John Sacchi
John Sacchi
feather impressed judges solid style voted
It's a feather in his cap. The judges that voted were impressed with his style and his aggressiveness. He had a solid tournament.
seems situation stop trying
We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.
common compare looking meet top
We don't have any common opponents. We don't have a meet to go back and compare wrestlers. I would think it's going to be pretty close. Looking at the lineups, we're going to need to be on top of our game.
address amongst athletes college issues kids percent personal problems seems student year
We're having some personal problems amongst the team. When you have a 25-30-man squad, 10 percent of those kids are going to have problems. It just seems that this year we have a little more than usual. These are issues that college student athletes have and we're going to have to address them.
guys stay
I think some of our young guys wrestled well. But some of them just can't stay off their backs.
avoided dangerous guy jamie known pin smart tough
Jamie wrestled a tough and dangerous opponent. He wrestled smart and avoided a pin from a guy who is known for pinning his opponents.
bunch catch happening outside problems whether youth
We can't catch a break. We have a whole bunch of problems whether it be youth or things that are happening outside of wrestling.
against aggressive dogs showing start
We have to start getting it done. We're going to be going up against some big dogs and we have to start showing our teeth. We have more aggressive than our opponents.
building looking point starting taken
When we recruited him this is what we were looking for and its really starting to show. It's taken him a while to this point and we're going to keep building on that.
defense division football freshmen half imagine offense schedule team trouble wrestling
When half your team is freshmen and your wrestling a Division 1 schedule you're going to be in trouble. Imagine if half the offense and defense in football were freshman, there'd be real trouble there and we're in that same situation.
fragile kids moving small spirits steps taking
We need to keep taking small steps to improve. Our kids are young and fragile and we need to keep their spirits up and keep them moving in the right direction.
contribute guys practice steady
Those guys are just steady performers. They contribute every match, every meet, every practice.
hands rider tough year
Year and year out, Rider has a tough team. We're going to have our hands full.
game great hard matter rest season
It's really hard to tell. He's having a great year, but if he doesn't have his game on that day - no matter what he did the rest of the season - he's not going to be an All-American.