What Happened to Princeton?

[Bulldog]

It seems like the Princeton Tigers have just spiraled into an abyss.  Monday seems to be doing Ok, but they have taken some huge losses including to Harvard tonight.  What gives?

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

Every brain cell of the coaching staff devoted to getting Glory down to 125 in March.

[Le duke]

Hahvahd picked up a good one in Bekzod recently. Not too many Olympic medalists at Ivy League wrestling programs.


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[Ponzi]

Hasn't he been there a while?

"Former Clarion All-American Bekzod Abdurakhmonov joined the wrestling staff as a volunteer assistant coach in December 2014."

[Hammerlock3]

I can't tell if this is a joke or not....the last thing an ivy can worry about is depth, PSU sometimes looks like they don't think about it.

[Le duke]

Hasn't he been there a while?
"Former Clarion All-American Bekzod Abdurakhmonov joined the wrestling staff as a volunteer assistant coach in December 2014."

For a bit. He was training full time at NLWC for the last couple of years.

Back again.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CncWYPaO-Gs/?igshid=ZmMyNmFmZTc=


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[SocraTease]

Wow, Harvard beat Princeton.  When was the last time that happened?

https://gocrimson.com/news/2023/1/27/6-different-crimson-record-victories-to-help-wrestling-defeat-princeton.aspx

And Columbia beats Lehigh. 

 https://lehighsports.com/news/2023/1/27/wrestling-late-rally-falls-short-as-mountain-hawks-fall-18-17-at-columbia.aspx

 

[gimpeltf]

3 hours ago, Ponzi said:

Hasn't he been there a while?

"Former Clarion All-American Bekzod Abdurakhmonov joined the wrestling staff as a volunteer assistant coach in December 2014."

? Confused. Muzzafar came in 08. Bekzod just came.

[Ponzi]

8 hours ago, SocraTease said:

Wow, Harvard beat Princeton.  When was the last time that happened?

https://gocrimson.com/news/2023/1/27/6-different-crimson-record-victories-to-help-wrestling-defeat-princeton.aspx

And Columbia beats Lehigh. 

 https://lehighsports.com/news/2023/1/27/wrestling-late-rally-falls-short-as-mountain-hawks-fall-18-17-at-columbia.aspx

 

So Cornell and Columbia is looking a lot more intriguing than I thought!

[Idaho]

Not long after a good showing against ASU 

[Elevator]

Always glad to see non-Cornell Ivy teams have some success.  Watched Brown and hope/expect Coach Leen can get in the mix with rising Harvard and Columbia programs.  Hoping each of these schools can get wrestlers qualfied for NCAA's and win some matches at that level.  Pretty sure Princeton will, despite its dual meet struggles.  Princeton looks like they have strong recruiting and will bounce back from some suprising dual meet losses.

[Major Kong]

Was at the dual. Harvard kids really wrestled hard and it was cool how obviously happy they were to win. Genuine "student athletes".

[ScarletKnight]

Will we get Glory-Vito this weekend?   I hope so

[flyingcement]

1 minute ago, ScarletKnight said:

Will we get Glory-Vito this weekend?   I hope so

I think Glory will go 125 against Cornell and 133 against Iowa.  He seems like the ultra-duck.  I hope I'm wrong

[BigRedFan]

18 minutes ago, ScarletKnight said:

Will we get Glory-Vito this weekend?   I hope so

Glory would have to weigh under 131 against Cornell to be able to descend to 125 for EIWAs.

[flyingcement]

5 minutes ago, BigRedFan said:

Glory would have to weigh under 131 against Cornell to be able to descend to 125 for EIWAs.

of course he does - how convenient lol

[Jim L]

On 1/27/2023 at 11:30 PM, Le duke said:

Hahvahd picked up a good one in Bekzod recently. Not too many Olympic medalists at Ivy League wrestling programs.


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That are just not that many Olympic medalists around, especially if you take all the NLWC wrestlers out of the pool, but my memory is that Jamil Kelley (sliver medalist) was assistant at Harvard for a while.

[Mike]

I don’t see how it gets any better for Princeton next year after Monday, Glory, and Stefanik leave. McGowan and Vasquez are good recruits but they aren’t elite/studs who can carry that roster. 

[Indiana-Hawk-Wrestling-Fan]

They also have Holden Garcia and Drew Heethuis coming in next year. So they have a good reciting class coming in next year, we’ll see how they perform though 

[Indiana-Hawk-Wrestling-Fan]

Just now, Indiana-Hawk-Wrestling-Fan said:

They also have Holden Garcia and Drew Heethuis coming in next year. So they have a good reciting class coming in next year, we’ll see how they perform though 

And Eligh Rivera

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

On 2/1/2023 at 12:51 PM, Jim L said:

That are just not that many Olympic medalists around, especially if you take all the NLWC wrestlers out of the pool, but my memory is that Jamil Kelley (sliver medalist) was assistant at Harvard for a while.

... as was Kendall Cross.

[BigRedFan]

Oddly enough, the dual with Cornell tomorrow might be very close.  Princeton matches up well with Cornell.  Wrestlestat says 18-16 for Cornell, although I think Cornell could score as high as 27 (TF for Arujau and Yianni instead of MD, Handlovic and Cardenas winning, Foca with a MD).

Monday vs. Ramirez will be the highlight match.

Compare that to Penn, which matches up poorly with Cornell.  Penn's best guys (Colaiocco, Zapf, and Incontrera) face Arujau, Yianni, and Foca, respectively.  Wrestlestat predicts a 27-3 shellacking.

All depends on who "shows up."

Edited February 3, 2023 by BigRedFan

[feet2back]

They once had that pretty wheel barrow they Loved to smack around during matches. This is Princeton current wheelbarrow

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=old+beat+up+wheel+barrel+pics&fr=mcafee&type=E211US105G91714&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fthumbs.dreamstime.com%2Fb%2Fold-fashioned-wheelbarrow-broken-31769789.jpg#id=2&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fthumbs.dreamstime.com%2Fb%2Fold-fashioned-wheelbarrow-broken-31769789.jpg&action=click