Wrestling 2026 Rutgers NCAA Tournament Thread
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Referees and replays have completely destroyed this tournament
And that concludes yet another year of no AA's. At this point this is a fv*king joke. We're now playing third fiddle in NJ. Don't even stay for the finals take the bus home tonight.
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The best we can finish is tied for 33rd with a grand total of 7 fv*king points. I'm tired of the excuses and him talking about doing better in March. We lose every close match and never get the job done.
Thats a wrap on this absolutely abysmal tournament. Worst tourney we have wrestled in years. Probably before Perrotti AA’ed.
This program has regressed leaps and bounds. Anybody that does not see that or does not believe that is blind, is lying to themselves or is a Goodale relative on this forum. There is no defending this.
Dont want to hear the same shallow promises about reevaluating, blah blah. Program is broken. And it was not just that we lost, it was how we lost. Easy takedowns, no tough rides, no aggression on our feet, cant get through head hands to save our life.
If you choose to accept mediocrity, that sucks for you.
This program has regressed leaps and bounds. Anybody that does not see that or does not believe that is blind, is lying to themselves or is a Goodale relative on this forum. There is no defending this.
Dont want to hear the same shallow promises about reevaluating, blah blah. Program is broken. And it was not just that we lost, it was how we lost. Easy takedowns, no tough rides, no aggression on our feet, cant get through head hands to save our life.
If you choose to accept mediocrity, that sucks for you.
Time for all of you to go root for Penn State since they rarely lose. Then you will be very happy.
If this was any other program at Rutgers you would be first in line to insult them.
This was a bad result. No need to board police people about being unhappy with the result.
Oh stop.. people have higher expectations than the product that’s being delivered.
I would make Goodale a position in the AD. Then go hard for JB, Dake, Donnie etc. 3 out of 4 with no AA for the state school of NJ is horrific.
Proud of our team. I’m sure they wanted better results. Still appreciate my alma mater.
Bill we all respect what Goody has done and appreciate the effort the kids put forward. We need to look where we were and where we are. Finishing 33rd shouldn’t be acceptable. No AA in 3 of 4 yrs. Only kids left standing were upper weights.
Bill,
We all hate Penn St and you would never catch most of us rooting for them. But there is no defending this performance, but I wish we wrestled 10% of how they do.
It’s the fashion in which our wrestlers performed. If the results were the same and our wrestlers pressed action, I could understand. Our wrestlers are stiff and ill prepared for this tournament. There is a systemic problem considering it’s a yearly occurrence.
Lowest score since 2012:
2026: 34. Rutgers 7 (0 AA)
2025: 36. Rutgers 12 (0 AA)
2024: 20. Rutgers 22.5 (2 AAs: 7, 7)
2023: 34. Rutgers 8 (0 AA)
2022: 20. Rutgers 28.5 (2 AAs: 3, 8)
2021: 13. Rutgers 37.5 (3 AAs: 4, 4, 8)
2019: 9. Rutgers 51.5 (2 AAs: 1, 1)
2018: 11. Rutgers 42.5 (2 AAs: 2, 6)
2017: 19. Rutgers 24.5 (2 AAs: 6, 7)
2016: 15. Rutgers 30 (2 AAs: 4, 8)
2015: 31. Rutgers 9.5 (1 AA: 8)
2014: 34. Rutgers 11.5 (1 AA: 8)
2013: 35. Rutgers 7.5 (0 AA)
2012: 45. Rutgers 6 (0 AA)
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Yep. Do what the Celtics did with Brad Stevens when he hit his ceiling and get him in the AD office and out of coaching and make a splash hire.
This team does not have any high end kids. We have 18-30 ranked kids who wrestle to rankings.
Whats concerning is pinto was a blood round guy last year and Shawver was an allamerican and bloodround guy and neither do anytbing in the tournament.
In short, we aren’t getting blue chip recruits, aren’t really developing guys, and our older guys are regressing. Other than that the program is in good shape
Whats concerning is pinto was a blood round guy last year and Shawver was an allamerican and bloodround guy and neither do anytbing in the tournament.
In short, we aren’t getting blue chip recruits, aren’t really developing guys, and our older guys are regressing. Other than that the program is in good shape
Have to think Tate and Zinn won't tolerate this type of mediocrity in a sport we should be excelling in almost by default. Goody has to chop a few assistant heads over this showing.
Well, I guess you can say we've come full circle. We're back to where we were 11 years ago below Rider and Princeton.
Yeah it's all about recruiting. We need more elite recruits.
