Gopher Grades
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Huh? What makes you think that. 220 is undersized for an NFL linebacker. And he's tall. If he is going to make the NFL, he'll need to be closer to 240. 230 at the absolute minimum.
Wrong. 220 is small for a linebacker. He needs to get bigger for both football and wrestling.
I believe what he is saying is bulking up, while trying to get into wrestling condition, is polar opposites! BIG bens problem if you want to call it that? Is, what are the goals? What is the short and long term plans?
Looking ahead to next football season. He needs to add say 20 pounds. Right now, IF he plans on wrestling this season? He needs to get into top wrestling condition. This will delay his strength training and bulking up. NO way to bulk up during wrestling outside of MAJOR PEDs!!!
Ben IF he wrestles, would then be behind in terms of Football, and honestly, being already behind in wrestling. It makes no sense to go this year. IF I was his coaches, and our dad, I would tell him to drill and improve skills on wrestling team, while going full bore in weight room looking to get to a least 250.
I do not believe he is of AA caliber this year and I do not think any points he might add will help IOWA come NCAAs. Next year Ben could re-evalute where he is at for both sports. Will he be a full time starter on the football team. Does he have NEXT level ability?
That would seem to then answer what he should be focusing on and what the wrestling team will need to do as far as heavy? While we would all like to see him wrestling, and have some dreams of him doing both sports. I just do not see it happening!
Just get him on the David Taylor diet. Working with that mad scientist that does the PSU nutrition.
Can BK move to d end so he can bulk up to 260-270 for fball, 250 for wrestling. 225-230 at his height just seems too small. He’s the reason they need a 220 weight in college.
This. Get him on the Van Ness plan, he'd be a monster DE and HWT at 260-270.
I guess I’m greedy, I don’t anticipate having him more than 2-3 years. I ‘d love to see him compete as much as possible.
I believe Cassar was in the 220-230 range the year he won the title. His last MMA fight in October was as a Light Heavyweight, which has a 205lb limit.
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You’ll get a minimum of three years, but I’m guessing 4. I doubt Kueter is entering the NFL draft after his redshirt sophomore year.
I'll reserve my 2 cents until BK gets a few more weeks/matches in to see where things stand. That said, it does seem undesirable to have Hill sit out more matches, only later to decide BK will hold off for another year.
Classic let down match coming off big Nebby meet?
Also don't be stealing my bold font!
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I’ll stop the trail there…
Pretty sure Iowa started using this program this year.
Franek seems like he's taking lessons from the Iowa football team in his approach; focus on defense and figure out how to eke out just enough offense to win. How will that translate to the post-season? I sure hope that it's a lot better than what happened with Iowa football.
Ben is tall and lean, actually I was expecting to see him a bit more bulked. He is 6'4" tall, all signs would point towards being a D end. Full feed 10-12k calories a day gallons of good milk and lift, keep the shirt and show up at 245-250 same time next season.
12,000 calories and day and gallons of milk= tremendous 💩 ing
If he weren't in football do you think he could be a 197er?
He is already very lean at 228lbs. 197 would be tough at 6' 4".
I thought so his Jr year of HS. His Sr. year at 220, he certainly didn’t look like he had 23 pounds he could cut. His body fat is pretty low and likely has a really fast metabolism. Put another 15-20 pounds on him and he can be an absolute hammer at Hwt.
With Keuter and all the football hype, I would think he will have to make decisions his soph or junior year for nfl or not. Id have to believe wrestling will go out the window either way, maybe not. It is what it is and if he is better than Hill, just wrestle him. What are we afraid of, him losing some matches? Who cares, roll the dice and see what he can do in March for the time we have him.
I watched Hutmacher wrestle through his HS - he just plain dominated, and came out expecting to win this match as well. Kueter will put on muscle despite a little more limited off season. Just look at his frame. He will add muscle, build strength and dominate in future years, and even in most of his matches this season when his conditioning catches up to wrestling requirements. His reaction beginning from his standing up on the mat through his post match interview made it clear that he is going to do whatever it takes to be competitive with whoever he is on the mat against, even the big horses. When you look at his matches on the world stage he showed more speed and mobility, and I think that will be a key for his success.
A much bigger gas tank will certainly be a game changer, but in my opinion even then he's going to have a really tough time taking out the top 6 or 7 this year. That said, I'm just excited as hell to finally see him on the mat and if he's better than Hill in the room I want to continue seeing him on the mat. I want the best team on the mat each night and that includes Gabe. As the saying goes, "tomorrow is promise to no one;" I want to see the best we have now.
