CR Gazette Article on Coaching Search

[BillyClone]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...nclude-some-familiar-wrestling-names-20170201

Lots of the same names as in other discussion threads - two thoughts from me.

One, I hadn't seen much mention of Drew Pariano, former HC of Northwestern.

Seemed to be a proven recruiter and developer of wrestlers. Had 4 national champions and 24 AAs. Plus, being out of the coaching world for a couple of years, I would think his salary demands wouldn't put him out of our reach. However, there is the mystery regarding his dismissal right before the 2015-16 season.I can't seem to find a consensus of why he was fired, although there sure seems to be a lot of "sources" that conflict each other. I could understand if this was a cause for concern.

Two, after looking deeper into his background, why isn't Chris Bono a heavy favorite?

He's an Iowa State guy - national champ. Has been head coach at SDSU for last five seasons and shown ability to build a successful program (rated in top 20 this season). Jon Reader (another former Iowa State national champ) is one of his assistants. It seems like he has everything we would want, but I don't get the feeling that many people actually want him to be the next HC at Iowa State.

Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but I'm not feeling a lot of excitement from the fans about his possibility as our coach. Did he burn bridges or is he just not a flashy enough name?

(Edited - he's not from Iowa, he's from Florida - I knew that, just forgot!)

 

[Brandon]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...nclude-some-familiar-wrestling-names-20170201

Lots of the same names as in other discussion threads - two thoughts from me.

One, I hadn't seen much mention of Drew Pariano, former HC of Northwestern.

Seemed to be a proven recruiter and developer of wrestlers. Had 4 national champions and 24 AAs. Plus, being out of the coaching world for a couple of years, I would think his salary demands wouldn't put him out of our reach. However, there is the mystery regarding his dismissal right before the 2015-16 season.I can't seem to find a consensus of why he was fired, although there sure seems to be a lot of "sources" that conflict each other. I could understand if this was a cause for concern.

Two, after looking deeper into his background, why isn't Chris Bono a heavy favorite?

He's an Iowa State guy - national champ. Local Iowan - Gilbert native. Has been head coach at SDSU for last five seasons and shown ability to build a successful program (rated in top 20 this season). Jon Reader (another former Iowa State national champ) is one of his assistants. It seems like he has everything we would want, but I don't get the feeling that many people actually want him to be the next HC at Iowa State.

Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but I'm not feeling a lot of excitement from the fans about his possibility as our coach. Did he burn bridges or is he just not a flashy enough name?

He's my number one, considering we can't get everyone's number 1 (Cael)

 

[CyGold]

Actually he grew up in Florida but I agree with everything else in your post. I think many would get excited as he has a lot of positives which I mentioned in another post

 

[Judoka]

Crap, it was only when I read this article did I realize that Mark Cody is about as Jamie Pollard a hire as humanly possible. I hope he doesn't go that route.

 

[Land Shark]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...nclude-some-familiar-wrestling-names-20170201

Lots of the same names as in other discussion threads - two thoughts from me.

One, I hadn't seen much mention of Drew Pariano, former HC of Northwestern.

Seemed to be a proven recruiter and developer of wrestlers. Had 4 national champions and 24 AAs. Plus, being out of the coaching world for a couple of years, I would think his salary demands wouldn't put him out of our reach. However, there is the mystery regarding his dismissal right before the 2015-16 season.I can't seem to find a consensus of why he was fired, although there sure seems to be a lot of "sources" that conflict each other. I could understand if this was a cause for concern.

Two, after looking deeper into his background, why isn't Chris Bono a heavy favorite?

He's an Iowa State guy - national champ. Local Iowan - Gilbert native. Has been head coach at SDSU for last five seasons and shown ability to build a successful program (rated in top 20 this season). Jon Reader (another former Iowa State national champ) is one of his assistants. It seems like he has everything we would want, but I don't get the feeling that many people actually want him to be the next HC at Iowa State.

Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but I'm not feeling a lot of excitement from the fans about his possibility as our coach. Did he burn bridges or is he just not a flashy enough name?

