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YSU Athletics to Add Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Lacrosse Teams
peteonastick:
--- Quote from: Wick250 on February 26, 2019, 07:07:35 PM ---Stick,
A few questions for you. Which universities in Ohio still have wrestling? How about western Pennsylvania? Are those wrestling programs in some kind of conference?
I agree that choosing to add swimming over wrestling is ridiculous. Perhaps the only justification is that swimming would have a ready-made home in the Horizon League while travel costs for wrestling would be prohibitive.
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Cleveland State, Ohio State, Kent State, Ohio U, - D2 - Tiffin (both mens and women's) Findlay, Lake Erie, Ashland, Urbana, PA - Pitt, Edinboro, Clarion, and some Michigan teams and most if not all of the OAC schools. DII schools include Notre Dame, Wrestling would have traveling issues but why not be a leader in the area in bringing it back. 5 EOWL Teams won sectional titles and there are 45 EOWL wrestlers ranked to place in the state tournament in two weeks. YSU could join the D2 schools and wrestle mostly Ohio and PA teams besides some out of state tournaments and D2 regionals and nationals. (11 PA Division 1 schools, 8 D2 PA Schools, 14 D3 PA Schools.) Travel to these D2 schools in Ohio and PA is the same as the Horizon League.
Wick250:
Thanks Stick. My suspicion is that swimming was chosen before the renovations to the pool, and that a sport like wrestling never got any consideration.
YSUGO:
There are only 80 schools in Division 1 that have Wrestling programs in the NCAA. Ohio St, Kent St, Cleveland St, and Ohio University are the only D1 colleges in Ohio. Ohio and Pennsylvania are ranked in the top 4 for HS wrestling. From what I can find wrestling programs have 9-10 full rides that are split up between 26-35 kids per a team.
IAA Fan:
Just settle down here. A said, thank goodness we have an AD the thinks about the future. Consider a few things:
1) Lacrosse is HUGE. Wrestling does not even come close beyond High School.
2) There clearly seems to be a growing movement in Lacrosse in the state of Ohio. This is a university, not a prep school. It makes no difference how big wrestling is at Canfield. We are making a move to join other regional colleges and universities.
3) We have the facilities for both LaCrosse and Men's Swimming ...no added cost for that.
4) Women's collegiate wrestling is growing. So if we add men's wrestling, we will have to add women's. Women's rights groups could care less if we have a men's LaCrosse program and we already have a women's swim team; so they cannot complain to the NCAA.
5) How many DI NCAA-sanctioned men's wrestling programs are there in Ohio? Maybe 4 or 5?
I agree wrestling would be exciting it it was not devastated by title-IX. It is not a viable collegiate sport any more. It makes a great HS sport as it can include boys of any size or background. IN college, that just means more required athletes and scholarship dollars
go guins:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on February 28, 2019, 07:31:11 AM ---Just settle down here. A said, thank goodness we have an AD the thinks about the future. Consider a few things:
1) Lacrosse is HUGE. Wrestling does not even come close beyond High School.
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C'mon man, 1AA the buzz-kill. Trying to kill off the vicious battle between men's wrestling and women's lacrosse?!?!
Lacrosse is HUGE?!?!? On which planet would that be true? Certainly not this one. Tell me the best teams in college lacrosse (without looking it up, we all have google searches)
Football draws, Men's BB draws, Women's BB draws pretty good, but only about 1/4 of MBB, and EVERY OTHER COLLEGE SPORT draws fans by the dozens. If it wasn't for parents and personal friends, it would be 1/2 that.
Arguments about whether lacrosse will outdraw wrestling in really lame. Hasn't ANYBODY been to a spring practice? How does Waid look? THAT is the only real sports question for YSU this year!
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