Jason Goodwin Podcasts

The MatStats boys research the conference qualifiers. They inform the viewers how you qualify for the Men’s & Women’s NCAA & NAIA national championships. The gang also does a statistical dive into the inordinate number of defaults in the placement bouts in the NCAA Men’s (D1, D2, & D3) conference qualifiers. They explain why this happens and how ot…

Looking back at the first part of the season as Episode 103 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast rolls on with head coach Pat Popolizio and host Hayden Hidlay. Show Segments1:00 - Coach Popolizio is always happy to see Hayden. 1:50 - First semester recap from Coach Popolizio. 3:30 - Collegiate Duals: NC State wins the Red Pool. 11:15 - Time off, m…

Why is the NWCA Multi-Divisional National Dual Meet Championships so important? Because that's where the teams are. The MatStats Posse explains why this dual meet tournament is so important. This is even though the fan favorite NCAA Men's D1 teams are not involved. MatStats contends the Multi-Divisional Nationals are a result of the explosive growt…

Wrestling coach, professor and English teacher Keith Manos joins Short Time to talk about some of the things he’s learned about coaching over the years and how he crafted them into books to help teachers and coaches alike. A member of the Ohio Wrestling Hall of Fame, Manos’ Wrestling Coach’s Survival Guide has been around for almost 30 years and wa…

Wolfpack wrestling is coming off a trip to Las Vegas and the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational and now another challenge awaits as the Pack will head to New Orleans, Louisiana on December 19-20 for the Journeymen Collegiate Duals, which features nine Top 25 teams in the 12-team field. Join host Hayden Hidlay and coach Pat Popolizio to talk all thin…

UWW WORLD CUP INFORMATION: http://worldcupcoralville.com/ Welcome to In The Room, a wrestling podcast from the Des Moines Register's Cody Goodwin. On today's episode, Cody talks with MatTalkOnline’s and UWW PA announcer Jason Bryant to discuss this weekend’s Men’s and Women’s Freestyle World Cups at Coralville in Xtream Arena.STORIES• Meet the U.S.…

The always entertaining Frank Lipoli of the Virginia Challenge joins the show to talk about the upcoming Virginia Challenge Holiday Duals at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Frank’s background in wrestling goes back over 60 years and he’s a 2001 inductee into the Virginia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame a…

Seven-time World and Olympic Champion Jordan BurroughsSeven-time World and Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs is on the program today. You really don’t need to know much more than that. Well, he’s talking about the upcoming World Cup coming to Coralville, Iowa on December 10-11 with men’s and women’s freestyle combined at one event for the first tim…

We move into December with Episode 101 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast. Host Hayden Hidlay will talk with NC State head wrestling coach Pat Popolizio on the happenings in and around the program before getting with the show’s featured interview, 197-pounder Isaac Trumble.Show Segments0:45- Welcome. Pat’s always happy to see his co-host. 1:30 -…

Dylan Wanagiel of the Prudential Center is bringing the second iteration of the Garden State Grapple to Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center on Sunday, December 4. With four Big Ten teams taking on four EIWA teams, it'll be eight exciting duals. Wanagiel talks about the event's origins starting as the Grapple at the Garden in New York City and ho…

Olympic silver medalist and PINnacle Wrestling School’s Brandon PaulsonAnoka, Minnesota native Brandon Paulson is a wrestling-lifer. One of the brains behind one of the most successful youth and high school wrestling clubs in the country (PINnacle Wrestling School) along with Jared Lawrence, Paulson hasn’t spent much time away from wrestling mats d…

It’s spanned five years, two hosts, dozens of guests, but just one head coach. We’ve finally made it to the milestone 100th episode of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast. Host Hayden Hidlay speaks with head coach Pat Popolizio to celebrate the mark and talk about the start of the season before getting to the show’s featured guest, heavyweight Owen …

The Always Aggressive crew is back with another episode as the team prepares for a big weekend hosting the Boilermaker Duals. Head coach Tony Ersland recappped the dual with Rider and what lessons the team can learn in the face of adversity. Among the good news is that Esland's squad won't have to wait long for a chance to bounce back as they take …

The MatStats boys talk about the NWCA All-Star Match coming back on 11/22/22. They discuss the history of this classic. MatStats also uses the NWCA All-Star Match as a control group for possible team scoring changes and how much they are needed for the fans and to promote more action and scoring. We need to make a team scoring change, NOW MORE THAN…

Bout at the Ballpark presented by Kubota will return to Globe Life Field for the second straight year. The event will feature competition with NCAA ranked Oklahoma State (11) and Michigan (5) on Friday, February 3, 2023.The event will feature a new format this year, with one wrestling mat placed on home plate. Floor seating will also be added for t…

Josh Schamberger is the President at the Iowa City/Coralville Area Conventions and Visitors Bureau. On December 10-11, Coralville’s Xtream Arena will host a wrestling first - the men’s and women’s freestyle World Cup - at the same time.Check out the GearUP campaign I’ve joined on with in conjunction with Beat The Streets National. Check out how you…

