Gary Crow and Mark Garrison met up with John Azevedo at the 2013 DI National tournament in at St. Louis, and discussed bringing back wrestling at both at CSU Chico, and in California in general. His outlook based on his recent experience as the head coach of Cal Poly was bleak - until we discussed our plan. Our plan, which is to get all of the like minded people together in a consortium than is fu
nded with a wrestling endowment, and organized with fans, past wrestlers, supporters and high level people from all walks of life. He got it quickly, and lent his name to our effort, and suggested we use many of the high level people he knows to network with, i.e., Dan Gable, current MMA fighters and past; Chuck Liddel, etc. He referenced how Binghamton University lost their program, but Actor William Baldwin single handedly brought the program back by his clout and fundraising. They had two All Americans at this tournament for the first time ever. No too shabby for a DIII program that got cut. Now we are getting somewhere....
In the mean while, whoever is reading this, let us know by liking this page so we can find you. That's the biggest problem, is finding everyone across the globe and organizing us into a powerful group. ( a quick example is that weekend I got in the elevator in St. Louis, and Don Terpen, CSU Chico Wrestler 1965 - 1967 was in there wearing a Chico State hat - what are the odd's of that? So I got his information, and he's now supporting us.) That is what will get the attention of the University higher ups, along with money. We will have both. Let me know if you are interested in helping, the more people we have, the better and faster our efforts will be. See you mat side at CSU Chico in the future!
