois or Rutgers?  Maybe Cornell would not be nearly as good and Iowa and Oklahoma State would also drop significantly.

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Harvard would be crushed and drop the sport as a varsity team.  This would trigger a loss of Ivy league status to the sport (Dartmouth, Yale, and Harvard all out), and soon all Ivies would demote to club status.   Without Ivies, EIWA would crumble.  Army, Navy, Lehigh and Patriot league teams (like Lafayette from long ago) would move to club status.  Despite NWCA's best efforts, after EIWA crumbles, other conferences call its quits and NCAA drops the NCAA championship in wrestling.   All NCAA teams go to club.   High school wrestling withers and dies and the sport becomes private clubs practicing freestyle only.  Folkstyle is just a memory for old-timers on message boards.

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3 hours ago, dragit said:

What if there had never been a Constitutional Convention, the Articles of Confederation were still in force, and there was no such thing as interstate commerce?  

Then all pastries would be baked, sold and consumed locally and we'd never have to endure this nonsense. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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22 hours ago, FearTheTurtle said:

How about Kyle Snyder? Moved from Maryland to Colorado and skipped his senior year? Did he kick in the two year window a year early?

Correct.  He sacrificed eligibility, so he gets to pick his own state.   Interesting background story - this was actually ducking.  There was a kid from Cripple Creek that owned him in the room and he didn't want a humiliating runner up finish.

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I think the bigger picture with this rule would affect wrestling in a much deeper way than what is being talked about.  If hypothetically NCCA ATHLETES (not just wrestlers) had to stay in their home states, we would see a lot of wrestling programs go away.  Not because they couldn’t field enough wrestlers BUT they simply could not afford it.  Take a school like Iowa State, their football program, wrestling program and most other programs would go away simply because Iowa is a Hawkeye state, always has been.  The majority of high profiled Iowa high school athletes go Iowa and this would leave schools like Iowa State and UNI without football programs and without football programs other programs such as wrestling and rowing simply cannot sustain.  So if this hypothetical rule actually did happen, it would kill D1 wrestling as we know it, among many other D1 sports.

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4 minutes ago, Twooooo said:

I think the bigger picture with this rule would affect wrestling in a much deeper way than what is being talked about.  If hypothetically NCCA ATHLETES (not just wrestlers) had to stay in their home states, we would see a lot of wrestling programs go away.  Not because they couldn’t field enough wrestlers BUT they simply could not afford it.  Take a school like Iowa State, their football program, wrestling program and most other programs would go away simply because Iowa is a Hawkeye state, always has been.  The majority of high profiled Iowa high school athletes go Iowa and this would leave schools like Iowa State and UNI without football programs and without football programs other programs such as wrestling and rowing simply cannot sustain.  So if this hypothetical rule actually did happen, it would kill D1 wrestling as we know it, among many other D1 sports.

True.  For example, Nebraska could not field a competitive FB team to finance their athletic department.  TX on the other hand...

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