Wrestling 2026 Rutgers NCAA Tournament Thread
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That doesn't make me feel any better about our current situation. The lower and middle weights (1-10) simply did not come out prepared to wrestle in a National Tournament. It's wash, rinse and repeat. Goodale needs to figure it out and he hasn't been able to.
Speaking of dual meets, looks like RU’s #11th dual meet ranking won’t be enough to qualify RU for Paycom’s Dual Meet Tournament again…
This has been an abysmal performance. six (arguably 7) of the 9 wrestlers were completely outclassed and perhaps outcoached. There was zero killer instinct in any of their matches. Just hard to watch, since they have the skillset to wrestle tougher.
It really pains me to see how good Columbia (of all schools) is doing. What a great job our former staff is doing there. Being behind Princeton and Rider is the cherry on top.
I'm very happy that we'll be moving on from a lot of our older guys. No doubt, they gave it their all over the years, but the game has changed and it's a younger mans sport now. Time for the new wave to get their matches in. Recruiting has been better, but hopefully they can develop.
It really pains me to see how good Columbia (of all schools) is doing. What a great job our former staff is doing there. Being behind Princeton and Rider is the cherry on top.
I'm very happy that we'll be moving on from a lot of our older guys. No doubt, they gave it their all over the years, but the game has changed and it's a younger mans sport now. Time for the new wave to get their matches in. Recruiting has been better, but hopefully they can develop.
If Knox is going 125 hopefully we can spend money on a seasoned transfer 133 lber (this weight is bare talent wise), we also need a Hwt.. Hopefully hit more like a Cotton/Catka instead of the wasted money on Pinto.
9 guys into the tournament. 7 points going into Friday night. Absolutely PATHETIC….. I don’t wanna hear anyone tell me I’m wrong.
How many qualifiers did the 10 teams in front of us show up with in Cleveland?
You would have to know a recruit like Pinto was "a waste of money". I didn't. I thought he was a good get. We haven't seen yet what Gibson can do at 133.
No one did and if you read again not my point. "Hopefully hit more like a Cotton/Cafka instead..." We're not going to be able to afford a surefire AA but need to identify a proven guy with qualifier experience.
I would not pin my hopes and Gibson suddenly making a miraculous jump. Goodale needs to find a proven guy. If he was that good he wouldn't have been losing to guys with losing records even at 141.
I thought he was a great get too. I was expecting a top 4 finish. And here we are holding the bag again with another waste of money transfer. The problem is, is that there's too many distractions at rutgers. There is no culture with our program. When you talk to kids from pennsylvania , ohio and iowa , their dreams as kids are to wrestle for penn state , ohio state and iowa. As others have mentioned , goody is a great facilitator but not a good coach. He knows all the ins and outs of running a program from a financial and logistical standpoint. He's a businessman first, coach second. To his credit , he has taken a broken program and brought it to marginal success, but it's over twenty years later , and we are not progressing. If we were Rhode Island Massachusetts, Vermont, New hampshire, We would be consider a success by a long shot. But being arguably the second best wrestling state in the country we are considered a failure. It's not his fault.He's not a big name. Kids want to be mentored and trained by big name, accomplished wrestlers. It gives them a sense of confidence and desired attainment.
The standard is the standard. It is where you finish at the national
Tournament. At the end of the day, dual meets are entertaining and build fan support. But, don’t try to move the goalposts . We all know what the standard is in wrestling,
It’s nice that we recruit Pa and Cali finally but to be a big time program you need to dominate recruiting in your own back yard. 3 semi finalists from NJ and 10 in the R12 and 0 of them wrestle for us for (2 did and transferred). That’s not good enough, hopefully Knox Is the start of getting that on track
So you want Goody to recruit someone who will not need knee surgery in the middle of the season
If everyone says it's all about March, and the coach buys into it, then it's all important, but I believe the dual-meet season is important, too. They can and should both be important. Just think of the disappointment in this forum when we don't wrestle well during the season. Rutgers has thousands of fans who come to see dual meets, and they don't want to be disappointed. It's too easy to excuse season performance because of March, or vice versa. Both are important.
Both are important but finishing behind rider , Princeton and columbia is unacceptable. It’s not like those schools are ahead of us because of 1 big star McGowan is going to outscore our entire team and he was a 10 seed who DNP last year. Klinsky from Rider has. 6.5 points 9 Rutgers wrestlers have 7. Columbia has a semi finalist and 2 or 3 guýs in the blood round even hardcore fans never heard of.
3 of those guys might come back and take 3rd and all 4 are favored in the R12 and they greyshirted both Dellagattas and Periten. Cerchio couldn’t hold 165 late in the season and had to bump up to 184. They ll be much better every point scorer is back next year most of them are freshman/sophomores
The whole wrestling community is rooting for Arnold and I can’t stand this kid, he just stalls and stalls and stalls and never even gets a warning. I hope Cotton smashes him early bc close matches the refs will let him run away
Unless you get JB, we aren't dominating NJ recruiting, and even then it's not going to be easy. NJ kids love to go elsewhere, especially from the top parochials.
Columbia has Alvan in semis & Owen in blood round.
Nice but not many make excuses here for our performance, if we were all Cornell fans and on the Cornell Wrestling Forum, we'd all be ripping Grey a new a$$hole.
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Peterson gives up the late TD and loses 4-1.
Princeton will have a finalist in McGowan.
Princeton will have a finalist in McGowan.
wonder if peterson will cry that the brands did not throw the brick like he did with the ru coaches
Welp, Dean choked yet again. Guess Iowa didn't really do much for him. Same ****; new season
Ventresca with a disastrous outcome…seventh year and no AA.Robinson 4-1 over Ventresca. Popular score tonight
Pretty much all Iowa wrestlers except for Caliendo
Wow....HOw impressive is FOrrest?
Very impressed with Seidel as well..he was constant movement
Very impressed with Seidel as well..he was constant movement