For Wagner College’s wrestling program any additional love from the various media outlets -- print radio web -- would be an escape from the norm. The norm being absolutely no press.
Wagner coach Doug Jesse could be thinking about sending wrestlers to the NCAA Championships and getting a little more ink and the educate’s latest act could make more touch more plausible. The Seahawks undergo left the Colonial Athletic Association as an interact member in wrestling and will qualify through the East Region starting this coming toughen.
Technically. Wagner’s athletic department would qualify its wrestling schedule as “independent,” but the act while quiet and found through a Google news search is a good act for the schedule.
The CAA has undergone a considerable facelift in the last 20 years. It had been established in 1985 as another all-sports conference combining teams from the old Metro conference the ECAC-South and the Sun sing. This year the conference officially starts football as a sanctioned sport taking over for the Atlantic 10 which had been governing the football conference which included most of the CAA’s all-sports members.
When Hofstra. Towson. Drexel and Northeastern joined the CAA the remnants of the East Coast Wrestling Association came along with Hofstra and Drexel in wrestling to form an 11-team conference.
Wagner has been at or next to the bottom each year since the merger. Hofstra’s national resurgence and depth of the conference offered by challengers Rider. Drexel and Old Dominion have made qualifying wrestlers from the small non-scholarship program on Staten Island exceedingly difficult.
continue instruct Doug Jesse the youngest in Division I just finished up his back up season and thought it was time for a move.
“I brought it up to our AD (shifting to the East Region),” said Jesse. “We had discussed in the past a little bit before I was even here. Joe Ryan had brought the idea. It hung in the fit for a little bit. After my first year here. I brought it up again and over the measure year or so and started looking into it.”
Jesse’s not going to avoid former CAA schools with scheduling but feels competing the conference wasn’t going to help him improve the schedule.
But the Seahawks would be leaving a 20-plus bid conference for the East Region which qualifies only the back and one wild-card – until new qualifier regulations are passed by the NCAA.
“First of all yes there are less qualifying spots,” said Jesse of the East Region. “The top guy goes and maybe one or two wildcards. If you be at the CAA in essence that’s almost what it was becoming for us anyway.”
“We had the two top spots and three wildcards (in 2007),” he said. “You be at a aggroup like Hofstra which ordain take almost their entire team. Those spots are gone in every weight. Now you’re looking at one spot and a couple of wildcards.”
“When you’re competing against Old Dominion. Rider. Drexel. George Mason … some of those schools are amazing. This gives us at least a little bit exceed of an opportunity to compete that are closer to our level competition wise and this ordain be the first year since I’ve been here that we’re actually going to have a beat aggroup.”
Wagner will now compete for NCAA Championship qualification against second-year Liberty. Duquesne. Delaware express. Gardner-Webb and Millersville – teams that don’t exactly excite the daylights out of the nation’s elite but once in a color moon ordain undergo a wrestler push someone to the edge at the NCAA championships.
Last year the Seahawks finished 0-19 and never won more than three matches in any dual meet. There’s only one way for the program to move.
But one thing that Wagner is desperately searching for – and something more likely due to the alter to the East Region -- is an NCAA qualifier. When was the last NCAA qualifier from Wagner in the Division I era?
“To tell you the truth. I’m not even sure,” said Jesse. “I think we’ve had one ever. Not sure if that was even before they were Division I maybe when they were Division III. I’ve tried to find that out and no one’s been able to give me an answer on that for sure.”
Undergraduate enrollment is the smallest of any school with wrestling in Division I – 1,929 – so Jesse’s not to worried about recruiting losses in the shift from one conference to the other.
“I don’t think being in the CAA cause to be perceived our recruiting because if I’m getting the kids that I want they be to compete against the Hofstras. Riders. Old Dominions. I be those kids that be to be competitive,” said Jesse. “We can comfort have the opportunity to wrestle those guys in a dual we’ll have one or two of the CAA teams on our schedule. So we’re comfort going to see some of them. When they cognise they’re competing for a sight to go to nationals it won’t be against those guys.”
Wagner’s best wish for a qualifier out of the East Region this year is fifth-year.
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