This is the answer. Why would anyone ever not recruit someone as good as Deluca? Penn State recruited Duke and Henckel despite having Haines and Mesenbrink and Sealey and Barr and Facundo and Ryder. Get as many elite guys in the room as you can then let the lineup figure itself out.
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I get the feeling a lot of people on this thread never wrestled. My senior year of HS as a 119 pounder (and when I was 112 as a junior) my walking-around weight was in the 130-140s out of season. If a guy is weighing 160 and not wrestling, he's likely a 141 pounder or so. When we did our first team workout my Freshman year at UNI (not official team practice) I weighed 150 and was scheduled to wrestle 118-126. Weight-cutting rules are different now. You would have to manage your weight more during the off-season, but in reality, that's the kind of difference between natural weights and wrestling weights. 15-30 pounds probably.
My kids last college tournament, weighed in at 197 Saturday morning and by Sunday night was 233. Needless to say he should not have been wrestling 197, bad decision by the coaching staff wrecked his whole college career.
I get the feeling you didn't quite follow the convo.
It is unlikely Jesuroga takes the mat competitively again.
I followed the convo just fine. People were suggesting because he weighed 150-160 he would be a 157-pounder if he came back. I just pointed out that wrestlers don't wrestle their off-season weight. I never suggested that he might come back, just pointed out that if he had come back, it wouldn't be at 157.I get the feeling you didn't quite follow the convo.
To be more specific, people were being facetious. Winky faces were included in those messages. That's what I think you missed.
I guess I must have. I'm slipping in my old age. I just read an article on the signs of dementia, and I had most of them.
Hopefully not, but if so, no worries - you'd still fit right in. Signs of dementia are similar to signs of social media disorder. Loss of 'filters', lack of attention span, say things whether true or not, loss of reasoning ability, forget/ignore what you or others say, randomly change topics, more anger and swearing, etc.
This could be a new thread. (weight cutting in wrestling programs 40-50 years ago.) As a high school sophomore, I weighed 120 pounds after football with not an ounce of fat on me. Coach had me wrestling 105. Others with big weight cuts on the team too that year. I did ok but was the most miserable 3 months of my life.
They certainly are my job. But "graduate from HS early and join the team second semester" that's a new one.
Mad respect for that.
They will find a way to redshirt DeLuca.
Limited resources could make sense but yeah… if u got unlimited resources then sure why not just stockpile everyone
They are great. We need to make some changes asap. We need stars on the staff and HWC.
Cael is torching everyone. It's not close and not going to get better without a shakeup.
Weren't Brady Benham and Kael Voinovich fun enough for you? Henckel's sister is still out there as well.
One tried and true statement is "what goes around comes around", enjoy your time while the shoe is on this foot. Someday it will be on the other.
I'm not making fun of Iowa wrestling with my post.
It was a sarcastic post aimed the ask posed to the "insider" who's track record of Iowa recruiting "hints" is about as good as mine a 1000 miles away.
Not denying he has some ties, but he could make latrine duties sound like a career advancement opportunity.
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