This is his 4th year in the room. He has finished R16 at NCAAs, and will be wrestling for 5th at B1Gs after losing to a true freshman. You think he’s significantly better than a blood round guy? You see big improvement coming in year 5?
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Not that either are or will ever be world beaters, but Rathjen is clearly still not back from injury and Hill is now clearly in same boat. I'll give those guys passes for today's results. Teske got screwed, and just felt like Kennedy didn't have his gas tank today. We're a team with plenty of 'good' guys, unfortunately no great ones right now. Onward.
That’s a great person to compare him to, no offense to max. But pk came in with all kinds of hype as the next bull and gonna be a force. Just limited offensively and not real quick. Hope he finds that podium
Reffing has to be fixed. There are two reffs, make the call! One lifetime portal
Dude is busted up and undersized and still has wins over top 5 opponents at this weight. Could easily all american this year. Even place high with how 2 of the top 3 are banged up.
He had one of the hardest paths out of anyone last year, and came in seeded 6th.
Get a grip
Am I wrong that every challenge today has been on mat 2? Like 8-10 on that one mat alone.
As a ref you are paid to make decisions. The 2nd ref is there to help you make decisions when you’re out of position. Listen to what he says and make the fu**ing call! Its not rocket science.
It’s a great example why recruiting guys who have high athletic ceilings. Both guys are great wrestlers who squeezed every drop of juice out of themselves. It’s just not good enough to be a consistent AA or title contender. They’ll be in dog fights with everyone from 6-15 and will almost always fall in that range at NCAAs.
He was the #3 pfp in 2020 according to flo- behind Keegan and ahead of Bartlett. How did we get to this point? More top 10 recruits isn’t going to help if this is the result. (Ayala was #5 in 2021).
Probably help if we had some elite talent in the room for them to train with lol
Riggins tries to hit a carry but gets caught and whipped over and pinned. Great effort this tournament, but that's probably the end of his season.
Just because they’re top 10 recruits doesn’t mean they’re guaranteed to workout. Facundo was equally as big of a recruit and he hasn’t done much better than Kennedy has.
Struggling in the consis is how far this program has fallen.
Nothing changes until changes are made.
Nothing changes until changes are made.
The hawks are more apt to finish with an even placing at bigs and ncaas than odd placings anymore. Cannot finish when it counts.
Agree Manning is BAD but Terry acting like a 4 year old doesn’t help at all.
I don’t think anyone expected Iowa to perform this bad. Teske had a solid tournament. Glazier too.
To me, unless there's more health issues then what has been rumored...the biggest red flag is Wood's regression.
The team we've seen this weekend ain't finishing even top 5 at Nattys.
But until Tom proves he's willing to do more than just add a few transfers, I don't see how things improve.
The team we've seen this weekend ain't finishing even top 5 at Nattys.
But until Tom proves he's willing to do more than just add a few transfers, I don't see how things improve.
He is wrestling up a weight. He was one of the few bright spots on our team last year. He just had unfortunate circumstances with Ramirez dropping a match early in last years tournament. I swear you guys don't watch until nationals and the conference tournaments.
Yes they will. The staff needs to stop focusing on grinders.
Kid wrestled great during the regular season and now you’re going to beat him up after one bad loss. Nice!
That was your first post. You didn’t even know Iowa had a wrestling team. But you knew how this tournament would go? Please stop!
This is my last post on the topic as it has apparently touched a nerve with quite a few. Going back to last year’s NCAA tournament he has one takedown in 8 matches against top 10 wrestlers (Ruth). He’s a solid wrestler that could AA on the right day, but it will be very draw dependent. We need to keep aiming higher. We can’t act surprised when the things staring us in the face happen again. He will almost always beat up on guys outside the top 15, but that isn’t what gets you on the podium.
He was a top 6 pfp guy in high school, so I guess he can be considered a disappointment. The guy that took his spot was in the low 50’s pfp.
He’s a giant disappointment so far, iwbh. Ayala too. Iowa’s best recruits should be contending for championships by their 3rd year here, not just trying to get AA status.
It’s a pretty scary and shocking trend recently, and Iowa isn’t contending for even 2nd or 3rd if it doesn’t turn around soon.
This, all of this.
Yes he had a good record last year at 20-5, but who did he beat that instilled so much confidence from some of these people?
He beat a spiraling Wyatt Sheets and Amine in the B10's then turned around and lost to him when it mattered most.
He beat the guys he should always beat and lost to the All-American gatekees.
A top 5 p4p guy should be in the semis every Saturday.
Yes, definitely. It's a talent evaluation issue and that's one of the things this staff struggles with. I don't think they do the best job of looking for guys who have the tools to be elite. PK's best performance in high school was his sophomore year Super 32 where he beat Hidlay and Foca. He would have smoked Caliendo at that point, but Caliendo has athleticism that can't be taught and once he got in a college room, made passed him by.
Last year it was somewhere between 20-25% of top ten P4P recruits were all-Americans. However, if they did AA it was typically the top half.
