To point something else out, rooting for UCO in DII wrestling is kind of like rooting for the Yankees in MLB. For your information, and for many others on this site, UCO has over 10 full scholarships to recruit with. They have no conference rules for scholarship numbers, so the fact that they contend for national championships every year is a given....The average for DII is about 4.7 scholarships. UNK works with only 1.3 scholarships. Kind of amazing what we do up here with our kansas kids, huh? Soak this year up, because UNK will be loaded for the next number of years, I hope that UCO can keep up with their 10 full boats...
By the way Aaron, if you're not busy this weekend, UNK is hosting the Loper Open and during an intermission they are having a presentation for the 2003 National Dual Champions with the team receiving their rings...Hope you can make it!!!

For everybody else, there will be some great matchups with tons of Kansas kids from FHSU, CCC, Labette, UNK, UNO, UNL, and others going at it...hope to see some Kansas fans there!!!

Is UCO doing something illegal? Maybe you know something I didn't realize. When Coach James talked to me about some of my wrestlers going to school there, 10 full rides was never mentioned. I'm really not sure what they actually have and I'm not sure you do either but I do know they were cut back on a few years ago.
None of my wrestlers were ever given a large amount of help until they proved their contribution to the team at UCO. If they are not doing anything illegal, then I think maybe you have to put them in with the OSU's, OU's, Iowa's and others who people love to hate because they are winning. I personaly applaud UNO, UNK, FHSU and all the other schools who give Kansas kids a chance. I feel Kansas has plenty of outstanding wrestlers to field a very good D-1 team, its just too bad we don't have one. Since we don't have that D 1 program I'm proud to of had the opportunity to send Marc Hull, Todd Drake, David Hull, Chad Drake, Shawn Silvis and Chris Saferite to a quality program with an excellent coaching staff. Yea, Swaz may be alittle proud, but I don't think he intentionally leaves people out.
Go Broncho's

Since we don't have that D 1 program I'm proud to of had the opportunity to send Marc Hull, Todd Drake, David Hull, Chad Drake, Shawn Silvis and Chris Saferite to a quality program with an excellent coaching staff. Yea, Swaz may be alittle proud, but I don't think he intentionally leaves people out.
Go Broncho's
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I don't try to leave out anyone...I'd love to come to Kearney...shake your hand and give you a cookie...I'll show you my 2 National Team rings for wrestling, and 2 National rings from NJCAA football as an announcer...I don't try to leave people out on anything..and I don't know what I did...I have Kansas pride, and want it to be known if a Kansas guy wrestles...look at posts on other guys for instance.

I don't know where you are getting your averages but by talking around to some of the D2 coaches just in the Midwest region they are allocated the full 9...btw...on http://www.athleticscholarships.com, it states that

The NCAA allows each division 1 wrestling program 9.9 scholarships and in division 2, 9 scholarships are available .

Yeah im thinking his info on all the scholarship stuff is a little off. I'm pretty sure even O- State just has 9 point something scholarships to give out. And i seriously doubt UCO would have more.
Oh and by the way congrats to those UNK boys and their DUAL rings, im sure they're nice!

D1 is supposed to get 9.9 scholarships for wrestling...

D2 9

D3 0

Dear Mr. Sweazy:

The link you provided to support your argument is incorrect. The link should be athleticscholarships.net

Hey, no need to thank me for the correction! I am happy to assist you in your learning quest!

WRESTLING SCHOLARSHIP STATISTICS & INFORMATION.

"Not all athletic scholarships are full ride scholarships like football and basketball, so called "head count sports"; most are classed as "equivalency sports', like college wrestling .Put simply this means that coaches can "share" their allocation between a larger number of wrestlers.

This is good news for the athletes. In division 1 a coach can divide "9.9" scholarships between a larger number of Wrestlers. Say 25 partial scholarships instead of 9 full ride scholarships. If you are good enough of course then a full ride scholarship is always on the cards.

There are 85 division 1 and 38 division 2 colleges that offer wrestling scholarships.

That's a total of 1,183.5 wrestling scholarships available in the NCAA alone.

The Midwest dominates college wrestling, with schools such as Iowa, Oklahoma, Penn State, and Nebraska almost always claiming the top positions in collegiate rankings. Wrestling is a sport taught from an early age and supported by entire communities. Midwestern schools maintain strong programs because they can recruit from the best high school programs located in their own states

The NCAA allows each division 1 wrestling program 9.9 scholarships and in division 2, 9 scholarships are available."

Just a little clarification. The figures you posted from that RECRUITING SERVICE are the maximum amount of wrestling scholarships that the NCAA allows, not what is actually given out by all NCAA schools.

Many school administrators dictate that far fewer scholarships be given out than the maximum allowed for financial reasons.

The wrestling programs that are allowed by their administration to give out the maximum amount of scholarships allowed by the NCAA obviously will be more consistant winners through the years than schools whos administration chooses to save money by giving out fewer than allowed.

University of Nebraska-Kearney participates in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC)

PART I -- CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 100 -- NAME

The name of this organization shall be the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).

PART III -- OPERATING RULES

SECTION 300 -- RULES OF ELIGIBILITY

The NCAA rules shall apply to every student athlete of active member institutions who participate in any intercollegiate event recognized by the conference.

Each member institution is required to submit a copy of their squad lists (for each sponsored sport) to the conference office on two (2) occasions throughout the academic year. The first submission will be no later than the first week of scheduled competition for each sport during the academic year. The Faculty Athletic Representative must sign off on initial eligibility (1/03; 1230). The second submission will be a revised and updated squad list, including all financial aid. The second submission is due no later than May 15th of each academic year (11/00; 1146).

SECTION 301 -- PERMISSIBLE AID TO ATHLETES

NCAA Division II equivalency limits shall be utilized for all sport except football. The total grant-in-aid for football shall not exceed twenty-eight (28) equivalencies in accordance with NCAA criteria set forth in bylaw 15.5.3 of the NCAA Manual.

SECTION 302 -- RECRUITING and ENROLLMENT REGULATIONS

302.1 Each active member institution shall abide by NCAA rules and regulations.

302.2 Each institution may participate in the National Letter of Intent program.

302.3 Each institution shall have a one-year residency policy for any student athlete transferring within the Conference that receives an athletic financial aid award from the original institution. This legislation is not specific to any sport, but rather inclusive of all sports. If a sport is discontinued, this policy is no longer in effect for athletes in that particular sport at that institution. Implementation date is July 1, 2000 for any student with a financial aid award for Fall term 2000.

thanks Mr. Salyear for the help...

btw, on section 302.1 does that also mean that then can't offer less?

No, it does not.

Richard,

Just ribbing you here, but when did Penn State become part of the midwest? Oh, I guess it's in quotation marks so that doesn't count.

Thanks for the info though, I did not know that.

Dear Mr. Lane:

I wondered the about the choice of schools myself. I would have included Minnesota rather than Penn State.