Goodale isn't going anywhere, he does just enough to stay off an AD's radar. It's all up to him to make internal changes. Which he should with this staff and get a real Assistant Head Coach and lower weight staff. But in all likelihood, he won't, as they're nice guys.
Id upgrade the S&C coaches as well. Tired of losing matches late because our guys dont have as much juice to finish in the 3rd or in OT.
If we do anything…we need a better strength and conditioning program
I feel like that is something Zinn can put together as far as a budget for almost overnight. The S&C program is a joke...is the S&C coach someone from the Planet Fitness in East Brunswick? Get Goodale a legit S&C staff.
Catka match a real head scratcher. How was that not a reversal? Goody was clearly asking for two but the challenge was from the other corner challenging the escape. Good threw his brick back at his bench. Why not use it and challenge for a reversal? WTF? Not to be lost in all this. Catka had the match in the bag and one stall to give. He got taken down with 15 seconds remaining.
You could hear them and the ref said something to the effect that they were looking at both the escape and reversal whe he kept pointing two,
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| Team Scores | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penn State | 153.0 |
| 2 | Oklahoma State | 111.5 |
| 3 | Nebraska | 90.5 |
| 4 | Iowa | 81.0 |
| 5 | Ohio State | 77.5 |
| 6 | Stanford | 58.0 |
| 7 | Iowa State | 52.0 |
| 8 | Michigan | 48.0 |
| 9 | Minnesota | 39.5 |
| 10 | NC State | 37.0 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech | 35.0 |
| 12 | Wyoming | 31.5 |
| 13 | Arizona State | 30.0 |
| 14 | Missouri | 26.5 |
| 15 | Illinois | 25.0 |
| 16 | Lehigh | 22.0 |
| 17 | Cornell | 21.5 |
| 18 | Columbia | 20.5 |
| 19 | Princeton | 20.0 |
| 20 | Indiana | 19.5 |
| 21 | Penn | 18.0 |
| 22 | West Virginia | 17.0 |
| 23 | Air Force | 13.0 |
| 23 | Pittsburgh | 13.0 |
| 25 | Rider | 12.5 |
| 26 | Little Rock | 12.0 |
| 27 | American | 11.5 |
| 27 | Navy | 11.5 |
| 29 | Purdue | 10.5 |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 10.0 |
| 31 | Northern Iowa | 9.5 |
| 32 | Maryland | 8.5 |
| 33 | North Carolina | 7.5 |
| 34 | George Mason | 7.0 |
| 34 | Rutgers | 7.0 |
| 34 | Utah Valley | 7.0 |
| 37 | Lock Haven | 6.5 |
| 37 | Wisconsin | 6.5 |
| 39 | North Dakota State | 6.0 |
| 40 | South Dakota State | 5.0 |
| 41 | Bucknell | 4.5 |
| 41 | Drexel | 4.5 |
| 43 | Oregon State | 4.0 |
| 44 | SIU Edwardsville | 3.5 |
| 45 | Army West Point | 3.0 |
| 45 | Brown | 3.0 |
| 45 | Franklin and Marshall | 3.0 |
| 45 | Northern Illinois | 3.0 |
| 45 | Ohio | 3.0 |
| 50 | Binghamton | 2.5 |
| 51 | The Citadel | 2.0 |
| 52 | Appalachian State | 1.5 |
| 52 | Buffalo | 1.5 |
| 52 | Duke | 1.5 |
| 52 | Gardner-Webb | 1.5 |
| 52 | Morgan State | 1.5 |
| 57 | Bellarmine | 1.0 |
| 57 | Chattanooga | 1.0 |
| 57 | Harvard | 1.0 |
| 57 | Kent State | 1.0 |
| 57 | Northern Colorado | 1.0 |
| 62 | Cal Poly | 0.5 |
| 62 | Central Michigan | 0.5 |
| 62 | Edinboro | 0.5 |
| 62 | Virginia | 0.5 |
| 66 | Bloomsburg | 0.0 |
| 66 | Davidson | 0.0 |
| 66 | Michigan State | 0.0 |
| 66 | Northwestern | 0.0 |
| 66 | VMI | 0.0 |
Hey at least Little Rock was able to qualify for the Paycom’s dual meet tournament… dual meets.. the thing RU specializes in but can’t qualify for the dual meet tournament..
Comparatively speaking, can we say our coaches maxed out our wrestlers who transferred or do we say Brands, Iowa RTC and Oklahoma's Kish did a horrible job elevating Peterson and Soldano?