Terry Steiner has led USA Wrestling’s women’s program since its welcome into the Olympic family. Heading into next month’s World Cup in Coralville, Team USA has a shot to take on the juggernaut Japanese on home soil for the first time since the 2003 World Championships. Josh Schamberger of the Iowa City/Coralville Conventions and Visitors Bureau op…

It is a busy week for the Purdue Wrestling crew with the Clarion Open last Sunday, National Signing Day on Wednesday, and the home opener against Rider coming up next Sunday and we break it all down. The Boilermakers brought home six championships, a first place team finish, seven finalists and twelve placewinners from their trip to the Clarion Ope…

Episode 99 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast will get a recap of the U23 World Championships with Trent Hidlay’s performance, a wrestle-off recap and then looking ahead to the annual early-season dual with App State. Host Hayden Hidlay will also introduce Pack fans to new Sports Information Director Jonas Pope IV. Pope spent 16 years in the pri…

One of the early trailblazers for women’s wrestling, Afsoon Johnston emigrated from her native Iran and fought for a place in the sport of wrestling in California. The first woman in U.S. history to win a medal at the women’s wrestling world championships, Johnston has been an advocate for wrestling and girls wrestling and championing the sport for…

Two guests are featured in Episode 53, Northern Michigan University Assistant Coach Parker Betts and Pan-Am Championships gold medalist Jamel Johnson. Betts provides perspectives on several topics surrounding the NMU program, including the status of Benji Peak and the school's three recent U20 World Team members. Betts also opens up about an import…

The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference held the second of two wrestling media days on October 25. Episode 722 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast joins media day! The second KCAC wrestling media day featured the nine women’s programs with the men’s media day already taking place on October 20 (Episode 720). Nate Naasz of the KWCA and NWCA modera…

The Purdue Wrestling crew is here with another Always Aggressive podcast as we sit on the cusp of Wrestle-Offs and subsequently the start of the competitive season for the Boilermakers. Head coach Tony Ersland is joined by Tanner Lipsett and Cory Palm to talk all things Boilermaker wrestling with Wrestle-Offs set for Friday at 6 p.m. ET in Holloway…

Joe Kania wrestled in New Jersey for powerhouse Bergen Catholic. He jumped into wrestling coverage with the newspapers in New Jersey. After a couple of stops in the NFL with social media marketing and a stint at FloSports, Kania launched FantasyFightLeague.com, which focused on fantasy sports games. Kania recently pivoted away from fantasy sports a…

The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference held the first of two wrestling media days on October 20. Episode 720 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast joins media day! The first KCAC wrestling media day featured the seven men’s programs with the women’s media day coming October 25. Nate Naasz of the KWCA and NWCA moderated the online media day with ea…

Last year, Princeton set a school record with two wrestlers reaching the NCAA Division I finals. Both Pat Glory and Quincy Monday return to the lineup and that’s just a taste of what you’ll hear from the Tigers this season. On Wednesday October 19, Princeton held Wrestling Media Day where head coach Chris Ayres fielded questions from the media in-p…

The crew at MatStats continues their study on potential changes on team scoring. This Episode examines the concept of continuing the Margin of Victory dual meet scoring with the inclusion of Placement Points for tournaments. Using the data from Men's D1 Championships (1988-1992 & 2017-2022), MatStats contends that we should change the scoring at to…

Rometo “Rummy” Macias wrestled at the University of Iowa in the 1940s. A two-time Big Ten champion, Macias finished second at the 1948 NCAA championships before starting the first wrestling team at what’s now known as Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota. The Minnesota State family celebrated Macias’ birthday on October 17 as the diminu…

Talking with Willie Saylor of MatScouts & InterMat about the upcoming Super 32 Challenge in North Carolina, the top high school folkstyle tournament in the country regardless of the time of year. We also wrap up the show talking about message boards and the pending death of the one on TheMat.Check out the GearUP campaign I’ve joined on with in conj…

It’s wrestling media day for Appalachian State wrestling, so we jumped on in and ended up creating a full episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for it. Outside of the Hand Raised blog’s Ted Carreras, it was pretty much just me, coach JohnMark Bentley and four App State wrestlers ready for another run at the season. Before we get to the show, …

Episode 98 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast is back at you with head coach Pat Popolizio and 141-pounder Ryan Jack, an NCAA qualifier a year ago. One thing you’ll immediately notice is the show has a new host as five-time All-American and current Student-Athlete Development Coordinator Hayden Hidlay. Practice has started officially, so the sea…

Newly crowed women’s freestyle world champion Dominique Parrish is this week’s guest. Parrish was a four-time WCWA All-American at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Parrish won gold at 53kg in Belgrade, Serbia after making her first Senior world team. She’s a native of Scotts Valley, California. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy Hamil…

