NCAA Championship Thread : Session III
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I'm clearly misremembering the timeline of events then. Idk what's happening anymore.
Wait, who the hell are you?!
Just let people feel how they feel and get off your high horse because you are wrong about things much more than you’re right.
You’re gonna sit here an lie about our bet and I beat you? Lie about your Bull claim? Cmon man. Don’t be a liar. This was over on Mat forums. I wouldn’t even know how to go find that old shit. But you know what you said.
Showing myself out door now..
He failed to make the R12 as the 6 seed. That’s a failure.
Point is we’re not winning team titles any time soon if our best recruits aren’t title contenders by their 3rd year. Kennedy is a miss recruiting wise, given his ranking coming out of high school. And I’m not sure he’ll ever be a title contender.
It was a complete botch job in how it was handled. The 2020 seniors got screwed out of a championship season.
They could have made 2021 optional - if anyone didnt want to compete that year, they could opt out and not lose a season of eligbility. Or if the championships got cancelled again, give them another year. but giving everyone a free year carte blanche - even those who were true freshmen - was dumb. And it basically ruined record books in lots of sports.
If there is one bright side, at least Iowa will probably get 5 years of Caitlin Clark
1.) Cite specifics please.
2.) Lie? I have already said the exact score ON THIS BOARD. Again, what was the score when you buried me?
3.) Bull claim? When exactly was this? Again, you are definitely mistaking me for someone else. Joseph already had multiple finals appearance before I was even high on Alex. Hell I was the IMAR fan to show you how bad your memory is. If anything, I may have picked IMar to win at NCAA's over Joseph and that is what has you confused.
4.) Feel free to leave, spouting half truths and blatant misinformation isn't going to work here of all places from a PSU fan...
It’s still just his first year in the lineup. I don’t think we can entirely write off the rest of his college career.
And you're arguing just to argue at this point. And you're wrong, just like our coaches were in that situation.
I think we're way past the point of saying that TnT are infallible because they won some titles 30 years ago. It's obvious to a lot of fans that our coaches do not always put our wrestlers in the best, or smartest, positions to win. We also either don't scout our opponents or we do a piss poor job of it.
I'm not coming here with my pitchfork out but there were some head-scratching decisions in matches today. The days of us out-working and out-toughing people are LONG gone. We need to adapt in a hurry and part of that adapting is changing how we wrestle and coach matches.
Yeah I remember all that. I guess I was under the impression that they had to compete in the 19/20 season to be eligible for their Covid year.
In this case I'm glad I'm wrong.
Wait til tonight and tomorrow night...might have to watch with the sound off.
I literally gave reasoning behind my stance. In no way is that arguing just to argue. I simply believe you choose down in the 2nd up 10-0 when you are as good as Spencer is on bottom. Even getting turned he managed to get away after and that was after he was damned near spent.
Now, I am far from calling the Brands infallible. I have been just as critical as anyone with their lack of gameplanning in neutral for certain opponents. Hell, I said it right after the Kennedy-Amine match.
To be clear, there are plenty of situations that I don't necessarily like. But, you can say that for every DI coach and that even includes PSU. Hell, they had RBY choose down against Nagao in the 3rd with the score 0-0 and RBY having riding time.
Schultz is a tank. Seems like Steveson had to work for the title against him.
I’ve been saying for the last two years that HWC needs to throw money at Jason Nolf, especially after NLWC brought in Dake.
I think he could help a ton with our middleweight guys.
I think he could help a ton with our middleweight guys.
We’ve needed to get an outside hire at the upper weights for a long time. Even bringing it up has been considered heresy around here.
I am still amazed, STILL, 2023, the year of our lord, there are grown ass men that go to other fans message boards, for niche sports that are hardly that important too many ppl to begin with, to troll ..
I cannot put into words how utterly pathetic and useless of an existence one must have to spend days doing this .. and the obsession with IOWA for some reason too ..
I can only hope for sake of humanity, these people do NOT procreate
And they are freaking money in semi-finals. Their win percentage recently is off the charts! They don't wilt under pressure.
Not only that, but they literally go back to their own board to insult what many on here say. I mean, I just don't get it. Why would I care what a PSU fan says on their own board? That is what that specific board is for. Hell, I know they have blasted me personally over there. I expect it.
Their site, fine. Even a neutral site I get. But, to go to a site dedicated to a specific team and blast them for saying things slanted to that team is laughable at best...
A miss recruiting wise after his first year wrestling at the ncaas? He was beat by a rerturning finalist and the 4 seed in the consolations. Some of you people are unreal at judging what these young guys have to endure to get to that podium. It takes as much luck as it does skill. I would take a Team full of Kennedy's anyday and they would win a shit ton of matches and get podium finishes. Its easy to sit behind a computer and put these guys down. Go step in their shoes and see what they are enduring.
You could use some help, maybe some coaching?
Instead we are paying Marinelli to not wrestle freestyle.
I couldn’t agree more…. Making the $ match and pulling him away from his life off the mat makes it extremely difficult. Don’t think for a second that it hasn’t been a thought and explored. That stuff has become a business, not a hobby.
Ideas, yes. Hard numbers no. Not gonna speculate about what I’ve heard it would take because I truly don’t know.
I don’t think that’s the answer, but Brands clearly need to tweak their philosophy and approach. The fact the we haven’t been able to bring in any upper weight coaches who have titles under their belt says something to me. 1. They aren’t trying. or 2. No one wants to be at Iowa.
I would argue there is a proventialness in wrestling that is kind of unique to the sport. A lot of these guys, not all but I lot are very invested in staying close to home.
