New Jersey City University Selects Rutgers’ Harry Turner as First-Ever Head Men’s Wrestling Coach
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He is a wonderful young man and well earned. Very happy for him and he is well organized to start this from scratch.
For those who thought NJCU is only a commuter school, they have three dorms with another under construction. They must really be expanding their athletic department—adding golf. I think they had football a while back when they were Jersey City State. Don’t know when they are bringing it back.
And the Athletic Director is Rutgers very own WR Shawn Tucker
Nice story. Good for Harry and good for N.J. wrestling. Guess we see them in the opening day quad in 2020. $$$$
In my opinion the perfect hire would be Rodney Van Ness (timing is perfect).
My opinion is his kid is coming anyway hire someone the kids today know and relate to someone 23-26 who just finished wrestling.Dont need to start hiring dads leave that up to other programs
Amazing what success and a couple national champs will do. Goodale is now a renown head coach. Whatever happened to that guy who used to post we needed to replace him to get to next level.
IMO
Since RU Joined the B10 along with the hire of Donny P., the program has grown leaps and bounds.
If either Van Ness or Ferrari go to RU, the program will start to look to contend not only for a top 10, but a podium spot. That is how good the 2019 and 2020 recruits can be. Not all of the recruits will pan out, but you are looking at 5 potential All Americans from the classes.(Aragona, Alvarez, Vulakh, Kanniard, Turley, Poz, Oneil and Van Ness or Ferrari)
I also see some potential in the Ohio recruits. Hepner looks tough on top and Shawver looks like he could be the real deal with some strength.
If RU can follow up with strong 2021 class, the momentum could be around for a long time.
Since RU Joined the B10 along with the hire of Donny P., the program has grown leaps and bounds.
If either Van Ness or Ferrari go to RU, the program will start to look to contend not only for a top 10, but a podium spot. That is how good the 2019 and 2020 recruits can be. Not all of the recruits will pan out, but you are looking at 5 potential All Americans from the classes.(Aragona, Alvarez, Vulakh, Kanniard, Turley, Poz, Oneil and Van Ness or Ferrari)
I also see some potential in the Ohio recruits. Hepner looks tough on top and Shawver looks like he could be the real deal with some strength.
If RU can follow up with strong 2021 class, the momentum could be around for a long time.
Shawn is there over a year. He was a wonderful choice and Ian so happy for him.
Hiring a kids dad so the kid commits may be legal, but it surely isn’t the “right way”. Would be awfully disappointed if we started going down that road.
I don't know who that would be, but for as long as I've been posting on wrestling message boards-which is about 20 years-Goodale has been (was) EVERYONE'S whipping boy on such forums. During the Winston, Ashnault, and a few others years, everyone was screaming for his job.
Yes, a good season finish can dramatically change perceptions in sports. I've been saying it for years, mostly on deaf ears.
Even last year, some posters wanted Goodale to move into a consultant role and Make Donny P. the head coach
It is funny how an avalanche starts
1 All American (I believe Frank Molinaro helped coach the 1st All American)
Donny P was hired & AA commits
Mutiple AA's
Nick Suriano transfers
2 National Champions in 1 year
Top 5 recruiting class
During the season last year people were complaining because RU was an average Dual team. They called out RU's lack of success getting production at 197 & 285.
The problems did not go away (We do have an elite 197 training partner in Downey).
I am curious and excited to see what 174 to 285 will give us this year.
We need more qualifiers next year and Nick Suriano to do what he does best.
If we don't have 2 All Americans next year I will be disappointed.
Where is that second All American coming from?
I am not sure how the new recruits compare to the existing wrestlers.
Lipari has kept it close against big wrestlers but has not got a signature win.
Can Aragona Beat Lipari?
Can Turley beat Grello?
Does Kanniard find a spot or does Glasgow shows us why he was one of the top wrestlers out of high school.
Heck, I even started watching Freestyle!!!!
