ontherise219 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Sounds like Calumet College in the region is cutting its wrestling program. They had an All American Last Year in Nick Fowler and they sounds like they had a solid recruiting class coming in. A pretty unfortunate turn MUSKEEWRESTLER and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 (edited) Oh man that sucks. They brought in a new coach a little over a year ago Tom Malony. He wanted to fix the culture of the program and increase recruitment of some solid “region” wrestlers. Sounded like he was making some progress in that department but not much time was really given him to right the ship with this announcement. Looks like I’ll be wearing my Crimson Wave wrestling shirt tomorrow in the programs honor. Edited March 25, 2022 by MattM MUSKEEWRESTLER and lemercad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahawkeye Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 C'mon! Does college wrestling really cost that much? Serious question. It can't be anymore expensive as lacrosse. Dave Huff, MUSKEEWRESTLER and SunDevils 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCFIGHTER170 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 So disheartening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunDevils Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) On 3/25/2022 at 7:49 PM, Ahawkeye said: C'mon! Does college wrestling really cost that much? Serious question. It can't be anymore expensive as lacrosse. College athletics is costly. Coaches salaries, travel, and athletic departments. Athletes have to attend study table and that requires tutors. Often athletics has their own (largely incompetent) academic advisors, and so on. Athletics is supposed to operate as an auxiliary service - meaning it is self-sustaining and should not borrow from the endowment or the universities academic budget. Sadly, this is not always the case in practice. But for universities that operate under that assumption then if a program is non-revenue generating and revenue generating sports (i.e. Men's Football & Basketball) can't sustain the cost of the other programs then they will get the axe. I can tell you from first hand experience its probably less expensive than Lacrosse but the wealth that surrounds Lacrosse families is on average larger than that of the average wrestling family. A lot of alumni/family donations are involved in maintaining Lacrosse. Edited March 28, 2022 by SunDevils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 This is tough news to hear. They finally hired a full-time coach after about 10 years of having a program. The school was not easy to recruit for and that made it a tough job for anyone. DrunkJoeNamath 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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