It may not have been an awful match for Costello but it definitely wasn't good one. I understand he is just a development guy, but what I'm saying is that I wanted to see some more fight out of him then that. I know that Cassioppi is pretty good, probably better then what he's ranked. He's one of the best heavyweights in the nation. But, he is still only ranked #5 and Costello is ranked #7 in one set of rankings, and #11 in another. So in my eyes, you would have to hope he would compete a little better. At least show some more potential, but I just didn't see it this match.
Would you guys rather see him sit and hid behind his ranking? So we are getting a "top ten" kid at his weight? I would rather see him test himself and go to competition than hid behind a rankings.. but no one on this page is happy that he turned down much more money I'm assuming to come to iowa
Its been brought up before but Gulibon was a much bigger recruit than Clark and beat him, quite soundly if I remember right, in high school. We just saw how that turned out with Clark the 4 timer and Champ and Gulibon the 1timer. Please give these young men a chance to develop in the Hawkeye room before making a judgement. Some of them come in almost fully developed and some have a lot of room to grow. He did make the finals and anyone can have a bad match (DSJ his senior year and the list goes on) How about lets wait and enjoy watching these guys develop.
Horrible comparison. Clark was not some project. Might have been ranked behind Gulibon, and even lost to him, but he was a multiple time Fargo champ and proven to be a top competitor.
Ok. Dan Dennis never won a state title and he was a 2 time AA. The point is he hasnt got to IC yet lets just wait and see how it works out. I dont see why we get all excited because some one looked bad in 1 match.
I agree, we shouldn't write the kid off based on one match.
I agree that we will have to wait and see how Costello develops, and I think he will actually develop very well and be a very important member of the team. Also, I have backed up Costello more then most on these boards so I am definitely not a Costello hater. I think the kid is great and is going to surprise a lot of people with the Hawks. I was just hoping he would have preformed a tad better. And like I said earlier, I think it may have been just a bad match.
I'm not suggesting he will be a world beater but let him roll with Telford, Berhow, and Stoll and just see how he progresses. Maybe he can be a 10-16 type guy. Obviously he's not supposed to be the answer but his stock really can't go down. Only up. He either surprises us and is somewhat successful or he doesn't see the mat
I never said you were being critical, I simply stated that if people think he has the potential to be a two time AA then that would be great and would help a ton. And I agree, we do need to get higher and bigger recruits. But, even though we are getting better and better recruiting classes, I don't think we will ever be able to dominate the recruiting game as well as penn state, so we will still need to develop some mid tier guys. Which we will.
I agree. But also doubt recruits and current wrestlers look at these boards. All this board has is old guys giving there opinions! I wish every recruit the best! Go hawks
I get what you are saying 100%. But, Costello actually surprised me that he got 2nd at jr. folkstyle nationals. So even though he got trounced in the finals, he got 2nd. Still, I am not happy with our recruiting. Its picked up lately, but still not enough studs. Costello's teammate for example, Max Lyon ranked 3rd nationally at 182 and projects to be 182 in college. Perfect to pair up with Warner at 197. How did we let him get away. A top 3 nationally kid from Iowa?
Costello didn't look tough in the quarters where he downed a Michigan commit Nemec 6-1 which included 2 slick go behinds and tough top game. Max Lyon was never a possibility I believe he was set on UNI or Purdue from the start
Did look tough* it's not easy to click in and out of this page without my boss seeing me sometimes!
This is exactly why we need to put the trolls and negative posters on ignore and not respond to their needling. The fire will go out quickly if no one respond to them and we we report their negative content. Human nature has us defending our guys and getting in arguments, but these people only come to ruin and cause trouble. I wonder if this board needs to put a 2 or 3 week period around Nationals where there can be no new posters. It might keep a few of them off during that time anyway. I dont doubt some would make a new troll acct ahead of time though. Regardless of anything though we need to strive to keep our comments positive about our wrestlers and recruits. It certainly cant hurt our recruiting.
Lyon was ranked as high as 3rd last summer when he put together a very solid junior duals (I believe). He beat quite a few nationally ranked guys including current #4 Jelani Embree. At Fargo his ranking dropped off a little bit due to a DNP. I believe he should be somewhere from the 6-12 ranked spot. Overall, Lyon is a very solid recruit who would've been a nice guy to train with Warner, but like Azcheif said, money most likely brought him to Purdue.
Because we have Wilcke who is better then Lyon. Lyon isn't going to sit behind Wilcke for 2 years for little money when he can start 4 years at Purdue with a full ride.
