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Big universities should be able to support wrestling

Big universities should be able to support wrestling | Sports Columns | register-herald.com   By Wayne Bennett For The Register-Herald  Dec 4, 2016
The Southeastern Conference has arguably been the best conference in college football for some time now. The national championship team has come from the SEC eight out of the last 10 years. Even with a conference like the Big 10 claiming more ranked teams than the SEC this year, the title still belongs to the SEC’s Alabama until they lose.  Because of the SEC’s success in bowl games, national championships and continuous television coverage, money rolls into these universities at a constant flow. Millions of dollars have made college football a huge business and the SEC is the biggest benefactor.  So here’s my beef. Only one school in that conference has a wrestling team. Missouri had wrestling when it came over from the Big 12 and continued to field a team. With the NCAA’s permission, the Tigers participate in the MAC 10 Conference Tournament to ensure qualifiers for the national championships. Actually, the Tigers are quite good and are currently ranked fifth in the nation.  All the other SEC schools have had wrestling at one time or another, but dropped the programs with the lame excuse of Title IX. Title IX is the law that loosely requires equality in men’s and women’s sports. Since this law was passed back in the 1970s, many universities have dropped men’s programs like wrestling and track, stating they cannot afford to offer them and a women’s sport of equal participation. The real truth is that they can, easily.  Rest of story at …. http://www.register-herald.com/sports/sports_columns/big-universities-should-be-able-to-support-wrestling/article_7cd237ea-3598-56fa-a0f4-14c455e781be.html?mc_cid=478742a681&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

With numerous NAIA, Junior College and Division II & III schools adding and supporting wrestling programs why can’t the big school??? Baffling.

 

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Last ride underway for active coaching wins leader

EWL Notebook: Last ride underway for active coaching wins leader
He won’t call it a farewell tour, though many people are. Gary Taylor, the dean of coaches in the Eastern Wrestling League and Division-I’s active career wins leader, is calling it a career at the end of the season.  Since 1978, he has set a standard for excellence on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J.  Taylor may be saying goodbye to coaching at the end of this season, but he’s not saying goodbye to his pursuit of excellence just yet.  “They tell me that at the end of the year, it will be 39 seasons,” he said. “At the end of the season, John Hangey, my longtime assistant, will be the head coach. People are calling this my farewell tour, but I don’t like to get caught up in all that stuff. I ran as hard and as long as I could. It’s time. This is about the kids. I’m focused on trying to win another conference championship and get more All-Americans. That’s where I’m at.”  After losing to conference rival Edinboro during the dual meet season last year, Rider won the EWL tournament, and then Chad Walsh became Taylor’s 15th All-American when he placed fifth at 157 pounds. Walsh is currently ranked 11th at 165.  In addition to Walsh, the Broncs have a 2015 All-American in B.J. Clagon (fifth at 149), who is ranked No. 19 at 157. Ryan Wolfe is No. 14 at 197.  The Broncs opened their EWL season last Saturday when Taylor picked up his 430th career coaching win – fourth all-time – with a 20-14 win at Lock Haven (2-3, 1-1). Rider has competed in several different conferences under Taylor, beginning with the East Coast Wrestling Association and the Colonial Athletic Association before joining the EWL three seasons ago after the collapse of the CAA.   Rest of the story at …. http://s200.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1481210659571&twSessionId=dmufqdgzfdnvzin&postId=9127123&mc_cid=2e34d45673&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

 

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MOORPARK COLLEGE ATHLETICS REINSTATES WRESTLING

ANOTHER NEW WRESTLING PROGRAM !!!
Wrestling to start this Fall 2017
After an eight-year hiatus, this fall Wrestling will return to Moorpark College for the 2017 season.  On Monday, it was announced that Wrestling and Sand Volleyball will be a part of the comprehensive Athletics program.  “It is an unbelievable feeling to reinstate Wrestling for the student athletes and Wrestling community in Ventura County. Moorpark College will be providing an opportunity for many to continue Wrestling and follow their dreams,” said Interim Athletic Director Vance Manakas. “While we suffered the darkest days in Raider Athletic history six years ago, we will not only put this crisis behind us, but it will serve the future for countless members of our community.”  “The state revenue generated from the added student athletes won’t reach our campus for 18 months,” said Manakas. “So, there will be a time gap between paying the bills and getting paid. Nonetheless, adding these sports is in the best interests of Moorpark College on many fronts, including financially.”  Restof the story at ….  http://thecaliforniawrestler.com/moorpark-college-athletics-reinstates-wrestling/?mc_cid=b7d0f05313&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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Oklahoma Wesleyan Announces Addition of Men’s Wrestling

