I'm sure there's a multitude of reasons. In the school I graduated from it was mainly because of the basketball players. They loved to tell us that we were "gay" and we like to hump guys, etc. They had no respect for the wrestling program, which was far better than the basketball program. So naturally we talked smack back to them. And our coach always told us if wrestling was too hard to go play for the basketball team haha. And I can understand where coaches hate it because it takes away some of their most promising youngsters. Instead of choosing to wrestle and be good or great, they choose to be a mediocre basketball player. I, myself, have no problem with basketball. I enjoy playing it. I'd rather watch wrestling any day of the week though.