Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky is American college wrestling coach and is currently the head wrestling coach for the Oregon State Beavers and a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Prior to joining the Beavers, he was the coach of the University of Iowa wrestling team from 1998–2006. At Iowa, he succeeded Dan Gable as head coach, under whom he was a three-time NCAA champion. He guided the Hawkeyes to NCAA team championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000...
everybody sure
I'm not sure when he's going to be in the lineup. We've got to have everybody for the Big Tens, that's where we've really got to be ready.
environment gone good time
Every time we've gone up there, it's always been a good environment.
cost effort kinds pick rode
The intensity's got to pick up a little more and you've got to have all-out effort in every position. Right now, we're getting reversed here and there, we're getting rode here and there, and those kinds of things cost you big matches. You can't let those things happen.
against close learn lost michigan turned wrestle
We just lost some close matches. We need to get those things turned around for us. Against Michigan State, we didn't come out and wrestle aggressively. We have got to learn to turn things around. Things don't always go your way.
couple few fixing goal guys others prepared week wrestle wrestling
We've got a couple guys right now at 149 and 141 who are wrestling really well. But we've had a couple guys banged up and a few others who regressed a little during the season. We've been fixing things this week and getting everyone prepared for the Big Tens. This has been our goal all season, and we feel that if we wrestle like we should that we could win.
depending
Depending on what he does, we'll go from there.
anybody backup prepared situation step
Anybody who's in a backup situation has always got to be prepared to step in.
gives gotten wins year
One thing I see he has more this year more than anything is confidence. He's gotten some big wins and that gives you confidence.
close either four matches minnesota paper won
There were at least four matches on paper (141, 149, 157 and 184) that could go either way. Minnesota won all of them. They won the close matches and that was the key.
push
It's one of those things where we don't want to push it right now. He really can't do a lot without getting hurt.
cost dual
That's probably what cost us the dual more than anything.
expect great hard lose team work
We're not going to lose because we're not in shape; we're not going to lose because we didn't work hard enough. Those are things we can control, and I'm going to expect my team to be in great shape.
bring guys next room step year
We've got guys in the room we feel can step up next year and bring us back up.
hit hitting keeps
We'll see where he is at this weekend. It's one of those things where he hit it and keeps hitting it, so you've got to give it some rest.