ANOTHER NAIA SCHOOL ADDS WRESTLING !!!
December 6, 2016
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Oklahoma Wesleyan University Director of Athletics Mark Molder is pleased to announce the addition of Men’s Wrestling to the varsity lineup. “We are excited to offer this sport to the students attending Oklahoma Wesleyan,” said Director of Athletics Mark Molder. “This a great sport and aligns directly with what we are looking to do within our athletic department by growing kids spiritually, providing an amazing education, and putting quality athletics on the playing field.”
The addition of men’s wrestling will bring the number of varsity sports offered by Oklahoma Wesleyan to 17. A search for the new head coach will begin immediately. Applicants are encouraged to apply at http://www.okwu.edu/employment/wrestling-coach/.

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More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport

More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport – Randy B. Young
Here on Tobacco Road, basketball is life. Each season, fans live, dream, despair, hope, and dies a little, until there’s one team left standing in March. Out there in that great wilderness beyond the land of longleaf pines, however, are those who actually enjoy or even participate in other indoor activities, forsaking the madness of March for the mats of wrestling, and local devotees are trying to import wrestling interest and enthusiasm into the area. The key: start ’em young. New local wrestling club N.C. Rams hopes to build a nationally recognized program through instruction and competition. Meeting Sundays at UNC’s Fetzer Gymnasium, N.C. Rams’ high school program began in late November and runs through February. A Little Rams program for elementary and middle school boys and girls meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings through Feb. 2. Club director Andy Gunning and coach Josh Kindig hope to help young athletes develop core fundamentals – footwork, hand-fighting, stance and motion, head position, escapes and reversals – while also providing advanced training for experienced wrestlers. N.C. Rams, which evolved from Gunning’s Big Cats wrestling program, now provides a significant increase in mat space as a chartered club with USA wrestling and a charter member of the newly formed Triangle Youth Wrestling League. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-sports/article118809993.html?mc_cid=ac06da2376&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b#storylink=cpy

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Sanderson sizing up outdoor dual, attendance record

College wrestling’s attendance wars have heated up over the last few years as marquee programs have procured the use of massive venues and have succeeded in packing in thousands of fans.
At this point, no attendance record is safe, especially considering Penn State is eyeing 107,000-plus seat Beaver Stadium for possibly its next big event. Although Cael Sanderson would like to see it happen, Penn State’s coach said this week no plans are currently on the table to put a mat down inside the Nittany Lions’ massive football stadium in similar fashion to Rutgers earlier this season.
“We’ve been talking about that since we got here,” Sanderson said. “But we haven’t really pursued it. It’s always about just making progress and doing a better job and increasing in all areas of the program. So if that means we do an outside dual at some point, I certainly wouldn’t say that’s off the table.” For now, Penn State will settle for the cavernous confines of the Bryce Jordan Center where they’ll face No.10 Lehigh (3-0) on Sunday. It’s been a grand atmosphere for a few seasons now, especially as tickets for Penn State duals at Rec Hall have become harder and harder to come by. Rec Hall seats just over 6,500 and the Nittany Lions have been able to more than double that in each of the four duals at the school’s basketball facility since 2013. More than 28,000 fans combined to attend two BJC duals last season, 15,967 were on hand to watch a dual against Iowa in 2014 and the program set a dual-meet attendance record when 15,996 braved a churning snow storm to attend a dual against Pitt in 2013. The Hawkeyes, however, upped the ante with a dual against Oklahoma State at Kinnick Stadium last season when 42,287 showed up to watch the Hawkeyes edge the Cowboys. Rest of the story at … http://s200.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1480650195270&twSessionId=wjcoeovbolofcyp&postId=137138076&mc_cid=7ffba32921&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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