Great feedback. Would love to discuss relegation and your
Reimagining NCAA Wrestling article with you sometime. Will you be attending any more PSU matches this year?
Yes. I will be covering Reno next weekend, and also the Ohio State meet at the Schottenstein Center February 3rd. And I'll likely be at Penn State's National Duals dual as well, although that's not 100% set in stone yet, for obvious reasons. However, I won't be making it to State College this season for any duals.
One thing about that "Reimagining NCAA Wrestling" article: I feel like the most important thing we need to do is to encourage the one team at home, one team away dual meet. While, in hindsight, I'd ratchet the points scale I proposed downward, I'm not opposed to that sort of system. What I AM opposed to, however, is twofold, and in parallel with each-other: having more and more tris, quads, and super-duals (which I fear might be a side-effect of having a team component, and why the alteration of numbers of dates was proposed, to safeguard against that), and having multi-dual "regionals" like every proposal I've seen coming from Indianapolis with a 24-team bracket has included.
Cael and I have disagreed about the merits of having a team component, although the last time it came up, we've very much agreed on opposing the proposals as they have been presented (ironically, that article mentioned was a counterproposal to the NCAA proposal, and was originally going to be written as an argument AGAINST it, before trying to come up with a way to save it). Also, Cael and I agree on the following: the single dual is the best way to market our sport. The question is, do we harness that power into such a dual tournament at the end of the season, or do we leave the status quo as-is, and there is merit to either answer, as the former may take too much out of our student-athletes. The problem is, the NCAA's proposal, as it came up in 2014, does neither.
