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Originally Posted by Title Fight Productions
Why are all the wrestling programs getting the boot and not other mens sports?
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Womans wrestling becoming more popular? Well more woman are wrestling, but the fans are the same.
#1. Most Athletic Directors that are not in the Mid West do not understand Wrestling, so they see it as a money sink and are easy to drop it without recognizing what Wrestling takes - Athleticism, Dedication, Difficulty, Tradition etc.
#2. Eliminate a 20 spot Wrestling team and it frees up money, space, and the Title 9 quota.
#3. Wrestling is not a 'team sport' , it has a fanbase by the people who understand it. It is a rough sport and can look violent at times when things get heated, it is physical and when you don't understand it, it seems to fit in with 'Boxing and Judo' which are not considered 'college sports' (They like happy sports like baseball and softball)
#4. What counters Wrestling? There is already no counter sport to Football for woman (Plus Football requires a lot of money), so you have Football as a guys sport which is heavily funded and then you will need a womans only LaCross or some shit to make up for it.. see why they cut Wrestling in this argument? It doesn't make as much money as football, and there is no counter to it, even though Woman can be in wrestling the ratios don't add up so it doesn't count for Title 9.
#5. Other sports... same thing basically as #4 , you can have Womans track and Mens track, Mens Soccer or Womans Soccer, even though Woman can wrestle (ASU has a nation womans champion) it does not count as a womans sport because the ratio needs to be 50% 50%. Thats why Wrestling gets the boot, and hard dedicated Wrestlers are wearing thin because of the lack of opportunity. If you are a College Wrestler, you are the top 1% of college athletes.