I think Grip has it right.
Of course Tom will say it's his fault, but he's two injured guys in and at the end of his rope with Rhoads with Swafford on a shirt. Even if we had to forfeit, no bid deal in my mind, as.........
it's all about March
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I think Grip has it right.
Of course Tom will say it's his fault, but he's two injured guys in and at the end of his rope with Rhoads with Swafford on a shirt. Even if we had to forfeit, no bid deal in my mind, as.........
it's all about March
Maybe Rhodes is the guy this Sunday and the rest of the year at 184?
Zero inside knowledge, all speculation on my part.
Not for me to say, but if we're worried about saving a Rhodes redshirt...
when he's basically the same size and skill level of another freshman who can wrestle and still keep his shirt, there's no reason not to save it. you never know if you'll the extra year later. if abe is done, that changes some things.
That was last season, not this season. Burned his shirt for the scuffle last year I believe.
His brother posted about it on here earlier.
I think he still has 1 year.
Not sure about whether its medical or not.
I posted his injury stuff on the page after I noticed that he had made everything public on social media….figured it was safe to do at that point. Yes, he was injured this year.
Tbh all the stuff with the shirts confuses me as well and I honestly have no idea If anything changed with last year’s shirt situation following the changes made by the NCAA in redshirt rules (not to toot my own horn, but I got 2000 people to sign that petition I wrote to change those rules last year before I turned it in… one month later, the rules were changed. 😎)… I don’t know if it’s a medical or regular shirt he used this year… I try to ask him as few questions about stuff like that as possible because he doesn’t need the additional stress. I just know he wants to heal up for next year because he is hellbent on making a push for bringing home hardware next year… and he feels as if he gives himself the best chance to accomplish this if he were to get surgery on something that he was injured last summer at WTT. He tried his best to recover from it this season, but his body did not cooperate, so he officially decided to use a shirt and get fixed up to go all or nothing next season. I love where his head is at with it. He’s grown a lot mentally since coming to Iowa, that’s for sure.
There is a narrative that certain people like to push in regards to how or why Iowa wrestlers get injured more than guys from other schools… I’m not saying that I think this claim is true at all, for I feel it is exaggerated by many wrestling fans who state this… just saying that a person would have to be blindfolded to not notice these claims. It’s common to see someone question the training regimen at Iowa and the effects on an athlete’s body… I have no opinion regarding this, for who in the world am I to say that guys get injured at Iowa because they train too hard when I’ve never stepped foot in that room myself? I personally think people go overboard with that… I think there has been a lot of bad luck with Iowa wrestlers and injuries. and in Brennan’s case, I can say with 100% certainty that he didn’t get injured due to ANYTHING that had to do with the way they are trained at Iowa. In fact, Brennan got injured from a situation that I feel Iowa wrestlers experience moreso than other guys, yet it’s conveniently never mentioned… and that’s the higher than average amount of cheapshots that Iowa wrestlers take from opponents in comparison to other guys… presumably because they are Hawkeyes and some opponents genuinely hate them on a personal level because of it. Call me crazy, but it does happen… and Brennan is proof of it. He got injured at WTT last summer because of this guy who is actually a World Champ in Jiu Jitsu who wrestles at Little Rock IMO, INTENTIONALLY tried hurting him (and succeeded)… This kid straight-up tried ripping Brennan’s arm out of his socket… had an overhook and made it blatantly obvious that he was trying to hurt him. That final “wrench” he clamped in was unnecessary and hurt him. None of us 4 brothers have EVER had someone pull something as dirty as what this dude pulled on him. And as a world champ jiu jitsu guy as well as D1 wrestler, NOBODY can convince me that this dirtball didn’t do it on purpose. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing and mission accomplished… he hurt him. Hurt him bad. However, if winning the match was part of his mission, he failed that one… because Brennan ended up still beating him by a couple points and proceeded to win 4-5 more matches to place 3rd AFTER that dude hurt him. I don’t think anyone realized the extent of the injury until they got back to Iowa and got it X-rayed because he did so well after it was injured.
Anyways, this is a Hawkeye injury that 100% FOR SURE was NOT due to overtraining, but from taking a cheapshot from an opponent. And given the fact that the Iowa team can’t even shake hands with certain squads without someone starting a fight with them after a meet, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Brennan was one of multiple Hawkeyes who have suffered an injury at the hands of an opponent who cheapshotted them a bit more blatantly than they would someone else who wasn’t wearing a Hawkeye singlet. These things never get factored in to these discussions. People want to give Iowa wrestlers the reputation they do of being “chippy,” but they never acknowledge how much more BS the common Iowa wrestler has to put up with compared to guys from other schools, simply because they are from Iowa.
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Yeah, maybe they would decide to attack a weakness or something in a combat sport.
Sounds like the Little Rock wrestler must be training with Baylor Fernandez from Northern Colorado who did the same thing to Tanner Cook this year. Sounds like Fernandez also did something similar at the southern scuffle and perhaps other times in his career... yet Troy Nickerson continues to roll that dirtbag out on the mat and lets him compete wearing a Northern Colorado singlet.
