Old Dominion drops wrestling

[Bump11]

bit of a shocker. also of note, in an article on their site, their AD stated..

”Our decision became even more clear during this Coronavirus crisis, which we know will have significant impact on future athletics budgets. This decision will better allow remaining sports to compete at a national level.”

[GoTNwrestling]

3 hours ago, Bump11 said:

bit of a shocker. also of note, in an article on their site, their AD stated..

”Our decision became even more clear during this Coronavirus crisis, which we know will have significant impact on future athletics budgets. This decision will better allow remaining sports to compete at a national level.”

I wonder how many other schools will follow suite assessing all their athletic programs. 

[cbg]

10 hours ago, GoTNwrestling said:

I wonder how many other schools will follow suite assessing all their athletic programs. 

Every athletic director that feels as if he/she can get away with dropping a sport will do so and use the virus as an excuse.  This is why it's imperative that ALL sports other than football & basketball fundraise like crazy to endow the scholarships for their sport.  Over the past ten plus years I have been preaching to anyone that will listen that the very survival of NCAA D1 Wrestling will be based on money.  If a school has 9.7 scholarships endowed and the monies cannot be used for anything but wrestling the school will not drop wrestling.  Some wrestling programs have even taken this one step further and are now working to endow the coaching salaries which is very smart.  

[RMC]

One of our local kids was caught up in this.....Nick Stonecheck.  

[Joeriley]

Would you consider donating or selling your mats to a new youth wrestling club?