Takedown Report

Looking to Next Season – # 6

1 } – Spring football & wrestling? Fall track? 1 AD’s wild idea to restart HS sports
By Joe Zedalis | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
On the same day the NJSIAA introduced its COVID-19 Medical Advisory Task Force, Mainland athletic director Mike Gatley was pitching a radical, reshaping idea for the high school fall sports season to his Cape-Atlantic League colleagues. Gatley and the NJSIAA task force have the same goal — restarting interscholastic athletics this coming fall for the 2020-21 academic year. It will be up to the governor, the department of health and department of education agree to open New Jersey schools either for in-person or virtual teaching in September, before the fate of fall sports is decided. … rest of story at _{https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2020/05/spring-football-wrestling-fall-golf-track-1-ads-wild-idea-to-restart-hs-sports.html?mc_cid=16ee523e9b&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

2 } – UConn’s Football Failures Are Catching Up to It, and the School Has Itself to Blame
A series of administrative mistakes around its football program over the last decade could cost the Huskies several other sports.
According to media reports, the University of Connecticut is laying the groundwork to eliminate multiple sports next month. Like every university, it is facing a daunting balance sheet due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the athletic department specifically has been hemorrhaging money for years, running a deficit in excess of $40 million last year. Athletic director David Benedict sent up a warning flare last week about cutting sports: “I think that’s going to be a decision that we have to make,” he told the Hartford Courant. How bad could it get at UConn? Courant columnist Michael Anthony urged the Huskies to drop eight sports, going from 24 to the NCAA Division I FBS minimum of 16. A 24-team department is larger than most, but whacking one-third of it would rival the biggest bloodlettings in collegiate sports history. … rest of story at _{https://www.si.com/college/2020/05/26/uconn-football-sports-cuts?mc_cid=a56cef7301&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

3 } – Title IX major factor for colleges looking at sports cuts
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer
All of our stories about the coronavirus are being provided free of charge as a service to the public. You can find all of our stories here. Financially challenged schools considering cutting sports in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic are making difficult decisions of who gets to keep playing and who doesn’t. The choices aren’t just about money when they involve women’s sports. And while Title IX doesn’t prevent women’s sports from being eliminated, the federal law is a huge part of the conversations. “I wouldn’t say that women’s sports are more at risk,” said attorney Timothy J. O’Brien, who is based in Maine with a practice focused on employment and college sports law. “I would say that all sports in an economic downturn will be scrutinized. But it should be done in a fair and equitable manner so at the end of the day the institution is compliant with Title IX.” … rest of story at _{https://www.theday.com/college-sports/20200527/title-ix-major-factor-for-colleges-looking-at-sports-cuts?mc_cid=2313436fb3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

4 } – Shenandoah University Men’s Wrestling Announces Schedule
WINCHESTER, Va. – Shenandoah University Head Men’s Wrestling Coach Tim McGuire announced his program’s inaugural schedule Friday morning.  McGuire, who was hired in September, 2019 to build the Hornets 22^nd intercollegiate athletic program, has 13 regular season events on tap for the 2020-21 season. Included in this total is the squad’s first-ever home meet, on January 7 versus fellow first-year program Emory & Henry. This contest, to be held in the James R. Wilkins, Jr. Athletics & Events Center, will cap a day that starts with a youth wrestling event followed by a high school meet. The first-ever kicks off on Sunday, November 1 with the King of the Mont Open hosted the Penn State – Mont Alto. After taking the first of two trips to Alvernia University on November 8, the Hornets make a weekend trip to Salem, Virginia for … rest of story at _{https://suhornets.com/news/2020/6/5/mens-wrestling-announces-schedule.aspx?mc_cid=2e4d96fd0e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

5 } – CCCAA Board of Directors adopts athletics plan for 2020-21
Working Group recommendations to the CCCAA Board of Directors l CCCATA (Athletic Trainers) resources for return to play
SACRAMENTO – The CCCAA Board of Directors unanimously approved a three-part plan on Friday to allow the state’s community colleges a return to intercollegiate athletics for the 2020-21 academic year while being directed by health guidelines from the state of California.  The adopted action calls for immediate implementation of the “Conventional Plan”, which keeps sports in their traditional fall and spring seasons, except for men’s and women’s basketball which move to the spring. On July 17, if it is still unsafe to execute athletics within the Conventional Plan framework, the CCCAA will move to either the Contact/Non-Contact Plan or the Contingency Plan.  The Contact/Non-Contact Plan places men’s and women’s cross country, women’s golf, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and women’s volleyball into the fall while the remaining sports – including football – will start competing in either early February. If not able to enact that plan, the CCCAA will fall back to the Contingency Plan, which keeps cross country and women’s golf in the fall and places the remainder of the sports in the spring. … rest of story at _{https://www.cccaasports.org/about/Board_adopts_athletics_plan?mc_cid=3dda02df3d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

and 6 } – California community colleges come up with three potential sports schedules for next school year
The board of directors for the California Community College Athletic Association unanimously approved three potential schedules that could be used to bring sports back during the 2020-21 academic year. The plan was approved Friday, June 5 during a teleconference meeting. The final vote on which schedule will be used will be held on July 17. The CCCAA shut down all of its sports programs in mid-March during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plans were put together by the CCCAA COVID-19 Working Group, which is comprised of coaches, athletic directors and athletic trainers, and is headed by Jill Board, president of Cerro Coso College, and Kanoe Bandy, vice chairman of the CCCAA Management Board and athletic director at Taft College. … rest of story at _{https://www.sgvtribune.com/2020/06/08/california-community-colleges-set-plans-on-how-to-move-forward-with-sports/?mc_cid=1ad1a557de&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

