Still don't understand how he survived all the scandals at Minnesota, basically unscathed?
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Has Tom given any interviews at the end of the season? I saw a 2 min one at the end of nationals. Have there been any interviews since then? Do coaches not have required interviews at the conclusion of seasons?
Please elaborate, especially since you took just a snippet out of the entire post, erasing the entire point of the comparison....
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You keep comparing Iowa to "EVERYONE ELSE". We have more resources, more tradition, etc. Iowa shouldn't be compared with everyone else.
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The point of my posts are not to JUST compare them to everyone else. It is to point out how weak minded the argument is that says, "We are Iowa, we should just be the best because we are Iowa" without realizing you ARE better than everyone but PSU and PSU is the best DYNASTY of all time in DI wrestling.
Even then, I still have said over and over that I have no issue with fans wanting and even expecting more. My issue is more about all the flat out blame on Brands and the ridiculous "fixes" many come up with that are either pipe dreams or, worse, have no substantive evidence they would even do as well as Brands, let alone better.
To be crystal clear, ANYONE short of Sanderson at Iowa would be this far behind PSU right now. In fact, I am not sure ANYONE would have as many titles as Brands has going up against Sanderson. That is the entire point...
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That's an unprovable claim.
My issue with the Tom and Terry is that they had momentum with Kem, Spencer, Marinelli, the Young Guns / PA to Iowa pipeline, the three ring binder ("now we know what we need to do"). and now we're going backwards with little hope in sight. Tom talked about the culture change with Kem and now we're bringing in AJ Ferrari. Tom talked about driving through the night to recruit Kemerer. Is he still putting in that work?
The failure to develop national champs is a problem. If we're not winning as a team, a program like Iowa should at least be able to develop national champs routinely and the Brands have failed badly at that.
Times have changed as well and middle school/high school kids don't know or relate to who the Brands' were as wrestlers.
Has Tom given any interviews following the season? Has he publicly given the fans or potential recruits any reason to be optimistic about the program?
Wouldn’t hate for tnt to be run the show but turn over power/ day to day to a few big names teens can relate to. Outside of SL who else is a name kids wanna flock to wrestle around. Mstar or Telford? Not a chance. Shiny window less rooms aren’t gonna do it
Agree...there isn't any youth or high schooler that have ever heard of MStar or Telford and neither accomplished elite level stuff when they competed.
In Iowa's case, stubbornness is not a positive attribute.
They gotta do something different or the trend continues.
My problem with Tom is that we are not getting the results we want, and nothing is being changed. There is no staff shakeup, recruiting is not getting better, results are not getting better, injuries are not getting better. If he is doing many different things behind the scenes I am not seeing it. It seems to me like Tom is the type of person to double down and do what they already do but just work harder.
Unfortunately Tnt have gone from determined to stubborn. The difference being that in one case you do everything you can to reach a goal and in the other you ignore things that can help you reach the goal.
interesting if it’s true. i thought teemer was going to 165 next year but maybe not?
maybe i missed something or just dense, when was there talk of Iowa being in on Teemer?
there is a rumor that parco and teemer are coming to iowa. maybe the chief boom was talking about something else so take my post with a grain of salt
I'm guessing Boom references Mason Gibson to Rutgers but could be wrong.
booming a high schooler committing to rutgers on an iowa wrestling board thread about the transfer portal would be something
I’ve seen a lot of “BOOMS” on my wrestling twitter today all in regards to Gibson, I don’t think it matters as his stock has steadily fallen since middle school but that’s all I was referring to.
Frank was my neighbor for a few years. I think he will stay in AZ for a while and shoot to be Zeke's replacement. His wife is from here too and it would be tough to pull them away. Not sure he has a fondness for the Hawks. BTW- his parents are salt of the earth people are just great folks.
Besides, I doubt that Ben will ever coach at Iowa, a program he loves to criticize. That's not to say that he doesn't know wrestling, or make some good points sometimes. As Chief suggests, there's a lot more to being a title-contending D1 wrestling coach than there is to running a successful club.
Feels that way to me as well. If there is a plan, they aren't sharing it. The natives are getting restless.
Parco and Teemer as 5th years? The Black and Golden Parachute Program stays strong!
Respectfully I used to feel this way but I think guys like Taylor and Askren would have almost 0 learning curve. These clubs are businesses and they are without a doubt successful. Either they are coaching these kids up to being contenders from day 1 on campus or they are recruiting them to their clubs. Pick your poison both desirable traits. And by the way AWA scored more points than the hawks did this year at nationals.
Some of these guys would never, and many are poor choices for Iowa. We're talking making a real run at the Nit machine within a few years. Not going to happen from this list.
Whoa. My post had nothing to do with Teemer coming to Iowa.
I menat ASU staff want him to go up.
I’m pretty sure I could coach the team to a trophy with a team of top 10 pfp wrestlers. Get some bodies on the coaching staff that those kids want to come be around and wrestle for and the “coaching” part will take care of itself.
A college program can't have multiple guys at a weight class scoring points, which your point total for AWA would have.
