Coach can in fact brand as part of recruiting & if you walk through the Caruso Wrestling Complex you do see the essence of that branding on the walls. Highlighting the AD doesn’t have to nor ever will anoint Wrestling as our most important sport. But wrestling is the only sport at Lehigh that ha...

Back to wrestling. Success from our 2 freshman All Americans must be the building block for recruiting. We must continue to stress Lehigh’s legacy of national championships & All Americans where we rank #6 & # 8 respectfully. We need to differentiate ourselves for those not seeking a wrestli...

So our freshman came in 3rd behind Penn State & Ohio State.

Good sign!!

My question about any other team with 2 frosh AA’s was in reference to this year only. Does anybody know if there is any other school this NCAA that had or more frosh AA’s?

also we can build off 2 Freshman All Americans. How many other schools can claim that accomplishment?

HFO has very well defined the progression of Lehigh & particularly the poor branding decision by Ulrich & Likens in the 90’s. But that was nearly 30 years ago & at the very least for Wrestling recruits we should play of the WSJ top 15 ranking as I recall. We are not trying to recruit Wes...

Maybe if ACC explodes as predicted by those on this forum with a couple wrestling programs leaving the EIWA becomes the remaining school home. Or they reach out to Lehigh/Army/Navy to be their 6th + schools to remain a qualifying league?

Without that EIWA is a joke.

Agree with Oracle that it will take all of us funding AI but we need to couple that with “branding” as the dollars will likely not be able nor want to match the big guys. Justafan has awakened me to the power of Lehigh and Stanford as the only truly private schools competing in the Top 25. To associ...

Impressive indeed but we still must figure out how to get back to the Top 10 despite the tough landscape. Bringing in transfer portal one year #20-30 ranked guys is not the answer. We must sell the uniqueness of our program which you have pointed out & the success of our graduates citing the WSJ...

Interesting perspective Justafan!!

Only truly private school in the top 15. Any others in the Top 20?

To those advocating grad transfers, give me a name in the portal that can have a realistic probability to add AA points next year that move us up the leaderboard?