It's Princeton Week

[Leonard23]

 

[Bobbynieds]

For me, Has to be AA's match against Matt K.
One of my fav matches of all time.

 

[RUMike]

For me, Has to be AA's match against Matt K.
One of my fav matches of all time.

Absolutely! The nervous energy during the first period and then the crowd explosions during the second and third are moments I will always remember.

 

[DUForever]

Should be interesting to see how Princeton’s new head coach handles himself in our house Friday night.

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

I like looking at Wrestlestat's dual comparisons. It appears that Rutgers is favored in all but Poz's match with Stout, although Poz has a much better record against common opponents. I think it could be a shut-out, barring any WTF moments. What happened to Princeton? I thought they were on an upward trajectory.

 

[MS-RU]

They are greyshirting their top recruit Marc Anthony McGowan this year plus they have some other highly rated freshmen recruits such as Tyler Vasquez, Holden Garcia, and Eligh Rivera. They are all talented but unless someone is an elite recruit it takes some time to develop and adjust to college wrestling but they can knock off highly ranked guys on the right night.

Rivera just beat Graham Rooks (Indiana) who was ranked #8 and was an R12 guy last year. Blaine Bergey isn’t highly ranked but beat Clark two years ago…

Our guys better be prepared and come to wrestle or else this could be a lot closer than we expect it to be.

 

[ScottRU93]

Vasquez got destroyed by Fongaro

 

[MS-RU]

Vasquez got destroyed by Fongaro

Right but he also lost in SV to Malyke Hines who was a R12 and R16 guy over the last few years. My point was that he is super talented being a 2x NJ state champ among other things but as a true freshman he is going to have ups and downs but he isn’t someone who can be taken lightly or be considered a pushover, even though he might take some bad loses from time to time especially to a 6th year guy like Fongaro

 

[ScottRU93]

Right but he also lost in SV to Malyke Hines who was a R12 and R16 guy over the last few years. My point was that he is super talented being a 2x NJ state champ among other things but as a true freshman he is going to have ups and downs but he isn’t someone who can be taken lightly or be considered a pushover, even though he might take some bad loses from time to time especially to a 6th year guy like Fongaro

Hopefully as a 6th year guy, Moore can do similar!

 

[SCNJ]

They are greyshirting their top recruit Marc Anthony McGowan this year plus they have some other highly rated freshmen recruits such as Tyler Vasquez, Holden Garcia, and Eligh Rivera. They are all talented but unless someone is an elite recruit it takes some time to develop and adjust to college wrestling but they can knock off highly ranked guys on the right night.

Rivera just beat Graham Rooks (Indiana) who was ranked #8 and was an R12 guy last year. Blaine Bergey isn’t highly ranked but beat Clark two years ago…

Our guys better be prepared and come to wrestle or else this could be a lot closer than we expect it to be.

Rooks still wrestles? Isn’t he 30

 

[jerzey devil]

Start time is 6pm??

 

[wngarbarini]

Yes

 

[koleszar]

Should be interesting to see how Princeton’s new head coach handles himself in our house Friday night.

A ranting raving Mexican jumping bean or Leprechaun comes to mind.

 

[bigmatt718]

A ranting raving Mexican jumping bean or Leprechaun comes to mind.

Expect the boo birds to come out if he acts like a fool on Friday night.

 

[DUForever]

Expect the boo birds to come out if he acts like a fool on Friday night.

The over under on this is the second bout of the dual.

 

[Leonard23]

Start time is 6pm??

Yes

Any idea why it's not at 7 pm? Could impact attendance, especially with high school wrestlers and their families.

 

[DUForever]

Any idea why it's not at 7 pm? Could impact attendance, especially with high school wrestlers and their families.

I suspect the start time was dictated by BTN.

 

[bigmatt718]

I suspect the start time was dictated by BTN.

Match isn't on BTN.

 

[Leonard23]

I suspect the start time was dictated by BTN.

That would be odd for a streaming exclusive on BTN+.

 

[koleszar]

Any idea why it's not at 7 pm? Could impact attendance, especially with high school wrestlers and their families.

Now realizing what a horrible start time. In wall to wall commuter traffic now. Trip usually takes 40 mins. We left at 4:30 and we’re probably not going to make it.

 

[Jersey Boys]

Any idea why it's not at 7 pm? Could impact attendance, especially with high school wrestlers and their families.

Crowd ended up being very very solid.

 

[Leonard23]

Crowd ended up being very very solid.

Agreed. It was a very good sign that shows there's still a ton of interest in the program and this rivalry, as a lot of people made the effort to leave work early or end HS practices early to get there. Guessing even more people would've come had it been a 7 PM start. Do we know why it started at 6 PM?