Did anybody read the article on Desanto and Lee from a week or two ago? In it Tom Brands brought up Lee's health but didn't go into details.
Section from the article:
The way Tom Brands puts it, Lee needs to treat every July like an Olympics year, not like the dog days of summer. He doesn't want Lee thinking he can just flip a switch when the big meets arrive. That, plus some previously undisclosed issues, led to Lee's 7-3 December loss to Northwestern’s Sebastian Rivera.
“The thing is, he understands it’s about getting better,” Brands said. “He had a rough go at the beginning of the year. He was sick, he was hurt, he was banged up, beat up. We don’t talk about that a lot in our program. I don’t make that known. It's nobody's business.”
Here's the link to the article. But yeah, no one from the staff or team is going to go into any specifics until the season is complete. Also you had Ironside say on that podcast a few days after midlands that Lee was sick with something monolike and that he missed a few weeks of training because of it. Also read a tweet from some undergrad at Iowa who said Ironside told him Lee spent a few nights in the hospital.
My guess is that the effects from the illness are probably lingering in terms of his energy, as well as Lee's conditioning being hindered from putting the weight back on that he lost. Throw in a weight cut and you have Lee gassing in the second periods of matches. Personally I'm confident he'll be good for NCAA's to repeat as 4 weeks is a long time.
