Your thoughts on which colleges should bring back (or start) wrestling?

[Sheerstress]

15 minutes ago, ionel said:

No love for Rhode Island or Alaska?

Alaska-Fairbanks once had a team.

[ScarletKnight]

Seton Hall, Syracuse, notre dame, Clemson, ucla, temple, Boise st, LSU, Oregon, Auburn.  Some of those teams had champions.  

Who has brought a team back beside Bucknell and Fresno St? 

 

[ionel]

7 minutes ago, ScarletKnight said:

Seton Hall, Syracuse, notre dame, Clemson, ucla, temple, Boise st, LSU, Oregon, Auburn.  Some of those teams had champions.  

Who has brought a team back beside Bucknell and Fresno St? 

 

Stanford, sort of, yeah pretty sure it was gone.

Edited February 19, 2023 by ionel

[ScarletKnight]

10 minutes ago, ionel said:

Stanford, sort of, yeah pretty sure it was gone.

Pretty unlikely then. Bucknell did as a requirement to accept a big donation. 

[ionel]

For all those complaining about losing programs and wanting to add new ones, look at who supported Stanford and who tried to raid the program.  

[Fadzaev2]

Portland State

[gimpeltf]

1 minute ago, Fadzaev2 said:

Portland State

That's not the real Rick Sanders!

[Fadzaev2]

3 hours ago, gimpeltf said:

That's not the real Rick Sanders!

You could've fooled me ....here's the same one. 

[gimpeltf]

1 minute ago, Fadzaev2 said:

You could've fooled me ....here's the same one. 

For those unaware- He's the hairy one on the right!

[Fadzaev2]

3 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

You could've fooled me ....here's the same one. 

[TexRef]

On 2/18/2023 at 3:34 PM, AKHUNTER said:

because the conference they are joining has ALL schools with wrestling.

With schools joining without wrestling.............. COULD it be possible some present schools in the future drop the sport?

They would start to resemble the Big 12

[TexRef]

I think there are some obvious schools, Slippery Rock a.k.a. The Rock, Miami of Ohio, Portland State, Oregon, Boise State, Utah State, UC Davis, UCLA, Fresno State, Long Beach State, Clemson, LSU, Florida, & UNO. The western states need more programs. 

It would be nice to see 10-12 JUCOs in Texas add wrestling. They could be their own conference. 

[scourge165]

17 minutes ago, TexRef said:

I think there are some obvious schools, Slippery Rock a.k.a. The Rock, Miami of Ohio, Portland State, Oregon, Boise State, Utah State, UC Davis, UCLA, Fresno State, Long Beach State, Clemson, LSU, Florida, & UNO. The western states need more programs. 

It would be nice to see 10-12 JUCOs in Texas add wrestling. They could be their own conference. 

It's been estimated that it would cost a power 5 ~20M to add a Wrestling Program. Stanford didn't have the start-up costs...and there's no way that'd be the price to put together Juco's in Texas. 

But I know there have been a few programs cut DESPITE people coming in and offering to fund it. I believe Marquette was one, but there have been others.

[scourge165]

On 2/18/2023 at 3:36 PM, ionel said:

Should all the current b10s be required to add men's volleyball and water polo?

I don't follow. Do all the B1G teams have those sports?

There's long been a myth that it was part of the B1G Charter that you had to have a Wrestling program. I believe now you have to have every sport, BUT two. A maximum of #2 sports you don't offer the rest of the B1G does. But even that's something that I've never seen in writing, it's just passed around like fact.

 

It DOES really feel like the B1G should have Wrestling. It'd be like the SEC dropping Football or Big East dropping Basketball.

You REALLY could free up a whole lot of room by lowering the # of scholarships in Football. Just drop it to 80 and that'd make a world of difference. But...no reason to pluck the feathers of the Golden Goose.

[1032004]

On 2/18/2023 at 8:19 PM, manatree said:

All of the current schools have softball, will you insist that USC comply? 

