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2 hours ago, Greenwave said:

They may be following Buffalo to see if that program gets dropped.

Why would Buffalo affect them??

14 minutes ago, Tigerfan said:

Rest assured, Smith does NO ONE wrong. Not the kid who cuts his grass, not his assistants, and certainly not his wrestlers. He has earned his rep as above reproach. I trust his judgment. 
 

I think it’s similar, albeit not identical, to the Ellis/Bradley situation in 2009. Ellis/Hawks was the established guy with great potential, while Bradley/Whiting was the hotshot recruit. Smith took some crap for not starting Bradley as a Frosh, but Ellis went on to a title that year. Pritts was not shy about his preference for Bradley and left for ASU soon thereafter. Bradley obviously holds no ill will about the situation as he’s currently on staff. 

Bradly talked about this on the “Go Earn it” podcast with Shane Sparks. Check it out if you’re a fan of either, talks in depth about this topic. 

1 hour ago, Animal197 said:

I think NIL is tricky for foreign student-athletes. They come via a student visa, which technically does not allow them to work the same as a domestic student. I think this was in the news recently regarding a basketball player from Canada who could not participate in NIL

Zach Edey from Purdue. National player of the year 2x and is unable to get NIL monday  

I say him talking about his shaft is more indicative of him not coming back than his weight class for OTT. 

35 minutes ago, Greenwave said:

Would they drop to D2, AD and CoAd have no ties to wrestling or building sports program's.   He raised a lot of money for Memphis for basketball but that’s when CAL was there and then was let go.

I can’t imagine any program being willing to drop to d2, probably not a great look for a school. 

After more digging, Buffalo currently sponsors 6 men’s sports and 8 women’s sports. This is the exact minimum of men’s teams a university can have to be considered D1.

“Division 1 schools must sponsor seven men's and seven women's sports at a minimum, or six men's sports and eight women's sports at a minimum.”

Buffalo is trapped with wrestling, unless they want to add another men’s sport to cut wrestling or drop to d2 or whatever that process would look like. 

23 minutes ago, Greenwave said:

Feels like the bomb will be coming out of the blue, AD has no idea of concerns.   Will they follow EMU as next MAC program to drop wrestling.

2 hours ago, Winners Circle said:

100%. Unfortunately sounds like we're on the fast track to UB dropping. 

Why do we think this when they posted the job, mentioned a new hire being announced, and mentioned looking towards the future?

Also, they are saying they will announce the new coach in the coming weeks. Hopefully the AD and Stutzman didn’t get along, and not the AD hates wrestling. 

“I do feel that the future is going to be very bright for our wrestling program,” he (AD) said.

Hopefully they’re not looking for an excuse to cut it, but an excuse to better the program. 

28 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

He who shall not be named?

Like I said, I remembered seeing the announcement about Martori retiring, I  didn’t realize that meant the club was closing…

But let’s name him, just for those who may not know who you mean…not me of course, I know “he who shall not be named” but the others.

Seems more like a changing of guards rather than anything else in my opinion. I assume asu will continue to have an RTC, like every other college program. Maybe I’m wrong though.

https://thesundevils.com/documents/2024/2/20/After_winning_over_100_World_and_Olympic_Medals__Sunkist_KIds_Wrestling_Club_Closing_After_Four_Decades.pdf

26 minutes ago, Dakota said:

Why is Florida off this list?? Are they adding one, that I missed?

Florida, GA, Texas (adding one currently) all need a school the recognizes that they are “good” Hs wrestling states and can have success and attract in state talent.
 

hopefully we see a day where all states have a D1 team, but those three are a good start.  

I don’t get how we can’t get a full 10 weights, they’re already doing the event, paying for venue, promotion(?), mats, referees, TV/streaming, etc.

the cost of adding weights is much less than the cost of adding a new sport or whatever’s 

To break the mold on this thread, besides his name, I don’t know much about him. 
 

he sounds pretty good though, I don’t know how good though 

57 minutes ago, jackwebster said:

Gotcha. Let's agree to agree.

Never

1 hour ago, jackwebster said:

I'm sorry. I tried, but I can't resist following up: he is singing a song about macho-men disfiguring themselves to signal that they are macho to a decidedly non-macho post-punk-electro-Kraftwerk-Gary Nyman track. It's absurd. But "terrible"? It might not be funny (eye of the beholder, and the like), but didn't it achieve the purpose, I.e. to be ridiculously stupid?

 

Edit: isn't it just beneath contempt?

Idk what half this means, it is ridiculously stupid, like you said, not sure how that differs from “terrible”

8 hours ago, jackwebster said:

 

This was horrible, I don’t generally mind Adam Sandler but wtf is he doing singing about some dudes ears.

I hadn’t heard of this, seems like old news, but still love to hear it! 
 

https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/college/wrestling/2023/02/01/felician-university-to-add-mens-and-womens-wrestling-in-2024/69855955007/

What an idiotic and pessimistic post, schools are adding wrestling, albeit at smaller schools, at a good rate. Be positive brotha! 

3 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Not rumblings.   But yeah, could be leaving or could just be moving to a different one

 

 

Solid house tbh

13 hours ago, Tom formerly Tofurky said:

I hope it works for them. Mike Wehler seems like a really good dude.

However, with them being a Catholic University, what is the cost for a school to move from Division II to Division I?

Mercyhurst has an enrollment of somewhere between 2,500 to 4,500 (the data isn't clear), and with an all-in cost of just south of $60,000 a year (this year), and an endowment of around $40 million, they may have to look at "trimming the fat."

I’m biased, but they can remove 2 men rowing teams, a women’s rowing team, men+ women’s water polo, and women’s bowling before they start to look at wrestling.

3 hours ago, BobDole said:

Askren won't last long at the college level where they have to abide by rules with recruiting and contact of prospective athletes. He would be a thorn in the side of compliance.

Yeah idk why people say this. Askren is a goof but he seems like a good dude. Based on what I’ve seen on FRL and YouTube, at least. 

27 minutes ago, jchapman said:

Is that right?

I’d buy a shirt, at a minimum and root for them in all matches except against Purdue. 

Holy shit if Askren goes to Wisconsin I’ll become the biggest fan overnight. 

On 4/8/2024 at 5:44 PM, lisa morales said:

Wouldn't it be incredible if it turns out these two are actually intelligent and choose a decent school for academics.  Lehigh, or Ivy League, instead of any state U.

I know so little about them but my gut feel has been cornell for some reason.