Re: Transfer portal
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:15 am
Cornell is private and and Ivy and they are getting tons of top recruits? How are they doing it?
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That's a brave statement with some Lehigh alumni.
Yes, there a pros and cons. However, Lehigh's budget for wrestling is among the highest of all NCAA program. It is not a skimpy budget. The facilities for wrestling are as good as any in NCAA. The coaches are as good as any in NCAA. One thing us alumni harp on is that ADMISSIONS does not have a "special abilities" classification to get in a special athlete who may not have 1300 SAT. We can have a bare minimum SAT for admission for this category and split it Men-Women across all sports and then also an equal number for other "special abilities" admission whether in performing arts, fine arts or whatever. This then allows you to go after athletes and students who Lehigh was not even a possibility before. There are plenty of major now that are not as demanding as pure science and engineering as in the past. Tuition should no longer be the deciding factor. Lehigh has signed onto that they will offer free Tuition to families with under $100k income and there are plenty of options for financial aid and as well Army ROTC on campus. You can go to Lehigh for free or near free, if you do the research and the student puts the work in.Justafan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:15 pm Just checking out the playing field that Joe and Pat are operating on
Results of the NCAA Tournament
School Undergraduate Enrollment
Penn St 42,223 (Main Campus)
Cornell 15,735
Michigan 32,645
Iowa State 30,177
Iowa 21,973
Arizona St 75,492
Virginia Tech 30,434
Ohio State 46,123
Nebraska 19,189
Oklahoma St 20,801
Missouri 23,752
NC State 27,317
South Dakota St 9,921
Northern Iowa 7,739
Lehigh 5,624
The top 15 teams are comprised of 13 public universities, 1 Private/Public (Cornell) and Lehigh the only purely private school.
Anyone notice a pattern? Every one of these schools have a significant advantage over Lehigh. Public funding for facilities, coaching, training partners etc. Cheaper tuition, easier academic requirements at large, public universities. We've been through all this before. Now is this NIL era, add on average 5 X the alumni base just looking to use an athlete's name, image and likeness on his billboards. This isn't the old days. Smaller programs have since de-emphasized or dropped the sport and larger programs in the Big 10 and ACC have added major funding.
To any non-partisan outside observer, I would think Lehigh would be held in high esteem for what we accomplished this year.
Parco was a wrestling club teammate of Bailey in California and I believe Bailey's dad was a coach there. I also believe Yozzo was connected to that club/family and that's how Bailey wound up at Lehigh.
Cornell 2017-18: The Killer Ds: Diakomihalis, Dean, Darmstadt, three freshman, all AAs.LUEngineer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:09 pm also we can build off 2 Freshman All Americans. How many other schools can claim that accomplishment?
Was un-aware that PARCO was available! Would be ONE hell'uve pick-up..