I suspect the renewed wrestling focus is because his football career may not be progressing as he hoped. I'm not sure he's giving up anything on that front.
The only way I see this impacting wrestling is if programs use money to buy football players, but then for equity purposes need to "find" money to pay equal amounts to female athletes and that money may come from wrestling programs.
If Scott wasn't promised the job, then he's either not smart or took a calculated risk.
This also shows us where the ACC is in the wrestling pecking order, if one of their long-term coaches is willing to give up his HC job just for the chance to be considered by OSU.
Johnson has pretty much acknowledged that he's going to WI to play football and probably will end up passing on wrestling. So I don't think NU wrestling has lost much on that front.
This guy, blueandgold, asks a question, then answers his own question in his initial post - incorrectly (Crookham's the best frosh?), and then after 20+ replies nobody calls him out on this?
Cornell has a couple loopholes they use. Princeton also allows for materially lower academic standards for wrestlers. A better comparison would be Columbia or Brown.
I see high school refs call stalemate when the top guy has legs in for an extended period. Is that the right call? I think of it as a form of riding, like a spiral ride or controlling the wrist - which would never be called a stalemate.
I've heard thru the grapevine that he's another one going the football route.
Incidentally, has there ever been a Hopke-Kueter match in folk or free? That would be fun to see.