Why hasn't anyone made any progress on lifting the ban on NCAA boxing?

[Lucky Charms]

NCAA boxing was terminated in 1960 when a boxer died during the tournament. Amateur boxing safety has advanced so much in the last 50 years from headgear, safer gloves, prefight medical tests, ect. Amateur boxing needs to be a high level college sport. It would do wonders for the Olympic program if scholarships were given to great amateur boxers. The entire sport of boxing would rebuild itself from the bottom; the amateur program!

Yet I haven't heard anything from USA Boxing ever in trying to bring it back to the NCAA. Why is this? Sure there is club boxing at a few dozen schools, but that's not turning out elite fighters.

Just picture it: Kids would now strive to become boxers from a young age, and it could then build into a high school sport and Amateur boxing could become as big or bigger than amateur wrestling. Once the amateur game is top notch the professional game improves leaps and bounds.

[johnnyutah]

college boxing would be useless and have no impact on the professional boxing scene, and who said amateur boxing isn't a big deal already, top fighters are identified at an early age, a select few go to the olympics, and most of the good ones turn pro eventually, the system isn't broke at that level, its the pro level that could use some help

[Lucky Charms]

college boxing would be useless and have no impact on the professional boxing scene, and who said amateur boxing isn't a big deal already, top fighters are identified at an early age, a select few go to the olympics, and most of the good ones turn pro eventually, the system isn't broke at that level, its the pro level that could use some help

Current college club boxing is useless. If it was built into a great program where NCAA champion meant something, it would be fantastic. The progression would be join a high school boxing team, get a scholarship to a good college program, Olympics, professional.

And you have to build the amateur level to improve the pro level, and amateur boxing in the US is in the ****s.