Aaron Brooks suspension - 3 years?

Cali_Nittany1

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that would be the comment you’d make in this thread 🤣 no comment on your wrestler getting popped twice in the past year? IM POSITIVE this was just a post collegiate snafu tho!

He deserves the suspension. As for steroid use at the collegiate level, you'll believe what you want to believe. There's no use trying to discuss it.
 
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Bo Nickal, who was in Brook’s corner against DT and received the public social media beatdown from Palacio on the subject has been quiet other than reposts about himself and RAF. Not shocking I suppose:/
I assume he hasn’t heard then. He can’t help but insert himself into everything.
 

PAHawkeye1

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the word around UnHappy Valley is that he was hitting some Banned Juice during his under grad years and so was Carter GrabCrotchme... thats why he avoided wrestling on the international scene for a long time and when he was pushed that direction Grabcrotchme stayed clean but then was injured and had to start up again to get healthy... Just a little story thats been floated by a couple local sources... the times and events line up so who knows??? CUE ALL PSTATE fanboys to rush to their defense in 3....2...1... GO !!!
 

Anon1746362370

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this one is too easy. 4 time champ at Iowa ? Sorry could not resist
None, zero, zilch.....that said, I'm sure you PSU fans are so proud of Brooks and Carter. Praise God some more as you cheat. I'll take our 3 timers and coaches who aren't involved with....oh forget it...it's too easy.
 
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GLC1969

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Wow tale a Joke. I despise PSU but to constantly call them out gets tiresome. You can’t with a straight face say they don’t have a better program right now. The old days of Gable are gone and I know for a fact those boys were no angles. He cheated got caught is being punished what more do you want.
 

Slim45

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Wow tale a Joke. I despise PSU but to constantly call them out gets tiresome. You can’t with a straight face say they don’t have a better program right now. The old days of Gable are gone and I know for a fact those boys were no angles. He cheated got caught is being punished what more do you want.
How’d they get there? The same way OSU will, by doing whatever they want outside the rules and with an open checkbook. They just got a jump on everybody by finding ways to pay wrestlers before NIL was a thing. Really can’t be talked about too much imo
 

GLC1969

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I want to make sure I get this correct. The only reason they are better than Iowa right now is because they are cheating. Got it.
 
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MSU158

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I want to make sure I get this correct. The only reason they are better than Iowa right now is because they are cheating. Got it.
"Cheating" is a very strong word and not one I am a fan of. Now, that doesn't mean they didn't absolutely venture into "grey" areas that the Brands were either not willing to enter, or simply not allowed to, with the RTC being the most visible.

WIth that said, they are better simply because Cael is a UNICORN. The first 4x Undefeated Champ and an Olympic Gold Medalist. Then match him up in arguably the biggest Athletic Department with wrestling, centered in THE hotbed for High School Wrestling AND a big money donor. There are simply some MAJOR built-in advantages that Iowa simply does not have.

Still, Iowa absolutely has competed better than anyone and it really isn't remotely close. The problem now is simply the RTC, which, by all accounts, is something the Brands seem to have little to no power over. Even Nicolls has clearly said that it would take a LOT of donors giving a LOT of money for Iowa to even begin to compete.

If, BY FAR, the biggest money donor is saying it, maybe there is something to it...
 

Slim45

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I want to make sure I get this correct. The only reason they are better than Iowa right now is because they cheated. Got it.
FIFY. With cael as their coach and being in the hotbed of wrestling, they’d likely still be the program to beat. But paying the wrestlers before it was legal seems like a pretty good way to get the ball rolling
 

HugoHugo

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How’d they get there? The same way OSU will, by doing whatever they want outside the rules and with an open checkbook. They just got a jump on everybody by finding ways to pay wrestlers before NIL was a thing. Really can’t be talked about too much imo

Wasn't Coach Gable first to market on coloring outside the lines on scholarship mathematics to pay wrestlers?
 

Folkstylefan

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"Cheating" is a very strong word and not one I am a fan of. Now, that doesn't mean they didn't absolutely venture into "grey" areas that the Brands were either not willing to enter, or simply not allowed to, with the RTC being the most visible.

WIth that said, they are better simply because Cael is a UNICORN. The first 4x Undefeated Champ and an Olympic Gold Medalist. Then match him up in arguably the biggest Athletic Department with wrestling, centered in THE hotbed for High School Wrestling AND a big money donor. There are simply some MAJOR built-in advantages that Iowa simply does not have.

Still, Iowa absolutely has competed better than anyone and it really isn't remotely close. The problem now is simply the RTC, which, by all accounts, is something the Brands seem to have little to no power over. Even Nicolls has clearly said that it would take a LOT of donors giving a LOT of money for Iowa to even begin to compete.

If, BY FAR, the biggest money donor is saying it, maybe there is something to it...
Now that doesn’t fit the iowa narrative, anyone better has to be cheating.
 
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MSU158

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Now that doesn’t fit the iowa narrative, anyone better has to be cheating.
I pretty much mess with PSU fans as hard as anyone can, which nearly blinds all of them to the fact that I am almost always complimentary to the program itself.

The “worst” thing I say is that the biggest reason they are so successful is recruiting. The amount of top 10’s they have in their stable is unheard of. Still, if that’s taken as an insult, it’s only because you are looking for something that simply isn’t there…
 
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Anon1746362370

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Now that doesn’t fit the iowa narrative, anyone better has to be cheating.
Not everyone but I do think PSU is cheating and has been cheating. First with the $ going to their guys some way or another. More recently I think they're cheating with the help of PEDs. Sad part is I think they'd be winning most years without all that cheating because I think they have great coaches, great culture, and the best high school hotbed of talent around. Doesn't matter if my opinion is right or wrong really, we have to find a way to beat them.
 

vhsalum1

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Not everyone but I do think PSU is cheating and has been cheating. First with the $ going to their guys some way or another. More recently I think they're cheating with the help of PEDs. Sad part is I think they'd be winning most years without all that cheating because I think they have great coaches, great culture, and the best high school hotbed of talent around. Doesn't matter if my opinion is right or wrong really, we have to find a way to beat them.
They have too many guys making world teams and winning world medals/traveling (Fix popped out of competition and Z popped at random UWW tournament) for it to be culture based/mass steroids.

I'll never trust AB again. Mr. "I don't lift" and yet somehow his hat size went up 4 inches.
 

hooraybeer

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They have too many guys making world teams and winning world medals/traveling (Fix popped out of competition and Z popped at random UWW tournament) for it to be culture based/mass steroids.

I'll never trust AB again. Mr. "I don't lift" and yet somehow his hat size went up 4 inches.
Did it? Ex Iowa wrestler and an intimate head measuring expert of young men... You sure are special.
 

funnyfletcher

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season 5 what an odd thing to say GIF