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Clemson Wrestling
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Clemson Wrestling


Jan 25, 2016, 8:54 PM

didn't you old timers say that we used to have a team at Clemson? I have been working the NDSU duals recently and it's been my 1st experience with college wrestling. I find it pretty interesting but also I don't understand the technical aspects at all.

I see that NC State has a top 5 team and is tearing up the ACC.

is this something you would like Clemson to get back> I know it's not likely at all

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the wrestling mats must cost too much.


Jan 25, 2016, 8:58 PM

and the spawn of the he-woman manhaters club: Title IX.

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"Anybody that says Coach Brownell is the best coach to come through Clemson is going to start an argument." -JP Hall


We had our first national champion


Jan 25, 2016, 9:09 PM

in any sport in the mid 70's - Noel Loban. We also had a two-time national champion after I graduated in 1980.

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Sam Henson, I think!***********


Jan 26, 2016, 1:21 PM



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Re: Clemson Wrestling


Jan 25, 2016, 9:17 PM

Sam Henson was a 3X National Champion and was a total badass.

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Jan 25, 2016, 9:18 PM

We were good for several years. I think they got rid of the team in the 1980s. Part of the reason was that they were unruly on campus, frequent fights. And no, I don't have a link, but I watched one of the wrestlers in Johnstone B8 bloody a guy's face.

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Dropped due to Title IX--Womens Equality


Jan 26, 2016, 1:25 PM

We didn't have enough women sports to balance out the equation & it was dropped. This is why we added women's golf & ROWING...Hartwell is a 'free' venue. We won't add softball because we would need to add back something on the mens side---I think wrestling would be a great option even if I have no interest in it personally.

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Jan 25, 2016, 9:38 PM

Title 9 or watching two men fish cost us any chance of something like that.

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Re: Clemson Wrestling


Jan 25, 2016, 9:39 PM

They dropped the team after '95 season. Title IX was a factor, the coach was also fired after a rules violation during the season as well. Really sucks b/c it happened a year removed from Clemson finishing in the top 10 at the NCAA's (pretty good for a southern school) and had a highly ranked recruiting class that was highly ranked.

College wrestling has it tough b/c they are an easy target for being cut, whether for Title IX or other reasons. And there are some programs that get done dirty in the process (i.e. - Oregon and Nebraska-Omaha). Hopefully it'll make a turnaround with the growth in the youth and high school levels and hopefully one day they'll bring wrestling back to Tigertown.

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same thing happens in men's tennis


Jan 25, 2016, 10:07 PM

Colorado cut their men's tennis program the year after finishing in the top 30. Arizona State did the same thing a few years later.

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Jan 25, 2016, 10:20 PM

I remember watching our heavyweight (6-10) skinny guy take on NC State's 470 pound Tabb Thacker, the NCAA champ human pear. Thacker won by falling on him and crushing him. That was about 1984. I hate that we quit on those guys.

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NC State currently has the nations #1 heavyweight***


Jan 26, 2016, 1:20 PM



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