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Stanford has looked great so far , Provo, Cardenas, Norman they have a really solid young core to build on

Lol from everything I’ve heard the issues with wrestlers out partying in Morgantown is at an all time low, you re never going to get every athlete to live a clean life at WVU but I think Flynn is doing a solid job ..hell 10-15 years ago I used to go down to WVU to visit a former teammate ( he was a career backup) and the night before matches you could find half their starters at the bar and another few doing keg stands at a house party

Seen a lot of negativity on the forum lately and always the talk of what coaches need to be replaced so I figured we could use a positive post , programs going in the right direction my vote goes to Tim Flynn and West Virginia , Flynn had been ok so far fixing the absolute mess that was WVU wrestling. Flynn has had a an AA for 4 straight years If you count Noah Adams 2nd place the no tournament season- Adams 2020, Cardinale 21, Hall 22 , Cardinale 23. Recruiting has been on the rise and they now have a pretty competitive Dual team . Former #1 Recruit Jordan Titus is much improved at 141 , True Freshman and 2x Pa State champ Ty Watters has been strong 10-2 with a 67% bonus rate , another high level recruit from PA coming in next season in Rune Lawerence , plus throw in transfer ,last years NJCAA national champ Jett Strickenberger who already has wins over AA kaylor, R12 Poulin and NQ owens in his first month competing D1 and this could be WVU best year in a long time they currently have 3 guys who will be in the mix to AA ( Strickenberger, Titus, Hall) 2 other Freshman who have a shot to break through ( Watters and Conley) and 4 other guys who should be NQ. things are looking solid in Morgantown

Taylor is currently on Columbia staff?

No idea last I heard he of him he was on his dads staff at the high school they all went too (Camden catholic) coaching his youngest brother but that was a few years back , his brother chad 2x AA for rider is on the rider staff I believe

Been with Rutgers a long time and is the head coach in waiting for them

Braeden Davis Penn state is still 7-0

Rivera made his dual debut for Princeton after all and picked up a nice win over #8 Rooks

Training through to senior nationals

AJ Fricchionne? Kid didn’t even place in NJ states last season

Shapiro getting the spencer lee treatment already? He lost so he must be hurt or sick

Idk if 2020 was his time, Noah Adams was 32-0 with wins over 6 AAs and was wrestling a very high level all season. This is no disrespect to Moore but Adams had a funky style and I personally thought he was going to win it all that season

Well you can make the case they haven’t had an ncaa champ since 2018 when Synder won his 3rd and they haven’t had a champ not named Synder since Myles Martin in 2016 , that’s a pretty serious drought and this year doesn’t look great either , guys still don’t improve on bottom which has been an issue for a long time but Tom Ryan built that program up to championship level so no way you can say he’s a bad coach but maybe his message has gotten stale , maybe they haven’t evolved in other areas of training like Penn State or maybe they need to bring in a big name outsider as an assistant but if they want to win another title and battle it out with PSU again they need to do something different Once you compare them to anyone other then PSU and Iowa they are elite as it gets still. 60 something programs would kill to be on Ohio states level year in and year out and would jump on Tom Ryan in a minute if he ever left.

The pletcher bump probably had more to do with McKenna graduating and pletcher not having to make that brutal cut to 133 anymore

Garrett Thompson has looked good to start this year, took out Olguin and Connor Brady at cklv , knocked off AA Peyton Hall a few weeks ago too , good for the bobcats maybe they can have an AA this season

Few wrestle back “upsets” Zaconne from Campbell knocks out Chelbove 149- Jordan Williams loses to Hofstras Noah Tapia 184- aaron ayzerov majors Foca , Ayzerov then lost to Fisher from V tech , Ayzerov is a tough dude , won NJ states his senior year with a torn Meniscus in a real tough weight , I think 1st thru 7th are all wrestling D1 now 184- Dylan Fishback over Munoz , Fisher over Kane , Bullock over Gavin Hoffman 197- Sonny Sasso was the last seed in the weight and in wrestlebacks beat the 16 seed Striggow, the #11 seed Bates, the 14th seed Hopkins from Campbell and then won by med ff over #4 Luke Surber, he faces #7 Nick Stammet next 285 Boone McDermott beat #4 Trephan , and Fernandes over Catka which is an upset in seed only

The financial situation with the school as a whole can be described as rough at best, only way that program rises again if an outside donor is pumping money into the program and idk how many high roller donors Edinboro has to start throwing money at a niche sport

3 of Cardenas opponents were national finalists as well , lost Sloan the runner up in the R16, the Warner in wrestlebacks and Dean for 7th

As far as ranking go Cardenas is a returning AA , Allred lost in the R12

He ll have to beat Vito 3 more times this year

Probably 2 things he should work on if he wants to beat Levi Haines

They are from neighboring towns , I wonder if they have trained together before

Foca loses to Wolf from Air Force …rough tourney for Bergen catholic , Griffith and Foca upset R16, Joe Cangro drew Shapiro 1st and got teched

Princeton is greyshirting the top 2 recruits from their 2023 class McGowan and Rivera both could have Monday and glory like careers, Dubuque has been scooping up a lot of NJ recruits and I think he can take them further then Ayer’s did but for this season alot of matches are going to be a snooze fest …have to think Dubuque takes it to Escobedo , he spent the past 5 seasons rolling with Glory everyday

If he has to sit first semester it’s because it’s a 3rd transfer , nothing to do with grades