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...
anybody backup prepared situation step
Anybody who's in a backup situation has always got to be prepared to step in.
environment gone good time
Every time we've gone up there, it's always been a good environment.
expect fine michael prepared
Michael has prepared as the starter, so we're fine in that regard. We expect the same from him that we do from everyone.
fought needed though
We needed that kind of competition. Even though we got beat, I thought we fought hard.
crowd good guys roll tough win
We have to win the tough ones to win the dual. Our guys did a good job. You have to get on a roll to get the crowd out of it and get some momentum.
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.
guys hard
When you have guys that don't wrestle, it's hard to make it exciting. Overall, I thought we wrestled well.
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.
bottom guys knock ourselves stay top win wrestle
We didn't take ourselves out of it. We've got to keep the individuals on top winning, and the guys on the bottom have got to come back and win and stay in the tournament. We've got to knock some guys off. If we wrestle to our seed, we're not going to do much.
beat chance good lost matches tough
We had a chance to beat (Minnesota) and the matches like at 141, 149, 157 were all pretty tough matches and we lost them all. We just weren't good enough that day to beat them.
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.
wrestling winning differences
Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it's the tough matches that are going to make the difference.
reality matter ifs
It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.
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.