Apparently the point to be difficult for someone as obtuse as you.
Every Nittany Lion and Cowboy wrestling fan is also hopeful Bob continues to embarrass the program, and would be happy with Tom leading the Hawks to those 3rd and 4th place trophies.
i think you're confused. nothing in what you posted has me saying anything about iowa tampering with Real (although, in case you live under a rock, they were certainly talking to him while he was still at Stanford.)
Wow, We (Iowa) will NEVER catch up to Ped State with the current staff and mindset. The Brands's time has came and went and they're on the back nine of their 50's which is a massive deal in today's wrestling world. I give them a big thank you for giving us a good 5-7 year run after the Zalesky fiasco, but it's overdue to move on. Iowa has the resources, history, tradition, and "street cred" to still be a massive factor in 2024 and beyond but it's long overdue to pivot and make a change. In the business world, if your profits are flatlined or increasing by 3% or less a year you're canned. That's Tom and Terry. Time for a change.
I never thought it was an actual enforceable issue. It’s so widespread there was no way they were ever going to be able to police it. Although I personally am not a fan of how NIL and recruiting/transfer portal go together, the only way you will end up with any uniformity would be for the court to decide to remove those restrictions.
If it’s that far in the past (pre portal) and you know for a fact, you should really lay all the facts out there. Karl can’t get hurt and you’ll get some board “cred” (Just saying).
How dare you even bring up such an outlandish claim to ped states lord and savior. That man is a saint and would never
The no response should give us our answer
No talking head would touch that. Carl is untouchable. None of them have the stones to even call them out even though they know they were paying kids way before NIL... (I'm sure others were also)
I also know that OSU talked to Hamiti at NCAAs this year and OSU was assured he would flip before the tournament ended. I know for certain. As in, I was there - and not by happenstance but because it wasn't hidden or would bother the people that were around. And, Brayden Thompson came up and it wasn't a concern how he would handle the news because he just went 0-2 or something close to that. I say that because it was even discussed that 174 was the need, not the assumed weight that he was wrestling that actual weekend. I might be wrong but he might have entered the portal as a do not contact, which should add more credibility to the fact that he wasn't allowed to shop around, or the deal would be off.
Imagine any anti Iowa stuff garners these guys the most viewers/clicks.
Ultimately, the transfer portal and NIL will kill college wrestling.
Bird really is outstandingly weird.
Rob Koll told me to my face (while in Detroit at Little Caesar's Arena) that "Real was being recruited on the competition floor". He didn't say it with a smile on his face. He also said that Real was the best athlete that he had ever coached.
There is no one from our coaching staff doing those type of things.
