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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on September 17, 2014

is coach Frank Romano building a dynasty at Notre Dame College in S. Euclid Ohio? excerpts from interview in AWN the October issue:

Notre Dame won NAIA national championships in 2010 and 2011 in both duals and the tournament. Notre Dame wanted to upgrade to Division II. In 2012 Notre Dame sat out during their transition year as mandated by the NCAA, but nevertheless competed in the NWCA and won it. Notre Dame transitioned to NCAA Division II in 2013 and took second in national duals and third in national tournament.

This year Notre Dame won it all, both duals and tournament. Romano has crowned 16 national champions at Notre Dame. With his tremendous success, this writer thought an interview with coach Romano was in order.

Frank, at Notre Dame you have over 60 wrestlers in your room, that gives guys out of high school opportunity they cant get in Division I. Tell us how that happens?

Romano,“We don’t have a roster cap of 35 or 32 guys like Division 1. We love giving a student athlete an opportunity to compete at the next level. We still have to abide by the allotted Division II rules of 8.9 scholarships. So not everyone is on athletic money. Notre Dame offers many other grants and opportunities to make it an affordable situation. Everyone on the team has the opportunity to compete and earn their spot in the starting lineup. We don’t play favorites, meaning the best guy starts and the backups have to ready to step in at anytime."



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on September 17, 2014

I'd say it was built several years ago. Only question is how long they remain a powerhouse.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on September 17, 2014

i think ND stays at the top for a while, Romano no hurry to retire now that he's found his nitch.

isn't it great for wrestling though, over 60 kids in his room, that caught my eye.

kudos to AD Sue Hlavacek, to her vision and guts.

i quote "As described by writer Jim Kalin in his soon to be published book “Mustang”, Notre Dame an all-girls school from 1922 to 2001 hired Frank Romano to start a wrestling program in 2007. The small liberal arts school of 1400 students on Cleveland’s east side didn’t even accept males until 2001. But once the men arrived, athletic director Sue Hlavacek recognized an opportunity to do something unprecedented, she began a wrestling program. Her efforts have been rewarded."



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on September 18, 2014

Someone wrote an article for this website about 6-7 years ago called "An Intelligent Design". It was about the way NDC was going about building their program and included quotes from Sue Hlavacek and Frank Romano. Oh yeah...it was me.

Tried to find it through a search but couldn't.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Mark Niemann added to this discussion on September 18, 2014

Quote from Hank Kornblut's post:

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Tried to find it through a search but couldn't."



Booooo! I would like to have read (red) it.

Was it on the #DotNet???



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on September 18, 2014

Quote from Mark Niemann's post:

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Quote from Hank Kornblut's post:

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Tried to find it through a search but couldn't."



Booooo! I would like to have read (red) it.

Was it on the #DotNet???"



Yes. I wrote it the year NDC was getting ready to put their first squad on the mat. It appeared on the front page of this website. Would have been around 2007. I may have a copy on my home computer.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on September 19, 2014

speaking of Jim Kalin who i quoted- he is originally from here, wr for Strongsville, his dad head coach at Normandy-- Kalin emails me:

"Saw Foxcatcher last night. Am interviewing director Bennett Miller for AWN, and he didn't want to do it until I had seen his film. Went over to Sony Studios and caught a private viewing. Very dark indeed. Not an uplifting film."

it seems many were happy to have a film about wrestling, but knowing how Hollywood does things i said months ago i thought it would be dark, Kalin says it is.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Brady Hiatt added to this discussion on September 19, 2014

Quote from Bob Preusse's post:

"speaking of Jim Kalin who i quoted- he is originally from here, wr for Strongsville, his dad head coach at Normandy-- Kalin emails me:

"Saw Foxcatcher last night. Am interviewing director Bennett Miller for AWN, and he didn't want to do it until I had seen his film. Went over to Sony Studios and caught a private viewing. Very dark indeed. Not an uplifting film."

it seems many were happy to have a film about wrestling, but knowing how Hollywood does things i said months ago i thought it would be dark, Kalin says it is."



