Coach fired

[Hilton Head Joe]

On 7/17/2025 at 11:15 PM, 1032004 said:

Wasn’t Stutzman fired from Buffalo last season?

Last season? He is listed as the head coach at Bloomsburg this year. That was fast. Buffalo must have not to had a good reason to fire him since he got hired immediately as a D1 coach. Wondering what the story was there. 

Edited July 21 by Hilton Head Joe

[RawDog]

Did it ever come out why the coaches at northwestern got fired? Northwestern  was producing a lot of studs and seemed to have fallen off a cliff since the coaching change.

[Antitroll2828]

25 minutes ago, RawDog said:

Did it ever come out why the coaches at northwestern got fired? Northwestern  was producing a lot of studs and seemed to have fallen off a cliff since the coaching change.

Are you trolling 

[Antitroll2828]

28 minutes ago, Hilton Head Joe said:

Last season? He is listed as the head coach at Bloomsburg this year. That was fast. Buffalo must have not to had a good reason to fire him since he got hired immediately as a D1 coach. Wondering what the story was there. 

It was lack of success mixed with issues with the administration for lack of support from the school so he went back to the place he had the most success .bloomsburg also recently had some outside money pumped into the program 

[RawDog]

8 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said:

Are you trolling 

No not trying to troll just don't know what happened there.  Northwestern was putting out competitive teams with studs like Tsirtis, Deakin, and Rivera. I believe northwestern had a roster limit and high admission standards too, so the coaching staff was doing very well with what they had. Something happened there.  I guess it is irrelevant now.

[fishbane]

11 hours ago, Hilton Head Joe said:

Last season? He is listed as the head coach at Bloomsburg this year. That was fast. Buffalo must have not to had a good reason to fire him since he got hired immediately as a D1 coach. Wondering what the story was there. 

Stutzman was the coach at Bloomsburg before taking the Buffalo job.  On reason he spent such a short time unemployed was his history at Bloomsburg and that there was an opening there.  No one after him as had as much success.  An easy decision for Bloomsburg urg to bring him back.

[Antitroll2828]

2 hours ago, RawDog said:

No not trying to troll just don't know what happened there.  Northwestern was putting out competitive teams with studs like Tsirtis, Deakin, and Rivera. I believe northwestern had a roster limit and high admission standards too, so the coaching staff was doing very well with what they had. Something happened there.  I guess it is irrelevant now.

I still think you may be trolling but the northwestern coaches left because of the covid polices of the school 

[Hilton Head Joe]

2 hours ago, fishbane said:

Stutzman was the coach at Bloomsburg before taking the Buffalo job.  On reason he spent such a short time unemployed was his history at Bloomsburg and that there was an opening there.  No one after him as had as much success.  An easy decision for Bloomsburg urg to bring him back.

That makes sense! Usually don't have a HC job in D1 wrestling immediately after being fired! Buffalo must be a tough place to coach. The school is nice and highly ranked in allot of academic areas. 

Edited Monday at 03:08 PM by Hilton Head Joe

[fishbane]

7 minutes ago, Hilton Head Joe said:

That makes sense! Usually don't have a HC job in D1 wrestling immediately after being fired! Buffalo must be a tough place to coach. The school is nice and highly ranked in allot of academic areas. 

It was Stutzman's alma mater.  He also had success coaching at a former D2 school with less than ideal resources (Bloomsburg).  It made sense for him to leave Bloomsburg for it. 

[juniorvarsity]

Barry Davis, Wisconsin seemingly pushed out in 2018

CD Mock, UBC fired in 2015

Kevin Jackson, Iowa State stepped down 2017

Zalesky, Iowa was fired in 2006

J Rob, Minnesota fired in 2017

And then you can list programs dropped. That's a longer list. 

[Tripnsweep]

If we're going back to near history, Thom Ortiz was fired at ASU in 2009 I think. Then his successor Shawn Charles was fired in 2014 to bring in Zeke Jones. 

[bnwtwg]

12 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said:

I still think you may be trolling but the northwestern coaches left because of the covid polices of the school 

Yeah but what about the staff prior to that which also experienced success 

[fishbane]

Joe Seay at OSU.

[Antitroll2828]

2 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

Yeah but what about the staff prior to that which also experienced success 

$$ and support issues no?

[PNWfan]

TJ Jaworsky at Davidson in 2005. This was a career ending firing unfortunately. 

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2005/01/04/wrestlingbredmond-native-fired/61959913007/

[Tripnsweep]

8 hours ago, fishbane said:

Joe Seay at OSU.

For good reason too. 

[Winners Circle]

On 7/21/2025 at 10:06 AM, Hilton Head Joe said:

That makes sense! Usually don't have a HC job in D1 wrestling immediately after being fired! Buffalo must be a tough place to coach. The school is nice and highly ranked in allot of academic areas. 

I can't say one way or the other, as I've obviously never coached there. But I know that Donnie Vinson is doing a great job recruiting there, with 16 committed recruits combined between c/o 2025 & 2026 (including c/o 2025 #223 and #241 & 2026 #64, #128, #138, #178, #192, #217, and #235). So you can see the recruiting improvement from his first year to second year. Time will tell what these kids become in college, but this is promising to me. 

[ionel]

10 hours ago, Tripnsweep said:

For good reason too. 

I'm assuming you believe Gable and Sanderson should have been fired as well?  

[Tripnsweep]

1 hour ago, ionel said:

I'm assuming you believe Gable and Sanderson should have been fired as well?  

I don't think either of them told their wrestlers to lie to the NCAA. 

[ionel]

57 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

I don't think either of them told their wrestlers to lie to the NCAA. 

Joe just did what Dan was doing, Cael did more.  

[Tripnsweep]

Just now, ionel said:

Joe just did what Dan was doing, Cael did more.  

When did Gable instruct his wrestlers to lie to the NCAA during an investigation? 

[Southend]

Duane Goldman get the ax at IU? Or step down?

[ScottishSteel]

15 hours ago, Winners Circle said:

I can't say one way or the other, as I've obviously never coached there. But I know that Donnie Vinson is doing a great job recruiting there, with 16 committed recruits combined between c/o 2025 & 2026 (including c/o 2025 #223 and #241 & 2026 #64, #128, #138, #178, #192, #217, and #235). So you can see the recruiting improvement from his first year to second year. Time will tell what these kids become in college, but this is promising to me. 

They made the Sidun graphic!

[juniorvarsity]

3 hours ago, Southend said:

Duane Goldman get the ax at IU? Or step down?

He retired after like 25 years as head coach, although it is speculated he was pressured to do so.

Indiana had very weak teams under him. Escobedo and Dubuque were champs for him. And then Chalfant at heavyweight got 2nd and Taylor Walsh got 2nd too(maybe a 2x AA). Brandon Becker was a 3x AA. Nate Jackson was a 2x AA. There's probably 2 or 3 more AAs from early 2000's under his tenure that I cannot recall.

[Bulldog]

2 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

He retired after like 25 years as head coach, although it is speculated he was pressured to do so.

Indiana had very weak teams under him. Escobedo and Dubuque were champs for him. And then Chalfant at heavyweight got 2nd and Taylor Walsh got 2nd too(maybe a 2x AA). Brandon Becker was a 3x AA. Nate Jackson was a 2x AA. There's probably 2 or 3 more AAs from early 2000's under his tenure that I cannot recall.

To be fair...  "Duane Goldman amassed 110 Big Ten All-Academic team members, three national champions, 109 NCAA qualifiers and 28 All-Americans in 25 seasons as Indiana’s head coach, bringing at least one wrestler to the NCAA Championships in all 25 years."