Tom Brands Coached Teams can no longer compete with Penn St.

[HawkeyeInKC]

FWIW, I feel like Iowa has had damn good upper weights for a squad coached by a couple of 134ish pounders. Maybe Telford as the recruiting coordinator for all weights isn’t perfect, but he has done a good a damn good job in the upper weights.

Who in particular won a natty?

 

[Chips28]

I really dislike reading crap like this on our board. It's juvenile and simply not true.

That’s too bad, sorry you can’t handle the truth or refuse to accept what you see

 

[el dub]

That’s too bad, sorry you can’t handle the truth or refuse to accept what you see

Truth or conjecture?

 

[dtripp26]

Teemer, Parco, and Buchanan aren't too bad either. Is that Brands appeal?

 

[dtripp26]

A “threat”? Sure…. But to proclaim he’s gonna “take us out” is absurd. The goof is hardly relatable to today’s athletes. He’ll be competitive simply because of the $ backing him. Nothing more.

In the last 24 hours I learned that nobody on the international scene knows who Cael Sanderson is but also that David Taylor is "a goof who isn't relatable to today's athlete". Did I read that right?

 

[west2east]

Sounds like 77 D1 coaches should be fired no one can beat Cael so fire everyone. Most here calling for Tom to be fired have no f**king clue about what goes on in a D1 wrestling room daily. Some of you need to get out of moms basement and get some fresh air. I know it's Iowa and everyone wants to win but one of the best to ever do it is currently coaching and his name is Cael. Gable kicked everyone's ass for years and others couldn't come close to winning. It's how sports go but what you don't do is take your ball and go home.

 

[MSU158]

There are a lot of reasons PSU is so far ahead, but it truly circles back to this:

125: class of 2024 #1 lb4lb
133: class of 2023 #42 lb4lb
141: class of 2020 #4 lb4lb
149: class of 2021 #4 lb4lb
157: class of 2023 #10 lb4lb
165:class of 2022 #18 lb4lb(transfer)
174: class of 2022 #9 lb4lb
184: class of 2019 #9 lb4lb
197: class of 2023 #7 lb4lb
285: class of 2019 #1 lb4lb

Can you guess who their only sort of “weak link is”???? If not for constant injuries to #4 lb4lb Howard and transfer Nagao, Davis probably wouldn’t ever be a starter…

When you try to say Iowa’s recruiting is “terrible” it is only because you are measuring them against this when this simply has NEVER happened before. Not even close. Mind you, Iowa should have 5 top 6 lb4lbs in their starting lineup next year if they can spread out Kennedy, Arnold and Angelo to go along with Ayala and Keuter. DeLuca(8) and Ludington(14) will be 2 top 15 incoming freshmen. Caliendo will still take up one of the remains spots and then you hope Iowa can land two big transfers like they have for several years now.

No one truly even compares to PSU in this category, but Iowa is actually doing a GREAT job recruiting to even be this close…

 

[Hawk#7]

There are a lot of reasons PSU is so far ahead, but it truly circles back to this:

125: class of 2024 #1 lb4lb
133: class of 2023 #42 lb4lb
141: class of 2020 #4 lb4lb
149: class of 2021 #4 lb4lb
157: class of 2023 #10 lb4lb
165:class of 2022 #18 lb4lb(transfer)
174: class of 2022 #9 lb4lb
184: class of 2019 #9 lb4lb
197: class of 2023 #7 lb4lb
285: class of 2019 #1 lb4lb

Can you guess who their only sort of “weak link is”???? If not for constant injuries to #4 lb4lb Howard and transfer Nagao, Davis probably wouldn’t ever be a starter…

When you try to say Iowa’s recruiting is “terrible” it is only because you are measuring them against this when this simply has NEVER happened before. Not even close. Mind you, Iowa should have 5 top 6 lb4lbs in their starting lineup next year if they can spread out Kennedy, Arnold and Angelo to go along with Ayala and Keuter. DeLuca(8) and Ludington(14) will be 2 top 15 incoming freshmen. Caliendo will still take up one of the remains spots and then you hope Iowa can land two big transfers like they have for several years now.

No one truly even compares to PSU in this category, but Iowa is actually doing a GREAT job recruiting to even be this close…

Curious, do you have the rankings for Iowa to compare?

 

[jayridescarbon]

That’s too bad, sorry you can’t handle the truth or refuse to accept what you see

I agree. Also, I heard from multiple sources Michael was juicing when he kicked Dwight’s ass.