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J Robinson explains how many different programs and types of programs which got exposure from last year’s Wrestling 411 coverage.

J Robinson explains how college wrestling benefits from a program and vision like Wrestling 411 has.

J Robinson talks about what it will take from the wrestling community to make Wrestling 411 work.

J Robinson talks about the impact the loss of a project like Wrestling 411 will have on wrestling.

J Robinson talks about the importance of this past year’s sponsors and who can step up to give wrestling a viable and professional highlight show on television.

For the past 2 years Wrestling 411 has been dedicated to the marketing and promotion of wrestling. Our sole goal has been to promote wrestling on all levels. Our final goal is to produce a weekly made for TV highlight show within the next 3 years that follows the action thorough out the college wrestling season.

In this past year we had over 4 million hits on the web/pod cast shows that we produced from December to March; had more than 350,000 unique visitors in the month of March alone, and produced a pilot highlight show.

Harvard is one of the nation’s most elite and respected academic institutions. Jay Weiss is also one of the most respected wrestling coaches in the country. The F&M graduate starts his 16th year at the helm and talks with Wrestling 411’s Kyle Klingman and Jason Bryant about the past, present and future of Harvard wrestling.

What can Weiss look forward to this season with J.P. O’Connor and Louis Caputo leading the way? What true freshmen will make an impact in this year’s line-up?

 

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Kerry McCoy inherited a strong team at the University of Maryland and the first-year coach produced three All-Americans last season, leading the Terps to a 10th place finish at the 2009 NCAA Division I championships.

With Steve Bell, Alex Krom and Hudson Taylor return and the lineup will be bolstered by the return of Mike Letts off a redshirt, what does McCoy expect from his squad in his second year in College Park?

Kyle Klingman and Jason Bryant catch up with McCoy and talk about his upcoming season and the new additions to the Maryland coaching staff as well as getting his thoughts on diversity amongst the college coaching ranks.

Dennis Hall, a 1995 World Champion and 1996 Olympic Silver Medalist, has been named the new head coach at the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan. Hall, a stalwart on the Greco-Roman scene through the 1990s, will lead the Greco-Roman athletes in a post vacated earlier this year by Ivan Ivanov.

For Hall, a Wisconsin native, the journey is two-fold. First is to continue to build world-level Greco-Roman athletes from the USOEC, and the second, to finish his degree.

List to what Hall has to say about his new post.

Joe Pantaleo was a two-time Big Ten and NCAA finalist while competing for the University of Michigan back in the 1980s. After several stints as an assistant and a jump into the “private sector,” Pantaleo joined the coaching staff at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

Pantaleo joins Jesse Castro’s staff and he talked with Jason Bryant and Kyle Klingman of Wrestling 411 about the move back into coaching and what called him to Liberty. He discusses what else can call people to a school like Liberty and also talks abwpout what it will be like to coach his nephew Joey on Liberty’s team.

 

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Until 2009, Binghamton wrestling had never had a wrestler achieve All-American status at the Division I level. The school had produced over two dozen as a Division III school and one during its short stay in Division II, the last coming in 1999.

With the resurrection of the program and new guidance by Pat Popolizio and staff, there’s a new excitement in New York as two Bearcats, Donnie Vinson and Jimmy Chase, represented the U.S. on Greco-Roman Junior World Team, a rarity for a school like Binghamton.

What’s in store for the Bearcats in the future? Can they look to challenge Hofstra and Old Dominion atop the CAA?

 

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Shawn Charles took a long and winding road to end up back in his home state. The Tuscon, Ariz., native and four-time All-American at Arizona State is settling in to his new job as the head coach of his alma mater. He’s retained Brian Stith and brought in Bryan Snyder, Ben Askren, Raymond Jordan and Brandon Halsey to the coaching staff and looks to get things moving.

Charles, once a head coach at Fresno State, went from Fresno to Brown to Missouri before landing back in a head coaching position.