7 } – Oklahoma State edges Nebraska in WIN’s recruiting ranks
By Rob Sherrill
The race for WIN’s top recruiting class, presented by College Wrestler Recruiting, seemed an Oklahoma State runaway last fall. In November, WIN Magazine wrote about a Cowboys recruiting class that featured six commitments ranked in WIN’s pre-season Top 25 individual rankings. Additionally, all six were in the top 10. Both ranked at the top among Division I college programs. Due primarily to injuries, the three wrestlers who were coach John Smith’s three foundation recruits — Trevor Mastrogiovanni (133) of Blairstown Township (N.J.) Blair Academy, Dustin Plott (184) of Tuttle (Okla.) and A.J. Ferrari (197-285) of Allen (Texas) — did not step on a mat during their senior high school seasons. So, in addition to the fact that some of the matches we had hoped to see might be postponed until their collegiate careers, those absences caused some shakeups in the rankings that allowed other wrestlers moments in the spotlight.
Not to mention other college programs. The recruiting class assembled by coach Mark Manning helped Nebraska close the gap with the Cowboys by completing banner senior seasons. Even if you don’t include four-time South Dakota state heavyweight champion Nash Hutmacher – and we didn’t, since he’ll be playing football for the Huskers, rather than wrestling – Nebraska made it a photo finish at the end. Had Hutmacher been a wrestling recruit, the season he turned in, which culminated in his earning WIN’s Junior Schalles Award, would have given Nebraska the No. 1 class. … rest of story at _{https://www.win-magazine.com/2020/06/oklahoma-state-edges-nebraska-in-wins-recruiting-ranks/?mc_cid=3dda02df3d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

8 } – Klingman: Traits of elite wrestlers can help us all succeed
The following column was featured in the May issue of WIN Magazine. WIN frequently does profiles of current wrestlers and coaches to find out their “keys to success” knowing it both helps fans to get to know them better but also apply some of those traits to their own life. To read Klingman’s full column from the May issue of WIN, click here to subscribe or call 888-305-0606. Use Discount Code “May” to get a print copy of WIN’s annual Awards Issue with the Klingman Column in it.  Also, WIN will be publishing a special digital issue in June and look for WIN’s next printed issue in July.
By Kyle Klingman
A recent conversation with Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan turned into a discussion about the traits of elite competitors and coaches. 
Below are 10 personal observations about elite performers along with Ryan’s ‘Traits of the Elite’ that he uses for his Buckeye wrestling team. 
1. Hatred of losing. There is a genetic code among elite competitors that they absolutely hate losing. This is a pathological trait that means an elite competitor will stop at nothing to win. An elite achiever will find the outlet that allows him or her to win if the current outlet isn’t working. 
2. Attention to detail. Every detail, every second, every position, every point, and every situation is important. 
3. Deliberate practice. It’s not just repetition over and over. … rest of story at _{https://www.win-magazine.com/2020/06/klingman-traits-of-elite-wrestlers-can-help-us-all-succeed/?mc_cid=d457d68b82&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

9 } – A Collegiate Model in Crisis: The Crippling Impact of Schools Cutting Sports
Three months into the pandemic, 30 D-I sports teams have already been discontinued to save dough. The impact will be felt from youth sports to the Olympics, and experts believe these moves make clear: The college model is broken. So, how do we fix it?
ROSS DELLENGER AND PAT FORDEJUN 11, 2020
In August 2016, after Clayton Murphy became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in the 800-meter run since 1992, he was given a hero’s welcome at his school, Akron University. There was a press conference at the football stadium, and plans were made for a commercial shoot and other promotional ideas. Akron’s athletic department couldn’t wait to use its star cross country and track athlete for marketing purposes. At the time, George Van Horne, senior associate athletics director for development & marketing, told the Akron Beacon-Journal that Murphy’s Olympic medal was worth “100 bowl games” in terms of exposure to the school. “That’s always been a part of our problem as a university, we don’t tell our story very well,” Van Horne told the newspaper. “We’ve got 25,000 of those stories on campus and we’ve got 146,000 alumni worldwide. He’s one of the fastest men in the world, let’s use him to tell that story.” In May, less than four years after Murphy’s medal, Akron told a very different story: It eliminated the cross country program that helped make him a rising star in American running, along with men’s golf and women’s tennis.  … rest of story at _{https://www.si.com/college/2020/06/11/college-sports-program-cuts-ncaa-olympics?mc_cid=d457d68b82&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

10 } – OSU Wrestling: Elise Brown Ton Flips Commitment to Nebraska
The Cowboys lose one from their No. 1 recruiting class.
Back in April, Oklahoma State added another name to its 2020 recruiting class with two-time Texas State Champion Elise Brown Ton. But by Wednesday, things had changed as Brown Ton announced via his Instagram that he would be heading to wrestle at Nebraska next year.
This stings a bit as I saw Brown Ton as one of the more under the radar recruits in the 2020 class that I feel could take off in college. … rest of story at _{https://pistolsfiringblog.com/osu-wrestling-elise-brown-ton-flips-commitment-to-nebraska/?mc_cid=d457d68b82&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b}

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