It's Football season again...
- Thread starter Iron Doc
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There are two programs that play a sport with around 350 teams that are still in the round of 32. Could always start there over the team that is told "just keep working harder than the other guy and you will win"... but never do. Finishing 4th out of only 77 national programs doesn't do much for me.
I played the game that is still underway without distinction, being a 3rd string end of bench old skool type Center (think Reggie Harding without skills).
Never really much of a fan of the game though.
Regarding the game that just ended with a 4th place finish, I have been a fan for 50 years. Having a kid who wrestled D1 and currently having a grandmonster wrestling in HS means I have attended @500,000 meets/tournaments (give or take a couple thousand).
So for me, it's now FB season.
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Doing some crazy math today 4/77 doesn’t do it for you but 32 out of 350 does? So if there were 350 wrestling teams their equivalent finish would be 18. Not sure both hoops teams beat that. Hope they do.
The point is that every school plays basketball and there are far more basketball players in high school than wrestlers. Iowa used to be a dominant wrestling program, still is for top 5 finishes but I don't think that's at all what people are looking for the amount of money invested in that program. I know that sounds very "Nebraska like" but as a casual wrestling fan, finishing 4th with a canyon between the elite programs and Iowa, I just don't get excited.
Their expectations are different and the results are not up to standard. Men’s hoops are probably closer but Women’s hoops have the UCon/UCLA/South Carolina that are probably equivalent to the Penn Stste/Okie State wrestling dominance. Most would not expect ‘casual’ fans to get excited.
While that is true, the women also have pulled in multiple 5* recruits and have hit some home runs on 4*s like Heiden. The women have also been closer to a title in the last 5 years than ever before finishing in the championship back to back years.
Basically, I just want to win more in everything and I'm tried of wrestling not being what they used to be.
It is all about money. We want to win and be on the same level as the top, we need money. Otherwise, we will always be the dogs.