My feelings about Chris are well known. I don't like him. The reason is I think he is about Chris first and his athletes second. I don' t consider him a leader of young men but clearly he has improved as a coach at SDSU. His time at ETST was an unmitigated disaster. If we are going with an ISU alum, I prefer to go without experience with Reader or Varner over Chris.

I think it is time to go outside the ISU tree to fix this problem. Fresh ideas, clean slate and no pre existing relationships with the university good or bad. Now, if that HC wants to keep an ISU alum on staff or hire one, that is fine by me.

In the end, I will support the new coach, even if it is a D-Bag like Chris.

 

[CyGold]

My feelings about Chris are well known. I don't like him. The reason is I think he is about Chris first and his athletes second. I don' t consider him a leader of young men but clearly he has improved as a coach at SDSU. His time at ETST was an unmitigated disaster. If we are going with an ISU alum, I prefer to go without experience with Reader or Varner over Chris.

I think it is time to go outside the ISU tree to fix this problem. Fresh ideas, clean slate and no pre existing relationships with the university good or bad. Now, if that HC wants to keep an ISU alum on staff or hire one, that is fine by me.

In the end, I will support the new coach, even if it is a D-Bag like Chris.

What is ETST?

 

[Scott34]

If we can't get Pops, Dresser, Cody or Casey, my favorite right now is Morningstar. I agree with Land Shark, I'm over trying to get someone with ties to ISU.

 

[kentkel]

What is ETST?

He was at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga (but I think the ETST is Eastern Tennessee State U).

 

[heyguy85]

Mike Zadick is an interesting name. At least his interviews would be awesome!

 

[HGoat]

No way Pariano will not get serious consideration. He was ousted at Northwestern for good reason. He might get another job somewhere at some point, but it won't be from Pollard. They'd be like oil and water, won't happen.

Bono isn't a Gilbert native, he's from Florida.

If we can't get one of the homerun hires then I think the Paulson's should be promoted. They would run things quite differently than KJ, I think.

 

[NEICyFan]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...nclude-some-familiar-wrestling-names-20170201

Lots of the same names as in other discussion threads - two thoughts from me.

One, I hadn't seen much mention of Drew Pariano, former HC of Northwestern.

Seemed to be a proven recruiter and developer of wrestlers. Had 4 national champions and 24 AAs. Plus, being out of the coaching world for a couple of years, I would think his salary demands wouldn't put him out of our reach. However, there is the mystery regarding his dismissal right before the 2015-16 season.I can't seem to find a consensus of why he was fired, although there sure seems to be a lot of "sources" that conflict each other. I could understand if this was a cause for concern.

Two, after looking deeper into his background, why isn't Chris Bono a heavy favorite?

He's an Iowa State guy - national champ. Local Iowan - Gilbert native. Has been head coach at SDSU for last five seasons and shown ability to build a successful program (rated in top 20 this season). Jon Reader (another former Iowa State national champ) is one of his assistants. It seems like he has everything we would want, but I don't get the feeling that many people actually want him to be the next HC at Iowa State.

Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but I'm not feeling a lot of excitement from the fans about his possibility as our coach. Did he burn bridges or is he just not a flashy enough name?

I don't know anything about Pariano's personality but he had a problem with the sauce. He's a fantastic wrestling coach.

 

[IceCyIce]

He will call Cael first and throw the checkbook at him. Cael's ready for a new challenge!

 

[CYwrestle]

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestlin...eth-Gross-thrives-under-Jackrabbit-leadership

Sounds like he puts his athletes first and pushes them more than anything. May be the reason his guys go out there and compete hard. Say what you want about him but he doesn't seem to be afraid to work and it shows by the progress SDSU has made in short time he has been there.

Not saying he is the guy for the job but you can't overlook what he has done at SDSU and have him on your short list of candidates. And the thought of having Jon Reader back in Ames, well that would be huge bonus - IMO Reader is intense and brings a ton of excitement, a true cyclone great who kids seem to really like.

