Bloomsburg Job

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

Anyone have any idea what they’re doing? I know Willie talked about it on Rockfin but I didn’t get around to listening. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

37 minutes ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

Anyone have any idea what they’re doing? I know Willie talked about it on Rockfin but I didn’t get around to listening. 

 

[The Kid]

Well, the writing is on the wall.

Can you read it?

Wrestling is dead in the PSAC.

Clarion, Bloom. Lock Haven, and Edinboro are on life support.

The plug may be getting pulled soon.

What a shame.  I'm glad to lived through the good times.  They are long gone for the PSAC 

 

[flyingcement]

7 hours ago, The Kid said:

Well, the writing is on the wall.

Can you read it?

Wrestling is dead in the PSAC.

Clarion, Bloom. Lock Haven, and Edinboro are on life support.

The plug may be getting pulled soon.

What a shame.  I'm glad to lived through the good times.  They are long gone for the PSAC 

 

I'm passing on some excellent knowledge from @gimpeltf that I had saved down on my desktop:

"1. Back in the day (40s-50s in particular) the top 4 wrestling colleges in the state sent their coaches out to local high schools to give clinics as the sport was in its HS infancy. Those areas where the colleges were became the states hot spots. One might surprise you. In no particular order-

A. Western Pa (WPIAL)- Pitt (Rex Peery)

B. North Central Pa- Penn State (Doc Speidel)

C Eastern Pa- Lehigh (Sheridan/Leeman)

D. South Central Pa- F&M (Believe it or not- they were among the top teams in the country back in the day) (Uncle Charley Mayser)

2. The State College system. Used to be known as the State Teachers Colleges. Several of them have dropped over the years. The PSAC was never a qualifying conference but the league tournament was one of the best in the country. 

So what would happen is that a kid would wrestle in HS, go to one of these colleges to wrestle and to become a teacher. Would get a job as a teacher and a coach and the cycle would continue in an upward motion."

Really goes to show how PA became so good at wrestling in the first place and how PSAC (State Teachers Colleges) deserves a cherished place in wrestling history as a conference.  

Edited July 3 by flyingcement

[Animal197]

Rumor from this spring is that Slippery Rock University has a donor willing to reinstate an NCAA program. I’m from that part of PA, so I heard this from an alum. Has anyone else heard anything about SRU? They have a framework in place with an NCWA team, it would be nice to see this program back, even if it would be D2

[Eagle26]

On 7/2/2024 at 5:33 PM, The Kid said:

Well, the writing is on the wall.

Can you read it?

Wrestling is dead in the PSAC.

Clarion, Bloom. Lock Haven, and Edinboro are on life support.

The plug may be getting pulled soon.

What a shame.  I'm glad to lived through the good times.  They are long gone for the PSAC 

 

Lock Haven has one of their best recruiting classes in quite some time coming in this year and has done a respectable job under Coach Moore. I don’t think they are in as bad of a situation as the others, but yes the whole college landscape is changing and it’s going to be tough for all these small state schools to survive 

 

[flyingcement]

To add a little more color in case folks around the country weren't following the PA college scene:

To benefit from economies of scale, the state colleges of Pennsylvania are due to consolidate into two:

1) Pennsylvania Western University (Penn West): Edinboro, Clarion, California

2) Commonwealth University: Lock Haven, Bloomsburg, Mansfield

There was originally talk about the campuses maintaining separate athletic identities, but knowing administrators and bureaucrats, I could see them being consolidated as well (this is pessimistic speculation so don't mind me)

[flyingcement]

I hope its Stutzman although I'm not sure if that boat has sailed or if there could be appetite for a reunion.  I don't think we need to worry about it being a repeat situation.  And if so, they both did well together.  But "a man never walks in the same river twice.  He's not the same man and its not the same river"