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During the football game this Saturday they expected attendance to be 25,000, which is nice. Why not promote this to every wrestling fan in the state to get maximum attendance. It will be a great atmosphere. This is an excellent oportunity yo market a sport that has been a decline locally, nationally and worldwide. Properly promoted, this event can get 100K+ fans in the stands & on the field to promote a sport that was almost removed from the Olympics.
 
100k is a stretch IMO. Can you imagine the bathrooms? Crowd control would be crazy!
 
Heck yeah I am going! I live in the Quad Cities. 1 hour drive for possibly once in a lifetime dual? You bet! Meeting a bunch of my friends from Cedar Rapids early to tailgate. I'm very excited!
 
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I'd like to know when and who is developing those Quad City kids, Bettendorf to be specific. We bring our kids from Waterloo/ Waverly area, most of them 12 and under, and just kill them. The Bettendorf kids all look like it's their first year wrestling. The coaching was a joke. Am I wrong with the younger kid's coaches? I would think parents would not be pleased with them.

Then the area goes on to dominate in high school. I know it doesn't matter until then, I just thought they would be tougher than that at a young age.

What's the deal? Maybe our future is just that bright.
 
SansSouci said:
I'd like to know when and who is developing those Quad City kids, Bettendorf to be specific. We bring our kids from Waterloo/ Waverly area, most of them 12 and under, and just kill them. The Bettendorf kids all look like it's their first year wrestling. The coaching was a joke. Am I wrong with the younger kid's coaches? I would think parents would not be pleased with them.

Then the area goes on to dominate in high school. I know it doesn't matter until then, I just thought they would be tougher than that at a young age.

What's the deal? Maybe our future is just that bright.
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You should just where your shades then.
 
SansSouci said:
I'd like to know when and who is developing those Quad City kids, Bettendorf to be specific. We bring our kids from Waterloo/ Waverly area, most of them 12 and under, and just kill them. The Bettendorf kids all look like it's their first year wrestling. The coaching was a joke. Am I wrong with the younger kid's coaches? I would think parents would not be pleased with them.

Then the area goes on to dominate in high school. I know it doesn't matter until then, I just thought they would be tougher than that at a young age.

What's the deal? Maybe our future is just that bright.
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A) Awful brag. Just brutal.

B) There's a law of diminishing returns in coaching kids. And highly training them at a very young age is just not a great idea.
 
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SS...maybe you're right about the future being bright in your area. Seems to me it goes in cycles in Iowa. Eastern Iowa putting out a lot of good kids, but then WSR killing folks as well. Ballard came along for a bit but now its SE Polk in central Iowa and Bett/Dav Assumption (great coaches down there, maybe that's your answer). When I was growing up in Iowa, the rule of thumb was that anybody North of I-80 and East of I-35 tended to be pretty tough...especially in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area. The guys my age group were dudes like Scarborough and the Dickey's in Waterloo, Des Moines kids like Theiler and Piazza (if I remember correctly) and Lance Christenson. These are the kids I remembered as being tough until I moved away. Kelber over at West Marshall was little older than me but I would get to work out with him every once in awhile when I was a kid. These were all late 80s early 90s.

Of course, wrestling for kids is a whole different deal now. We didn't have the sponsored clubs back then. Just parents hauling their kids to tourneys on Saturdays during the winter months. If we were lucky, we got one practice in a week. In fact, the only organized club I remember as being tough were kids from St. Joes Missouri who would come up to our tournaments and kick everyone's butts. They actually had their club name on their singlets which intimidated the rest of us...lol. I was at my nephew's and the other day and his son showed me his singlet collection. Kid belongs to two clubs and has like ten singlets. I think I had two growing up...the reversible red/blue ones.
 
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I am still planning on coming down to IC for this one, 51//2 hour drive. Was hoping my wife would want to go to it also, but she said she doesn't want to sit out in the cold for any sporting event anymore. And yes she does really love wrestling. Did say she would come along and stay in the room and watch it on TV. Hope it is covered so she can. Can't wait for this one, hope the men put on a great show for us all.
 
Considering there are going to be 70,000 in that stadium a few hours later, I was expecting a lot more than 25,000 for the wrestling. We've had 15,000 in duals before several times. We can only generate an additional 10,000 people when all they need to do is go to the stadium they were already planning to attend that day but just show up a little earlier? I guess a lot will depend on the weather but if it's a nice day I'll be hoping for more attendance than that.
 
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Yeah, the Dickey boys and I were very tight, the younger two spent their summers at my house. The Scarborough's were good at headlocks. Tough kids with poor coaching.