It was a very dark time in our wrestling history.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on September 19, 2014

very true Brady, twas a dark period-- btw from the previous Foxcatcher thread on here, i quote some posts back in May:

Discussion Topic: Foxcatcher Movie: Wrestlers With Roles
Brady Hiatt added to this discussion on May 19, 2014

Bob, you think Du Pont will be portrayed in a positive light?
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Discussion Topic: Foxcatcher Movie: Wrestlers With Roles
Pat Altvater added to this discussion on May 19, 2014

DuPont had a neurotic phycosus of priveleged wealth that resulted in him killing an olympic champion. - I don't think it would be possible to show him in a positive light!
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Discussion Topic: Foxcatcher Movie: Wrestlers With Roles
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on May 19, 2014

Brady, pardon my verbage if i was unclear-- DuPont of course not positive, ha, ha-- what i meant was others like Mark Schultz, perhaps wont be portrayed in a good light. And i get the feeling wrestling wont be portrayed positively either.

but it perhaps is a great movie, it portrays a dark time, and darkness that exists in certain people. ..s/BobP
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Discussion Topic: Foxcatcher Movie: Wrestlers With Roles
Michael Rodriguez added to this discussion on May 19, 2014

It can be a great movie and an accurate movie and show some negative aspects of wrestling without soiling the entire sport. I know no one killed anybody in Moneyball, but some players and front office types were framed in a negative light. It didn't hurt the individuals or the teams or baseball as a whole.

It sounds like Mark Schultz was involved in the process and it looks like he is the one who might be taking the hit from character perspective (at the time). Now maybe he'll feel differently about his input once he sees the finished product, but I don't think the story, while sorted and awful, is particularly negitive for wrestling.

Bottom line, Bennett Miller is an excellent film maker whose previous work has earned high praise from critics and the general public. It is shaping up to be the most high quality movie ever made with wrestling as the backdrop.



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Discussion Topic: Is Notre Dame College building a dynasty??
Bob Preusse added to this discussion on September 24, 2014

Romano interview came out well, i think it will be nice to coincide with his induction in October to Ohio chapter of national H of F.

re Foxcatcher, excerpt interview with the director:

AWN – YOU SUPPOSEDLY RESEARCHED THIS PROJECT FOR YEARS.
Bennett Miller - From the time I first encountered
the story to the time we began shooting was
probably six years. I never stopped learning. I
made Moneyball somewhere in there, but I never
stopped learning. I was intrigued by this story, by
the relationship of two incongruent characters who
seemingly did not belong together. I was really
drawn in by that. These guys were from different
worlds, trying to fit together. And I had the feeling
that wrestling was this odd, peculiar sport. It was
far in my periphery. I was never really that intrigued or that interested. It just seemed like a weird sport.

I had a friend in high school who wrestled, and I
never went to a match. But just what he would do
to prepare for a match, like cutting weight. And
wearing the singlet … I kind of just wanted to
look the other way (laughs). Then I started going
to wrestling centers and venues and tournaments.
I went to Colorado Springs (Olympic Training
Center) and watched them train. I was there for
the Dave Schultz Memorial Tournament. I went
to the NCAA Championships in Missouri. The
Olympic Trials in Iowa. I became a spectator on
many levels, and of course once Mark Ruffalo
and Channing Tatum began to train – I watched
them go through that. But hearing people like
Brian Dolph, Jesse Jantzen, Mark Schultz, Bruce
Baumgartner, and Stan Dziedzic, all had moments
of teaching, coaching, and advising to the guys on
the mat, and watching the complexity, watching
these guys trying to assimilate this information
and seeing the camaraderie and the brotherhood
of wrestlers in general. My perception slowly
shifted from ‘this is a weirdo sport’ to something
that I now have immense respect for. I got it!

I got the appeal of it, and how attractive a prospect
it is that you can concentrate and devote yourself
so entirely to something that is physical, that
mandates you give everything you possibly can
give to push yourself to the edge of your pain
threshold. All of that is very appealing. I get that.
And the notion that comfort murders the soul, and
the rest of the world by comparison seems to be
indulgent and slumbering.



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