Wrestling College Wrestling: Top 25 teams in operating expenses for 2025 fiscal year.
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All this money goes into Official Visits, coaching staff salaries, and just a whole bunch of different things. Everyday expenses for the program.
Again, the entire staff combined makes between $500k to $600k. That's a lot of dough, approximately $2.4 mil. to $2.5 mil for a whole bunch of other stuff.
It's a reported number, so I don't have any additional inside information. What I can tell you, from a broad brush, expenses are dished out to coaching staff, operations within the university, travel (very expensive these days), hotel accommodations, recruiting travel, recruiting visits on campus, gear, etc. It all adds up and the more you spend, the more visible you can be, so to speak. Hence why you see the reported spending up with some blue bloods.
Except according to this, we're spending Top 6 and getting Top 34 results. I know NIL isn't included but something isn't adding up.
We’ve done a better job building a brand than landing elite wrestlers. Really all it is, I don’t think it’s some deep mystery. We’ve become really good at filling a lineup with solid guys but have not done a good job getting the upper echelon guys.
Ashnault, Knox, and Harer are welcome additions that should move the needle. I don’t think we’ll be world beaters next year but over time I think Knox especially will help improve the recruiting.
At the very minimum we gotta be able to keep some elite wrestlers in state.. I guess James was a loss cause.. being from Delbarton and all.. but losing Kenny stings… if it doesn’t work out for him at Iowa I hope he would consider coming back home.. him and Ash had a good connection when he was young..
Goodale has done a great job in building a very good and passionate fan base. He deserves tremendous credit. He is also an example of the Peter Principle. His primary focus on dual meets seems to have limited our ability to perform well at the NCAA tournament. Especially when the standard to measure wrestling success is results at the national championships.Being the top 6 school in spending and finishing between 20th and 35th during the last 5 years is unacceptable. If we were to remove the coach’s name and anonymously look at results, I cannot see how Zinn would renew his contract.
Why? What’s the compelling event to select Rutgers? Im asking what’s the pitch. I’m not saying this to be negative but as an actual examination. I’m kid konkrete and my bar is Olympic Gold Medalist, that’s my vision, my dream and target. To be an elite wrestler in the world … I don’t hope to AA , I plan on winning NCAA championship(s). And I want the best program for me to achieve those goals and level up to reach them. Now pitch me. Why should I choose Rutgers and how can they help me get there. Track record of success, training partners, coaches, facilities ,what … please pitch me why I should come to Rutgers?
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Can't exclusively use that as an excuse anymore (Degeorge).
Improved coaching staff (Ashnault who likely had a big hand in an NCAA finalist out of pretty much nowhere I believe), improved recruiting into better programs/training partners (Knox, Harer, wrestling powerhouse programs like Bishop Mccort, Malvern Prep, Delbarton), an AD who seems hell bent on winning, more NIL coming in, and a great fanbase. There's the pitch. Yes it can be better but it's a hell of a lot improved versus this time last year.