Considering they have beach volleyball, rowing, and water polo (and men’s baseball), seems odd that they don’t.

[Fadzaev2]

12 hours ago, Fadzaev2 said:

Portland State

Here's a link to all the all-americans from Portland State, mostly division II, but some division I  .....maybe Saunders, Yatabe and Dan Russell with the most division I finishes.  There are four pages of all-americans you can navigate through here.  Fadz     https://nwhof.org/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame/champions-database?school=203

[Fadzaev2]

2 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

Here's a link to all the all-americans from Portland State, mostly division II, but some division I  .....maybe Saunders, Yatabe and Dan Russell with the most division I finishes.  There are four pages of all-americans you can navigate through here.  Fadz     https://nwhof.org/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame/champions-database?school=203

Here is a link to Marlin Grahn their Hall of Fame wrestling coach and a lot of what he accomplished there.   https://goviks.com/honors/portland-state-athletics-hall-of-fame/marlin-grahn/24   Fadz

Edited February 20, 2023 by Fadzaev2

[Fadzaev2]

16 hours ago, ionel said:

No love for Rhode Island or Alaska?

 

15 hours ago, Sheerstress said:

Alaska-Fairbanks once had a team.

Alaska Pacific once had wrestling.

[ionel]

9 hours ago, scourge165 said:

I don't follow. Do all the B1G teams have those sports?

There's long been a myth that it was part of the B1G Charter that you had to have a Wrestling program. I believe now you have to have every sport, BUT two. A maximum of #2 sports you don't offer the rest of the B1G does. But even that's something that I've never seen in writing, it's just passed around like fact.

 

It DOES really feel like the B1G should have Wrestling. It'd be like the SEC dropping Football or Big East dropping Basketball.

You REALLY could free up a whole lot of room by lowering the # of scholarships in Football. Just drop it to 80 and that'd make a world of difference. But...no reason to pluck the feathers of the Golden Goose.

Its a myth, what about soccer?

I mentioned the football scholarship cut option to a football coach a decade ortho ago, rather ridiculous the excuss he gave for why that wouldn't work.  

[AKHUNTER]

On 2/19/2023 at 12:17 PM, ionel said:

No love for Rhode Island or Alaska?

bit of a commute from here to um...........ANYWHERE

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, AKHUNTER said:

bit of a commute from here to um...........ANYWHERE

Well ... sure ... that may be the problem.  Did they ever complete the bridge/road to nowhere and who could find RI even if they were looking?  Although, Russia is big into wrestling and its my understand you can see Sarah Palin's back yard from Russia, so ...  

[AKHUNTER]

Just now, ionel said:

Well ... sure ... that may be the problem.  Did they ever complete the bridge/road to nowhere and who could find RI even if they were looking?  Although, Russia is big into wrestling and its my understand you can see Sarah Palin's back yard from Russia, so ...  

lol......

that bridge to nowhere........ (would have opened up some land for development just across the narrows from Ketchican) but I digress ........... Alaska got the $$$ but Plain supposedly spent it elsewhere. which I guess was allowed.

[ionel]

1 minute ago, AKHUNTER said:

lol......

that bridge to nowhere........ (would have opened up some land for development just across the narrows from Ketchican) but I digress ........... Alaska got the $$$ but Plain supposedly spent it elsewhere. which I guess was allowed.

And I was just joking.  I hated the way they portrayed Alaska's funding, there's a good reason they need more dollars spent per capita on airports than any other state, etc. 

[scourge165]

10 hours ago, ionel said:

Its a myth, what about soccer?

I mentioned the football scholarship cut option to a football coach a decade ortho ago, rather ridiculous the excuss he gave for why that wouldn't work.  

I don't know what you're saying. What about soccer?

[ionel]

19 minutes ago, scourge165 said:

I don't know what you're saying. What about soccer?

Not all b10s have men's soccer, they should.