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re: There is absolutely no way women's basketball is the 3rd most popular NCAA sport
Posted on 3/19/17 at 9:42 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 3/19/17 at 9:42 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It's a shame that title 9 killed so many of the other men's sports. LSU used to have great wrestling and boxing teams. If you ever look at the LSU hall of fame in the PMAC, half of the guys are boxers.
I use to love watching the NCAA wrestling finals every year. There are only a few colleges that have wrestling teams now though, so it's pretty much just 3 conferences and some smaller schools. I think it's still a club sport at LSU. I'd love for the sport to get a push though.
Btw, here is the video for the 2017 individual finals (LINK ). They held it in St. Louis and there looks to be over 20K people there.
I use to love watching the NCAA wrestling finals every year. There are only a few colleges that have wrestling teams now though, so it's pretty much just 3 conferences and some smaller schools. I think it's still a club sport at LSU. I'd love for the sport to get a push though.
Btw, here is the video for the 2017 individual finals (LINK ). They held it in St. Louis and there looks to be over 20K people there.
This post was edited on 3/19/17 at 9:53 am
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Posted on 3/19/17 at 11:03 am to brmark70816
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Btw, here is the video for the 2017 individual finals (LINK ). They held it in St. Louis and there looks to be over 20K people there.
Iowa held an outdoor meet in their football stadium and drew 42,800 fans. That's outdoors in mid-November in Iowa. That's impressive.
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I don't know about how LSU's wrestling was (I have heard of yalls boxing history) but that's a good article about the effects of Title IX on wrestling and men's athletics. The article is about Auburn's wrestling program and how right in the midst of developing a successful and popular program it was taken away by Title IX.
In 1980-81 Auburn wrestling finished #9, the first SEC school to EVER crack the Top 10. They were drawing crowds of 6-7,000 for matches. Auburn hosted #1 Oklahoma that year and beat them in a duel meet. In 1981-82 there was no more wrestling program due to Title IX. By the math based on points out former wrestlers scored at their new schools that season, Auburn would have finished #2 in the NCAA in 81-82. If we continued that sort of success and other SEC schools started taking wrestling more seriously, there's no telling how the sport would have grown in the south. Wrestling could have easily been a #3 sport if it wasn't for Title IX
I realize that the intent of Title IX wasnt to take opportunities from men but to give them to women... but it has taken a lot away from men and it's really a travesty what's happened to a lot of men's sports because of it.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 2:37 pm to brmark70816
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It's a shame that title 9 killed so many of the other men's sports. LSU used to have great wrestling and boxing teams. If you ever look at the LSU hall of fame in the PMAC, half of the guys are boxers.
I suspect boxing would be gone anyway. Liability concerns (concussions).
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