Recruiting international wrestlers

[cangemi]

Not sure rules either. But PSU usually getting are best. Similar to NBA basketball. Is there a way to get more international wrestlers. Then I guess does it translate to folk style . 3 point takedown. Should be OK.

 

Just thinking outside box. PSU dominating.  Love to see parity.

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by cangemi

[ionel]

3 minutes ago, cangemi said:

Not sure rules either. But PSU usually getting are best. Similar to NBA basketball. Is there a way to get more international wrestlers. Then I guess does it translate to folk style . 3 point takedown. Should be OK.

 

Just thinking outside box. PSU dominating.  Love to see parity.

 

 

Who has Penn St got?

[CHROMEBIRD]

The problem is that international athletes aren't eligible for NIL under their F-1 visa. There were loopholes to the employment & compensation restrictions, but it sounds like it's even more  of a grey area after the House settlement and the risk would shift from the athlete to the school now:

"Historically, NIL-related immigration compliance was seen as a concern only for individual athletes. If international student-athletes violated the terms of their F-1 visa, the consequences —- visa revocation, deportation, or reentry denial —- were theirs alone to bear... [But] with schools now positioned to directly compensate athletes, they face heightened exposure to legal risks, including civil and criminal penalties, reputational harm, and potential loss of federal funding, if they directly compensate international student-athletes on their rosters who are not authorized for employment by the Department of Homeland Security."

Programs like the Ivies, Stanford, Northwestern, UM, UVA, etc. with elite academics could sidestep this and sell international recruits on the piece of paper they'd receive upon graduation, but obtaining an F-1 under the current administration is a far more burdensome (and slow, because they're backlogged) process now, with the screening & vetting, travel bans, and wait times. The DHS has also proposed changes to F-1 rules that would require international students to reapply and go through the process all over again, before their academic term is complete. I like the idea of bringing in more athletes from overseas, but competing here just isn't a super attractive option for international wrestlers.

[CHROMEBIRD]

Also IIRC someone suggested previously that Ono would be on a J-1 (cultural exchange visa) with PSU, but I don't think it gets him around NIL & compensation. He's going to PSU because he loves the sport and is willing to wrestle under Cael on his own dime. Probably not a ton of guys out there like that.