Levi Cooper and Thomas Cottrell discuss NUWAY and Portland State : Speakers & Interviews

NUWAY and Portland need help i grew up watching people like Rick Sanders wrestle I wrestled for Portland and I find it a shame that a great sport like this is suffering, and in the great lands of Portland we can't let this happen. If flo gives me there information contact or email address i'll help donate and get some good fresh faces in the room.
T.C.D

oregon didn't care about Portland State dying because it had already been dead for years!!! Kids in oregon would rather go to CCC, SOU, or out of state then go to a dead program like portland state. Here's the deal:
In the city of portland, wrestling is awful. The PIL is the worst high school conference in the state. A college that is fead by a city that is terrible is going to be terrible. To add too that problem, the rest of the state didn't want to go to PSU! Any good oregon wrestler knew that there was no support within the school for wrestling, the coaching was absolutely terrible, and the competition in the room was terrible. It's not like there was a single cause for the collapse of PSU. The whole machine was in ruin. It wasn't a case where you can point to a single flaw.

the guy in left is a moron, MORON! trying to act like a tough guy. relax! it's just an interview. nobody sees you

I saw that Oregon played Oregon State in baseball today. Gag. That Ducks team was built on the backs of the dead Oregon wrestling squad, that was deceived out of a program. Administrators let wrestling teams die quietly and quickly in Oregon so as not to stir any contraversy up. Portland State went the same way. It's a pitty.

We need to spread the word about wrestling. We need more fans!!!

I have a sneaky suspicion there are going to be major changes coming. Today on http://www.thecaliforniawrestler.com the CAUSAW posted a letter to members which is being recieved with criticism. Looks like the west is going to fall and all of a sudden Mr. Benders greatest fears will be realized. I am hearing NUWAY has some new young business types from the west coast and east coast and are negotiating with AAU for card membership rights in Wrestling. Can you say friggin payback. Dave Dean pulled it off---two words---forward march

This is how the West was won!! Go SCWAY, WYWA and ORWAY!!

When you have no paid Asst and less then 2 scholarships you have to spread your money out to a number of kids which hurts your APR. A program is like a business it cant run with no support or capital. The result of a business with no adequate capital structure or support is a poor product. Maybe I should donate money to Mike Moyer and the NWCA so he can charge coaches to train them how to coach. But then again maybe he needs the training since he has not done a lick for anybody.

Bottom line if the NWCA is a front for Rich Bender and USAW. they want college wrestling to die so they can secure their executive salaries while they pay Marcie Van Dusen $15,000 a year and she has to take a full time job to make ends meat.
These kids thought the world of their coach and if anyone knows what the problem was it is them not you.
Maybe Zaleski at Davis doesnt know how to coach either. Stop making excuses for a broken system.

Alot of the issues that these guys are talking about our an issue of the coach. If the school is not promoting your program, then the coach needs to find a way to promote their program. A coach needs to find way to make things happen. Between Oregon and Washington you only had four Division I programs. There is no execuse for not enough athletes on the team. In addition, the wrestling team had a bad an APR. Funding is important but you need to have properly trained coaches to keep these programs alive.

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very well spoken young men. Shame on PSU. PSU strongest sport in history, tradition. Same with Bakersfield.

I remember there was a little controversy surrounding athletic scholarships and how often these star athletes even go on to get a degree. Now, of course when you cut through all the b/s, the majority of these offenders are football and basketball stars. Obviously, those guys are going to college to major in "sports." Some of them go on into professional careers to make millions. It's not right. We pretty much all agree on that. Now let's look at wrestling. A sport where the hard road is the only way to success, and more than often, that success isn't measured in dollar signs. So even the best wrestlers go on to graduate schools. Most guys I grew up with majored in teaching so they could continue with wrestling through coaching. Wrestling produces better attitudes. iness is frowned upon, and hard work is always rewarded. It's disgusting to think this nation values sports above education, but what it comes to is funding. The schools need money, the sports are fund raising events. Wrestling probably costs the least, but generates next to nothing for the school to want to continue. If people knew what was ultimately better for their communities, basketball would be tossed, and wrestling rooms would be furnished with the best equipment, and staff ( I don't think plasma TVs would belong in the practice room). It's a sad story, and it's indicative of peoples priorities these days. This is why I don't watch NFL, MLB, and NBA games anymore. I don't want my hard earned minimum wage to support those people.

fighting title ix is a losing battle. The NUWAY is packing the MSU event center with 4000+ wrestles and fans at a MYWAY event and showing administrators that wrestling is important. The NUWAY is also writing checks to colleges and keeping the resources of folkstyle wrestling in each state preserving, protecting and advancing wrestling at the grassroots level. If wrestling wants to grow and flourish then we need new leadership and a New Way. CA, OR, and WA will now have a chance to preserve west coast wrestling. You have our support.

Title IX must be revoked

Wrestling needs a change of leadership

Thanks for speaking out on this.
Garrett

I was there during the Portland State meetings and saw these two. Pretty tough luck 2 programs in 2 years. Glad they are speaking up for change

this hits home

Looks like the war will be fought in the west. Yes Mr. Bender resign or reform those are your two choices.