naco228 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I came across this site on Facebook and just had to put it on here. www.savingwrestling.com I'm not exactly sure what Title IX has done to wrestling, but I heard that around 200 collegiate wrestling programs had been dropped since it was established in the 70's. Fresno State, Oregon, Notre Dame, and BYU (just to name a few popular ones.) What can we do to save this sport? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcatcountry97 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Call your local congressman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justadadnow Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Like everything else it come's down to $$$$$. Title IX was implemented to narrow the gap in sports opportunities between males and females, but rather than increasing opps for females, the powers that be dropped opps for males, thus narrowing the gap ( % ) and in doing so saving mucho $$$$$$$$$$$$$. Leave it to politicians to ^$%* it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC118 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I came across this site on Facebook and just had to put it on here. www.savingwrestling.com I'm not exactly sure what Title IX has done to wrestling, but I heard that around 200 collegiate wrestling programs had been dropped since it was established in the 70's. Fresno State, Oregon, Notre Dame, and BYU (just to name a few popular ones.) What can we do to save this sport? Title IX has nearly destroyed college wrestling. It destroyed my collegiate program at Franklin. We were a strong NCAA Division II program with a long history of defeating Division I schools (ND, Kentucky, Western Mich, Evansville, UT Chatt, Valpo, etc.) in the years just prior to the program ending in 1982. At that time, Indiana had several small school programs in addition to Franklin which have dropped the sport such as Earlham, Anderson, Huntington, Hanover, Taylor, Evansville, Valpo, Rose-Hulman, and DePauw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood3 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Awood1 was telling me the other day that he took awood1b to a novice tourney that was "at least 30% girls". There's your answer to title IX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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