 Coach Dubuque is a human enough here and oh, yeah in Georgia. I love it. Nice and warm I don't even have to warm up. It's already literally don't have to that's right. All right come in here Looking at the combine here at C3. You're number two. What do you hear last year? I wasn't Coach airs was here Representing Princeton, so I figure I give him a rest and come out here and check out some smart kids and Do some technique and things like that So I you know I ask you the question You know not every kid can go to Princeton. Yeah, it's not like they're going to State schools in the Pennsylvania system the Ohio system where they think they're the academic center. Just your naivety league Yeah, looking at getting some smart kids. Absolutely. How hard is it to get a smart kid? It's Roger Bennett can wrestle and it's tougher now. Well, I think I think the climate is changing. I think kids Who are not who are putting more as much emphasis on their academics as they are the wrestling so We're getting a great combination And even the guys are you know that are really smart and that they're you know stud wrestlers Maybe 15 years ago. They weren't they weren't really looking at Ivy League schools They were still looking to maybe go to those big 10 big 12 schools Because you know the wrestling was top notch there now the Ivy League is proving that you can go to an Ivy League school Especially Princeton you can get the best education and become an all-american and contend for a national championship So I think guys who are you know who have those standards those academic standards who are you know kicking butt and wrestling are really Focusing on Princeton and the other Ivy League institutions as a as a really good option Looking at you guys finally breaking through with an all-american at 197 this year Obviously, that's gonna be a huge weight off your shoulders because everything's so March centered in the sport that you know We're in Looking at that. I think the flood feels to me like the floodgates are about to open for you You've got a guy coming off gray shirt who I think is one of the best guys could have won 141 this year Looking at guys like that looking at your 197 I think it's right there for the floodgates to open are the floodgates gonna open for Princeton this year And we're gonna see a bunch of guys in the podium. Yeah. Yeah, I think you know in years past I mean, you know, we're you know, it's not selling kids on a vision, but that's what we were talking about You know, we're talking we're talking about that day three years ago You know, we're talking about Brent Horner being an all-american, but we didn't just we didn't have it yet Now we have it and going back to how I just talked or just what I said before It's you know, we're the number one school in the country you if you have an opportunity to go there You can get the best education, you know and compete to be an all-american and now we're starting to prove it And we're starting to show That our system works and that you can come to Princeton and you can accomplish your goals academically and wrestling wise And I think they are because that's what really held kids up, you know It's because we didn't have that all-american to point to it We didn't have that national champion or anything like that So, you know, now we have somebody who's come up through our system who's been there who's done it And now people are people are not gonna be like, well, you know, you haven't really proved the wrestling wise now You know, Ben Askern was a program changer for Mizzou Could Kaladzik be a program changer for Princeton? Is that something that do you feel comfortable even talking about that? Can this guy be the guy who changes the culture? Absolutely, and here's the thing like our program has taken jumps You know just in the last 10 years that Coach Harris has been there, you know It's it's it's jumps on you know and accomplishing different things and breaking through different barriers, you know We feel like this senior class that's gonna be seniors was really a program changer, you know Brett Horner Him, you know committing to Princeton and saying I'm gonna go there, you know Really on a vision and on what we were telling him was gonna be That in itself was a program changer now, you know, yeah, we broke into the top 30 We got an all-american now we feel like that Kaladzik can definitely Kaladzik and this freshman class Can easily take us to that next level of where we want to be, you know in the top 10 and Consistently producing multiple all-americans having guys contend for national championship So absolutely, I think Matthew Kaladzik and the rest of the younger group of guys Can take this program to where we really need it to be RTC you guys started an RTC if you look at the RTC and get the infrastructure for post-grad athletes Bringing in post-grad athletes to train freestyle. We're gonna have a little bit of that rub off on your team How important is that infrastructure and adding that? I think it's really important, you know I mean like everybody has different things that they want to add, you know that they feel can add A perk to their program some guys do a complex You know, we're really looking at that regional training center We feel like that can be something that can you know Be a viable option for guys post-grads to really train and try to accomplish their goals of being you know world team members world champions Olympic champions Which then does trickle down, you know to the to the Princeton University team So that's something that we're really looking at. I feel like we have a great location to do it You know one of our one of