Congratulations to Nick. He will do a great job with their upper weights. A true warrior. Wish we could have hired him.
Gravina Named Assistant Coach at Columbia
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It goes well beyond wrestling when hiring Nick as a coach. The men in that room are about learn that there is a great role model teaching them more than mat technique.
No disrespect to Nick as he is one of my all times faves, but to aspire to the level of the teams we are chasing, we need multiple AA, high finish, national champ caliber hires. It has been increasingly evident.
Who would be a better workout partner for for our upper weights Pollard or Gravina?
Neither would be optimum. In this case, I have to agree with LETSGORU91. After failing to attract a good heavy coach, it became a political decision.
I would have made Gravina a coach to train with the middle upper weight guys (Soldano, Poz, Turley, etc.), kept Pollard to run the SKWC, and have Lawson for the 197 and heavyweight guys. Pollard is too small and has prior injuries to be effective with the bigger guys.
It has been said we pursued a number of bigger guys as coaches and we couldn’t complete the deal. Absent the guys we approached, Gravina would have been a better choice letting us to keep Pollard and still have Lawson part-time.
It has been said we pursued a number of bigger guys as coaches and we couldn’t complete the deal. Absent the guys we approached, Gravina would have been a better choice letting us to keep Pollard and still have Lawson part-time.
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