Absolutely a wrestling topic. One team stole their wrestling endowment to give it to football and then dropped the program. The other program is a team I hate, but not tonite.
They need to: (i) keep the best IL kids home, and (ii) bring in a couple out-of-state blue chips every year. They certainly haven't been doing (i). They seem to focus on very good kids from IL and let other programs peel off the top layer.
Having said that, getting Aaron Stewart is a step in the right direction.
95% of our state qualifiers at 106 are frosh and soph. So just keep it as a frosh/soph weight and drop it at the HS varsity level. Maybe 113 too.
At the college level, drop 125 - all those guys are cutting weight anyways (no athletes walk around at that weight) and let 'em bump up. Then add a 220 class and we're all good.
It's a bad look for Iowa to forfeit two of its wrestlers in the finals of its own tournament. They expect fans to turn up and pay admission to watch forfeits?
I guarantee you these guys want to wrestle and aren't so fragile about losing "in front of the country for no reason." They're both studs who've put it on the line over and over and aren't afraid of doing so again.
Sounds like we're getting conflicting answers. Just to clarify, do ivy athletes get NIL deals - not from the school itself, but from sponsors, coops, nonprofits, etc?
Doesn't this flip have major financial consequences for Correa personally? At MI, scholarship money, NIL cash, and financial aid. At Cornell, just financial aid.
Are Ivies allowed to offer NIL?
I'm guessing that's a personality trait of Chance - not the type to point fingers or place the blame on anyone else but himself. That doesn't necessarily mean the Ok. St. staff is blameless.
Breakfast: pint of Cherry Garcia = 1200 calories
Lunch: pint of Chunky Monkey = 1200 calories
Dinner: pint of Milk & Cookies = 1250 calories
Oof, this is harder than I thought...