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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Title Nine connection to cutting wrestling programs is mainstream. The blame is really with colleges remaining so focused on football and not women's sports.
171 college wrestling programs were eliminated in 30 years after the law passed. Yes, it lost some popularity too but there were huge cuts particularly at the college level.[/quote]

Wrestling was cut because, outside of a couple of midwestern states, it isn't a popular sport. There are plenty of mens sports outside of football and basketball, they just tend to be the sports supported by students and alumni [/quote]

Wrestling actually got more popular at younger ages in the 1990s though (for some girls too). From a John Irving NYT Opinion piece:
"Why are wrestlers so upset about this? The number of collegiate wrestling programs lost to Title IX compliance is staggering; this is especially alarming because, since 1993, wrestling has been a rapidly growing sport at the high-school level. Data compiled by Gary Abbott, director of special projects at USA Wrestling, indicates that in 2001, there were 244,984 athletes wrestling in high school; only 5,966 got to wrestle in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Not to put too fine a point on it: there is only one N.C.A.A. spot for every 41 high-school wrestlers. The numbers have been going downhill for a while. In 1982, there were 363 N.C.A.A. wrestling teams with 7,914 wrestlers competing; in 2001, there were only 229 teams with fewer than 6,000 wrestlers. Yet, in that same period, the number of N.C.A.A. institutions has increased from 787 to 1,049. No wonder wrestlers are unhappy.
"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/opinion/wrestling-with-title-ix.html[/quote]

Schools choose which sports to cut and they cut the sports that no one cared about. They could have cut field sports or swim and dive and saved a lot more than wrestling, but those sports are more popular. Stop blaming girls because you are a fan of an unpopular sport [/quote]

Why don't they cut all of the unpopular girls sports?[/quote]

Because football coaches want to carry 85 scholarship players. Why don't wrestling alumni pressure schools to keep programs? Even swim teams have managed to pull that off[/quote]

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