That doesn't sound like our staff, so I'm curious to find out more details. From a timing perspective, when was he told this; Jan after getting injured? And why would he ask and commit to go 133 when he struggled with that the year before? Seems very odd not to bulk and get stronger for 149 or RS and go 141 for 2022-23.
Everyone is landing impact transfers to stay competitive or improve positioning, so we need to continue to do so, along with improving HS recruiting.
I’m hoping Gayer will be great as well but it’s not a great strategy to always be needing to count on true freshman to make an impact. It rarely happens even for the super elite recruits in the B1G which Gayer isn’t.
Im not doubting what you’ve heard but I’m not sure I can believe that story. Anyone that has ever interacted with Goodale and the rest of his staff knows that’s extremely uncharacteristic of them.
If you're not careful, pretty soon some are going to insist you're me with a different handle, then the name-calling will follow. And don't you know, you'll be a Penn State troll.
Then I apologize for the story I was told. Don’t mean to spread rumors but heard this from someone who is connected to some of the wrestlers. Same guy that told me Rivera was looking to grad transfer long before it became a notable rumor and same guy that told me about DeSantis committing before it was public knowledge.
Heard this story recently but I was told this conversation happened the week leading up to the match where he wasn’t making weight. Don’t remember the exact match that was. Bill said it’s entirely not true so I’ll take his word for it so we can put this to rest. Apologies to anyone, wrestlers and coaches included, who may have been bothered by the story.
Damn, That’s a ton of dough for a college wrestling coach living in Iowa.
Blame gets spread around, some on the kids, some on the coaches, and some kids that transfer out transfer because they brought in other recruits they cannot beat(at RU in your example Paetzel and Aguilar). RU is not any different than any top teams....They all have kids that they recruited that were very highly ranked that transferred out or never lived up to their HS rankings. A few years ago I listed some examples from Cornell, Penn State etc. It gets noticed a little more at RU because they are usually bringing in 1 or 2 highly ranked kids per year and the other top schools are bringing in more(so a missed is not brought up as much)
There is nothing accurate in your gossip story so why even repeat it if you know its not 100% accurate lol...as WNG said ..it’s total bullshit !
Whether true fr(Hamiti) or not there’s always freshman AA and national champs every year(this year broke the streak). I think Seabass said it best wrestling, and combat sports, is a young man’s game.. even all the “grandpas” of this season.. some say they r great bc of all the extra years, Seabass, Micic, Eirman, Amine, Kemerer, but they were all already reallly good as freshman. We need to recruit guys that believe they can make an impact right away and not have to wait until their upperclassmen to magically get better.
I was wrong, forgot brooks/cStar/o’tool technically are fresh this year. And yeah we need the next Ash, and Suriano and Seabass were elites that transferred here so there is a draw. Bulsak exceeded so many expectations.. he did not perform well at all at NCAA prior.. maybe won a match or two if that at clarion.
This is the double standard that will likely never go away. We've shown results, built a new practice facility, and have one of the best home match environments with top 5 attendance, yet that's not good enough. It's BS.
Aaron Brooks graduated high school in 2018 plus spent a year at the OTC before enrolling at PSU.
I get what you are saying but I don’t think freshman AA(and even rarer champs) are as outlier as you may think… literally every year there are a bunch of freshman(true/rs) AA. And if not freshman then def by their soph.
Rutgers biggest problem is the physical infrastructure of the university itself. It’s enormous but it’s not a true college campus. It’s 4 small towns interwoven in a big NJ city. You might need to take a 40 minute bus ride to get to your 8am class. That’s not something the best athletes in the world are running to sign up for if there are similar ability programs available.
Interesting list, A lot of the sr/jr on that list were already AA their freshman/soph year and a big chunk of the RS soph list is now a multiple time AA. By the time they are sr there will be a new crop of fresh/soph AA.
1-6 in NCAA’s at Clarion. So yes it’s a great selling point to D1 transfers. Hey maybe Rutgers can get me over the hump.
Will the excuses ever stop? The facility (fixed), scholarships (fixed), fan base (fixed), nutrition (fixed - visit the APC), weight room (fixed). Now it is riding a bus to class. I bet the kids have first choice on their class schedule and they have an academic advisor to guide them.
You’re right. There’s absolutely no reason the top kids in the country are choosing other schools in every sport. Just a bunch of fake excuses.
Micic, who did not AA, graduated in 2014 which is hilarious.
Would really love to see them get a female wrestling team before they get lapped. I understand there’s a title ix issue there but there’s gotta be a cheap male sport they can also bring in to offset. Like fencing or something.
Likely cheaper to increase the roster size of some of the existing men's programs, if you need to at all. What's it 10-15 spots?
Huh? Nope. It's a factual statement that if you need to offer equal opportunities by adding some men's spots, then it's cheaper to increase existing men's rosters, rather than adding an entire new men's sport.
You don't even have to bring a men's sport on board. Title IX only states you have to give the same amount of opportunities to women's sports as you do men's. There is no Men's version of this, so you can give as many opportunities on the women's side as you want without equal for the men's side.
