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  1. Ed Pendoski

    12/19/2020

    Robert Major
  2. I agree 100% and hope this holds though the winter..... But will the NCAA start kicking Big 10 (or any other D1 athletic department) if they just can't afford 16 sports? This could get tricky. Just using Iowa as an example and totally making up my own numbers here. Iowa needs $100 million to run the athletic department with 16 sports. They only have $60 million. NCAA says you must have 16 sports to stay D1. Again, just guessing that something has to give here. Either NCAA starts kicking schools out that can't afford 16 sports or lower the 16 sports requirement.
  3. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29711237/iowa-cuts-men-gymnastics-men-tennis-men-women-swimming-diving Is this the first domino to fall? I was told by a big ten coach that without football this season that it took $50 million out of their athletic budget. Big football schools like Michigan, that school in Ohio, and Penn St will be over $100 milliion in lost revenue this year. We. haven't even begun to think about what happens if NCAA Basketball isn't allowed to play this winter. Iowa drops mens and women's swimming, men's gymnastics and men's tennis. Can we all agree why Iowa didn't cut wrestling and that they are an outlier when it comes to revenue from wrestling? What happens to Purdue, IU, Michigan St, Northwestern, Illinois, Maryland, etc when they have to look at this massive drop in revenue in the athletic department? I was told that a group of Stanford alumni met and they were told they need to raise $30 million to keep wrestling. If that's the case, I'm assuming there isn't much we can do now to help NCAA wrestling in the short term if there is massive cuts and athletic departments around the country begin to drop sports similar to what Iowa did yesterday. It does raise the question to me of what are we doing now to better Indiana wrestling at the high school and youth level? What are things we can do (or stop doing) to help grow all of wrestling? In the article posted, the Iowa administration said, ""A loss of this magnitude will take years to overcome," the letter said. "We have a plan to recover, but the journey will be challenging." While I hope I'm way off base and totally looking at worst case scenario, but the future of NCAA Wrestling doesn't look great. If Iowa is the first of many athletic departments that have to drop sports....I think we are naive if we don't realize that wrestling will be the first cut in most places. My question is what are we doing to grow the sport more than ever? If pandemic ever ends, which we're all sure it will. It will take years to build back athletic department revenue. I'm under the opinion that we need to grow the sport of wrestling now more than ever.
  4. Joe, I completely agree, but what you may not know in the Indiana General Assembly 2020, Senate bill 398 was passed which allows for US Title 36 youth serving organizations with patriotic intent, which covers organizations like Girl Scouts, in their ability to still access school meeting spaces. http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/398#document-cfbcd145 Maybe we need to link youth wrestling in title 36. Probably need to do a better job of being patriotic in our sport. My vote is we eliminate hand shaking and add saluting before we compete. (ps....Just being silly here. I kinda have inside info on girl scout stuff. Hit me up if you need cookies btw)
  5. I was talking about format of workouts now that we are starting to get back into wrestling rooms. An example is what we have implemented in our room now. When kids come to workouts we have them in groups of no larger than 6. No one is allowed to have contact with anyone in a different group and the groups will not change daily. If someone misses practice one day, they will have a group of 5 that day...instead of moving someone from a different group into their workout. Does anyone else have a 'practice format' that they are introducing to their room so they can to limit contact as much as possible? I'd like to learn what others are doing.
  6. This might be a good place to learn about what others are doing as we prepare to get back into our rooms now. Are most just going back to practice as normal or does anyone else have 'small groups' inside of practice?
  7. We need a better instragram coach for social media presence. Where is Clown Baby when we need him! ha! Greyhounds like the direction the program has been trending over the past 5 years.
  8. Couple year's ago I brought up the idea of combining the Sectional and Regional Tourney into one tournament. I don't have the numbers in front of me, so don't nail me to exact details..... We have one of the largest regionals (most number of teams) and I'm thinking it's like 24ish teams. You'd have to have a round of 32 in theory....most weights have more than 8 ffts if you combine sectionals. That would be a quick round. Seed top 12 Friday night: Rat tail matches (I believe the number was around 10 matches total). Then have the round of 16 right after. If you lose any of those, you're done. Saturday morning run an 8 man tourney with wrestlebacks. When I looked at it I thought it would help with the ref shortage and make the state more money with less work. It would also shorten the season a week, which might get us in the conversation of semi state wrestle backs down the road.
  9. 113 at Frankfort has some depth. 1. Elijah Anthony 31-0 (Frankfort) State ranked 3rd 5. Dylan Driver 23-7 (Westfield) SS ranked 8 4. Griffen Ingalls 27-3 (Fishers) SS ranked 7 3. Brac Hooper 18-3 (Carmel) State ranked 13 2. Bryce Longnecker 30-3 (Rossville)
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