The real reason Rob Koll left Cornell?

[BruceyB]

It's been a while since I listened to his interviews after the announcement was made that he was heading to Stanford. I'm curious if anyone has beyond the surface insight to what prompted the change of scenery?

Was it trading New York winters for the more moderate NorCal climate?

Did he feel that he had essentially completed the job of bringing Cornell to prominence and wanted to go to another program and enjoy the process of building a donor base, and raising a non-traditional wrestling school to a national force?

Was it a financial decision?

I was just looking at the potential roster for UNC next year, and was wondering to myself how long it would be until they have anything close to the brand name of Cornell in college wrestling.

[MPhillips]

Just now, BruceyB said:

until they have anything close to the brand name of Cornell in college wrestling.

I'm not being snarky but are the brands that far apart...

[Hammerlock3]

it was pretty odd he took 2 jobs back to back

[CHROMEBIRD]

I figured maybe he thought he'd be more successful outside of the Ivy League's athletic ruleset, and was likely particularly frustrated because it was when the Covid pandemic was underway. IIRC, he took the Stanford job right after the school cut wrestling. Fundraising and keeping the program going was probably a huge distraction, plus the Pac-12 was dissolving and he had an opportunity to coach at his alma mater. The circumstances were all pretty compelling and I don't think he has plans to bounce around further

[lisa morales]

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

[WrestlingRash]

6 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

you are a known racist and anti God poster, and now you demonize half the country. so who do you not hate? 

[Caveira]

7 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

Turns out?   Were they right?

[wrestle87]

20 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

Boooooo....go back to reddit, nobody asked for you to vomit on our wrestling discussions with this.

There are thousands of other places that spend all day bathing in this emotional effluent, go there.

[wrestle87]

15 minutes ago, WrestlingRash said:

you are a known racist and anti God poster, and now you demonize half the country. so who do you not hate? 

[lisa morales]

"Wrestling is a low sport".  - Jean du Pont 

[Caveira]

2 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

She’s almost always a one awkward comment and done poster so I’ll bet $1 you won’t hear another peep out of this thread in that topic. 

[Caveira]

Just now, Caveira said:

She’s almost always a one awkward comment and done poster so I’ll bet $1 you won’t hear another peep out of this thread in that topic. 

DOH!    Ha.   Who do I owe that $1 to lol 

Edited Monday at 10:55 PM by Caveira

[Hammerlock3]

27 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

Tell me you think politics is just a team sport without telling me you think politics is just a team sport.

[H82Lose]

45 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

He's a MAGA idiot along with Dake and the Deans.  Got pissed at Cornell's COVID stance and thought it was all a bunch of B.S.  He left in a huff.

He's a gawd d*mn smart man, turns out it was all BS! 

[lisa morales]

Y'all asked but you didn't like the answer.  However, any Cornell insider would tell you the exact same thing.  

[WrestlingRash]

15 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

Y'all asked but you didn't like the answer.  However, any Cornell insider would tell you the exact same thing.  

so he went to the most liberal college in America? in the most liberal area in America? gee, that makes so much sense, ***ducking** dumbass. 

[bnwtwg]

3 minutes ago, WrestlingRash said:

so he went to the most liberal college in America? in the most liberal area in America? gee, that makes so much sense, ***ducking** dumbass. 

If you think Silicon Valley is liberal then I bet you would be interested in my recent bridge property for sale...

[WrestlingRash]

3 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

If you think Silicon Valley is liberal then I bet you would be interested in my recent bridge property for sale...

are you insane? or just dumb?  

In seven of the most affluent Silicon Valley cities — Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Portola Valley, Woodside and Atherton — combined, Kamala Harris won 76.2% of the vote, compared with 20.1% for Trump

Edited Monday at 11:38 PM by WrestlingRash

[Caveira]

8 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

If you think Silicon Valley is liberal then I bet you would be interested in my recent bridge property for sale...

lol you crazy boss.   SFO much?

[wrestle87]

1 hour ago, WrestlingRash said:

are you insane? or just dumb?  

In seven of the most affluent Silicon Valley cities — Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Portola Valley, Woodside and Atherton — combined, Kamala Harris won 76.2% of the vote, compared with 20.1% for Trump

Some people apparently will also swear up and down that water was not wet and snow is not cold in SFO

[AgaveMaria]

The real reason is Stanford promised him Surfing lessons and his own free surfboards.

[Caveira]

9 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

Some people apparently will also swear up and down that water was not wet and snow is not cold in SFO

I was going to post some stuff.  Bla bla bla.  Out of respect for this being the wrestling board and not the non w topics I will not.    Apologies for answering earlier   
 

who likes pizza?

 

edit.  Not pizzing on you w87.  

Edited Tuesday at 01:07 AM by Caveira

[BruceyB]

Man, I just was curious why a great program builder left Cornell. How many times do you guys want to argue about politics online? It could have just been left that he was upset about the Ivies stance on not participating in 2021 and left largely due to that decision without making this thread toxic. @MPhillips send em' to the back. 

[wrestle87]

1 minute ago, BruceyB said:

Man, I just was curious why a great program builder left Cornell. How many times do you guys want to argue about politics online? It could have just been left that he was upset about the Ivies stance on not participating in 2021 and left largely due to that decision without making this thread toxic. @MPhillips send em' to the back. 

I think very likely, subjective delivery of the message aside, @lisa morales is probably right about there being some hard feelings after the season that Cornell had to sit out. 

Rob Koll obviously built a great program builder, and like all very good head coaches, he cares about actually being able to compete.  When he left he was likely unsure of what the future of athletics in the Ivy League would look like long term, which is a very reasonable stance to take.  

Now, Stanford is not exactly a less political organization, or more above board organization than Cornell, and it seems he found that out rather quickly.

But UNC is good, and they are in good hands with him.

[BruceyB]

16 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

I think very likely, subjective delivery of the message aside, @lisa morales is probably right about there being some hard feelings after the season that Cornell had to sit out. 

Rob Koll obviously built a great program builder, and like all very good head coaches, he cares about actually being able to compete.  When he left he was likely unsure of what the future of athletics in the Ivy League would look like long term, which is a very reasonable stance to take.  

Now, Stanford is not exactly a less political organization, or more above board organization than Cornell, and it seems he found that out rather quickly.

But UNC is good, and they are in good hands with him.

Thank you. I admit I had completely forgotten about the covid sit-out year in 2021 for a very talented Cornell team. That make a lot of sense.