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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on May 16, 2008
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Pat Costilow added to this discussion on May 17, 2008
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That is a fabulously written article. The sad thing is, the environment described by the author could happen just about anywhere besides Iowa.
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on May 18, 2008
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I just thought it captured so much of the overall hypocrisy in collegiate athletics. Title 9, Football and basketball are killing most other "minor" mens sports. And no one wants to address it. The Oregon, Fresno State and ASU situations all should not have taken place.
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Scott Shaw added to this discussion on May 20, 2008
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Actually Pat, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz is the highest paid football coach in the Big Ten and he has only won two Big Ten Co-Championships because they didn't play Ohio State during OSU's National Championship season and they didn't play Michigan during the 2004 Co-Champ season.
So my point, it can happen at Iowa too.
The problem at Oregon, nobody WANTS to wear Nike wrestling shoes so Knight doesn't care. If we were all buying up Nike wrestling shoes like they were going out of style, Knight would earmark money to save the program.
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on May 20, 2008
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yes a brilliant essay, indeed.
loving college wrestling anymore has become akin to visiting a loved one in Hospice week after week, hoping for the best but waiting for the inevitable.
all i can do is continue to promote high school wrestling, with the full disclosure and knowledge that there is no end game but for an exceedingly very very few. ---- But thats what makes it such a great sport, i guess. It is without pretense,
the sport itself is enough
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i went to a couple of Cavs playoff games--- courtesy of friends who had an extra ticket and thought of me -- the seats were good, too, but i would never pay the Cavs or the scalpers asking price. And i didnt even like the sideshow all that much. So loud, so glitzy, all the showbiz --
its as if anymore, the game itself is Not Enough.
----In wrestling, the game itself IS Still Enough.
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Roe Fox added to this discussion on May 20, 2008
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Bob: Now thats a good, short and accurate essay. There are few sports where there is no equipment, no help from others. One on one with rules. There is an appeal to that. But how does it get sold? The million dollar question.
It was always the appeal for me. I just wish I was better.
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Discussion Topic: A Moving Essay
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on May 20, 2008
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RF,
it IS being sold, on the high school & youth level: the 6th largest participated high school sport in the nation.
And its growing in the South
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its a battle on the college level, though, because a limited-size budget "pie" is being squeezed by King Football and Title IX.
i recommend Div I football cut
to 60 Fulls maximum total
, from 85 now, thats plenty--- many guys will still gladly play football for Ohio St and Arizona St for a half, just like they do in other sports.
ESPN had a "Title IX" symposium several years ago, representative coaches from all Div I college sports attended and participated, except not one coach from what sport ????
Football. You know why ???? they have an embarrassment of riches
that cannot be defended
in the face of cuts in other mens sports.
its funny, for many years i've harped on the "football angle". And often i was scolded for it,
football was a "sacred cow" but thats changing
--- more & more people see the light now. The pie is only so big and Not getting any bigger,
we need to re-think how its
fairly distributed.
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