UPDATE: Wrestlers unaware of coach's status
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The Iowa State wrestling team is in the dark about the status of coach Cael Sanderson, who is reportedly in talks with Penn State about its head coaching position.
Thursday night, WHO-TV 13 broke the story that Sanderson had interviewed twice for the position. Iowa State senior associate athletic director Steve Malchow told the Daily that the department is in a “holding pattern” awaiting word from Sanderson.
Calls to Sanderson were not immediately returned. Several wrestlers said they haven’t heard any news.
“I pretty much found out on the forums, and a bunch of guys on the team were talking about it,” said junior heavyweight David Zabriskie. “That’s pretty much all I know — as much as everybody on the forums.”
Zabriskie said on Friday morning that he hoped there would be a team meeting. He said he was woken up 1 a.m. Friday morning with “5 missed calls and a few text messages” asking him about his coach.
He said he has been telling everyone else, including his dad, “If I knew anything, I’d tell you.”
Zabriskie said he didn’t think Sanderson interviewing “was such a big deal, but then I haven’t heard anything in like a day.”
“I’m nervous,” he added. “But I haven’t heard anything either way.”
Junior 133-pounder Nick Fanthorpe declined comment but said he heard the news on the radio Friday morning.
Junior 149-pounder Mitch Mueller said it’s “hard for me to say anything about what’s going on” because he doesn’t know anything.
“I mean, it caught me off guard, like everyone else probably,” he said.
Mueller said that he’d “been through this once already,” referencing former head coach Bobby Douglas’ retirement during his true freshman season.
“I don’t want [Sanderson] to leave — at all,” Mueller said. “It’s hard to say what’s going to happen. You never know.”
Mueller said he doesn’t have any idea on why Sanderson would interview for the job.
“That’s one thing that I really want to know, I guess,” Mueller said. “I’m not the only one that wants to know that too.”
Penn State's former head coach Troy Sunderland stepped down from his postion on Apr. 4. Pennsylvania is widely regarded as a high school wrestling hotbed, but the Nittany Lion program has yet to establish a stronghold over the state's prep talent.
Thursday night, WHO-TV 13 broke the story that Sanderson had interviewed twice for the position. Iowa State senior associate athletic director Steve Malchow told the Daily that the department is in a “holding pattern” awaiting word from Sanderson.
Calls to Sanderson were not immediately returned. Several wrestlers said they haven’t heard any news.
“I pretty much found out on the forums, and a bunch of guys on the team were talking about it,” said junior heavyweight David Zabriskie. “That’s pretty much all I know — as much as everybody on the forums.”
Zabriskie said on Friday morning that he hoped there would be a team meeting. He said he was woken up 1 a.m. Friday morning with “5 missed calls and a few text messages” asking him about his coach.
He said he has been telling everyone else, including his dad, “If I knew anything, I’d tell you.”
Zabriskie said he didn’t think Sanderson interviewing “was such a big deal, but then I haven’t heard anything in like a day.”
“I’m nervous,” he added. “But I haven’t heard anything either way.”
Junior 133-pounder Nick Fanthorpe declined comment but said he heard the news on the radio Friday morning.
Junior 149-pounder Mitch Mueller said it’s “hard for me to say anything about what’s going on” because he doesn’t know anything.
“I mean, it caught me off guard, like everyone else probably,” he said.
Mueller said that he’d “been through this once already,” referencing former head coach Bobby Douglas’ retirement during his true freshman season.
“I don’t want [Sanderson] to leave — at all,” Mueller said. “It’s hard to say what’s going to happen. You never know.”
Mueller said he doesn’t have any idea on why Sanderson would interview for the job.
“That’s one thing that I really want to know, I guess,” Mueller said. “I’m not the only one that wants to know that too.”
Penn State's former head coach Troy Sunderland stepped down from his postion on Apr. 4. Pennsylvania is widely regarded as a high school wrestling hotbed, but the Nittany Lion program has yet to establish a stronghold over the state's prep talent.
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Polard has got to go. According to kcci Sanderson is leaving.
Polard has run off the only two coaches that really gave ISU any hope of getting a national championship-K.J. Kindler and now Sanderson. kindler left because she couldn't even get a drinking fountain (reportedly) in their practice facility and left ISU- a top 5 or top 10 team then to a maybe 20, 25 ranked team now- and brought Oklahoma to national prominence. Now Sanderson leaving is another blow.
and his handling of the Chizik deal, "oh, i feel so hurt because he lied to me. I wanna cry...' Oh shut up Jamie!
Rhodes may be the Next Best Thing, but then again, so was McDermott, and even though he may be better than Wayne Morgan, he obviously is not working out either. No amount of "commerative gold coins' will make this university into a winner and when you run off all the best coaches be they from revenue sports or non-revenue sports, you are left with nothing.