Roll Call for New Orleans

[Husker_Du]

I imagine most of you guys won't be coming to New Orleans but if any of you are let us know.

Would love to meet some of you.

[Wrestleknownothing]

30 minutes ago, Husker_Du said:

I imagine most of you guys won't be coming to New Orleans but if any of you are let us know.

Would love to meet some of you.

Safe travels.

[Formally140]

2 hours ago, Husker_Du said:

I imagine most of you guys won't be coming to New Orleans but if any of you are let us know.

Would love to meet some of you.

What’s going on in New Orleans?

[Wrestleknownothing]

20 minutes ago, Formally140 said:

What’s going on in New Orleans?

Collegiate duals.

https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/26203

 

[flyingcement]

I'm not going this year.  Only been once and it was a blast.  Great food and live music everywhere.  Interesting architecture.  

[ionel]

15 minutes ago, flyingcement said:

I'm not going this year.  Only been once and it was a blast.  Great food and live music everywhere.  Interesting architecture.  

Hoping WKN will pick me up on his way down. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

24 minutes ago, ionel said:

Hoping WKN will pick me up on his way down. 

If I was going you would have a ride, but not going to make it this year.

[Idaho]

GO BEAVS!!!!!!

[MidwestMan]

Sure wished Mizzou was competing in the duals.  But I also remember when they wrestled at Reno and had some good results.  Got to think New Orleans would be a fun place to watch wrestling and check out the local scene.  Too bad we don't see more college wrestling programs in the south.  Was actually glad to see wrestling started at Arkansas-Little Rock.  Good luck to all the dual teams.

[Jason Bryant]

I’m announcing in Little Rock on Sunday, but getting to NOLA by Monday morning from a border state proved to be too much of a pain in the ass. Will be watching from my speakeasy.

[Fadzaev2]

10 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Collegiate duals.

https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/26203

 

Looks good!

 

[BerniePragle]

I'd love to shake some hands and have a few laughs.  Maybe one of these years...

[bnwtwg]

@Husker_Du about to go on an all-timer Mardi Gras for 2 months straight

[pcostilow]

15 hours ago, Husker_Du said:

I imagine most of you guys won't be coming to New Orleans but if any of you are let us know.

Would love to meet some of you.

It's going to be a bad weekend to be a Bud Heavy

[Husker_Du]

LFG!

first time in New Orleans so i got in two days early and don't fly out until 6pm the day after.

[TexRef]

4 hours ago, Jason Bryant said:

I’m announcing in Little Rock on Sunday, but getting to NOLA by Monday morning from a border state proved to be too much of a pain in the ass. Will be watching from my speakeasy.

Go eat at the Whole Hog Cafe on Cantrell. It is close to the UALR campus. https://www.wholehogcafe.com/

 

[SetonHallPirate]

4 hours ago, Jason Bryant said:

I’m announcing in Little Rock on Sunday, but getting to NOLA by Monday morning from a border state proved to be too much of a pain in the ass. Will be watching from my speakeasy.

Would not have thought that the only ways to get between Little Rock and New Orleans would be a connecting flight or a rental car...

[Jason Bryant]

4 hours ago, TexRef said:

Go eat at the Whole Hog Cafe on Cantrell. It is close to the UALR campus. https://www.wholehogcafe.com/

 

... Did that the first 2-3 times I went down there. I think my favorite spot so far, aside from Lost Forty Brewing, is Gus's Fried Chicken downtown. 

[Jason Bryant]

3 hours ago, SetonHallPirate said:

Would not have thought that the only ways to get between Little Rock and New Orleans would be a connecting flight or a rental car...

Eight hours in a car after flying into Memphis the morning of, driving 2 hours, announcing, and then driving 7-8 hours more is not my idea of a great wrestling trip. 

[TitleIX is ripe for reform]

Lousiana's due for some more college wrestling teams to emerge, at the enrollment-driven level anyway.   Hopefully these duals (and the growing quantity of college teams in neighboring Arkansas and Texas) can help inspire such a breakthrough.   There's interesting news regarding neighboring Mississippi, below, too...

But first:  as recently as the mid-1980s, Lousiana State University (LSU) was a Top 20 NCAA D1 wrestling powerhouse.   Kevin Jackson transferred to Iowa State when LSU dropped their wrestling preauxgram.  He reached the NCAA finals the following year or so, losing to the Hawkeyes' Royce Alger.   

Meanwhile neighboring Mississippi is making a noteworthy push to get high school wrestling...

https://www.facebook.com/sipwrestling

Furthermore, although neighboring Texas had no college programs left 15 years ago, now it has 5 women's and 4 men's programs at the NAIA or NCAA D2 or D3 levels:   

http://www.Facebook.com/TexasCollegiateWrestling

    Geaux Louisiana.   May the waves of progress increasingly smile upon the region.   We have even seen an NCAA D1 team emerge within it (UALR) in a state where there was barely even high school wrestling 15 or so years ago.   

And did I forget the new college team that is springing up in Alabama?     

 

[SetonHallPirate]

5 hours ago, Jason Bryant said:

Eight hours in a car after flying into Memphis the morning of, driving 2 hours, announcing, and then driving 7-8 hours more is not my idea of a great wrestling trip. 

Don't blame you...I had to look to make sure there was neither a nonstop flight nor, shockingly, even a direct Greyhound bus line between the two (literally requires changes of bus in both Memphis and Baton Rouge, amazingly)!