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And the U. of Oklahoma's new head coach is:  Roger Kish.   Can he, the Sooners and Mizzou help inspire the Southeastern Athletic Conference (S.E.C.) to reinstate wrestling as an officially sanctioned sport in that conference?   Stay tuned.   The S.E.C. used to be a strong wrestling conference as recently as the 1980s...

https://nwcaonline.com/news/2023/5/2/national-wrestling-coaches-association-oklahoma-names-roger-kish-head-wrestling-coach.aspx

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7 minutes ago, TitleIX is ripe for reform said:

And the U. of Oklahoma's new head coach is:  Roger Kish.   Can he, the Sooners and Mizzou help inspire the Southeastern Athletic Conference (S.E.C.) to reinstate wrestling as an officially sanctioned sport in that conference?   Stay tuned.   The S.E.C. used to be a strong wrestling conference as recently as the 1980s...

https://nwcaonline.com/news/2023/5/2/national-wrestling-coaches-association-oklahoma-names-roger-kish-head-wrestling-coach.aspx

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Admittedly the S.E.C. requires member schools to have a quantity of teams that happens to be lower than quantities required by the Big 10, etc.   Perhaps they'll add women's wrestling in the S.E.C. though, so they can continue to be a football powerhouse conference even as Title IX: Proportionality remains a (declining?) factor.   Having successful wrestling programs such as Mizzou and the Sooners could help the process along in the S.E.C.   We can be the change that we want to see...    

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1 minute ago, TitleIX is ripe for reform said:

Admittedly the S.E.C. requires member schools to have a quantity of teams that happens to be lower than quantities required by the Big 10, etc.   Perhaps they'll add women's wrestling though, so they can continue to be a football powerhouse conference.   Having successful programs such as Mizzou and the Sooners could help the process along.    

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11 minutes ago, ionel said:

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I'm not really clued in but it sounds like you're saying SEC is done with all forms of wrestling for the rest of eternity.  Which sounds quite possible even if unfortunate 

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1 minute ago, flyingcement said:

I'm not really clued in but it sounds like you're saying SEC is done with all forms of wrestling for the rest of eternity.  Which sounds quite possible even if unfortunate 

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1 minute ago, ionel said:

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Even if the concept of gender gets nullified by the Supreme Court, and Title IX becomes obsolete, it will just be viewed as a non revenue sport that doesn't have as deep a history in the region

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Mizzu finally got back in the B12 and they've got a pretty good program.  Does anyone really think they want to join OU in an SEC conference that'll never happen.  Do we think Kish was lured to OU with promises of being the top dog in the new SEC conference of 2 men's and 10 women's teams?  ;_;

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46 minutes ago, ionel said:

Mizzu finally got back in the B12 and they've got a pretty good program.  Does anyone really think they want to join OU in an SEC conference that'll never happen.  Do we think Kish was lured to OU with promises of being the top dog in the new SEC conference of 2 men's and 10 women's teams?  ;_;

That brings up an interesting question.  Not sure if this has already been addressed, but will OU be allowed to stay in the Big 12 for wrestling?  Mizzou wanted to stay, but the conference was all butthurt that they left and refused to let them.  It took them 10 years to come to their senses and let them return.  

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11 minutes ago, KCMO2 said:

That brings up an interesting question.  Not sure if this has already been addressed, but will OU be allowed to stay in the Big 12 for wrestling?  Mizzou wanted to stay, but the conference was all butthurt that they left and refused to let them.  It took them 10 years to come to their senses and let them return.  

I dont think anyone yet knows if that's been sorted out or yet approved.  Pretty sure OU has to go thru a process to request being in the B12 for wrestling.  I'd expect that will be a little easier more formal now that Mizzu was accepted.  I'm not sure "butt hurt" is the right term, it was a kindve a first time for that situation so even though wrestling coaches wanted them to stay bit of a different story for the high level money folks.

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17 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

More like OU is tanking the program to drop it as they join the SEC. Ask Duckworth.

This would be very sad indeed.

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7 minutes ago, mspart said:

This would be very sad indeed.

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Think they would have done that after the first couple turned it down.  They have to give Kish at least 3 to 5 years now but this could be the last hope for the program given the whole SEC thing.  

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7 hours ago, ionel said:

Think they would have done that after the first couple turned it down.  They have to give Kish at least 3 to 5 years now but this could be the last hope for the program given the whole SEC thing.  


What do you think the Sooner wrestling program will have to accomplish in order to continue being a funded NCAA D1 program at the U. of Oklahoma, 5 or 10 years from now?

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18 minutes ago, TitleIX is ripe for reform said:


What do you think the Sooner wrestling program will have to accomplish in order to continue being a funded NCAA D1 program at the U. of Oklahoma, 5 or 10 years from now?

Top 3 in B12 and top 15 D1, maybe finish top 10 once in next 5 to 7 years.   

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8 hours ago, TitleIX is ripe for reform said:

¿Can that be done?

 

Yeah, I dont know, but thats my guess of what they'd want at least.  They might keep the program with less than that but if they do well in the SEC in football, basketball, baseball, softball etc then why would you keep a bottom feeder program thats not even in the conference.  Even though gymnastics is successful, are the any SEC programs and at some point why?  Wouldn't one think that the AD relayed expectations to Kish and vice versa? 

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11 hours ago, ionel said:

>>>why would you keep a bottom feeder program thats not even in the conference.<<<

The Sooners won 7 NCAA D1 men's wrestling championships, as recently as the 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Wrestling_Championships

Maybe no A.D. and alumni association would want to shed a program with such a noticeable tradition of excellence, albeit from yesteryear?   Besides, maybe the Bedlam competitions with Oklahoma State require that a certain minimum quantity of teams participate...   Didn't the Sooners nearly defeat Oklahoma State this past season in wrestling at the first Bedlam?   I just checked and it was close:

https://soonersports.com/sports/wrestling/schedule

On the flipside though, universities have fiscal challenges unlike ever before...   This is becoming increasingly impactful for everyone:

http://www.USDebtClock.org

Hopefully the Sooners will do well with their new coaching staff, then.    

 

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