billyhoyle

It was tongue in cheek-we already saw from the Koll discussion that most of the head athletic coaches get a generous stipend for housing. Ayres is going to do a great job-probably not as well as Koll would have done, but it kind of reminds me of how VaTech went from Brands (for 1 year) to Dresser.

I completely agree. I feel bad if athletes get suckered into attending a university like GCU and paying thousands more than they should because they added a wrestling program. If this is where the growth of the sport has been, it is completely superficial in my opinion and says just how bad we have been doing with expanding the sport. Read the fine print. They only get a fraction of the ACC TV deal. The move is going to cost them about 15 million per year for the next 7 years, and who knows if the ACC still exists at that point. I guarantee you almost every football program in power 5 conferences is profitable with the TV deals that have been made in the past decade. This of course is going to change for the schools that were part of the Pac12 and couldn't find a good situation. Notre Dame is of course highly profitable as well.

My point is adding more programs at bad universities isn't inherently a good or sustainable approach for the sport of wrestling. Grand Canyon University is the most noteworthy example of this strategy completely backfiring. "Enrollment driven" is another way of saying the university doesn't have much to offer students to get them to go there. The entire premise of NCAA athletics is that you get to compete at your sport while getting an education. It's a terrible/cynical approach for a university to not offer a quality education (or at least have it be bad enough that they can't fill seats) but instead lure in students who are paying through loans most of the time because they will get to compete in their sport at the NAIA/D3 level.

But a D3 school that can't fill its enrollment is probably not going to stay a school for much longer. If anything, these places are using athletes as a way to get them to take out big loans for a questionable quality of education. NESCAC doesn't have this problem. Centennial and UAA don't either.

Jim Jordan: Standup guy. Bo and Micah Jordan: Could not hit a stand up, always chose neutral.

Maybe he is the second coach in a row to apply for the Stanford job, accept it, and only then look at the housing prices in Palo Alto.

If you take away football money, we would see many more programs cut entirely or significantly reduced. Maybe Iowa and PSU can keep going as they are, but forget about places like Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, etc. I'm worried about Oregon State and Stanford with what happened to the PAC12. How exactly does a D3 athlete bring in money for the school? Replace that athlete with a student not participating in athletics and the school would save money from the cost of running the athletic program. The only world in which D3 athletes make money is if there is a very significant alumni donor base for the program (you can probably count on one hand the number of D3 wrestling programs that raise more than they spend) or if the university is such an awful place that it struggles to get full enrollment.

But why get a degree specifically in hotels vs just majoring in something more traditional, going to consulting, getting an MBA. Surely that latter is viewed as a better path to managing any business, including hotels, than an entire degree focused on hotels?

But why would they need multiple majors housed in an entire school that focuses on human ecology? Are people really getting undergrad degrees at Cornell majoring in hotels? Most Ivies don't even have an undergrad business degree because it's deemed to be not academic enough, let alone an entire undergrad program specifically focused on hotel management. It's very unique.

It's just odd that they never consolidated the undergrad programs. I could see having an ecology major, but why an entire ecology school? Industrial and labor relations is an entire school? Hotel Administration as an entire school vs maybe a course or two as part of a business school? It's all very strange.

Why does Cornell have so many weird schools/majors? What's up with that.

The article you linked implies that it was part of the ACC for 20 years prior to his arrival. Of course, it also highlights how he turned the program around in his time as a coach. Turning "Tarleton State," which few people outside of Texas have ever heard of, into a successful program is a completely different challenge. Why is Tarleton State the place where there is now support to start a program...Is there any chance at Texas A&M, Rice, Texas Tech, UT Austin, Baylor, etc? Or is the plan that once Tarleton state has a program, it could motivate some of the more marquee Texas universities?

You need to have a conversation with Mel Gibson. Bet you could really help his view on the world with this logic.

Given these circumstances and his prior actions at Ok state that nobody denies (irresponsible use of guns and almost killing somebody with his driving), the idea of bringing him onto a college campus once again is a very scary prospect. Any coach that makes that decision should be held accountable if he were to behave as history tells us he likely will.

Is anybody going to report on what happened here? Seems like it's a lot of speculation in terms of him being "innocent" or the accuser withdrawing the allegations (for whatever reason?). Based on Ferrari's past actions, I give him zero benefit of the doubt for anything here, but we can't really draw a conclusion unless somebody does some actual reporting.

If we want wrestling to grow (or even stay the same size) at the NCAA level, the only way is to have more events that people will want to watch live. That means duals that actually matter. The current system where 95% of the season is meaningless and the last 5% has a predetermined winner (due to lack of parity) will only lead to more programs dropping the sport. We tried the complaining approach where we whine about how much money other sports make. We tried complaining about how title IX is unfair to men and electing the “right people” would save the sport. We tried believing the lie about how wrestling teams can help drive enrollment…Sorry that’s all BS. It comes down to creating a product that makes $$$.

I'm more amazed that the guy named after Dan Gable didn't wrestle for Iowa and the guy named after Cael Sanderson isn't going to wrestle for PSU.

Is wrestling responsible for the decades of awful performance by Duke Football as well? Or was wrestling simply dormant over the past fifty years from exerting its great effects on the football team?

That’s what they get for what they did to Oregon wrestling. Good job homeless.

Wow...That is a polite way of saying they have zero interest in him. Why would they be when they have Logan Paula and other social media influencers? So what is he going to do if not Olympic wrestling or WWE? Maybe he'll make a run at MMA?

People were afraid MMA would turn into a legitimate sport and not the WWE ripoff/freak show that it is now.

Because the US has not been the best country in the world at wrestling-anybody good enough to beat them was likely much better than most competition domestically. I wonder if this trend will change if Russia’s drop off continues.

Nope. A wall is an easy and simple solution. It will completely solve the problem and and anyone half competent could build it almost immediately upon becoming president.

I have a very simple answer. We don't have a wall. I have a very simple solution to this problem. We elect somebody who says he will build a wall. Once we do this, that person will definitely follow through on the promise of building that wall. And once that wall is built, I'm sure all of our problems will be solved. Because this is a simple problem with a simple solution, a wall-and anybody who wants this problem solved can build that wall in less than 4 years, thereby ending illegal immigration. I don't know why nobody has thought of or implemented this simple solution, to what is obviously a very simple problem. There is zero chance that it is a complicated problem with a complicated and difficult answer. But I'm sure the very smart people of America will hopefully recognize that the wall is a solution and act accordingly by electing the first person to promise it.

I managed to get the secret plans of Cael and some other coaches from Spencer Lee's dad-saved from his recruiting trips. Cael's Plan: Get the best wrestlers on your team. Ryan's: Only practice neutral. No mat wrestling Smith's plan: Driver's ed assistant coach Koll's Plan: Bigger house Ayre's Plan: Smaller house Brands' plan: Draftkings NIL sponsorship for transfers