our biggest You know alumni is Michael Novogratz. He's you know, he's mr. USA wrestling. He's beat the streets So I think that we can really blow this thing up And and really be one of the best regional training Olympic regional training centers in the country You know coach errors is in his 30s. I believe you're in your 30s now I have to say coach errors is in his 40s, but really Doesn't look that doesn't look good. Yeah How are you guys as far as do you get out and train with the guys watching anymore or to become more? Watching observing here's what you need to fix has your coaching style change has his coaching style change No, honestly, like I think what's really unique about our coaching staff is that we all have a lot of coaching experience I mean I have 10 years of D1 coaching experience under my belt coach gray I think has the same thing either 10 or 11 years of coaching experience Coach errors has 10 years of head coaching experience. So and we all get on the mat and rust I think that's really kind of what separates us from a lot of programs Where you know if you see you know if you see if you go to programs It's usually the you know, you have an older head coach who's got a ton of experience administrative guy administrative guy He kind of plans out practices Then you have guy who's you know who also has some you know coaching experience But he still gets on the mat and he helps out administratively And then you know your second assistant is really like that young guy straight out of college really like a you know Workout partner grinder things like that. So I think that's kind of you know unique about our coaching staff Is that we get in there and grind, you know, I'm in there working with the RTC guys I'm also working out with our guys from 25 to 49. So I mean, you know, I love wrestling. I mean, it's it's just It's in my blood You know, what I say what I say, I feel like I'm 21 again No, but you know, you got to make some adjustments to your wrestling and and you know how much you do get on the mat But I get on the mat and especially I got this really really good kid who always pulls on me and tries to get me to wrestle, you know, he'll be he'll be in Princeton next year. So Do you think that you know looking at the degrees that kids get? I mean these guys are going to Wall Street, I think Daniel Kaladzik actually is on Wall Street, maybe You know, I mean, that's just like that's one example Everybody moves on to like almost it feels like bigger or better things than wrestling Do you think Princeton guys, you know when they get the degree it's time for them to go out into the world It's hard to sell on them. Hey come train Go through a quad cycle and see if you can get on the Olympic team Is that something hard for you guys to do is that something you're trying to work towards a little bit more as a staff Yeah, that's something you got an Ivy League degree. Yeah. Yeah, and honestly, I think I think it really It comes from the guys that were bringing in so the guys that were bringing in now and not saying that that that these guys Before who have graduated didn't have these goals But you know the guys that we have coming in have I think they have these post graduate goals of Making a world team and making an Olympic team and it's easy to sell those guys and honestly upon graduation That Princeton degree is always going to be there So it's not like you have this rush, you know to jump on you know strike while the iron's hot because you're just Graduating and you got to use this degree, you know that Princeton degree is always going to be there And honestly like our network is unbelievable with our alumni You know always wanting to hire within and wanting to hire their own So I think it's actually going to be easier moving forward Because these young guys have those goals of staying and training for four years and that's what we want You know that's how the best programs do it Ohio State did it Nebraska doesn't you know, they're keeping their best guys You know in-house, you know in their regional training center They're keeping them training for one two cycles and and that's where you know Where we when we get to where we want to be as a program When we're when we're producing those multiple all-americans a year and we're constantly in the top ten as a team We're gonna have those guys sticking around and it's gonna be you know, it's gonna make it's gonna make the whole program Get some live wrestling coming up here. I want to watch some of that. Do you have anything else for me? Yeah, so one more thing and we've been pushing this all spring is battle at the birthplace, you know with awesome Rutgers November 19th, we're gonna be wrestling Rutgers University It's called battle at the birthplace in their football stadium at 11 a.m Right before Rutgers plays Penn State in football. We're trying to get you know, the most fans to a college dual me in history I think I want Oklahoma State did 42,000. We want to do 45,000. I think we can absolutely do it In New Jersey Especially with the surrounding states PA, New York, you know, Maryland I think if we all come together and we we you know If these people if these coaches and these kids say that they want to be a part of history And you want to see something that never you know, well, it's only been done once But I mean that's that's the thing and honestly, we're gonna have a great team Rutgers is gonna have a great team It's gonna be a fantastic event. I'm super excited about it. I can't win I want to get 45,000 people that much. Well, I'm trying to be there. So we watch it. All right, man Thanks for the time safe travel. Appreciate it