The amount of bad luck seems to be unprecedented.
The hawks also have the guy that beat Chittum and is ranked second. Use NIL and the hawks built in advantage of a fan base to get proven winners going forward.
Probably not wanting to be on the same team as Anthony. Chittum seems like a better long term point scoring 157 than Anthony at this point.
Chittum has also bounced around his fair share, no guarantees he is there more than two months either.
Yup. Brands didn't want a big ego around their program...
Throw in all of the injuries for Spencer. How many matches did we get to see a fully healthy Spencer with 2 good knees?
Personally I hate all of the mega threads with hundreds (or even thousands) of posts so I wish people would start more new threads when the old one gets derailed into a pissing contest completely unrelated to the topic.
PSU's success with the portal only rivals Iowa's if you include Kerk and Mesenbrink, who technically portalled, but never actually wrestled for their original teams. If you consider them recommitments of recruits, which is closer to the truth for those guys, then PSU's portal gem is Dean, who obviously won a title, and they have Nagao and Truax now who look good so far but we'll see come March, but their other portal guys have not had much success, especially post-season (e.g. Hildebrandt, Conel, Berge Sr Yr, Kuhn, Keener). Their track record doesn't hold a candle to Eierman, Lugo, Woods, ADS, Franek/Caliendo, etc. Recruiting & development are where they have crushed everyone else. I'm not going back far enough to consider pre-portal transfers like Taylor at the start of Cael's tenure.
Man i never looked at it from this view. Those losses are the difference between beating/competing with PSU to possibly be fighting for placing with mich/osu/cornell/nebby/ncst continually getting closer.
So true Vodka. Top talent will be more likely to transfer to an improving team with a hole, not a declining team with many holes. We will find that other top teams will be just as able to use the transfer portal as we are. The portal will never be a long-term solution, and it's only as effective as the reputations of the teams using it. The rich always get richer.
It’s one thing dealing with the athletes ego vs. dealing with a relative of the athlete’s ego. With all the things that transpired after Chittum left, I feel Brands felt desperate and took a chance on someone that nobody else would bring in.
Why do you believe? I have these sorts of worries when I'm drinking to much coffee sometimes. Maybe try cutting back?
That is an opinion.
Angelo already signed his letter of intent, he’s kind of stuck unless Brands will grant him his release.
How is this not the obvious and only answer? I don’t want to piggyback my thoughts on to your post, but I’ve said what I’ve said about this program for almost a decade now. Things have to change.
I thought with the portal you can have one transfer with no release , sitting out, or losing a year of eligibility? It would make his next move one he better be sure of. This is why chittum refused to sign, he could change his commitment to Iowa State, and still has one more transfer before there are penalties. If you transfer again after using the portal once, do you lose a year of eligibility, or just have to sit out a year??
the only way we get multiple blue chip HS kids is if tom begins to realize he actually has to lose the ego and to start to recruit them. only way we get the better wrestlers is by transfer. it does seem that recruiting the top HS wrestlers has worked sort of ok for penn state. tom needs to do his job!
