John Sacchi Quotations

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.

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.

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.

Rider's got some real solid kids where we're real young. They can exploit our youth with their experience and maturity.

I feel that our kids understand that we're a better team than what we showed against Army. We need to pick it up a notch.

He doesn't wait around like some of younger wrestlers or even some of the experienced guys. Steve gets the lead and keeps building on it.

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

He wasn't at 100 percent last week. Sometimes when you're not feeling good, you still have to go out and compete, so we let him go out there.

He wandered through last season. We talked at the end of the season, and he said he was going to be stronger. He came back this fall as a different person - dedicated and focused.

I think some of our young guys wrestled well. But some of them just can't stay off their backs.

Jamie wrestled a tough and dangerous opponent. He wrestled smart and avoided a pin from a guy who is known for pinning his opponents.

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.

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.

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.

Year and year out, Rider has a tough team. We're going to have our hands full.

Those guys are just steady performers. They contribute every match, every meet, every practice.

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.

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.

Well, he didn't have a good tournament. We think he has potential for All-American and he needed to be exposed to the best competition.

We have to continue to improve individually. If that results in a team win, then that's great, but if not we have to just continue to work on the individual level.

Being young is getting pretty tough for us. If we were any younger, we'd be feeding formula to these kids.

At that point in the season, we were equal. At this point in the season our lineup has changed a bit. We have more younger guys in the lineup.

These little mistakes we're making are starting to drive the coaching staff crazy. With a young team, we just need to focus on not making those mistakes in the future.

Ryan is starting to realize what it takes to win matches at this level. He keeps on improving every time he steps on the mat.

Right now we're dealing with some internal issues. We need to resolve them and try to keep working and keep trying to get a commitment from the kids that we have.

Right now we're a meet above the .500 mark. The difference between a 7-6 and 10-3 record is one kid. Every meet we've won or lost has come down to at least one pivotal match. With our injuries and other problems, we're just not winning close matches.

They've been using different kids. We don't know much about Brown, but we have to wrestle with just as much intensity as we would in a meet where we knew our opponent.

They have a lot of tough guys. They're going to be a problem right up and down the line. There aren't any spots that we can just go out there and exploit.

They're consistent performers. Hopefully our younger guys can learn from them.

It's a feather in his cap. The judges that voted were impressed with his style and his aggressiveness. He had a solid tournament.

It's the same story, different day. We gave up pins and we lost. If we don't give up the pins, then we win the dual-meet.

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.

D'Amico wrestled a smart match. He was facing one of the best heavyweights in the nation and he gave him all he could handle.

It's not a one-shot deal. Just because one of our younger guys wins a match, it doesn't mean we improved - but we also didn't regress.

It was a back and forth match-up. D'Amico came through for us. I wouldn't say that we reached a turning point after that win, but we raised our intensity level.

I want our young guys to keep wrestling aggressively. They just have to start minimizing their mistakes and using their heads along with instinct to make the right decisions and win the match.

Once again this is a team we don't know too much about. We're just going to go out there and wrestle aggressively.

As a coaching staff, we're going to be doing more individual work this semester. The dual meets are fine and we want to win them, but I'm more concerned about getting our kids into the tournaments. Dual meets are preparation and entertainment and like our match against Brown, we'll use them for gaining experience.

I had to make a decision about a match or a kid's future in wrestling. If he wrestled, we could have lost him for the season and I know neither Mike nor I wanted that.

He started off shaky. He realized that he was capable of doing much better. Now I see that he's inspired every time he steps unto the mat.