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This is one sport I really wish we'd bring back.
Sycamore Proud
The Nicks Level
You are not the only fan wishing we would bring it back. A couple of friends and I seldom missed a home event.
I saw a Facebook posting today from ISU with Kurt Thomas highlighted for being in the Olympics. I can remember seeing gymnasts on my floor in Rhodes Hall icing their hands after practice. I wish we still had that sport, too.
Agree -- ncaa allows ~10 scholarships, would we have have to add another women's sport? I think today, the men's scholies are ~100 and the women are roughly 92...
With only one other MVC School hosting a wrestling team (No Iowa), I'd assume we pursue MAC membership UNLESS Dougie Elgin develops a BOLD streak and sanction wrestling... we'd have to poach non-MVC schools but as No Dakota St, So Dakota St, So Illinois-Ed'Ville and Missouri are all within the MVC footprint, that would be a 6-tm conference...
True shame Landini pushed to kill wrestling AND Gymnastics
Gotta Hav
The Wade Level
That and MEN's Gymnastics, but I wouldn't want to be accused of being some misguided Title IX misogynist narrow-minded bigot.
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Yeah, I think we were teetering at 1:1 last time I looked at the Op Ed data.
The big problem with men's gymnastics is that there are NO high schools in the state of Indiana that have boys gymnastics any longer. We would have to recruit entirely out of state. That means out of state tuition costs going against your recruiting budget instead of the lower in state tuition. Too expensive! That's why IU dropped it too.
Gotta Hav
The Wade Level
Wow Woz. I never knew that Indiana was a HOTBED of Boys High School Gymnastics in the 60's and 70's. So how may boys from Indiana were on our Gymnastics Teams, back-in-the-day?
Your probably right on the recruiting budget, but you're Rose Colored glasses on Boys Gymnastics in Indiana....IF we ever had any Indiana HS with Boys Gymnastics, I've never knew about it. And if we no longer have it for cost reasons....they also got rid of it because HS's created their own progressive agenda for Girls Sports inclusiveness.
And before anyone on here goes SPASTIC, having more girls sports has been good, but its also been at the expense of Boys and Men's sports.
I would bet $5.00 that on the College level, there are now more Women's Sports teams than Men's Sports teams....at every almost every College in the country.
And too expensive for IU. LOL....ha, as much money as they have? IU can do what they want and when they want.....If IU cut it....it wasn't over money, it just had no place in IU athletics as a brand.
BankShot
The Kleuh Level
I presented this topic to a fellow ISU Theta Chi Fraternity bros., who was an Asst. Coach to Roger Counsil on the '77 ISU National Championship squad. He was an Elkhart, IN native:
"Other than David Seal ( Still Rings; Columbus,IN - 2 time NCAA champ) and myself (Kevin Murphy; Pommel Horse - 3rd in NCAA's) I cannot think of another Hoosier gymnast who made All-American. I could be wrong, though. Indiana HS Gymnastics in the 70's was quite good - mainly Columbus HS - John Hinds was a great coach. They turned out many collegiate gymnasts who competed nationally. It is just that not many of them excelled at that same level once they were in college. ISU had at least 6 or 7 guys on the team from Indiana HS."
"Other than David Seal ( Still Rings; Columbus,IN - 2 time NCAA champ) and myself (Kevin Murphy; Pommel Horse - 3rd in NCAA's) I cannot think of another Hoosier gymnast who made All-American. I could be wrong, though. Indiana HS Gymnastics in the 70's was quite good - mainly Columbus HS - John Hinds was a great coach. They turned out many collegiate gymnasts who competed nationally. It is just that not many of them excelled at that same level once they were in college. ISU had at least 6 or 7 guys on the team from Indiana HS."
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