Gone, Lost and Forgotten: The Project

I have a lot of people asking me about what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. 

Here's the deal.....

According to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, we have lost 670 collegiate wrestling programs.  When I was a kid I was a huge Syracuse Orangemen fan. I was devastated when they announced the team was being dropped.  That's when this obsession began.

Then I attended an NCAA Division I wrestling tournament and met a group of guys that had competed for Southern Illinois Carbondale. One of the wrestlers said to me, "There's nothing.  No record of my conference championship. No record of my DII All American honor. No record of my NCAA DI qualification.  No nothing. Go to the SIU-Carbondale website, there's nothing."

And I guess that had an effect on me.  He should be remembered.  There should be a place to go, look his name up and see what he accomplished. If SIU-Carbondale isn't going to do that for him, then I will.

And so the obsession became a fixation.

I am bound and determined to find out as much information as I possibly can on every single dropped program we've had in NCAA DI, NCAA DII, NCAA DIII, NAIA, NJCAA, CCCAA & NCCAA over the years. 

WHAT I HAVE SO FAR 

Every CCCAA Place-Winner from Dropped Schools

Every CCCAA Team Champion from Dropped Schools

Every EIWA Place Winner from Dropped Schools

Every EIWA Awards From Dropped Schools

Every NCCAA (National Christian Collegiate Athletic Association) Dropped Team Participant

Every NCCAA Team Champion from Dropped Teams

Every BIG 12 Place Winner from Dropped Schools

Every BIG 12 Team Championship from Dropped Schools

Every NAIA Top 10 Team finish from Dropped Schools

Every NCAA DIII Top 10 Team Finish from Dropped Schools

Every NCAA DII Top 10 Team Finish From Dropped Schools

Every NCAA DI Top 10 Team Finish From Dropped Schools

All NAIA All Americans from Dropped Schools

All NCAA DIII All Americans from Dropped Schools

All NCAA DII All Americans from Dropped Schools

All NCAA I NCAA Qualifiers and All Americans From Dropped Schools

All Midlands Place-Winners from Dropped Schools


WHAT I'M CURRENTLY WORKING ON 

Coaches from Every Dropped Program I can find (Have close to 350 teams so far)


WHAT I HOPE TO ADD

New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Team Champs & Place-Winners From Dropped Schools

Rocky Mountain Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Pacific-Coast-Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Mountain States Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Skyline Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Big Sky Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Western Athletic Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Ohio Intercollegiate Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Southern Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Four-I Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Little Three Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Midwestern Athletic Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Mason Dixon Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

SEC Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

So-Cal Junior Colleges Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

NJCAA Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Pennsylvania State College Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Wilkes Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Wheaton College Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

US Coast Guard Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Mideast Regionals Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Chattanooga Jaycee's Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

West Virginia Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

President's Athletic Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Northern State Tournament Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

North Dakota Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

North Central Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Minnesota Collegiate Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Athletic Coast Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Illinois Intercollegiate Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Far Western Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

The Hoosier Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

The Iowa Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Metropolitan Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Middle-Atlantic Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Oregon Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Wisconsin Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Phoenix Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Nebraska Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

New York Colleges Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Pacific-Northwest Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

South Dakota Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Knox College Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

PAC-12 Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Missouri Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Independent Teams Regional Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Tri State Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Lake Forest Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Lutheran Tournament Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

First Colonies Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Evergreen Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Southern Open Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

CW-Post Invitational Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Green Lakes Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

College Athletic Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Dixie conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

East Stroudsberg Open Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Yankee Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Texas Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Eastern Regional Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

Old Dominion Conference Team Champs & Place-Winners from Dropped Schools

All East Vs West & All State Classic participants from Dropped Schools

AND THEN....
Make a list by State of all the dropped programs.  Find out which state is the guiltiest of dropping the most teams. 

AND FINALLY
Collaborate all of these findings together and make memes of each team, when the started, when they dropped and what they accomplished.

For example (and I will add to this when I'm all said and done) here is a sample....





I want to do this for each and every single team that was dropped.  That is my goal.

Hopefully I can complete it before I am dead.