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Iowa vs Chattanooga grades

You can be frustrated and feel for him at the same time. Most of us likely are. Just wanted to shed a little light on the situation. Cullen is great young man that’s had a horrible bad luck streak. He wasn’t able to do the things he wanted to get done this off-season. He’s one tough SOB to be out there battling the way he is right now. If you know wrestling and pay attention to his matches it’s not hard to see what’s hampering him.
It's painfully obvious, as soon as the pressure gets put on the right arm he loses the leg every time.

All he was missing last year was HP. Unfortunately he was unable to gain any HP this off-season, definitely not writing him off until he gets a full off-season to get where he should be.
 
Slush, a pin following the first TD, all of which was completed in 1:16 is an A. Should the lion play with his food for 5 minutes or just kill it and eat it? I'm thinking kill and eat. Tony can do all the other crap you mentioned in the room next week. And a realistic strategy? Tony's strategy against weaker opponents seems to be pretty sound...take them down and pin them. Wish all of our guys had that strategy! :)
Giving a wrestler a poor grade for pinning a guy too fast, now I've seen it all.
 
Great post MVP. I agree with everything you said.

You didn’t touch on all the injuries we’ve had so I’ll add this. Listen to Tom’s interview with Lex Fridman on YouTube if you haven’t before. Particularly Lex’s questions on recovery and over training. Around 7:35 it starts with the recovery question, and 18:00 with over training. I personally don’t like the responses at all by Tom, and makes me question all the injuries Iowa has had other than just having bad luck or the injury bug.
Damn didn’t know about this interview!
 
Damn didn’t know about this interview!
I think Tom Brands is one of the best coaches in the country, but I couldn’t believe some of his answers.

He acknowledges a need for recovery, but then finishes with there’s no time for it for young people. I and science couldn’t disagree more. Recovery is just as important as training no matter how old you are. For over training he says it comes down to your mindset or outside distractions. Again, I and science couldn’t disagree more. Yes your mind can push you through about anything, but your body won’t respond and/or peak at top performance which is what high level athletics is all about.

We’ve had an absurd amount of injuries over the years. Answers like these from the head coach make your head turn.
 
I think Tom Brands is one of the best coaches in the country, but I couldn’t believe some of his answers.

He acknowledges a need for recovery, but then finishes with there’s no time for it for young people. I and science couldn’t disagree more. Recovery is just as important as training no matter how old you are. For over training he says it comes down to your mindset or outside distractions. Again, I and science couldn’t disagree more. Yes your mind can push you through about anything, but your body won’t respond and/or peak at top performance which is what high level athletics is all about.

We’ve had an absurd amount of injuries over the years. Answers like these from the head coach make your head turn.
I’ve lifted heavy for 45 years and chad to rethink training at app 58. By rethink I mean go lighter.
By managing my recovery over the years and training safely I was still going at it hard until recently .
One thing I found in my meets was my heaviest deadlift in training was app 15-25 under my meet max and my heaviest double was 40 under.
I missed my best lift and hit 15-20 lbs over that in two weeks. I was getting that rebound from the hard work from the previous 12-16 weeks( which had a deload week every 4th).
The week prior to the meet was a light week and meet week was no training but stretching and walking. I was always stronger than I was two weeks prior. I would say wrestling might be more complex but if you don’t wave your training you will break down.
Just look at Sanderson’s tournament success the last how many years with the top guys, I think they’re winning at a 90% or higher rate come tournament time. I’m excluding the mid and lower level guys of course, and just looking at the top level guys who are contenders.
 
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