A famed Rutgers tradition will get a sentimental shape-up.

Got tickets to Wednesday and Saturday in Vegas Section 23 row C for one game and D for the other. Will sell them at face value + tax and eat the rest of the fees. I bought a while ago so I got a good deal. DM me for further discussion.

A message from Army West Point Wrestling Associate Head Coach Scott Green regarding the state of college wrestling this season as we are at a crossroads with NCAA Wrestling changes and Division I athletics. Please read, share, and go support our in-state college wrestling teams this season - starting with the Black Knight Invite this weekend.
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Fellow NY Wrestling Enthusiasts,

Now is the time.

Being a college wrestling fan in our great state has never been more important. The season is here, and we hope to see you in the stands supporting your favorite program.

As you probably know, we are at a crossroads in Division I athletics, with the prospect of things like revenue sharing, NIL , the transfer portal and a whole host of other factors forcing athletic departments to take a hard look at their offerings. Administrators at some schools have the unenviable task of figuring out how to fund all of their programs at the current levels and how to remain competitive while staying financially solvent. The next few years are going to be interesting times for Division I wrestling.

We are blessed in New York to have healthy programs across the state, and we are thrilled here at West Point to be one of them. Each of the seven programs in NY has worked hard to cultivate strong ties to the local community it is a part of, and we need to all be mindful of how important it is to support and sustain college wrestling at all levels across the Empire State.

Here is my ask. You can call it a call to action if you wish. Buy tickets to an NCAA wrestling match this year and attend as many as you can. Yes, streaming is easier and allows you to do so from the comfort of your couch. Yes, some of you may have to travel a great distance to do this. But there is literally no substitute for a packed gym at a wrestling dual. It energizes the athletes. An experience like this keeps people coming back. But most importantly, administrators notice. Ticket sales are revenue. Revenue, now more than ever, matters.

If you aren't busy Sunday- come watch us take on Penn State and a host of other schools at the Black Knight Invite - Ticket link in article below.


If you can't make that one, find one you can attend. And bring a friend. Or ten.

We are very good at being relevant to ourselves in the wrestling community. We NEED to be relevant to our local communities as well. We need to show that we are an important piece of the overall athletics puzzle. I'm confident we can do this, together.

I'm asking you to show up this weekend, and I'm asking you to show up all year. Pick a program to support. Go watch them wrestle. Buy their gear. Donate to their program. Make a difference.

See you soon.

Scott Green
Associate Head Wrestling Coach
Army West Point

Problem right now there is no set rotation and therefore too many mouths to feed. How deep is Pike's rotation going to be when the team hits Vegas in 5 days? There are 200 minutes (40 x5) of playing time per game to divvy up. I don't believe you can rotate 10 players with each getting significant playing time and maintain cohesion. Assume going forward Bailey & Harper each get 32 minutes and Martini 30 minutes per game on average. Assume also Sommerville gets 25 minutes and Ogbole 10 minutes per game. That leaves 55 minutes per game to divide between Derkack, Hayes, Davis, Williams and Acuff. I would give Derkack 20 minutes, Hayes 18 minutes, Acuff 15 minutes, J Williams 10 minutes and JMike 8 minutes.

Starting this thread back up!

It's officially transfer portal season and there's a lot of movement expected this offseason with guys leaving for the NFL, guys entering the portal and new guys joining the team via the portal since it's essentially free agency.

To make things easier for you, we here at The Knight Report have decided to make this the one stop shop for everything Rutgers Football and the transfer portal this offseason.

Below you can see which players have entered the portal, who's committed to joining the Scarlet Knights via the portal and which prospects that the staff has offered so far.

After her husband was fired, she posted on social media that the school had less than a half million in NIL money while the combined amount for all of their opponents was more than 46 million.
Like it or not, this really shows just how unbalanced the monetary playing field is today. That said, they really should give up the dream of playing with the big boys.

1. Awful performance against a low major. Only reason we won is that Ace Bailey played a great game and hit shots that nobody else can hit. 23 points on 9-15 (2-4) shooting.

2. Defense is still bad. Couldn’t contain Clark, who abused everybody (especially JMike) off the dribble all night on his way to 22 points (10-19 from the field). Let up a ton of open threes, but Merrimack was only 4-24 from deep. We especially struggled on pick and roll and high screen action.

3. Our zone offense was mind numbingly bad, and a lot of the problem was Pike’s ridiculous rotations. In a game where we knew we would face a 3-2 zone the entire game, why did Ogbole play 19 minutes? This should’ve been the game where Martini played 20 minutes at the center spot. Hayes only played 14 minutes. Our best 3-point shooters (Hayes and Martini) only combined to shoot 5 threes, and we only shot 17 threes out of a total of 60 shots (so only 29% of our shots were from deep, a terribly low number against a zone defense). It’s like we didn’t even practice zone offense over the past five days.

4. We kept trying to force the ball into the paint, whether on post entries or dribble drives, but Merrimack’s zone defense did a great job collapsing and forcing tough mid-range jumpers and short floaters, and whereas we were money on short twos in the previous three games, we were awful tonight, short-arming a ton of those shots. We’re we’re just 18-43 on 2-point shots tonight, just 41.8%.

5. I don’t think we scored ANY points in transition, as Merrimack did a superb job of getting back on defense and immediately setting up their zone, and they immediately found their man on defense. So this became a tortuous half-court game.

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I think the RU Foundation is having pre-game party in Vegas before the ND game. Does anyone have info or a link to it? Tried searching a few sites and my emails, but can't find info on it.

Thanks and Best of Luck,
Groz

Well done article. The improvements in our passing game have been significant vs. last year, as we're now in the middle of the pack in the B1G as opposed to at the bottom, plus his 14/6 TD//INT ratio is pretty good. Of course, having a great RB and better WRs than last year have helped some, but much of the improvement is clearly due to AK's better accuracy and decision-making.

He’s been exactly what Rutgers has needed. Against Maryland he went 20-of-30 passing for 238 yards with two touchdowns. His throws were strong and accurate. Most importantly, he didn’t turn the ball over.

In the process, Kaliakmanis eclipsed the 2,000-yard mark for the season, becoming the first Rutgers quarterback to do so since Chris Laviano in 2015. Kaliakmanis is 10th in the conference with 2,128 passing yards. He’s thrown 14 touchdowns with six interceptions.

Through the Scarlet Knights’ 12 regular-season games last year, they ranked 124th in passing yards per game (142.0) and 120th in total offense (307.4 yards per game). So far this season those rankings have jumped to 81st (212.8 yards per game) and 76th (382.2), respectively.

It’s not a huge jump, but it’s still been the type of improvement Rutgers needed. The Scarlet Knights were mostly anemic last year offensively.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/s...akmanis-just-what-offense-needed/76425539007/

Looks like Blackstone might be buying Jersey Mike's. I wonder how this will effect our agreement.

Let me know if anyone is selling. Looking to take my dad to his first game in 10 years

It was suggested an NFL thread for teams / games other than Jets Giants Eagles which have their own threads so here it is

Another impressive performance by one of RU's better defensive players.
#6 twice left the field due to injury....and twice returned. And played well.
The list of big plays by this guy would be quite long.