re: NCAA Championship - Wrestling *PSU Wins Team Title

Give him 2 backs.

Good time. That was a great match.

Wrestling won't get a lot of casual viewers anyways. And the wrestling head honchos certainly wont want to move out of the way for basketball.

You think more people would watch wrestling or women's basketball because that shite always seems to be on.

No I have been watching a good bit but must have missed that one.

They don't really approach it smartly tbh. Participation rates are increasing but general knowledge and public perception is decreasing.

The final for my entrepreneurial marketing class was to prepare a plan for the Wrestling Hall of Fame to increase foot traffic and increase revenue. It barely gets 7000 visitors a year and has very low revenues.


My plan was for OSU to deed over the football practice fields to allow for parking, a second easier entrance, and possible expansion. The thing I took to the Smiths was to create a 'Hall of Fame National Championship' youth tournament in the summer. Make it an elite level must attend tournament, charge nominal entry fees, host it over a 7-10 day period, bring in HOF'rs to promote it and do coaching clinics to encourage the kids. The empty dorms and student apartments could be used for lodging as there's not many hotels in Stillwater. Sell corporate sponsorships and get a TV contract from one of the cable companies, sell concessions, have the university recruiters there to sell OSU to the parents and youngins.

The fiscal impact of 400 teams with entry fees of $25 per wrestler would bring in the neighborhood of $100K add in the housing fees, ticket sales, broadcast fees, concession sales, signage and sponsorship, could be expected to pull in an additional $350-$500K depending on how good of deals they can negotiate.

That's a pretty damn good idea. Youth wrestling is the key to the sport.

Hard to get kids interested in high school and keep them interested. They will most likely lose to the kids who've been wrestling since elementary and junior high.

Get a successful elementary or middle school program and you got a successful high school program.

Exactly. That's how the state champion in alabama has won three in a row, great youth program.