Are you saying the starters wrestled every dual in the Gable era? Fans whine just to whine. This is a smart move for both Lee and Young
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Glosser was turning against his own knee though. It does not make sense to call that PD. Incompetent call by the ref there.
Rushing home and driving dangerously just to watch an Iowa ass kicking?
Sure sounds like you're becoming a Hawkeye fan to me. Welcome to the family!
Unless Gable's wrestlers were injured they wrestled. No way he holds Young out today unless he was injured during his match on Friday night.
Strong? His finishes are weak because his leg attacks are weak. Dives for a leg and gets extended.
I currently coach at the high school level and the kids are definitely different. Softer is a good word to describe them. Even though D1 kids are the cream of the crop, I would guess they are softer than they're 30 years ago also.
The coach can say, "hey you need to toughen up", but if the kid does not agree, he resents and performs poorly. What makes sense to us old timers is totally foreign to these young whipper snappers.
I like the way John Smith makes his guys travel a couple times a year and get used to being uncomfortable and making weight 2 days in a row during the year. Not many coaches do that anymore.
I guess I am saying you can blame TnT if you want, but they can only work with what they have. I do not know any details of any decisions that have been made, but it would not surprise me if a lot of this is athlete driven.
The coach can say, "hey you need to toughen up", but if the kid does not agree, he resents and performs poorly. What makes sense to us old timers is totally foreign to these young whipper snappers.
I like the way John Smith makes his guys travel a couple times a year and get used to being uncomfortable and making weight 2 days in a row during the year. Not many coaches do that anymore.
I guess I am saying you can blame TnT if you want, but they can only work with what they have. I do not know any details of any decisions that have been made, but it would not surprise me if a lot of this is athlete driven.
Iowa has won 3 of 5 matches against a NW team that will have 5 AAs this year and a top 3 team next year.
Iowa is up 10-7 through 5 matches .... been pretty boring so far .... DeSanto won 18-8, Murin won 4-0 and Lugo won 2-1. Perez lost 11-1 and Glosser lost 6-1.
With the Friday - sunday duals and weigh-ins good chance you see a backup one of the matches for the guys with rough cuts or working through injuries. This is not difficult to understand.
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At least Marinelli is still tough. According to the announcers, he is just coming off surgery. 
The Bull is just brutal. He is worth the price of admission.
Math can be hard, but being smart matters instead of just ramming things through
Now I can get to my point during Intermissions. Maybe the guys talking Sh*t about me asking if you wrestled will understand.
Guys get not only injuries but illnesses sometimes not just Colds sometimes worse like Mono and really bad Flu. If you have not wrestled and you've had bad flu or Even worse Mono it kicks the crap out of you right?
Now try getting practices/training in while having one of these and wrestling its extremely hard!
You are trying to heal while the other guys are trying train and stay healthy you jeopardize getting other teammates sick so your practice and training suffers from that. All of this leads to a really bad situation for the team.
We as fans can not take it for granted how hard these guys work and the trials they go through thats why I get pissed when I read posts from guys that might not understand not saying you dont but if you have wrestled the winters are tuff to stay healthy and sometimes bad sickness can take a long time to recover and can effect many teamates.
Spencer was in and out of the hospital earlier this season and he is working through it.
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At least Marinelli is still tough. According to the announcers, he is just coming off surgery.
I did as advised and switched to the Iowa radio broadcast and sync'd it with Flo.
The guys doing the NW BTN broadcast are too much for me.
Is stalling not allowed to be called against Northwestern? Im doing more in the Marinelli match than Northwestern is.
Ref just said the AM is a “very good defensive wrestler”??? Pretty sure he’s scored all the offensive points
Is the ref really counting for stalling in that?! It’s not a headlock, it’s a pinning combination!
Well I guess the other 8 starters are just machines then and the only ones impacted “just happened” to be the two that didn’t go. Makes sense...lol
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Bad ref this dual. 133 shoulda been stalled out. 157 he bailed Deakin out.
So why not wrestle? I'm not criticizing the decision, I just want to understand the reasoning behind it.
Friday-Sunday even. I can't speak to Young, but Lee has battled an illness all season (mono being one of the rumors) Any of you complaining when a wrestler goes has absolutely no idea why, and the fact that your first thought goes to them ducking is sad.
Moreland only being hit for 1 stall is an embarrassment.
