http://www.app.com/story/sports/col...ers-wrestling-became-national-force/80002990/
Great read about the growth of R wrestling program. Goodale is a miracle worker. Some quotes:
Goodale was hired at a starting salary of $65,000. His only demand was to bring Leonardis as an assistant coach.
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Goodale inherited a program with 3.4 scholarships – far below the NCAA maximum of 9.9 – and the lowest NCAA Academic Progress Rate multi-year score (904) of any at Rutgers.
“There were times we were borrowing from our budget to give a women’s sport a scholarship,” Goodale said, “as long as we got our scholarship.”
Today, Rutgers is fully funded and its APR score is 966, after topping out at 974 on the 1,000-point scale. Rutgers ranks 10th out of 14 wrestling teams in the Big Ten in APR, which measures graduation and retention rates.
[Note we're only fully funded at in state tuition rates, recently & not OOS, which is still a disadvantage]
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"Scott has a wealth of knowledge about wrestling, but he does a lot of things that other coaches can’t do," Pritzlaff said. "He speaks about his program better than anybody I’ve ever been around. Boosters love him. Recruits love him. It’s outside-the-box, but I think wrestling would do better if they did more hires like this.”
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Leonardis recalls his boss asking to swap out charter buses for yellow school buses and hotel stays for morning-of-match commutes.
“He wanted to get the guys tougher," Leonardis said, "and the administration said, ‘We can’t do that. There is certain protocol.’ Whereas most coaches would turn around and say we aren’t being supported because we don’t have a state-of-the-art facility or we don’t have this, he was like, ‘I want less.’”
Great read about the growth of R wrestling program. Goodale is a miracle worker. Some quotes:
Goodale was hired at a starting salary of $65,000. His only demand was to bring Leonardis as an assistant coach.
* * *
Goodale inherited a program with 3.4 scholarships – far below the NCAA maximum of 9.9 – and the lowest NCAA Academic Progress Rate multi-year score (904) of any at Rutgers.
“There were times we were borrowing from our budget to give a women’s sport a scholarship,” Goodale said, “as long as we got our scholarship.”
Today, Rutgers is fully funded and its APR score is 966, after topping out at 974 on the 1,000-point scale. Rutgers ranks 10th out of 14 wrestling teams in the Big Ten in APR, which measures graduation and retention rates.
[Note we're only fully funded at in state tuition rates, recently & not OOS, which is still a disadvantage]
* * *
"Scott has a wealth of knowledge about wrestling, but he does a lot of things that other coaches can’t do," Pritzlaff said. "He speaks about his program better than anybody I’ve ever been around. Boosters love him. Recruits love him. It’s outside-the-box, but I think wrestling would do better if they did more hires like this.”
* * *
Leonardis recalls his boss asking to swap out charter buses for yellow school buses and hotel stays for morning-of-match commutes.
“He wanted to get the guys tougher," Leonardis said, "and the administration said, ‘We can’t do that. There is certain protocol.’ Whereas most coaches would turn around and say we aren’t being supported because we don’t have a state-of-the-art facility or we don’t have this, he was like, ‘I want less.’”