Looking forward to your brothers return. Thanks for all these insights
This guy got a whizzer in on us and it looked like they were just gonna be stopped for a stalemate or whatever, but this kid ended up cranking down with the whizzer and then quickly WRENCHED Brennan’s elbow up towards his shoulder blade… like, there’s no other reason for a guy to do something like that unless they are trying to hurt someone…. And with this guy’s versatile MMA/wrestling experience, I just can’t buy it for a second that this kids didn’t know what he was doing. That kid had the entire section of the crowd rooting for him/against us since he was kind of close in the match and of course, everyone likes to watch an Iowa guy lose no matter who it is… lol, these random spectators were rooting for a guy who tried hurting someone in the match.
I wanted to jump through the TV and ring that kid’s neck when it happened, but it’s probably a good thing that this is impossible, for I’m sure this dude could probably kill me with some sort of Jiu Jitsu move.
Oh and another thing about this situation that is actually pretty cool. After the kid did this, Brennan noticeably got upset and almost lost his cool and if he wasn’t taken out physically, it was apparent that he was close to being taken out mentally… and I sat there watching and thinking a meltdown was inevitable when Brennan no more than just looks at Ryan Morningstar in the corner, and Morningstar made eye contact with him, pointed at his head to indicate, “hang in there, keep it together,” and boom… just like that, Brennan was ready to pick this kid apart again.
Lol, I’ve never seen any coach ever who was able to get through to Brennan as easily as Morningstar did in that moment.
Lol, I’ve never seen any coach ever who was able to get through to Brennan as easily as Morningstar did in that moment.
Speaking to your comment of Iowa wrestlers being "chippy" - I actually believe Iowa wrestlers may be some of the more respectful within the sport. Generally, there are few if any histrionics after a match, taunting the other team's bench or crowd, and certainly nothing like the Conor strut you saw if you watched the Missouri - Iowa State match. Of course there is the flexing, but even that is done without excessive taunting. I believe it was Metcalf who said that if he celebrated too much it would let his opponent think it was something special to beat him. Kind of like that approach.
Senior night, tough kid, great teammate, dedicated l, proud Hawkeye. He will 100% want to go if Tom puts it on the table. I see no downside. Reward the young man with one last chance to have a Carver moment.
You are on an Iowa board and all you think of is Penn State. Your shelf life is expired.
100% this over a forfeit or burning a shirt if Abe doesn't go. Worst he can do is get pinned. Nothing to lose, only team points to gain while rewarding a young man's hard work.
Exact same scenario that happened to Cook. Coach Hahn had the same reaction that you did and was ready to ring the kid's neck and the officials neck for allowing it to happen.
To the official’s defense, he stopped it the moment the kid did it… he just wrenched it so fast… it was like a regular whizzer situation and then BOOM elbow wrenched over shoulder and the official stopped it… thank God. It’s crazy to think that it actually could have been worse!
I’m so glad he still ended up beating that punk-ass…and better yet, kept winning to get 3rd and was an “iffy” slip call in the semis away vs Mikey O’Malley from making the finals. I can’t believe he even wanted to continue after that… He is a lot tougher than his big bro, that’s for sure… Although I will always own him in ping pong, NFL Blitz, Mario Kart and armwrestling! 😎 not sure if I can beat him in anything else in life other than maybe I think I would own him if there was some sort of “excessive talking” competition.
Pickleball is the new ping pong. You're going to love it!
Dude I LOVE pickleball! Junior class champ my well, Junior year in HS! Lol…. Choked as a Senior! 😢
don’t you have to be at least eligible for social security to play pickleball?? I’m that old and one of my high school teachers plays in pickleball tournaments all the time 💥👊
There is major league pickleball now, it even airs on the Tennis Channel. They even had their draft on TV, which is more than baseball could've said up until a couple years ago. Lots of celebrities like Brady and LeBron are jumping in on team ownership as it's a trendy thing.
Riggins was a 157 in November. Wittlake would be a tough ask for a backup giving up 20+ lbs.
Assad is listed with Rhodes as probable for Sunday. Hopefully Abe can go.
That is a good sign. Who knows, maybe Rhodes never planned on redshirting and wants to take the mat every chance he gets?!
Just in case anyone forgot
He was a 165 sucked down to 157 for 1 tournament but yes he would be just as small as 184 as Rhoads but if he has a match to use then so be it.
Big fan of Abe. Mainly because he is an IL guy that trains with some people I know and have heard great things. Hoping he can breakthrough this year at nationals and next year.
Never was never and never will be a 157…. Still surprised that experiment even took place.
He saw what he thought was a chance to make the line up and went for it. I'm happy how it turned out because injury risk increases with those big cuts.
They have like Pickleball bars and things now.
It's quicly gaining popularity.
it's been popular in the prison system for many years
so many things I’m tempted to say….. none of them are appropriate
