Food for thought regarding Ferraris and the Iowa Room
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Your moral compass needs to be calibrated.
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I agree it would be great to see the Iowa Wrestling of Old, but let's see if this 'urgency' continues when we start wrestling better competition. Until then I would hold off on declaring our wrestlers have changed their ways.
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How you get them to Iowa is definitely not to have a family of malignant narcissists who take a swing at respected veteran teammates and flip off their own team's parents section. If Angelo still wants to come with the understanding that he will be the only member of his family living in Iowa City (and he is under a zero tolerance behavior program), then that's fine since he hasn't shown any of his family's sociopathic tendencies (yet), but I can't see how going forward with the other two is helpful in any way, and it will cost you elite recruits going forward (it already cost you Chittum before this happened...).
The good thing for you guys is that AJ's (and to a lesser extent Anthony's) behavior should eliminate any leverage the father had to force any program to take the two miscreants along with the coveted brother. If Iowa cuts those two loose, they are done in wrestling and might as well move on to WWE or MMA or something. No one is taking a guy who swings at his own teammates.
You currently have one hammer (Woods) who is a senior this year. Ayala also has a chance to win this year given how wide open 125 is, and Gabe has shown signs that he is developing into a potential elite hammer (although he needs to knock off the Ferrari-like BS antics like spanking his opponent, too). A couple other guys fit into the second tier studs category (i.e. Franek, Caliendo, PK if he's in the lineup, Kueter if he wrestles, etc.). It's going to be difficult to envision improving on that while running the program like a zoo that caters to the monkeys.
A.J. will bring some much-needed class to this program. Plus, his family loves Jesus Christ.
What is everyone's issue with the Soldier Salute??? Did you see the competition at Midlands, and Southern Scuffle?? Since Iowa is not at Midlands, and PSU not at Southern Scuffle, those tournaments are no juggernaut.
Isn't the reason we started the Soldier Salute in the first place because Midlands were cancelled for the second straight year? And we moved quickly to start a tournament, and then the Midlands decided to have their tournament?
How, if we are going to start a tourney, do we build it into a fantastic tourney that you all feel needs to have all the top teams? Well, it takes time. The Soldier Salute was an awesome event to attend. We got to see great matchups. Look at Ayala's run to championship. Rathje had 2 Iowa guys who would be highly ranked otherwise (VV3) was. Woods match up was top 6, Franek had great competition, Caliendo vs Kennedy (albeit Iowa guys) two of the top 165lbs in the Nation. The list goes on.
And it was a GREAT tournament to watch. Everything about being in that event was top notch. I love the arena, the seating. Eustice is doing a great job, and I am sure this is a starting point to a continually improving event. Our jobs as fans is to GO, not whine about what we feel is better competition, or what we feel the teams need.
I loved Midlands, and I went MANY of years to watch. There's now one tourney that stands out, and that CKLV.
We come into January facing the toughest conference and great competition for 2 months, plus OSU. I don't think lack of competition will be our issue.
I'm still at a loss for words (which doesn't happen very often) on this whole deal.
Never thought I would see something like this go down.
Never thought I would see something like this go down.
That right there shows how stupid lisa is... 🙂
I may be confused on your post, but to me it implies a belief this was the "first" Soldier Salute. There was a soldier Salute tournament last December (2022) in Chicago that coincided with the Midlands. It isn't new this year, it is just Iowa hosted it. And, Last year I wondered why there would be a competing tournament in the same metro area..... watered down competition, divide fan bases etc.... not a fan...
Really don't care what you love.
Far as I can tell, you're a troll.
Just ignore the newbie troll who just posts to get reactions and continue to have arguments with those who we at least have one common denominator in that we are true Iowa wrestling fans.
Don't need you 2 telling what to do.
If I want to call out the troll, I'm gonna call out the troll.
If I want to call out the troll, I'm gonna call out the troll.
Oh lighten up, Francis. In case you don't know the reference - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
I'm not in the mood to lighten up. This damn debacle has me pissed off. Then I have to read these stupid trolls chiming in and then a couple regulars start telling me what to do. Pretty soon the cuckoo's nest is going to get shoved where the sun doesn't shine.
Well- this is pretty much any sport at any level. Iowa would not be the first sports team to have a questionable athlete on its roster.
Have you tried spontaneously hitting the splits and flipping off everyone and everything in sight? Heard it's en vogue
Too soon 🤷♂️?
Unfortunately, I walked into our wrestling room at our 7 am New Years Day practice to one of my wrestlers showing those who had not seen it, what went on. Then I get asked, "what would you do, if one of us did that?" Fortunately, with this one I was able to say, "your first concern would/should be what your dad would do".
Kueter should place his name in the transfer portal. This is certainly not what he signed up for. A substandard football program and now an Italian mob family taking over wrestling.
