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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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