It reminded me of the women’s soccer team at Purdue one year trying to create a petition to get their coach fired for basically being mean and yelling, as coaches do….
the AD probably is happy to clean house and get a fresh group in their.
I’m not even overly optimist most the time, but when this guy dedicated entire threads to “what is the next school to drop wrestling” it seems he just likes the topic.
You’re knowledgeable. Do you think his comment about CMU waiting to see if Buffalo drops before deciding if they drop their team holds any weight?
I truly don’t see it happening, but I haven’t been around long enough to know what it looks like before a team gets drops.
Donate to Buffalo for their day of giving and dedicate it to wrestling. The only way for wrestling to maintain its status in the NCAA is through money.
https://ubgivingday.buffalo.edu/giving-day/85918/donate?dept=85935
After more digging, Buffalo currently sponsors 6 men’s sports and 8 women’s sports. This is the exact minimum of men’s teams a university can have to be considered D1.
“Division 1 schools must sponsor seven men's and seven women's sports at a minimum, or six men's sports and eight women's sports at a minimum.”
Buffalo is trapped with wrestling, unless they want to add another men’s sport to cut wrestling or drop to d2 or whatever that process would look like.
Also, they are saying they will announce the new coach in the coming weeks. Hopefully the AD and Stutzman didn’t get along, and not the AD hates wrestling.
“I do feel that the future is going to be very bright for our wrestling program,” he (AD) said.
Hopefully they’re not looking for an excuse to cut it, but an excuse to better the program.
Seems more like a changing of guards rather than anything else in my opinion. I assume asu will continue to have an RTC, like every other college program. Maybe I’m wrong though.
https://thesundevils.com/documents/2024/2/20/After_winning_over_100_World_and_Olympic_Medals__Sunkist_KIds_Wrestling_Club_Closing_After_Four_Decades.pdf
Florida, GA, Texas (adding one currently) all need a school the recognizes that they are “good” Hs wrestling states and can have success and attract in state talent.
hopefully we see a day where all states have a D1 team, but those three are a good start.
I don’t get how we can’t get a full 10 weights, they’re already doing the event, paying for venue, promotion(?), mats, referees, TV/streaming, etc.
the cost of adding weights is much less than the cost of adding a new sport or whatever’s
I hadn’t heard of this, seems like old news, but still love to hear it!
https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/college/wrestling/2023/02/01/felician-university-to-add-mens-and-womens-wrestling-in-2024/69855955007/