Look at Carl's practice, training and student lounging, etc facilities compared to ours. Is there any way to double our space without moving out of CHA? I definitely would not want them to move from CHA to do so. Thoughts?
Could a facilities upgrade help with recruiting woes?
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Perhaps an indoor go kart track and water slide.
I would go there!
You joke, but I bet that would be a draw for kids these days.
Seriously though, the locker room makes someone think Hoosiers, not a modern locker room for an important sport at a major university.
We do need some upgrades, let's be real here. Partially for recruiting, partially for our athletes. It should be nicer.
A new locker room is a necessity and an upgrade to our weight room is as well.
A new locker room is a necessity and an upgrade to our weight room is as well.
I didnt know we had recruiting woes. It has been on the upswing. One young man who never signed does not make woes. A week ago everyone was excited about our new recruits and how recruiting was improved. One wishy washy young man and we have woes? That being said new facilities would be great. They cant hurt.
Need a new dodgeball/flag football facility, or something that is more fun those two things.
I agree, we will get another elite lower weight guy to pair up with Lee. Iowa has a knack for finding and developing lower weight wrestlers. That is a given.
If a recruit is going to be "Wowed" by a facility, he's coming to your school for the wrong reasons.
Impressing 16 year olds is the name of the game. Unfortunately they aren't all medieval knights who do things solely for valor and honor. Believe it or not then being impressed by a places facilities doesn't make them bad people.
The only way that happens is if they build a new basketball/volleyball facility that would allow for the wrestling program to take over much of the space the basketball team consumes. Carver is not a great arena for basketball, but is probably the best in the nation for wrestling.
This would cost a bunch of money, but could be offset by hosting more concerts and such at the new facility the way Carver used to 20-30 years ago.
This would cost a bunch of money, but could be offset by hosting more concerts and such at the new facility the way Carver used to 20-30 years ago.
Maybe we could host the Olympic trials or Senior Nationals or some big event like that. That would atract some notice
maybe make the mascot less scary looking
Maybe Iowa should switch to fight shorts and a rash guard too? For good measure.
Yeah, but he's coming to your school, and that's what wins at every level with every sport. If you don't have the Joe's, you aren't winning the big ones.
Sweaty: I agree with you almost completely.
At times in football it's almost an arms race and as we have seen inthe past 10 or so years, our football facilities, both practice and stadium are now phenomenal.
Is it fair to compare football to wrestling? Maybe not. With that said, I am sure most other D1 wrestling facilities pale by comparison to our own, but as several other posters have stated, ours could certainly use a facelift.
But to your point, The wrestlers that we want or need are choosing us for facilities & Teasdale didn't originally commit to Iowa for our facilities and he didn't de-committ because of PSUs.
GO HAWKS!!
Pretty sure we inked 2 top 10 pound for pound wrestlers this year, including one of the best HS wrestlers of all time.
Recruiting woes?
Recruiting woes?
Agree Spooner. This is the best year Iowa has had in eons. I just hope Lee can recover fully and stay healthy.
I'd like to see a stand alone facility, something completely state of the art.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a new wrestling facility within the next few years.
I would assume u would still compete there. Was referring more to new Locker room, lounge, coaching offices , recovery center, weight room and practice space type of facility.
I haven't been in your facilities and have only seen your wrestling room. The wrestling room seems fine. Others are stating locker room is outdated and discussed the potential of stand alone facility. I just asked if there would be room.
I beleive currently Cornell has the nation's only stand alone wrestling facility. But they don't have to worry about fitting 15,000 in it for a big meet either.
Easy fix to this question, just cut basketball as a varsity sport and give the wrestlers the full space with any updates that are deemed appropriate to ensure that the top guys come here.
