What college fanbases are following freestyle now?

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Penn State has a lot of active guys competing.  Minny, Lehigh, Ok State, Cornell each have 1 guy competing.  Iowa has Spencer Lee.

Aside from Penn State are any of these other college fanbases even watching men's freestyle?  Seems odd to have such low representation/view interest across the US.

 

[okokzach]

Ok State has 7 guys competing at senior Worlds (6 freestyle, 1 Greco). The fans are definitely watching 

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

1 minute ago, okokzach said:

Ok State has 7 guys competing at senior Worlds (6 freestyle, 1 Greco). The fans are definitely watching 

I stand corrected - who are the 6 freestylers?  The OK St forum seems to hardly be discussing it.

[okokzach]

45 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

I stand corrected - who are the 6 freestylers?  The OK St forum seems to hardly be discussing it.

55kg: Jayden Raney  (Greco)

57kg: Roman Bravo-Young

57kg: Rin Sakamoto

61kg: Jax Forrest

74kg: Mirzo Khayitov

86kg: Zahid Valencia 

125kg: Wyatt Hendrickson

[Caveira]

I saw the stands at u20 on flo’s vids.  Freestyle fan bases are pretty abysmal.   There may have been more psu wrestlers on the squad than fans in the seats. 

[alex1fly]

17 hours ago, Caveira said:

I saw the stands at u20 on flo’s vids.  Freestyle fan bases are pretty abysmal.   There may have been more psu wrestlers on the squad than fans in the seats. 

International freestyle is a mess. I've seen junior high sports that are better organized and better attended. It's embarrassing anytime I try to share it with a non-fan and annoying when I try to watch anything. This is where Flo has actually been helpful with being able to find replays. Though that takes someone to go through all the footage and upload/code each match separately which they don't always do but I'm grateful when they do!

[Caveira]

33 minutes ago, alex1fly said:

International freestyle is a mess. I've seen junior high sports that are better organized and better attended. It's embarrassing anytime I try to share it with a non-fan and annoying when I try to watch anything. This is where Flo has actually been helpful with being able to find replays. Though that takes someone to go through all the footage and upload/code each match separately which they don't always do but I'm grateful when they do!

Fair. I just want the annual freestyle style rule changes being pushed on folkstyle to stop.    That Along with the narrative that the world stage is more important to justify said stylistic changes.  some even go so far as say just dump folkstyle altogether.   

the narrative that we’re not competitive enough on the world stage is also nonsense imo.  Somehow our u20 team just dominated to world first place …. All while pesky folkstyle didn’t somehow ruin them!   

Folkstyle is a far more entertaining product.   Let’s keep it that way.   

[Coastal]

19 hours ago, okokzach said:

55kg: Jayden Raney  (Greco)

57kg: Roman Bravo-Young

57kg: Rin Sakamoto

61kg: Jax Forrest

74kg: Mirzo Khayitov

86kg: Zahid Valencia 

125kg: Wyatt Hendrickson

It's going to take some time before OKST gets back into freestyle as RBY and Valencia haven't been with the Cowboy club long enough to really build a fanbase,  Sakamoto lost his only varsity match and Khayitov isn't much of a prospect, failing to win NJCAA last year.   Most people still think of Air Force when they think Hendrickson

Raney and Forrest should have them excited but it might take a few more cycles of having contending recruits for fans to go out of their way to pay attention.

[bnwtwg]

7 hours ago, Caveira said:

 

the narrative that we’re not competitive enough on the world stage is also nonsense imo.  Somehow our u20 team just dominated to world first place …. All while pesky folkstyle didn’t somehow ruin them!   

That's an age group trophy. Seniors is all that matters when it's all said and done. It's not like anyone is saying "That Richie Lewis was the baddest dude I know! He won a U23 world title!" And don't forget the Fix vs Lee slander on Lee's age group accomplishments that was being brought up merely months ago as further proof.