TitleIX is ripe for reform

Of potential interest: The NJCAA has announced Iowa Western Community College as its host for the NJCAA Wrestling Championships in 2024 and 2025.   Iowa Western will host the two-day national tournament at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, IA, from March 1-2, 2024, and March 7-8, 2025. The event will be held in conjunction with the NJCAA Women's Wrestling Invitational. https://www.njcaa.org/sports/wrest/2022-23/releases/20230427jauort

Thanks for sharing that detail. An article I read on his injury-plagued history yesterday leaves it out by simply mentioning his having had plans to wrestle for Duke only for the family to turn around and for him to wrestle at Mizzou instead.

Swimming lacks scholarships? That's ironic, considering how I've previously been told by a female NCAA D1 scholarship recipient (and friend) that it's a sport that attracts quality students whose families tend to be at least emotionally supportive of them.

Then may the Ferrari brothers work to deserve great things in life, while benefiting the wrestling community.

Meanwhile it has to be appealing having the opportunity to help bring D1 college wrestling back to life in the region. Neighboring Louisiana apparently lacks D1 wrestling just like Texas, and nearby Mississippi barely even has high school wrestling (and has no D1 wrestling). Furthermore, to the west, I'm not aware that neighboring New Mexico has D1 college wrestling, either. Tarleton State is rather centrally located for that underserved land mass. It can inspire the growth of our sport at various levels. Coach Leeth is from Missouri, by the way, but reportedly he almost wrestled at Duke instead of Mizzou. Injuries and bad luck repeatedly set him back. May he flourish at Tarleton State. Incidentally Schreiner U. (in Kerrville, Texas) started off as an NCWA club program (for men & women) about a decade ago and then successfully transitioned to D3.

Is that by law or simply a pragmatic reality? Will matters get much worse once the transition concludes? Sigh... At least we still have the NCWA.

I wonder if the system could be adequately changed to take away prosecutors' incentives to be like that, and disincentives not to be. There's honor in seeing to it that justice is served, after all. But when it costs taxpayers a bundle just to reach that realization, I suppose admitting one's been wrong is not good for prosecutors' future budget approvals, or those of the police. Plus there are risks of being pursued for malicious prosecution, depending upon the jurisdiction. Arizona's state bar authorities now risk owing the accused party's attorneys fees if there's an unfavorable verdict, due to fairly recent reforms. I am unaware of how much that reform may have reduced prosecutors' self-justifying bullying. Conservatives in that state still complain about how difficult it is to find lawyers to embrace their electoral challenges causes. Kari Lake (a recent gubernatorial candidate there who did not prevail) says she'd be relieved just to be able to attract "Better Call Saul" to represent her cases & causes. In moving back to the criminal realm from the administrative, hopefully public defenders and other criminal defense attorneys are not penalized at least indirectly for their standing up for justice. The thought of having a single innocent person rot away in prison due to a timid lack of attorney aggressiveness is upsetting. The Richard Gere movie Red Corner (a well done film from the late 1990s) covers this issue (and more) after he is wrongfully accused of murder... in mainland communist China. A humble female public defense lawyer there takes on his cause though, at great personal risk. That said, keep on keepin' on. And may A.J. Ferrari's future be bright and great for amateur wrestling, etc.

Let's keep our saws sharpened, as the saying goes. That's more benign than "let's keep our gun powder dry". I.e., let's boost wrestling outreach to countries that can help us keep wrestling in the Olympics. We have several in our own backyard: Latin America. Mexico, especially. They've won Olympic medals in TaeKwonDo and wrestling's popularity is trickling down from the USA... Cuba already has its act together, wrestling-wise. Any other countries in our hemisphere come to mind as being particularly viable candidates? Maybe Brazil, even if mainly just for its population's substantial size. Peru comes to mind, too. I don't mean to exclude others, though....

Maybe Tarleton State U. wants more achievement-oriented students, which wrestlers tend to be. I've been looking for their enrollment figures and it seems that they accept 57% of applicants. U. of Texas @ Austin's % is around 29%. Here's contact data for Coach Leeth, soon to be joined by student participants' names, weights and college records (etc.), by the way: https://ncwa.net/teams/tstu R/e UNC, though, I just found this interesting series of statistics to supplement what you shared above: "Lam took over the Carolina wrestling program in 1973-74. Prior to his arrival, the Tar Heels had never won an ACC championship and had only two winning seasons in the previous quarter century. Carolina won 11 matches in Lam's first year, four more than it had won in the previous four years combined. In 1979, his sixth year at UNC, the Tar Heels won their first ACC championship and placed 17th at the NCAA Championships. " https://goheels.com/news/2002/4/16/205462640.aspx

