What about Iowa City Duals
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I'd like to see UNI and Grandview here...
Or I'd like to see it stay the same but have an Iowa Black and Iowa Gold team and have them be the last match as a wrestle-off. Do it on a Sunday and have a dinner/social/etc after.
Or I'd like to see it stay the same but have an Iowa Black and Iowa Gold team and have them be the last match as a wrestle-off. Do it on a Sunday and have a dinner/social/etc after.
Bring in the #1 NAIA school, #1 JUCO School, #1 D3 School, and #1 D2 school, have a nice round robin. 
Bring in Oklahoma City and we can wrestle their men's team and then their woman's team.
Those who voted "keep as is" should be banned from this board..........
I think it was Tom and Terry
It's a great early-season cupcake date for a fifth-ranked team that wants to stay that way.
Having an almost three hour drive, I would love to take a day off work and head down for an event like this. I would not dream of doing that with the competition that is currently scheduled. Make it a couple of top 25 teams and I would make the trip and not give the tickets away.
I watched it on the computer and was literally fighting to stay awake. It burns up a date and accomplishes nothing.
I have attended every one of the Iowa City duals. I typically hold on to a vacation day and use it for my wife and I to drive down to Iowa City to watch the duals. The first ones were fun as they had some additional local flavor (Coe, Cornell). I thought that they were moving into the right direction last year, when they brought Maryland into the mix. Would I like to see UNI? Sure, but we know that Schwab wants there to a be a home and home agreement, which I don't totally blame them. Imagine the West Gym on UNI campus, or maybe even in the UNI Dome if Iowa wrestled UNI in Cedar Falls.
We go to SDSU this year. I now the intent is to grow the sport but a meet in the McLeod center would most likely sell out the 7000+ seats. Would also be about 70/30 split of Iowa fans so in essence a home meet. Seems like a win-win. Maybe Schwab wants to keep it in the West Gym which may be why Iowa doesn't agree to the series.
It was boring, I keep going to these just because it is my first chance to see them at the beginning of a new season. Make it interesting by having Iowa State and or UNI there, plus say Wartburg for the small school vibe.
I did the same thing...like watching the Iowa Hawkeyes play football against Sioux City West
Kinda like breaking in a new engin in the old days.
It is not really for fans. It is a tune up. First gear.
You can't just jump into top teir guys off the bat. With our typical schedule you do well to have a warm up. We get banged up as it is. They are supposed to run the table. Smaller teams get exposure and the Hawks get a tune up. What's the big deal? The schedule is full of top challenges.
It is not really for fans. It is a tune up. First gear.
You can't just jump into top teir guys off the bat. With our typical schedule you do well to have a warm up. We get banged up as it is. They are supposed to run the table. Smaller teams get exposure and the Hawks get a tune up. What's the big deal? The schedule is full of top challenges.
Anyone who has coached high level programs completely understand this event. The season is very long and Iowa wrestles a litany of tough duals and tournaments. This is a way to get some non starters who aren't able to redshirt matches as well as giving programs from other divisions a chance to wrestle in the best arena in the country. Every top program has similar competitions on their schedule. PSU has the keystone open, TOSU has their Kent State/Cleveland State meet, OSU has the Oklahoma Open, etc...
You cannot compare the Iowa City duals to the Keystone Classic. There were 10 D1 teams at the Keystone and a long list of ranked wrestlers. Same with a Kent State dual. Sure, they're not top 10 match ups, but they're also not mid level D3 programs. They can push some guys or even steal some matches here and there.
No one is saying Iowa should put Missouri or VTech in this slot, but a UNI caliber seems about right. How about Northern Illinois or Southern Illinois.
Are the Iowa City duals the weakest event on any top 5 team's schedule? It looks that way.
No one is saying Iowa should put Missouri or VTech in this slot, but a UNI caliber seems about right. How about Northern Illinois or Southern Illinois.
Are the Iowa City duals the weakest event on any top 5 team's schedule? It looks that way.
My intent wasn't to compare talent at these events, it was just to show that every team has lighter events on the early season schedule.
On a side note, take out the PSU ranked wrestlers and how long is that list? I remember when I pulled up the brackets and had trouble finding a matchup that I was even remotely interested in. The quality was nowhere near as good as you are trying to spin it.
If you listen to Toms interview - there are multiple reasons for the competition at the duals. It has been stated multiple times already on this thread.
But let's get real.... our guys have been hard at it- pounding on each other since September- on their own, until "Official" practices started in October. So, Yah..... "Get the Rust off" - Whatever! Or..... plain and simple- "kick the shit out of someone else" in Carver!! Get ready to Rock!
Go Hawks!
But let's get real.... our guys have been hard at it- pounding on each other since September- on their own, until "Official" practices started in October. So, Yah..... "Get the Rust off" - Whatever! Or..... plain and simple- "kick the shit out of someone else" in Carver!! Get ready to Rock!
Go Hawks!
I bet he also didn't want his first time to have an empty stands either.
As it stands right now, Iowa's guys will get 13 matches (counting National Duals as one match) against Division I schools. That means that each of them will have to get at least four matches against D-1 opponents at Midlands that (and this part is key) do not also wrestle for Iowa, in order to have the 17-match minimum to qualify for an RPI before the Big Ten's, and that's if they wrestle the entire schedule. For guys like Gilman, Clark, and Sorensen, this isn't a problem, even if they miss some time, because they're likely to qualify through Big Ten's anyway, but for any wrestler who isn't a likely top 12-15 guy (which is usually the threshold it takes, roughly, to have a .700 winning percentage from a Big Ten schedule), they're unlikely to qualify a spot for their conference, meaning they'd either have to "steal" a spot from somebody else at Big Ten's, or sweat out the at-large selection process. That's where Iowa's current Iowa City Duals situation becomes more of an issue.
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