I haven't watched the replay so this is what I can remember about the dual last night. Okay, I did watch Abe's match first thing, but that's the only one.
Mrs. V went to the dual with me. We sit with good friends and on the way home, listened to 800 in the car. Tom was Tom on the radio. "Wamo, blamo, ma'amo" or something very similiar came out of his mouth on KXIC. The wives thought he was being funny. No, he's being Tom Brands.
Nebraska has a good team. They had a good strategy to stiff arm the Iowa wrestlers and keep things close. Manning surely didn't disappoint. Sweet looking sweater vest. Talking to the refs w/o throwing his challenge brick. Gets two bench warnings (akin to double secret probation?) and then wanting stalling in the two matches they won. It almost felt like he was talking to the refs about something that was a bad argument in order to give his wrestler time to catch his breath. Anyone know how many bench warnings you can get a match?
Crowd was all right. The crowd got into the late take downs and winners. KY, Bull, Kemerer and Abe stick out as 3rd period clinchers. In my memory, the last TD in those matches ended with the Nebby wrestler flat with no desire to get up until after the horn.
ADS is leading by 4(?) to start the 3rd period so if Lovett wants to ride the whole period and lose by 3, some of that is on Lovett. Was the ride to prevent that MD? Why doesn't he realize at 1 min that he needs to cut him? I hate to think that Manning would try to do something other than winning, so I'll let that go. Needless to say, ADS earned that win with the TDs in the 1st / 2nd period.
Lugo wrestled a guy who was a head taller. Glad to see the finish.
White should never go under against Bull.
I was glad to see Kemerer grind that match out. That actually makes me feel better in some ways than 1st period win.
All in all, these matches felt like Friday matches and that fact that Iowa grinded it out in many of them, makes me happy. Do I think Iowa is going to run away with it all in March? No, but I feel good, better than I have in the previous Januarys.
And I've got two more Friday Nights and there better be more than 12,882 of my friends there.
Mrs. V went to the dual with me. We sit with good friends and on the way home, listened to 800 in the car. Tom was Tom on the radio. "Wamo, blamo, ma'amo" or something very similiar came out of his mouth on KXIC. The wives thought he was being funny. No, he's being Tom Brands.
Nebraska has a good team. They had a good strategy to stiff arm the Iowa wrestlers and keep things close. Manning surely didn't disappoint. Sweet looking sweater vest. Talking to the refs w/o throwing his challenge brick. Gets two bench warnings (akin to double secret probation?) and then wanting stalling in the two matches they won. It almost felt like he was talking to the refs about something that was a bad argument in order to give his wrestler time to catch his breath. Anyone know how many bench warnings you can get a match?
Crowd was all right. The crowd got into the late take downs and winners. KY, Bull, Kemerer and Abe stick out as 3rd period clinchers. In my memory, the last TD in those matches ended with the Nebby wrestler flat with no desire to get up until after the horn.
ADS is leading by 4(?) to start the 3rd period so if Lovett wants to ride the whole period and lose by 3, some of that is on Lovett. Was the ride to prevent that MD? Why doesn't he realize at 1 min that he needs to cut him? I hate to think that Manning would try to do something other than winning, so I'll let that go. Needless to say, ADS earned that win with the TDs in the 1st / 2nd period.
Lugo wrestled a guy who was a head taller. Glad to see the finish.
White should never go under against Bull.
I was glad to see Kemerer grind that match out. That actually makes me feel better in some ways than 1st period win.
All in all, these matches felt like Friday matches and that fact that Iowa grinded it out in many of them, makes me happy. Do I think Iowa is going to run away with it all in March? No, but I feel good, better than I have in the previous Januarys.
And I've got two more Friday Nights and there better be more than 12,882 of my friends there.