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I cannot believe the incredulous lack of respect Div II wrestlers receive. Other that a small box score (if they are lucky) there is no mention of them and we all know they work just as hard. Should they be so looked down upon because of the size of their school????
Jackie,
They shouldn’t at all be looked down upon. We certainly don’t. However, there is only so much we can cover with the small team of people we have working with us, so we cover what will have the greatest audience interest.
Right now while the site brings in little revenue and expenses exceed that revenue, we rely on generous volunteers to donate their time and energies to cover these events. We’d love to expand, but we neither have the volunteers nor the money to do that.
We had a Suffolk dII guy who offered to volunteer. We talked on the phone. Said he would help. It was the last I heard from him.
Can you write? We’d love your help.
Sincerely,
Bill
I couldn’t agree with Jackie more. I understand that Lighthouse may be understaffed but MSG Varsity had a very large presence at Stonybrook and treated the D2 wrestlers in the same manner. MSG had 4 cameras on mat 1 and no coverage on mat 2 were the D2 championships were. I really don’t see why the event couldn’t be covered in it’s entirety , D1 semi finals were covered by MSG and then all 4 cameras went to mat 1.
I was very taken back by the actions of all media groups, after all even small schools are supporters, and the same amount of champions come out of both divisions.
While the comparison is flattering, MSG varsity is part of a multi-billion dollar corporation. It’s resources are tremendous. Their people raise families on the income that the make from MSG Varsity. All our efforts are volunteer, and I have to convince my wife that I’m not crazy for the time and money I devote to this effort…
And while MSG varsity got press credentials, we got none, though we asked. We do the best we can with what we have. Hopefully, we can do more some day. You have to respect us for that.
We’ll be covering the State tournament all day for 2 straight days. We need help with the DII coverage. At most we need 4 people, one for each mat. Would anyone like to volunteer to support us on our Live DII coverage. All you need is a laptop, ability to touch type, and knowledge of wrestling.
actually I respect what any wrestler does…but since I can only follow one division at a time that is all I can write about. At Stony Brook I could not even see the finals matches for d2 way over on the far side of the fieldhouse. unfortunatley on LI the d2 format is the minority of teams…the opposite of most of the upstate sections. So I have to cover what is for the majority of the fans. If you want to get coverage for D2 on LI or even just in Suffolk perhaps you will volunteer hours of your personal time each week to do rankings, write articles and cover the county tournament as 3 of us do here on LHW. We are a small group of people who contribute to this site and we do it because we love wrestling and try to provide the best coverage we can. I am sorry if you think we are against D2 or any wrestlers on LI. Just ask the D2 Babylon coach Ken Brodmerkel about Bill Miller and Pete Candito and I think he will set you straight. Meanwhile you should contact Bill Miller who spends much of his waking hours hard at work bringing comprehensive coverage of HS wrestling on LI as well as college wrestling. Bill would be thrilled to have someone dedicated to D2 wrestling on LI who will submit rankings and articles every couple of weeks all season.