Longtime Rider wrestling coach Gary Taylor passed away last month. After 39 years at the helm, he handed the keys to the Rider program to his longtime assistant coach John Hangey. On today’s episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we’ll talk with John Hangey as he enters his sixth year as the head coach at Rider. He’ll touch on his career and …

The Purdue wrestling crew is back for season four episode four of the Always Aggressive podcast. A new member joins the ranks alongside head coach Tony Ersland and company to talk all things Boilermaker wrestling with wrestle offs just one month away. Coach Ersland breaks down what stood out to him from the 2022 World Wrestling Championships that c…

World & Olympic champion and Morgan State head coach Kenny MondayNew Morgan State head wrestling coach Kenny Monday joins the show to talk about his new role as the Baltimore-based HBCU is relaunching its wrestling program in 2023-24. Monday was a three-time All-American and 1984 NCAA champion at Oklahoma State. He climbed the podium at the highest…

The first Premier National League (PNL) wrestling event will take place on Saturday, September 24 in Aurora, Illinois. The PNL features eight of the nation's top wrestling clubs in tiered competition focused on development of the next level of college and international wrestlers. On this episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Jared Lawrence, …

The show WILL go on as Episode 97 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast is once again joined by head wrestling coach Pat Popolizio and host Brian Reinhardt. There’s been some news floating around about the status of said host, preseason, and the schedule. Show Segments1:00 - Preseason Week 3 is rolling on.2:00 - Hey, the schedule is out!4:00 - Wher…

The crew at MatStats continues their study on potential changes on team scoring. This Episode examines the concept of continuing the Margin of Victory dual meet scoring with the inclusion of Placement Points for tournaments. Using the data from Men's D1 Championships (1988-1992 & 2017-2022), MatStats contends that we should change the scoring at to…

Purdue wrestling is gearing up for another big season on the mat and the on the recruiting trail. The crew gets together again to discuss all of that and more on another episode of the Always Aggressive podcast.Head coach Tony Ersland starts off by discussing how excited the team is to be back on campus, back in school and back in the wrestling roo…

Rich Bender, the Executive Director of USA Wrestling, talks during the 2022 USA Wrestling Junior Women's Freestyle National Championships about the tremendous growth of women's wrestling and how this tournament has served as one of the catalysts. Bender talks about the decision to bring the first Junior Women's tournament to Fargo in 2002 and how i…

Purdue wrestling announced several staff changes and additions Tuesday, and following that release the Always Aggressive Podcast was lucky enough to welcome new volunteer assistant coach LeRoy Gardner to the show.In addition to head coach Tony Ersland's thoughts and impressions on Gardner, the Golden Valley, Minnesota native takes us through his wr…

Israel “Izzy” Martinez was one of the top high school wrestlers coming out of Illinois in the early part of the 2000s. Martinez won an NJCAA championship as a freshman at North Idaho College and then enrolled at Iowa, but his Division I career didn’t develop like the expectations that followed his stellar high school career. Martinez re-created a n…

Coach Tony Ersland and hosts Tanner Lipsett and Cory Palm discuss the summer season, go through the newcomers on the roster and take a first glance at the squad's non-conference schedule.By Jason Bryant, Mat Talk Podcast Network

For the last three years, Pat Forde has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. A native of Colorado Springs, Forde’s journalism career started upon his arrival at the University of Missouri. After nearly two decades at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, he’s spent the last decade writing college sports for Yahoo and then SI. Forde jo…

Doug Brooker’s journeys around the globe involve baseball diamonds and wrestling circlesDoug Brooker has spent decades covering wrestling, but doing it behind a wall of monitors. A longtime producer, Brooker worked for Iowa Public Television for 30 years and was the go-to guy when it came to wrestling on television. Brooker also was on the ground f…

The dual meet is one of the great features our sport has to welcome new fans, to pack arenas and to see how one team matches up with another. While dual meet scoring has undergone some changes over the past 50-plus years, does the team scoring metric adequately represent the scoring that takes place within the men’s college structure of 10 weight c…

Jason Bryant joins Mick Hatten to talk about the his new role at the PA announcer for St. Cloud State men's ice hockey.By Jason Bryant, Mat Talk Podcast Network

In 2002, USA Wrestling launched the first Junior Women’s Freestyle National Championships and the tournament joined the four men’s divisions in Fargo, North Dakota. The fifth tournament in Fargo would feature just over 100 young women. One of those first champions was Michigan’s Brandy Green, who then was known as Brandy Rosenbrock. Green was one o…

The show must go on as host Brian Reinhardt and head wrestling coach Pat Popolizio are back for another episode of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast. Show Segments0:50 - Welcome, we're back and Pat isn't going anywhere. 2:19 - Pat is entering his second decade in Raleigh.3:25 - We've got a new staffer! 4:20 - Daycare facilities to be added to the …

It’s been a while since Kyle and Andy sat down and hit record, but that’s just what they’ll do as they recap some of the summer happenings - the U17 World Championships, Junior & 16U Nationals and the NWCA ConventionBy Jason Bryant, Mat Talk Podcast Network