What were Jeff Buxton's accolades as a college wrestler? Funny how no one cared that he was just an NCAA qualifier and people don't mistreat him like they do Goodale. What other double standards we talking about next?
Except he coached several AAs, National Champs, Team USA (age level) and had many national prep team championship runs.
And Goodale coached 2 national champs and numerous AAs. Thanks for proving my point.
Buxton is a better coach than Goodale by every metric. Buxton also coaches freestyle and has cornered mckenna at final x. I don’t think I’ve heard Goodale and freestyle in the same sentence before. Probably the reason the SKRTC is almost non existent and the only success it had was while Buxton was running it. I’ve never heard a rutgers AA credit Goodale for their success, they all credited Pritzlaff. Seabass credited Buxton and Donnie for his international success.
Kiyomi McMiller. Her raw talent could have landed her at any top basketball program in the country, but no respectable coach wanted to deal with the headache of her personality and her handlers. So a desperate coach in Washington recruited her to Rutgers, and it went exactly as you’d expect. Knox has the talent, sure, but would Cael or Brands take him on at this point? Or only a coach fighting for his future?
Cael wouldn’t bc the team is in such a place it doesn’t need to risk the culture on headaches like Knox with overbearing wrestling dads ( lesson learned with Suriano) . The brands are facing serious heat from the fanbase right now and could be looking down the barrel of 4 maybe 5 dual losses this season so I think they’d grab him up no question , Brands wanted AJ it was Iowa AD who said no to that
Knox is a 125 Iowa has Deluca . If Knox thought he was a 133 they would for sure go after him. Also Deluca and Knox are good friends. Iowa was not one of the 5+ schools he was gonna talk with. But these things change quickly time will tell what happens but I wouldn't expect an announcement anytime soon. He will take some visits
I like Goodale but you can’t compare Buxton and goodys accolades on the national and global scene. Even most of the recent individual and team success was attributed to Buxton by the wrestlers. What Buxton built at Blair and his stretch of national titles and the talent that he produced will never be duplicated.
This might be an unpopular take but I don’t think buxton or Goodale move the needle.
I don’t think that’s unpopular at all. I think Buxton gets more respect, is an ambassador of the sport, known internationally and is a better technician. But I agree neither is being sought out by blue chips from a college recruiting an destination perspective. But for texhnique and international freestyle coaching Buxton absolutely is still sought after. Buxton was chosen to be the corner man by many of our wrestlers both at the tourney and international events.
Buxton is one of the most respected coaches in the country. In the last few years he turned Seabass a guy who never made an NCAA final into an Olympic bronze medalist and world silver medalist. That matters to top guys
Buxton is one of the top technicians in the world. And his experience and wealth of knowledge is hard to find. He’s a coaching staff guy that RU really needs.
Not surprised - they have a strong presence in NJ and now can use Bassett & Co. as a recruiting tool. Imagine if Jayden James didn’t bail. They also just got Ironman Champ Max Konopka out of CT (who is one of Eleazer’s Dragons guys). VT isn’t messing around.
Take a survey of the top 100 recruits in the country and ask them if they want to train with Jeff buxton or let’s say a name like mark hall since we just saw him last week on Oklahoma's sideline. Most kids are going to know the name mark hall. Can put on YouTube and see him win a national championship and compete at the highest level. He has present day wrestling experience. Can coach through positions that he has first hand experience in.
What goalposts? What narrative? My first post. Did you think you were replying to someone else?
They are going to choose the guy who coaches at a weak Oklahoma program over a guy who was coaching a medalist in the last Olympics? Because they can google hall winning ncaas? Can they google any guys he coached winning ncaas? they can gooogle Buxton and see he’s one of the most successful coaches in the history of wrestling and has elevated every place he’s gone. Coached in Final X , world team trials , worlds, Olympics, ncaa finals, coached the most successful prep school in wrestling history.
To simply call Buxton an “old man” shows you know little about the wrestling world. Buxton could have coached wherever he wanted and is one of the most highly respected coaches in the world. Mark Hall isn’t squat (yet). The better argument is that Buxton is too far past his prime (not an “old man”) to run a program and isn’t going to sit in a recruits living room and crunch NIL numbers. He’s probably of limited value beyond being a top technician and offering guidance but that’s what he enjoys and you gotta respect his body of work. Losing him was a huge loss for RU.
They been pillaging the top NJ guys from Rutgers for so long.. it’s a shame it doesn’t have to stay that way.. there’s gotta be a big change somehow… NJ is a top state for hs wrestling how is there no college in NJ yet to reflect this.
He coached at Lehigh for years after Blair, he was Zach Rey personal coach and helped him win an ncaa title and make a world team. For 30 years at Blair he turned down college head coaching opportunities on a yearly basis, you don’t think Rutgers wanted him over Goodale in 2008? He turned down over a dozen college head coaching jobs. With the right head coach he Casey Cunningham to a program, do you realize how many upper weights chose Penn state not only for Cael but for Casey Cunningham. Are you going to say he’s not a big deal either?
Man,you really got your head up Goody's culo. I guess you don't see what everybody else sees.
yea he isn’t one of the top 3 names in the sports history so he doesn’t mean anything and kids would take mark hall over him . This is Hawkeye report levels of insanity
Buxton was lined up for a big time college coaching position, but got caught playing stinky finger with some of the Blair moms, so he got passed over.
Dont hate the playa.....hate the game.
You are correct he was the lead blocker for that championship team. A teammate of mine stole his varsity jacket lol
Hey more power too him. I heard he was tagging a couple of them at the same time.
Dude you are in love with the Jeff buxton aura from 20 years ago. His name does not resonate with today’s recruits. They want to go to a program where they can not only learn from but wrestle with top talent. I used hall as an example because he still has the ability to get on the mat and physically work with the students, at a high level. What is more valuable to a blue chip recruit? Wrestling with someone who was an ncaa champ and competed on a world level or getting instruction from a guy who coached the high school prepe champs 10 years ago?
Buxton just coached Rivera from never making an ncaa final to world medalist and Olympic bronze medalist. I listed a lot more then just his prep accomplishments
You mean like you heard we were getting 4 transfers from PSU and Iowa and you heard Joey O got suspended because of his mafia ties ...now you make up some crap about Buxton and hope that sticks too...you are just a pillar of lies all of which you have no proof of any of it but you put it out there anyway ...
