SOURCE: www.ubspectrum.com

November 04, 2014

John Stutzman is not worried about this season - he's worried about the next 50

John Stutzman stands in the center of the Ed Michael Wrestling complex inside Alumni Arena. It's a Monday evening practice in late October - five days before his Buffalo wrestling team opens its season against Campbell in Blues Creek, North Carolina.

The second-year head coach rests his back and arms up against the blue padded wall. His eyes scan the more than a dozen different matches on the floor all around him. The Bulls square off with one another in pairs throughout the entire room, their individual battles often intersecting each other. Stay alert at all times – a flying limb of wrestler might come flying in your face.

A pounding sound comes from the fitness room off to the side of the mat room as one wrestler beats a tire with a sledgehammer. Metallica's "Master of Puppets" blasts over the speakers. From an outsider's perspective, the whole thing looks somewhat disorganized.

But someone is indeed pulling the strings.