This has nothing to do with world champs or even PSU wrestlers. It has everything to do with someone making a foolish statement in regards to evaluating a recruit.
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Given that it was mentioned literally every time a guy Iowa "reportedly" had interest in, this was apparent. And of course, not just who said it.
I agree that it was patently ridiculous the whole time, but it's nice to see it acknowledged by a mainstream (within wrestling) figure.
Damn sure do know the Nickal family background.
And I can say the exact same thing to you. You literally don't know what you're watching or what to think when you're watching it. It's one or the other.
The conversation is general athleticism as it compares to wrestling and wrestlers. Period. The fact is, this is america, no one wrestling could be a professional in any other sport. MAYBE gable. And then obviously Stephen Neal and Carleton Haselrig. That's TWO guys out of how many hundreds of thousands of wrestlers who have wrestled d1 EVER?
Be serious bro. Nickal didn't pick football because he wasn't that level of athlete. Cuz if he WAS? He would have played d1/d2 football. I can promise you when it comes to general athleticism and what it actually means to be an athlete in a professional sport not named wrestling, I know far more than you do.
The original argument. you said "Honestly, he reminds me of a lot of other guys Iowa has recruited at this weight - whom have been very successful in college, but probably not standing at the top of the podium."
If you want to say his ceiling is that of a jacob warner, fine. but to say he reminds you of the other guys Iowa has recruited at 197 is patently false, when you consider he's a far better athlete than all of them and doesn't have to rely on a bruising handfight to get to legs.
Thompson will be in Iowa City this weekend. Ludington was notified beforehand about this and he isn't going anywhere.
If you count MMA as a professional sport, which it is, you are wrong!
Haven't paid for an MMA card for a while but am going to for UFC 314 tomorrow night, looks like a really good lineup.
Wouldn’t expect him to. If nothing else, we have almost zero depth at 184/197 so he’s helpful in that regard.
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Duh, a 3x National champion, never been hurt and made of steel and goes to church faithfully and walks all grandmas across the street.
Wonder what ever happened with him and Iowa. He was all in on Iowa, and I know it didn’t hurt our effort in recruiting Angelo at the time. We all know why AJ got the permanent ban, but what Anthony did remains a mystery. He was 14 pfp in his junior year of high school. He’s good enough to come in and compete for 157, and 165 next year. Morgan state seems to be a lateral move for him, but I guess better coaching with both Monday’s. Looks like they just reinstated their wrestling program 2 years ago, and is the only predominantly black college to have a D1 program.
It isn’t a total mystery. I believe he was booted from Blair and then later the Okie State room, the latter after the assault. There’s a lot of stories out there about him. Not sure the validity of them but the fact he’s a talented kid who can’t do better than low major programs would lend credence to some of them being true, on some level.
Or, at least it SHOULD be enough said.
He likely saw the long list of Dresser's coaching dumps' taken these last few years and chose to stay away. Smart choice!
Maybe there's a revelation coming about them bending a few rules to get the Cubans into ISU?
Iowa offered $10M but he decided to stay at OKST for less money than last season.
Just what I heard from a guy.
Things aren’t as bad as they seemed a week ago.
true, will be interesting to see if they get anyone else. oo I know, a Cuban!
go figure...but he is still the most credible insider but that doesn't count it was just conversation...see other threads for background
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And in that thread, another name was mentioned who Willie said wasn’t looking to transfer out, at that point, I believe.
what are you babbling about now?
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