CY-HAWK GRADES

[Gobblin]

The portal is actually recruiting as well. You're just recruiting experienced wrestlers and not high school kids. Ech, Chittum, Bockman and Carroll are all transfers without them they definitely drop more than 1 spot. The plan is recruit high school kids and the portal. Why would you only do one

Add in Ayala and PK to their lineup if illegal contact and poaching by a HC is on the up and up….

 

[sdvike]

OW wrestler of the meet. Patrick Kennedy. Good fight to the end with the tech fall. Fought through the needle on empty

 

[IRONBIRD]

No not at all saying that but the fact is, Iowa could afford to bring in two number 1 ranked transfers and two top 5s.
If you take transfers out of our lineup, we go from #2 national contenders to maybe #6?
The unusual log jam of talent in the upper middle weights would help any drop off there. But you still don’t have anything in the first half of the lineup outside of Ayala.
Isu could have their transfers disappear and only drop down 1 ranking spot.
We need to plan better so we’re not so reliant on transfers

What everyone above is saying is. 1) The new transfer portal/NIL mess is now a reality! 2) IOWA is NOT the only team using it and benefiting from it.

3) what this means is, you can not just look at what we are doing without looking at the entire picture. TnT are doing what they are doing because it is now a part of the game. IF this was not the "new POS NCAA" then not only would the HAWKS team look different, but so would everyone else!!!

Who knows what our team would look like right now if we went back to the way it was before this whole fiasco started?

 

[rcamp67]

The transfer portal has never been a thing like it is now.

relevant because without nil and wide open transfer portal.

49,57, 65, and 97 are holes and we lose against Ia St

Without the portal we have:

165 PK
174 Brands
184 AF/Gabe
197 Glazier
285 BK

Not much of a drop off.

 

[Libertylover]

Actually Caleb would've probably got bonus over whoever he faced since Ech transferred in after getting kicked out of Ohio State for choking his wife.
Sandfors take is terrible. Iowa State had transfers at 57, 65, 84, and 97. You can't make this shit up .

Also at 74

 

[acuhawk]

Also at 74

I actually meant 74 with Riggins. Not sure about their 65. For some reason my brain still has PK as our 165.