I still pick Marty's brain when I see him and I wrestled for him at the Boys Club and then Wahawk wrestling club. One of the best, if not the first, elite clubs in Iowa. I think Marty's wrestler's have kids now and are bringing his style back to Waterloo. I know we are. It's Gable's influence on Marty and his influence on us that has stayed in the cedar valley.
 
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And it wasn't a brag, I didn't say we came home from Winter nationals in Blue Island with four National Champions. I actually got in an argument with my wife about leaving Blue Island on a high note and not wanting to get hammered by Bettendorf kids the next day. I didn't want to go. I was shocked at the lack of talent there and surprised by all the dudes in cowboy boots with 20oz Mountain Dew bottles for spitters in their back pocket, Nebraska flashbacks, and the lack of young talent. My 12 year told me a half hour ago after he read my post that I shouldn't have been looking at the kids in school singlets but the Young Guns kicking ass. I guess my answer was right here.
 
I fail to see how breaking the single dual attendance record by roughly 10,000 fans (25,000) would be considered a failure.
 
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Considering there are going to be 70,000 in that stadium a few hours later, I was expecting a lot more than 25,000 for the wrestling. We've had 15,000 in duals before several times. We can only generate an additional 10,000 people when all they need to do is go to the stadium they were already planning to attend that day but just show up a little earlier? I guess a lot will depend on the weather but if it's a nice day I'll be hoping for more attendance than that.
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It is quite the commitment with the football game not until 7. And a good number of fans aren't into wrestling and would rather tailgate.
 
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Yeah, the Dickey boys and I were very tight, the younger two spent their summers at my house. The Scarborough's were good at headlocks. Tough kids with poor coaching.

I still pick Marty's brain when I see him and I wrestled for him at the Boys Club and then Wahawk wrestling club. One of the best, if not the first, elite clubs in Iowa. I think Marty's wrestler's have kids now and are bringing his style back to Waterloo. I know we are. It's Gable's influence on Marty and his influence on us that has stayed in the cedar valley.
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I think I was a victim of Sean's headlock in freestyle when I was a kid. Kid was a hulk even then...lol.
 
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Someone please help me out, here. I am a first year season ticket holder (compliments of my wife for our anniversary). OBVIOUSLY, I will be going to the Ok St. dual at Kinnick. I want to bring a handful of people with me. How can I be sure we'd all sit next to or near one another? Because I am a ticket holder does that mean I am able to purchase tickets prior to the general public?

An advanced thank you...
 
TyWDenton said:
Someone please help me out, here. I am a first year season ticket holder (compliments of my wife for our anniversary). OBVIOUSLY, I will be going to the Ok St. dual at Kinnick. I want to bring a handful of people with me. How can I be sure we'd all sit next to or near one another? Because I am a ticket holder does that mean I am able to purchase tickets prior to the general public?

An advanced thank you...
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First of all, you will not be disappointed in being a season ticket holder. Can't think of a better way to spend $80! The athletic department does a fine job of rewarding the season ticket holders, as much as they can (better priority for special events such as Nationals, Big Tens, National Duals events that we host, Olympic Trials, and you guessed it, OSU meet in Kinnick).

My understanding is that the tickets for this meet will go on sale to the general public October 1st. The plan is that season ticket holders will be given an opportunity to purchase an unlimited number of tickets (at an earlier date). As of today, the ticket office was not yet sure when that date would be. If I haven't heard anything from the ticket office by the last week of September, I will contact them again to get the scoop. Based on what I have read/heard, the tickets that you purchase will be based on your season ticket priority, and thus, everyone in your group will be able to sit together.
 
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hurlhawk said:
First of all, you will not be disappointed in being a season ticket holder. Can't think of a better way to spend $80! The athletic department does a fine job of rewarding the season ticket holders, as much as they can (better priority for special events such as Nationals, Big Tens, National Duals events that we host, Olympic Trials, and you guessed it, OSU meet in Kinnick).

My understanding is that the tickets for this meet will go on sale to the general public October 1st. The plan is that season ticket holders will be given an opportunity to purchase an unlimited number of tickets (at an earlier date). As of today, the ticket office was not yet sure when that date would be. If I haven't heard anything from the ticket office by the last week of September, I will contact them again to get the scoop. Based on what I have read/heard, the tickets that you purchase will be based on your season ticket priority, and thus, everyone in your group will be able to sit together.
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I believe all of this is spot on. The only thing I would add is that in late September (prior to general public tickets going on sale) you will receive a email to choose your seat for the Kinnick event, and at that time you can also purchase any additional tickets. So there shouldn't be any problem about everyone in your group getting to sit together.
 
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Matt Millen will be there, and then do the color on the football game. Great praise for Iowa wrestling on last Saturday's broadcast.
 
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