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Mineo also said Koll was busted by Cornell administrators for holding off campus workouts. Quite the train wreck.

I have no inside info one way or the other; if Koll does head to Stanford you can be sure that he extracts an ironclad guarantee that wrestling won't be dropped for the life of his contract, which presumably would be a long one.

mookie wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:57 pm Mineo also said Koll was busted by Cornell administrators for holding off campus workouts. Quite the train wreck.

Mineo is reporting on his twitter feed that Mike Grey is now Cornell's head coach.

It's actually not that far-fetched.

If mookie's info is accurate (and why wouldn't it be?) that Cornell Admin busted him for holding off campus work-outs -- that is ridiculous. Perhaps coach Koll has had it with the Ivy horsebleep rules. He's done plenty for that school to say the least. He wouldn't need SUNY_Ithaca type admissions at Stanford because they admit elite athletes just like Michigan and every other Power 5 school. If they're elite enough, they get in and they get financed. He's been at Cornell about 28 years (I'm sure someone will correct me) -- it's time. Let Mike Grey take over.

He won't even have to change his red sweaters. He's mid-50s. Even a 5 year deal would be enough for him to win it all, especially with what he's got in the barn today.

It's fascinating any way you look at it.


Maybe we now know why Max Dean left.

Here's an interesting question.

If Rob Koll DOES jump ship and high tails it to the West Coast, will some of the Blue Chippers/established stars (I'm talking 'bout you, Yanni) who got the grades/scores, will follow him over?

Inquiring minds want to speculate.

(Hmm, this intrigue may rival that of the Grey Affair!)
D3

D3 for LU wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:33 pm Here's an interesting question.

If Rob Koll DOES jump ship and high tails it to the West Coast, will some of the Blue Chippers/established stars (I'm talking 'bout you, Yanni) who got the grades/scores, will follow him over?

Inquiring minds want to speculate.

(Hmm, this intrigue may rival that of the Grey Affair!)
D3

I'd bet Yianni stays and Vito too. Mike Grey has the relationship with his light weights and they are from NY. But I'd also bet a few others will bolt.

The transfer portal closes on 6/1 and it's Memorial Day weekend. If any Cornell guys want to jump it's probably going to be difficult.

Yianni still has a sore ass over having Oliver in the same room and eventually losing to him at the Olympic Trials. He wants no part of Koll.

Willie Saylor of The Open Mat is also posting that Rob's headed to Stanford, but his source is Mineo.

I'm old enough to remember the NY Daily News headline reading "It's Reagan and Ford!" late in the 1980 Republican convention. That didn't happen either. Let's wait a bit.

D3 for LU wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:33 pm Here's an interesting question.

If Rob Koll DOES jump ship and high tails it to the West Coast, will some of the Blue Chippers/established stars (I'm talking 'bout you, Yanni) who got the grades/scores, will follow him over?

Inquiring minds want to speculate.

(Hmm, this intrigue may rival that of the Grey Affair!)
D3

How could these guys, who only got into Cornell because of lowered academic credentials of SUNY Ithaca, get accepted into Stanford? Does the latter lower its standards *that* much?

And I'm pretty sure Yanni's college eligibility has long since run out.

A more serious question: do you think that all these Blue Chippers/established stars went to Cornell solely because of Rob Koll, such that his departure would cause them to do the same? All these NY/NJ/OH guys moving from NY to California because of the head coach, whose coaching has likely taken a back seat for a decade to guys like Hahn, Grey, Dean, and Dake?

Trumpeting Cornell wrestling's demise is a bit premature, I think.