Lunaticfringe

My biggest question is WTF is the point of the term “Associate Head Coach” if you are not hired as head coach after the head coach leaves or retires?

I have questioned how long Tyler Wells will be able to make 133 for. I wouldn’t mind a redshirt, kind of how Mike Thorn and Mitch McKee wrestled right away and took some lumps initially and were very good there final 3 years, McKee never redshirted though.

The issue is many of the guys who are long term assistant or Associate Head Coach’s (Casey Cunningham, Jared Frayer, Donny Pritzlaff, Luke Becker, Terry Brands, Jeremy Hunter, J Jaggers, Bryan Snyder) who are actually the highest qualified would have to deal with these things. 1. They 100% will not have the resources they are used to at a fully funded school. 2. They will likely have to deal a lot less with running practices and deal with alumni relations, organization of different stuff. Not that as a assistant you don’t have that but at a small school you have less scholarship, less money, less staff from coaches to trainers. 3. Many have kids and wives, if not all of them. Half of my list coach at the college they wrestled so they likely have a wife from that same area who doesn’t want to move the family. 4. Let’s be honest, the guys on this list would be taking pay cuts to become a head coach at a non fully funded program.

Here is an even rarer one, who already won a title and then transferred? Chuck Jean won 2 titles for Iowa St then finished at Adams St in NAIA. Steve Mocco won at Iowa the OK St

I have a tough time believing that McEnelly and Salazar lose to guys like Gabe Nagel and Gavin Nelson based on results on the mat.

For Minnesota some guys who may enter the portal depending on the situation. Hunter Lyden was hyped last offseason as why Cael Carlson transferred. Never beat out Blaine Brenner who is undersized. Gavin Nelson came in from Simley as a Blue Chip recruit and was 14-9 last season. If Isaiah Salazar moves up to 197 to make room for Max McEnelly, he is a guy you could see hit the road. Salazar could move on as well, I hope Nelson stays and continues to develop. Will Short is one of the best high school coaches in the nation. Past Simley guys Jake Short, Nick Wanzek and Jake Gliva all were NCAA qualifiers but failed to AA.

The best move a program like them would be to run it how Mark Cody did at American. Invest a lot of resources into a few top 50 recruits who can and will AA, try and score guys in the portal from Ohio St, Penn St and so on and even bring in guys from D2. what I am saying is hire MARK CODY

Recruiting is the name of the game in todays world. Is Frayer a big time recruiter for VTech? You need a relevant name in todays world

Brandon Eggum was just extended by Minnesota, we just placed the worst I can remember in the last 30 years. We have had down seasons but a down season in the past would include a couple weights not qualifying at nationals and still a few guys in the semis. I wish we could have Damion Hahn as our head coach but for the sake of the sport I hope he coaches at SDSU for 20 more years. He has came into the state of Minnesota and landed Blue Chipper Bennett Berge and got results in 4th at Ncaas, he came in and got Derrick Cardinal and Cael Swenson. SDSU is bringing in Diamond in the rough type recruits that Minnesota used to live off of for years. SDSU is trending upwards and just wrestled very well as a whole at NCAAS.

Honestly Kennedy to SDSU is a prediction that makes a ton of sense. He’s been teammates with both Brady and Bennett Berge at Kasson Mantorville and unless Cael Swenson is moving up, 165 is a hole. SDSU has a great program that hasn’t lost anyone of note since Hahn took over

As a Gopher fan it was a pretty embarrassing year. My wife as a casual fan said “We are in only 22nd place? is the coach gonna get fired?” They are going after guys who are poor program fits. Remember Chittum was committed for a year as well. We haven’t been able to keep guys from outside the region here. Here is what I would do for next year 125-Morvari Fr 133-Wells-So 141-Vombaur-Jr 149-Roberts-Jr 157-Brenner-Jr 165-Millard True Fr 174-Wester True Fr 184-McEnelly Fr 197-Salazar Sr or Nelson Fr Hwt-Hopke True Fr As based on recent history, you get NOTHING from redshirting guys, they just leave anyways. Wrestle your best team every season.

Absolutely, if Reader takes the Central Michigan job I would assume it’s a done deal. Michigan at 174 makes sense. I would actually like to see him go wrestle for his fellow Italian Mike Poeta at 165 for Illinois as well.

This is more like a girl who starts an Instagram. She dates the regular guy from her colleges football team. She gets more and more followers and hits a million. All of a sudden pro athletes fill her DMs and before you know it she thinks she isn’t a 8 anymore and dumps said boyfriend for Rob Gronkowski. A lot of these small school guys won state titles in small classifications or were 3 sport high school athletes. They developed late and blossomed. The dream was never to go to Northern Illinois or NDSU

Fix’s youngest kid graduates high school in 2025

Schwab’s wife is nuts

Have any of these 24-26 year old guys improved on past finishes? For Minnesota McKee and Blockhus didn’t deliver, Joles was improved over his past and probably got as much as he could out himself being a top 20 guy. Numerous other guys who came back are falling short as well of past accomplishments. I for one am against redshirting guys just to redshirt them. Use it down the road for injury or weight class change.

The way Salazar looked this morning, I worry he might be looking for the lights in period 2/3 against Rogotzke.

Does Crookham do a lot of shooting from space? That could be your answer right there. Someone like Jordan Burroughs would possibly have a tougher match in this situation

He hasn’t wrestled well at Penn St. He hasn’t been nearly as good on top. Outside of the Bible thumping, it’s been a poor fit so far.

Nagao should have stayed at MN

Volk was rode like a mule

DC is the best, Burroughs is solid but not as entertaining. DC is easily excitable just like Shane Sparks and Rock Harrison.

Fix will 100% wrestle back. Guys I can see defaulting on the backside……… Vito Arujau Real Woods Austin Gomez Carter Starocci Shane Griffith

Troy Letters was another one who was insanely jacked and there was 174 talks more than once. It could have been because his upper body was 184 but lower body was 149 so he looked even bigger

Great question actually. He might have weight issues as well, he’s been at 132/133 for a few years now