so some of you guys are saying... The best thing we can do when the team is winning but not looking good when doing it...is to Trash the wrestlers then call for a coaching change and speculate on future coaching prospects? Honestly we can poke fun at carl and what they are doing but the reality is this.... Its a MONEY ISSUE... with his unlimited recruit buying power he can over recruit and over pay for talent and essentially make the rest of the country look like fools when they try to stay loyal to their already onboard wrestlers and field a competitive team. I mean even if a couple of the Top P4P recruits don't pan out for them...they hit the portal and get the best available Free agents to fill their gaps. Lets start with the new facility then we have the fresh face of Iowa wrestling with Gabe and Drake and maybe next year's top recruit Angelo Ferrari !! start a damn recruiting rush and have Spencer in play a Hell of a lot more. We need to put the new Iowa look out there and make some damn noise... we have the program we just need the interest in it from the perspective recruits.
It’s not entirely a recruiting issue. To the extent they do have trouble recruiting I think it has been self-inflicted, because their attitude has always seemed (from my distant perspective) that it is a privilege to wrestle for Iowa so the coaches should not have to sell themselves, the program, or the university. Wrestlers should simply want to come here, and those who don’t are not wanted.
But in addition we’ve had top-10 and top-20 guys who never made it to a championship finals, let alone become champions. I realize fans tend to mainly see the flaws, but I feel our top recruits simply don’t progress.
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