Jim L

Has anyone had any success at Buffalo?

Whatever it takes.

Davis's departure felt a lot like Minkle and Goldman. Many years of mediocre results (or terrible results for Minkle) led to him being pressured to move on/retire. It did not seem like an outright firing.

Pretty sure J Robinson was let go for reason besides wrestling results, and I vaguely remember something about CD Mock and some off the mat issues. I thought Roselli and Cody were let go because of lack of wrestling results and Henson at WVU and Kerry McCoy at Maryland as well.

Sorry you are right, Oregon State. I think the only reason they got rid of Zalesky was poor results. He was a big name with NCAAs team championships as coach on his resume, and as far as I know OSU did not have any academic or legal issues with the team, so it is unusual for a wrestling coach to be let go under these circumstance. The bar is fairly low, but Oregon State seem to care more about wrestling than most other schools. I disagree with calling Santoro mediocre, though. His bio shows 22 wrestlers wing 39 AA honors plus two national champs. Besides Cornell, I think they are the best non-public wrestling program and Santoro has kept them there.

I believe Oklahoma and Oregon fired their coaches for lack of results. I would also add Lehigh to the list of place were a coach could b e on the hot seat.

Are these DI schools?

No scholarships for DIII sports. This seems like adding wrestling should be a win for DII schools, but I don't see many programs being added.

OTOH, Judo has multiple competitors per weight class from the same country at their Worlds. I don't follow international Judo anymore. so maybe the rules changed

Yep... My bad

What year did Yianni lose to freshman Crookham (2x I think)?

Do any of those schools offer any NIL? They seem to get minimal support from the administration and not have much for Alumni support.

I would think the number of additional students attending PSU becaude of wrestling is closer to zero than 200.

Also saw a lot of Freshman. Good for you if you have one semester of decent grades, but in order for the award to mean anything there should be more than one smemster

Seems like a meaningless list. I am curious to see what the criteria are. Seems like you should at least be a starter with a winning record and solid academics. I saw Younger and Echemedia are listed with Non Degree Seeking as their "major". Some teams having very few (NC State with 1) is strange too