Where you guys gonna park wrestling for the 2019/2020 season?

It's supposed to start-up in the fall. However, last I checked we have only one signee listed and our wrestling practice facility has not broken ground. Hopefully, everything is still good to go.

I’ll be getting season tickets & will be watching it in the Jack Stephens Center.

(01-11-2019 03:02 PM)RBL Wrote:  I’ll be getting season tickets & will be watching it in the Jack Stephens Center.

I expect to be right there with you and your lovely wife (I assume your wife will be there. Mine doesn't appear too excited about watching wrestling).

Any update in future conference?

The MAC pretty much absorbed another wrestling conference today that included George Mason and ODU, who I figured for SoCon wrestling affiliates.

LR looking toward Big XII, MAC or SoCon?

(03-06-2019 01:48 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Any update in future conference?

The MAC pretty much absorbed another wrestling conference today that included George Mason and ODU, who I figured for SoCon wrestling affiliates.

LR looking toward Big XII, MAC or SoCon?

I believe we want the Big 12, but don't know who realistic that is.

(03-06-2019 01:54 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(03-06-2019 01:48 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Any update in future conference?

The MAC pretty much absorbed another wrestling conference today that included George Mason and ODU, who I figured for SoCon wrestling affiliates.

LR looking toward Big XII, MAC or SoCon?

I believe we want the Big 12, but don't know who realistic that is.

The Big 12 for wrestling does not have the same makeup of programs that it does for football and basketball. Only the Oklahoma schools and Iowa State from those sports are in the Big 12 for wrestling. The rest come from far lesser known schools as far away as Utah and the Dakotas.

Personally I think the SoCon would be a much better choice for Little Rock. True, there are no schools as close as OK State or Oklahoma, but there are none as far away as Utah, etc. either. And, I think overall the SoCon Wrestling Conference is made up of more similarly situated schools to LR than the Big 12.

(03-06-2019 01:54 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(03-06-2019 01:48 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Any update in future conference?

The MAC pretty much absorbed another wrestling conference today that included George Mason and ODU, who I figured for SoCon wrestling affiliates.

LR looking toward Big XII, MAC or SoCon?

I believe we want the Big 12, but don't know who realistic that is.

I checked, and as of now the Big 12 has 12 members for wrestling now that Fresno State and Northern Iowa have been added. So now Big 12 Wrestling spans all the way from West Virginia in the east to the big valley of California in the west, with stops in Utah and the Dakotas in between!

The SoCon has VMI in Virginia, The Citadel in Charleston, four teams in North Carolina- App State, Davidson, Gardner Webb, and Campbell, and Chattanooga in Tennessee. Little Rock would make the eighth team.

I am actually pretty curious to see how our wrestling effort is going to pan out. I will don't understand "why," but that doesn't matter. Go Trojans!

I would be happy to see Little Rock in the SoCon. Glad Presby is joining next year and SIU Edwardsville left for the MAC.