Antitroll2828 Posted April 8 Posted April 8 Alot of suprising coach movement so far The brands finally sending Telford out to pasture. Reader decided he rather leave the sport and be a roofer then spend another season with Bono. I don’t blame him. Still an opening at Wisconsin Mytych out at Rutgers. Blames NIL landscape. Ashnault leaving Princeton to replace him. 1
1032004 Posted April 8 Posted April 8 Head coach job at Citadel is posted… https://jobs.citadel.edu/jobs/wrestling-coach-charleston-south-carolina-united-states
cowcards Posted April 8 Posted April 8 23 minutes ago, Lunaticfringe said: When is Poeta gonna get canned? Hunter was promoted to HC a month ago. 1
Idaho Posted April 8 Posted April 8 Josh Rhoden stepped down as assistant at Oregon State. 1 Sponsored by INTERMAT
mr.nonothingatall Posted April 8 Posted April 8 20 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said: Reader decided he rather leave the sport and be a roofer then spend another season with Bono. I don’t blame him. Still an opening at Wisconsin. God I love this forum. 1 Full of un-bias blasphemy.
ionel Posted April 8 Posted April 8 50 minutes ago, mr.nonothingatall said: God I love this forum. nonomorecoachingatall 1 .
Idaho Posted April 9 Posted April 9 On 4/7/2026 at 7:58 PM, Antitroll2828 said: Alot of suprising coach movement so far The brands finally sending Telford out to pasture. Reader decided he rather leave the sport and be a roofer then spend another season with Bono. I don’t blame him. Still an opening at Wisconsin Mytych out at Rutgers. Blames NIL landscape. Ashnault leaving Princeton to replace him. This is going to become a bigger issue... Just in this off-season alone there have been many assistant coaches leaving coaching all together because of the landscape of college wrestling. We had one just resign this week. View it from the perspective of the assistant coach. You travel a ton... gone for 3 days every weekend for a dual and if you aren't you are traveling to recruit. Just when the season ends, you are on the phone 24/7 and traveling more to recruit. You are trying to keep that kid you personally recruited and have gotten them to the NCAA tourney, when you get the text they are going in the portal. You find out donors from other schools are offering what your school can't compete with. Your family suffers because of your schedule... your mind suffers because you are constantly trying to figure out how to keep guys, but at the same time who you can recruit if they do leave. You work you butt off developing guys and having great success, but you lose them to a program that has more money...and then you watch them decline. You are a great coach, but great coaches dont' win in this landscape, money does. You may think this is exaggeration... it is not. Coaches are outright leaving wrestling. A lot of them have degrees and a lot of connections to get a "regular" job that pays just as much if not more to do a 1/3 of the work and to be at home. I don't blame them. 2 Sponsored by INTERMAT
TheJimReaper Posted April 9 Posted April 9 3 hours ago, Idaho said: This is going to become a bigger issue... Just in this off-season alone there have been many assistant coaches leaving coaching all together because of the landscape of college wrestling. We had one just resign this week. View it from the perspective of the assistant coach. You travel a ton... gone for 3 days every weekend for a dual and if you aren't you are traveling to recruit. Just when the season ends, you are on the phone 24/7 and traveling more to recruit. You are trying to keep that kid you personally recruited and have gotten them to the NCAA tourney, when you get the text they are going in the portal. You find out donors from other schools are offering what your school can't compete with. Your family suffers because of your schedule... your mind suffers because you are constantly trying to figure out how to keep guys, but at the same time who you can recruit if they do leave. You work you butt off developing guys and having great success, but you lose them to a program that has more money...and then you watch them decline. You are a great coach, but great coaches dont' win in this landscape, money does. You may think this is exaggeration... it is not. Coaches are outright leaving wrestling. A lot of them have degrees and a lot of connections to get a "regular" job that pays just as much if not more to do a 1/3 of the work and to be at home. I don't blame them. Yep. Depending on the school you’re at it’s probably not worth it. I’m sure assistants at most of the P4 schools make good money but assistants at smaller schools probably make Pennies. 1
STLBOY Posted April 9 Posted April 9 Does anyone know why Spates stepped down as HC at SIUE? They just had a great season.
ceraIOI Posted April 9 Posted April 9 It was already known he was going to step down right? I feel like I remember seeing someone talk about how it would be his last NCAAs with the team, even with it being their turn to "host" next year. What was his reasoning?
Antitroll2828 Posted April 9 Author Posted April 9 1 hour ago, ceraIOI said: It was already known he was going to step down right? I feel like I remember seeing someone talk about how it would be his last NCAAs with the team, even with it being their turn to "host" next year. What was his reasoning? Yea they announced last year that Thomas would takeover April 1st with Spates blessing and spates will stay on the staff as an assistant. Everything I read basically says Thomas is a better fit to be head coach/ceo of a program in today’s landscape and Spates just wants to focus on the wrestling side of things and not all the stuff head coaches have to do. 2
TexRef Posted April 9 Posted April 9 On 4/7/2026 at 9:37 PM, Idaho said: Josh Rhoden stepped down as assistant at Oregon State. What happened???
Idaho Posted April 9 Posted April 9 29 minutes ago, TexRef said: What happened??? Josh resigned and is leaving coaching. Nothing improper or anything - He is one great guy. He is a casualty of what coaching D1 wrestling does to a person. 1 Sponsored by INTERMAT
Antitroll2828 Posted April 9 Author Posted April 9 Jacob Warner replacing Telford at Iowa . It should immediately help Iowa with their problem of wrestling boring 1 takedown matches. 2
Southend Posted April 10 Posted April 10 2 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said: Jacob Warner replacing Telford at Iowa . It should immediately help Iowa with their problem of wrestling boring 1 takedown matches. Huh! Immediately?
Idaho Posted April 10 Posted April 10 Brent Metcalf new head coach at Iowa State 1 Sponsored by INTERMAT
Idaho Posted April 10 Posted April 10 1 minute ago, headshuck said: That should make for an exciting Cy-Hawk dual! Yes it will....might want to have the National Guard on alert. 1 Sponsored by INTERMAT
Dogbone Posted April 10 Posted April 10 So did Iowa reach out to Metcalf and ISU promoted him to keep him or was this the plan all along?
nhs67 Posted April 10 Posted April 10 Woah. Seriously? "I know actually nothing. It isn't even conjecture at this point." - me
Hammerlock3 Posted April 10 Posted April 10 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Dogbone said: So did Iowa reach out to Metcalf and ISU promoted him to keep him or was this the plan all along? both are extremely unlikely...unless you mean Iowa wanted him as an assistant yeah that makes sense. Edited April 10 by Hammerlock3 "Half measures are a coward's form of insanity."
Idaho Posted April 10 Posted April 10 Dresser moving into a new role, but I didn't see exactly what that would be. Sponsored by INTERMAT
pcostilow Posted April 10 Posted April 10 Dresser stepping aside so he can focus on the portal full time
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