it's not like Iowa's incoming classes are the stuff of legend:
Recruiting Class of 2024
Dru Ayala – Fort Dodge, Iowa 120 lbs.
Keyan Hernandez – Billings (West), Montana 126 lbs.
Miguel Estrada Bakersfield (Frontier HS), California 144 lbs. #5 at 150
Angelo Ferrari – Melissa, Texas 175 lbs. #1 P4P and #1 at 165
Jake Howell – Glenwood Village (Cherry Creek HS), Colorado 215 lbs.
Recruiting Class of 2025
Leo DeLuca – Blair Academy New Jersey 120 lbs. #1 at 120 and #17 P4P
Leister Bowling – Mead, Colorado 175 lbs.
A meager 3 ranked wrestlers in back-to-back classes.
This is why AJ's antics will be tolerated more than almost everyone else. Iowa, right now, has NO WAY of making a run for a National Title anytime soon.
If not the Ferraris then Iowa has no answer to their recruiting woes.
THIS is the real problem TnT are facing. They don't seem to be able to recruit blue chip wrestlers. maybe one here and there, but not the haul that Penn St and others are raking in.
There is one possible solution ... regime change. I think that's what needs to happen.
Recruiting Class of 2024
Dru Ayala – Fort Dodge, Iowa 120 lbs.
Keyan Hernandez – Billings (West), Montana 126 lbs.
Miguel Estrada Bakersfield (Frontier HS), California 144 lbs. #5 at 150
Angelo Ferrari – Melissa, Texas 175 lbs. #1 P4P and #1 at 165
Jake Howell – Glenwood Village (Cherry Creek HS), Colorado 215 lbs.
Recruiting Class of 2025
Leo DeLuca – Blair Academy New Jersey 120 lbs. #1 at 120 and #17 P4P
Leister Bowling – Mead, Colorado 175 lbs.
A meager 3 ranked wrestlers in back-to-back classes.
This is why AJ's antics will be tolerated more than almost everyone else. Iowa, right now, has NO WAY of making a run for a National Title anytime soon.
If not the Ferraris then Iowa has no answer to their recruiting woes.
THIS is the real problem TnT are facing. They don't seem to be able to recruit blue chip wrestlers. maybe one here and there, but not the haul that Penn St and others are raking in.
There is one possible solution ... regime change. I think that's what needs to happen.