It is funny how an avalanche starts
1 All American (I believe Frank Molinaro helped coach the 1st All American)
Donny P was hired & AA commits
Mutiple AA's
Nick Suriano transfers
2 National Champions in 1 year
Top 5 recruiting class
During the season last year people were complaining because RU was an average Dual team. They called out RU's lack of success getting production at 197 & 285.
The problems did not go away (We do have an elite 197 training partner in Downey).
I am curious and excited to see what 174 to 285 will give us this year.
We need more qualifiers next year and Nick Suriano to do what he does best.
If we don't have 2 All Americans next year I will be disappointed.
Where is that second All American coming from?
I am not sure how the new recruits compare to the existing wrestlers.
Lipari has kept it close against big wrestlers but has not got a signature win.
Can Aragona Beat Lipari?
Can Turley beat Grello?
Does Kanniard find a spot or does Glasgow shows us why he was one of the top wrestlers out of high school.
Heck, I even started watching Freestyle!!!!
RU Crazy
AA committed to RU when Donny P was still at Michigan and we beat him out for AA. In fact it was between RU and Michigan!
AA committed to RU when Donny P was still at Michigan and we beat him out for AA. In fact it was between RU and Michigan!
There is a ton of momentum around the program right now but we need to have measured expectations for next year. We will be very young and most likely will take our lumps against the elite programs and lose to some middle tier programs with more seasoned rosters. If last year’s redshirts and this year’s recruits plus the 2020 class develop as expected we will be a force in 2021-2022. I’m just going to focus on watching the team develop and progress and see who the stars of the future will be.
I'm a '67 alum of NJCU. Went there because they were the only school in the nation with a Special Education school (A. Harry Moore) which was my major.
They started a football club team in my senior year that was undefeated. Fordham refused to play the Gothics due to some questionable playeras on our team which I think may have had some merit. It did become a regular Div. 3 program but was later dropped.
They started a football club team in my senior year that was undefeated. Fordham refused to play the Gothics due to some questionable playeras on our team which I think may have had some merit. It did become a regular Div. 3 program but was later dropped.
With all due respect, I played football in college and I think I'd be asking to back out of a schedule that includes the Gothics!
There is no "right" or "wrong" way if it's allowed as per NCAA guidelines. Why do our fans always think we must be significantly better than everyone else and constantly put ourselves at a disadvantage for no reason? It's not like his father would be unqualified for the job or has no connection with the university/program, that literally couldn't be further from the truth in this situation.
Agree, but it will not happen anyway so no need to worry. Hire should be announced soon.
How excited will we be with the hire? Is he coming from a blue blood?
I disagree. A set of written down rules, be them laws or NCAA guidelines do not determine right and wrong. They determine permissible or not.
I don’t know Shane’s dad from a shovel. The way I read it, is hire Shane’s dad to get Shane. If Shane’s dad isn’t the best coach you can hire, you’re doing a disservice to every kid being coached by him. That to me is wrong.
If Shane’s dad is qualified, don’t play around with his salary to circumvent the 9.9. That would be wrong.
I’ll take your word for it he is qualified. I genuinely don’t know anything about the man.
Try to spell the wrestler’s name correctly. It is Shayne not Shane. Also, hiring Rodney is not the path to take to get Shayne. The decision will be made based upon what is in Shayne’s best interest. Need to demonstrate that Rutgers is the best place for the wrestler.
This wasn't exclusively regarding Wrestling or even Rodney/Shayne, I just meant in general. It's a common (and allowable) trend in college athletics and it absolutely can have massive impacts on a program, so why should RU be holier-than-thou if a great opportunity arises? The same people who are against it are probably the people screaming the loudest as to why RU can't compete or keep it up with it's peers in college athletics.
USC just did it and landed two 5*s in back to back years including the #1 player in the class. We definitely don't need or want that around here...
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...327491/no-1-hoops-prospect-mobley-commits-usc
USC just did it and landed two 5*s in back to back years including the #1 player in the class. We definitely don't need or want that around here...
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...327491/no-1-hoops-prospect-mobley-commits-usc
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