Lilledahl #2 '24
Not to mention Iowa guys get most of their points on basic leg shot TDs or push outs, it's very bare bones in the technique department. PSU guys and others just better and more diverse techniques making them more dangerous in the scoring department.
it has begged the question for way to damn long
Tough matchups. Scott obviously a better college resume thus far that Rathjen. These are the kinds of matches he needs to get some wins in. Chlebove like Schriever is better suited to freestyle. He beat Cullen last year in freestyle.
Well, bringing in new blood at freestyle coaching level might be a step toward making adjustments for future encounters with past opponents and learning new techniques necessary to thrive in this day and age.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “Iowa can be counted on to make the right choices after every other alternative has been exhausted.”
no. not at all. they are recruiting, developing, and having world success. Something Iowa used to do.
Recruiting is the key word there. A very talented athlete can have much more success with basic stuff, like many are saying our guys do. Example, Spencer Lee and Real Woods head lever and arm bar series. Stuff kids lean, but they make it look special. People also criticize our scrambling ability, again Lee and Woods don’t struggle in scrambles like many of our slow plodders do. TNT finally figured out they can’t coach up and condition average boarderline D1 wrestlers to beat the elite coming out of high school, like the old days. This is why they are taking a chance on the Ferrari brothers. Every other elite recruit and transfer went to PSU. If they can help us be competitive with PSU, we may start to get a few of the elite recruits without baggage to choose us over PSU.
Spencer was his training partner when he was in the Olympics. There are reasons for everything. Familiarity and relationships matter in all walks of life, including wrestling.
He said he was good at keeping matches close, which was fair, and called him a “boring” wrestler which was cheap. He’s damned effective and Singleton was frustrated, then shitty over it.
Thought someone on here said they’ve been competing since they were little kids, guess it wasn’t a friendly rivalry.
Pretty classy response in my book. Kudos Gabe Arnold!
I really like what Poppolizzio (sp) has done over the years, but he’s kind of lost his shine a little bit
