Collegiate Duals Mon 12/18

Thanks for your support of isu, but if you are serious about getting a 125, the Cardinal and Gold is the only thing that supports wrestling.

I think this needs to be highlighted because it’s not clear to everyone.

Want to help wrestling? Cardinal and Gold. Want to help everything else? We Will.
Actually I think that We Will supports all athletics at ISU if the athletes want to participate. @brentblum can confirm. Also, I believe that thru the We Will you can specify what your donation goes to. i.e. Wrestling, Tennis, Swimming/Diving, etc.
 
Actually I think that We Will supports all athletics at ISU if the athletes want to participate. @brentblum can confirm. Also, I believe that thru the We Will you can specify what your donation goes to. i.e. Wrestling, Tennis, Swimming/Diving, etc.
Incorrect. Which is why I repeated what others said and made sure this is made public.
 
I have received quite a few messages regarding our Iowa State dual so I figured I would get right to it. We had starters get injured during our previous matches in the day. If we wrestled Iowa State first we would have had all our starters in. I’m not going to risk further injury and endanger my student-athletes for a dual in December. Good or bad in the eye of the public, my job is to protect my athletes and if they aren’t able to compete they will not. We have Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Missouri and NC State amongst others remaining on the schedule. I think we have the toughest schedule in the country and I expect to wrestle our best in each event. Injuries are part of the sport and they unfortunately aren’t predictable.

I guess this was the coaches response via email after the meet after catching some heat.

So what you are saying is because we have winnable duals coming up we didn’t want to try and compete with a superior team? That’s the gist I got
 
Incorrect. Which is why I repeated what others said and made sure this is made public.
He quite literally said it on this weeks podcast. By default it is split between the three major sports but if you donate to We Will and specify to them that you want it to go to Wrestling, Golf, etc. he will make sure it goes there.
 
He quite literally said it on this weeks podcast. By default it is split between the three major sports but if you donate to We Will and specify to them that you want it to go to Wrestling, Golf, etc. he will make sure it goes there.
Ok. Well it’s not very clear at all then because they had an ad they ran last week on Twitter where the wrestlers in it didn’t get any NIL for it, per also what he said on this forum. It’s a lot more confusing than it should be. the simple way if you want to donate to Wrestling is just use the Cardinal and Gold. Other sports, use we will.
 
I understand what everyone is saying regarding the Cardinal and Gold Collective. What I am saying, and what @wxman1 said. You can specifically tell the Week Will Collective that you want your money to specifically go to wrestling and they will do that. I can't reach out to the Cardinal and Gold Collective and ask them to donate to the football, gymnastics, etc team. Ultimately each sport could get their own collective, but I think it would spread everything too thin and people wouldn't donate at all.
 
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I understand what everyone is saying regarding the Cardinal and Gold Collective. What I am saying, and what @wxman1 said. You can specifically tell the Week Will Collective that you want your money to specifically go to wrestling and they will do that. I can't reach out to the Cardinal and Gold Collective and ask them to donate to the football, gymnastics, etc team. Ultimately each sport could get their own collective, but I think it would spread everything too thin and people wouldn't donate at all.
Why would you even deal with that? Why wouldn’t you just give directly to the cardinal and gold if you wanted to support wrestling?
 
Why would you even deal with that? Why wouldn’t you just give directly to the cardinal and gold if you wanted to support wrestling?
May want to support a couple sports and get the we will updates and gifts. What does c and g give for benefits?
 
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Why would you even deal with that? Why wouldn’t you just give directly to the cardinal and gold if you wanted to support wrestling?
Because I like all of ISU sports. I go to Men's and Women's BBall, Football, Wrestling, Gymnastics, etc. The We Will is easy enough for me to donate to. As mentioned, I feel as if each group had it's own collective we wouldn't get as many donations. I appreciate all the feedback and love talking wrestling with all of you.