If You Cheer for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Team
Dec 9, 2019 12:52:26 GMT
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Post by johnnythompsonnum1 on Dec 9, 2019 12:52:26 GMT
STOP!!!
One thing I cannot stand is when wrestling fans cheer for a school that maliciously dropped its wrestling program in order to put more $$, resources and space into the football program. There be no example of this tragedy than the University of Notre Dame. By all means there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Notre Dame shouldn't have wrestling. They have the space, the resources and above all else the money to fund a wrestling program. If you look up why the Fighting Irish lost there program after the 1991-1992 season it will state that Dick Rosenthal decided to discontinue wrestling because of Title IX. If you want a story that has about 1/32 of truth to it, then take that explanation at that value. If you want to know what really happened, in my opinion, based on a lot of valuable information keep reading.
There was a man by the name of Bucky O'Connor who was a multimillionaire in the oil business. His son Pat wrestled for the University of Notre Dame. In the summer of 1973, Pat was murdered while on vacation in Europe. Bucky set up a 1.5 million dollar endowment to fund the wrestling program. The money he gave to Notre Dame was to ensure that the Fighting Irish wrestling program his son loved would go on forever. Bucky passed away in 1991 & Rosenthal with other representatives went to his widow and convinced her that the wrestling team needed to be dropped because of proportionality quotas not being met by the University.
Let me tell you why, in my opinion, that is complete b.s.
Notre Dame was having compliance issues with Title IX since the mid 1980's. I feel very confident that had Bucky O'Connor lived until 1997 or 1999 or 2005 or whenever that Fighting Irish wrestling would've lived right along with him. If Bucky O'Connor were alive today, Fighting Irish wrestling would be alive today as well. I strongly believe that.
I find it fascinating that when the 1.5 million dollar endowment was no longer used for the wrestling program that the women's programs added to the University weren't the only change in South Bend, Indiana. The football program suddenly in the fall of 1993 was offering more to their scholarships.
To this day the O'Connor fund is STILL being used to help fund the football program. And I don't care if that results in thousands, 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands or if he results to $1 per season. That's blood money. That football program has the blood of a murdered kid on its hands, the deception, the lies & broken promises it told a grieving father who loved his son on its conscious & the ways in which in manipulated a woman who had lost her son and husband on its spirit.
There's no way any fan of wrestling should ever cheer Notre Dame Football. There's no excuse for it.
One thing I cannot stand is when wrestling fans cheer for a school that maliciously dropped its wrestling program in order to put more $$, resources and space into the football program. There be no example of this tragedy than the University of Notre Dame. By all means there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Notre Dame shouldn't have wrestling. They have the space, the resources and above all else the money to fund a wrestling program. If you look up why the Fighting Irish lost there program after the 1991-1992 season it will state that Dick Rosenthal decided to discontinue wrestling because of Title IX. If you want a story that has about 1/32 of truth to it, then take that explanation at that value. If you want to know what really happened, in my opinion, based on a lot of valuable information keep reading.
There was a man by the name of Bucky O'Connor who was a multimillionaire in the oil business. His son Pat wrestled for the University of Notre Dame. In the summer of 1973, Pat was murdered while on vacation in Europe. Bucky set up a 1.5 million dollar endowment to fund the wrestling program. The money he gave to Notre Dame was to ensure that the Fighting Irish wrestling program his son loved would go on forever. Bucky passed away in 1991 & Rosenthal with other representatives went to his widow and convinced her that the wrestling team needed to be dropped because of proportionality quotas not being met by the University.
Let me tell you why, in my opinion, that is complete b.s.
Notre Dame was having compliance issues with Title IX since the mid 1980's. I feel very confident that had Bucky O'Connor lived until 1997 or 1999 or 2005 or whenever that Fighting Irish wrestling would've lived right along with him. If Bucky O'Connor were alive today, Fighting Irish wrestling would be alive today as well. I strongly believe that.
I find it fascinating that when the 1.5 million dollar endowment was no longer used for the wrestling program that the women's programs added to the University weren't the only change in South Bend, Indiana. The football program suddenly in the fall of 1993 was offering more to their scholarships.
To this day the O'Connor fund is STILL being used to help fund the football program. And I don't care if that results in thousands, 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands or if he results to $1 per season. That's blood money. That football program has the blood of a murdered kid on its hands, the deception, the lies & broken promises it told a grieving father who loved his son on its conscious & the ways in which in manipulated a woman who had lost her son and husband on its spirit.
There's no way any fan of wrestling should ever cheer Notre Dame Football. There's no excuse for it.
