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In a sport like wrestling you could argue a distinction between revenue +/- teams doesn’t need to be made since it’s an individual sport. Smaller schools regularly produce AAs and even champs and in a sport like football you might have a handful of small school first team AAs.

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Got a buddy who still wrestles club at Akron and allegedly UA and Kent State are in a race to fund and field D1 women’s programs. Any news/anecdotes on other schools looking to do the same? Note: UA just got a new president who sold a sports agency to IMG for several million almost a decade ago and has publicly stated putting together a respectable NIL is on his to do list. School/donors bought new UA branded mats this week, as opposed to the old HS mats in a ratty old gym the club was on.

J Jaggers and Bo Jordan both clear $100k salaries as assistants, they’d have no problem throwing $400k plus at Ryan’s successor.

Unfortunately they will likely never join the B10 for football after seeing how Penn State faired competing with a conference schedule…

If they could pull that off with the right guy leading the fundraising to bring back the program, they’d be a top 10 team within 5 years. No shot he walks away young like Cael though, right?

Syracuse is one that has always been a head scratcher why they dropped to begin with and why it hasn’t returned. Would be nice to have another power 5 school in NY (Cornell is essentially a P5 school at this point).

Pretty sure he runs a club in Cbus, too?

That would be great, actually. If anyone would be able to persuade the AD, it'd be Freeman.

Wow. Not surprised, though. Cleveland State is teetering on the brink of collapse, as well. NDC has always been known as a "sports school" and not much for academics.

The rise of women's wrestling has to be enticing to some degree, right? You'd think Title IX wouldn't really be an issue from that standpoint if the school got a large enough donation to fund both men's and women's programs, or even share an endowment.

The whole Boise State situation never made much sense to me. I'm in the process of writing up a journal on the success the non-Power 5 schools have had at NCAAs since 2000. Boise was a staple in the top 25 really until the program got cut, with a few top 10 finishes. Not allowing the program to continue even with self-funding is asinine. Hopefully the program makes a comeback sooner than later.

I hadn't been able to find any articles detailing that, but it makes sense. I figured something else had happened to cut the program, but still cruddy overall. Marquette would be another interesting one to see revived. Given the success of AWA, I gotta imagine they could land a few of their studs that wanna stay in state, just not for Bono lol. Fingers crossed more and more smaller schools like Little Rock and Morgan State return.

Had a few buddies wrestle there. There were rumblings that they would try to move up to D1 after the success they had. But after Anthony Ralph left for tOSU, they weren't quite as dominant.

Indiana has tons of talent and ND has a notoriously large athletic budget, not to mention a very wealthy alumni network. Never realized that the program got cut despite being privately endowed... AD shuffled the funds around to women's sports after the donor passed in '91. Imagine Mason Parris, Jesse Mendez, Christian Carroll, etc. staying home. Would probably be ACC champs/runners-up on a regular basis. Any other examples of major colleges shafting their wrestling programs like ND? ANGRY ND WRESTLERS FEEL MAT WAS RIPPED FROM UNDER THEM – Chicago Tribune