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(04-03-2020 08:10 AM)webster Wrote:  

(04-02-2020 09:50 PM)Monarch Homselr Wrote:  I hate this news with every cell in my body!! I am too upset to post. I will try to get my desire to curse and write in all caps under control and post tomorrow. Main component tomorrow will be.....if it's just a million they want to save, get out of this g@#$^%ed conference with it's travel to bumf#$k Texas, Louisiana and Alabama!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you and I are on the same page. Not to scoff at a million bucks, but what does it say to make this desperate decision and cut wrestling just to save a million?
How bad are finances if they couldn't raise that to keep the program? I have never actually followed the sport. However, it seemed that they were pretty successful.
If money is so tight then it's time to depart CUSA where travel expenses must be a nightmare. Plus I feel nothing has gotten better since we joined. Either somehow join a conference that pays well or get regional. I will drive to Newport News and beg the A10 myself unless the AAC is an actual possibility.

I don't think the question is whether you can find $1M to keep wrestling alive, but rather can we support basketball and football as much as needed while also spending that $1M, or would the $1M be better allocated to the revenue generating high profile sports.