Feb 11
Cornell head coach Rob Koll and Edinboro’s Gregor Gillespie join Wrestling411 Radio on Tuesday.
Feb 10
Cornell University head wrestling coach Rob Koll and Edinboro three-time All-American Gregor Gillespie join Jason Bryant and Kyle Klingman on Tuesday’s edition of Wrestling411 radio.
Listen to the archive below.
Jan 21
The following ten coaches were asked the exact same question: If you could tell the officials one thing at the officials meeting, what would it be?
Tom Brands, University of Iowa Head Wrestling Coach
I think they do a heck of a lot better job than what it sounds like I’m telling them during the match.
Barry Davis, University of Wisconsin Head Wrestling Coach
Call stalling. Because what it does is it makes everyone more aggressive and the better man’s going to win that way. The guy’s stalling, just call it. It’ s more exciting for the fans and everybody else.
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Jan 14
The following 10 coaches were asked the exact same question: If you could change one thing about college wrestling what would it be?
Tom Brands, University of Iowa Head Wrestling Coach
It would be the weigh-in procedures and basically how they have done a disservice to nutrition in this sport.
Barry Davis, University of Wisconsin Head Coach
Stalling calls. Make the guys wrestle more. That’s all. It’s the best sport going right now. A lot of action. It’s such a good thing now. You don’t need to change much of it, just make guys wrestle.
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Nov 26
Last year the 149 pound weight class was the toughest and deepest weight class in the nation. Some even said it was the best weight class ever (it wasn’t, by the way).
The 2007-08 version of 149 pounds had it all: talent, depth, returning All-Americans and Iowa’s Brent Metcalf, the best college wrestler in the nation.
The 2008-09 version of 149 pounds still has Brent Metcalf, returning finalist Bubba Jenkins of Penn State, fifth place finisher Darrion Caldwell of North Carolina State and eighth place finisher Lance Palmer of Ohio State. But the weight class has been depleted by many of the top wrestlers moving up to the 157 pound weight class.
Only one wrestler – two-time All-American Ryan Churella of Michigan – left the weight due to graduation.
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