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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4676910, member: 71"] A couple reasons, title IX plays a major role as well. 1 - wrestling is nowhere near as important a sport in the northeast as it is in the rust belt (kind of important) or the plains states (exceptionally important). We have nowhere near the talent pool to draw from that we would need to be successful. 2 - there aren't enough schools in the general vicinity willing to field a D-1 program (we would have to participate at this level) to form a conference. Our schedule would be entirely non-conference matches, likely all requiring a good amount of travel. When Central was a D-2 school their wrestling program was pretty solid (relative to other northeast D-2 schools) and they had quite a following on a section of NY state northwest of Albany (part of the rust belt) where they recruited pretty heavily from. The move to D-1 made it difficult to maintain the program, which sadly made it an easy choice to be a title IX cut. [/QUOTE]