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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

Any ranking that has Mass in the top ten is questionable. I am a former Mass wrestler who still casually follows what the Mass HS kids do at the next level. There are too few AAs per state to make anything other than the top 3 or 4 states results meaningful.

Win this match, look good in the next one. Classic boxing advice, certainly should apply to the national finals

In college dual, we were behind going into the last match (heavyweight). This was many years ago but I recall we needed a pin to win. It was early in the season and the opposing team's wrestler had just finished football season. It was a close match going into the third and our guy was on top. The other heavyweight was completely gassed and refused to move at all (or maybe he just couldn't). The ref starting calling stalling and he did not moved at all and was stalled out fairly quick. My memory is that the opposing team was not that upset at the ref or even their wrestler. It is a tough sport and football does not get you prepared for wrestling.

Great pic! I though this counter was deemed an illegal move. Maybe that was a HS rule. Seems like a good idea to ban it in HS

Add Dan Gable to the list

This is a problems with any sport that has replau. It is worse in wrestling as conditioning is supposed to be a major factor

JFC. "Assaulting with a pencil" I am assuming the worst case scenario for what this means and thatt is very disturbing. This way beyond a hazing incident and the way it was addressed is mind blowing.

Insanely strong wrestlers with elites skills seem like a bad for almost erverybody.

This!

The crowds get every bit as excited when two wrestlers lock up and try for throws. Someone hitting a big throw is electrifying, so why not reward that if we are trying to make the sport more exciting? Add points for grand amplitude to Folkstyle.