Coach Lam has stated elsewhere that for UNC's first match with him at the helm, five people were in the "crowd". "If I would've looked back 30 years ago, after the first match, I would've said what have I done and left." https://goheels.com/news/2002/11/21/205484038.aspx

Maybe the note I saw an ally leave in another forum was inspired by how California Baptist U. converted its wrestling program into D1. Houston Christian University (formerly Houston Baptist) is already D1, by the way... Here's info. on the college wrestling club scene in Texas nowadays: http://www.ncwa.net/teams

For inspiration, UNC Chapel Hill's NCAA D1 wrestling program (which placed 12th this past season and with an NCAA champ from Illinois if I remember correctly) started off as little more than a club program. Their head coach, Bill Lam, was a marketing executive for Procter & Gamble (I think I read) at the time, too. But he took the lead and the club members improved while trying to build a tradition of excellence for incoming recruits to follow and build upon. That approach worked. Coach Lam (originally from Oklahoma, I seem to recall) met with longstanding Carolina backers and they helped him resolve some challenges that he perceived having. Scholarship money became increasingly available. Weather was also a marketing attraction. They even started scheduling home meets near the Carolina ticket booth right before basketball game days so lots of students would happen to pass by and discover wrestling. Around 85% of UNC's student body is from North Carolina. Meanwhile UNC periodically won the NCAAs in b-ball, as you recall. I wish I could find that perhaps 20 year old article which described the abovementioned info. This might be it, but I don't presently have a reader for its format: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/19690520/why-coach-lam-and-carolina-wrestling-are-synonymous

It seems that this season will be the school's last for men's wrestling. The lone senior ought to wrestle if the alternative is to lose his final year of eligibility. I see that they're adding men's lacrosse in wrestling's place though. An "ESports". Hopefully those esport players won't wear themselves out amidst so much activity.... (sarcasm)

This will help amateur wrestling at the national level, too. Next up: Dallas Baptist U?

Gosh what a moniker. I needed that chuckle. Thank you for it.

So.... back to wrestling... I don't see any Ferrari on the most recent Hawkeyes' wrestling roster: https://hawkeyesports.com/sports/wrestling/roster How many (if any) will be on it in, let's say, 2 years?

My club house? According to you: But thanks for the close-up of that sign. I nevertheless like the low property tax associated with the place. Well, I came here to discuss trying to help wrestling rebound and grow so... Ciao.

I just got through defending a woman here in this thread and am called (through false attribution) a "womun hater" because of it. So presumably only statist, pro-taxation, anti-male women (and their exhibitionist transvestite voter allies) count as real women, then? Got it.

I re-posted it to spare others the grief of having to either: 1) accept as true a negative assertion regarding Ann Coulter (who is at least indirectly an ally for men's wrestling); or 2) hunt down the excerpt on a previous page. Reposting it to rehabilitate its credibility doesn't seem necessary. There were no compelling (or other) rebuttals of the material previously quoted from her in this thread. That said: of potential interest, plenty of college club wrestling teams need help & energy otherwise spent attacking former or eventual wrestling champions: http://www.ncwa.net/teams .

Ann Coulter, call her whatever one will, certainly has been a prolific writer (or at least publisher): https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/ann-coulter/203361/ That doesn't even include articles, such as the following which upset some people here in this forum: https://anncoulter.com/2014/12/17/one-in-five-people-who-write-for-rolling-stone-are-morons/ EXCERPT: "We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped. It’s said that “women never lie about rape!” But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false. The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false." __ She got her university degrees from Cornell & Michigan (Law), which both have fine wrestling programs. I wouldn't be surprised if wrestling has benefited from her sheer existence, too. Administrators know they can't claim cutting men's wrestling is pro-women as long as they know she lurks and will raise points the administrators find discomforting.

I've always thought (without trying to confirm it, as it's none of my business) that his money has been more like seed money, so he can therefore keep spreading the progress in ways that benefit the inicially benefited teams. Either way, what a tremendous asset he and his allies have been to our sport.

Title IX reasons? They appear to have the same quantity of teams for each gender. But they also have American football: https://jewellcardinals.com/

Thanks for sharing this information. Notice how (other than cross country), individualized sports tend to have around the same quantity of participants at the NCAA level? I'm referring to golf, tennis, swimming & of course wrestling. I guess cross country has the lowest overhead since no pool, course, court or indoor training facility is necessary.

Or the right day to help wrestling get on the right track and catch up, NCAA-wise?

So wrestling has over twice the high school participants as lacrosse, but approximately half as many NCAA participants as lacrosse? Maybe because lacrosse has been available to females for far longer, thereby alleviating the pressures to eliminate the men's programs?