 

[BillyClone]

National qualifiers from SDSU since Bono has been there:

2012-13 = 1
2013-14 = 3
2014-15 = 3 (1 made Round of 12)
2015-16 = 5 (2 made Round of 12)

This year the team has an InterMat ranking of 17 and has 5 wrestlers ranked (1 is ranked #2).

To me, this is impressive growth for a mid-major program. He's bringing in good recruits, developing them, and now beginning to see results.

 

[crablegs]

Calling SDSU a mid major is something on its own. They were D2 10 years ago. Probably were the worst team in the old WWC. South Dakota is one of the smallest states in the country. Less than a third of the population of Iowa. The level of success going on there is amazing.

 

[BCClone]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...nclude-some-familiar-wrestling-names-20170201

Lots of the same names as in other discussion threads - two thoughts from me.

One, I hadn't seen much mention of Drew Pariano, former HC of Northwestern.

Seemed to be a proven recruiter and developer of wrestlers. Had 4 national champions and 24 AAs. Plus, being out of the coaching world for a couple of years, I would think his salary demands wouldn't put him out of our reach. However, there is the mystery regarding his dismissal right before the 2015-16 season.I can't seem to find a consensus of why he was fired, although there sure seems to be a lot of "sources" that conflict each other. I could understand if this was a cause for concern.

Two, after looking deeper into his background, why isn't Chris Bono a heavy favorite?

He's an Iowa State guy - national champ. Has been head coach at SDSU for last five seasons and shown ability to build a successful program (rated in top 20 this season). Jon Reader (another former Iowa State national champ) is one of his assistants. It seems like he has everything we would want, but I don't get the feeling that many people actually want him to be the next HC at Iowa State.

Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but I'm not feeling a lot of excitement from the fans about his possibility as our coach. Did he burn bridges or is he just not a flashy enough name?

(Edited - he's not from Iowa, he's from Florida - I knew that, just forgot!)

Bono is not number one because of blasting ISU after not getting the job last time. JP and the donors weren't happy. That is probably the big thing. There were other several dumb things that he did last time around (not saying he hasn't learned, just things that could put a bad taste in others mouth). Examples are, telling any recruit they aren't good enough (never know when an asken is told that) or when your team is going for a midland title and he is wrestling unattached to still take an Olympic shot, he beats his own wrestler instead of MFFing out that match, (was thinking it was cyler).

 

[Judoka]

I'm really warming up to the idea of maybe getting Brian Smith if and only if Pollard can convince him he cares about wrestling and will give him support. Right now he's stuck in the MAC and it's plausible to think he'd want back in the Big XII.

That said, I think that is very unlikely because I don't think Pollard is willing to make that type of commitment.

 

[cyfan21]

ISU better be will to open the checkbook for a top prospect coach, or otherwise not even worth trying to keep the team if you're just settling for mediocrity. Just my opinion though.

 

[Scott34]

I'm really warming up to the idea of maybe getting Brian Smith if and only if Pollard can convince him he cares about wrestling and will give him support. Right now he's stuck in the MAC and it's plausible to think he'd want back in the Big XII.

That said, I think that is very unlikely because I don't think Pollard is willing to make that type of commitment.

So I've been thinking of this since Jackson made announcement this week, is there the possibility that KJ is being brought on to the administrative side to have him there so that Pollard doesn't have to be as much? Now obviously, we don't know exactly since it wasn't announced what KJ's role would be, but I really wonder if KJ will be somewhat the "AD" of the wrestling department. This would allow Pollard to have someone that knows the sport well enough and help make decisions that he probably doesn't know enough about.

 

[ca4cy]

ISU better be will to open the checkbook for a top prospect coach, or otherwise not even worth trying to keep the team if you're just settling for mediocrity. Just my opinion though.

It's mostly about the money, but I also want to know that there was an effort to really reach out and see who is interested in this job and what their plan is to resurrect the program. If Pollard does that and Bono or Travis end up being the best candidate then so be it, but if one of them is quickly scuttled in to fill the position without looking elsewhere we'll have confirmation of all that's been said about Pollard's apathy toward wrestling.