Big 10 PBP
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As tired as I've ever seen Angelo but at the same time, a bit better game shape than expected with that much time off.
Gabe gets hit for stalling.
John gets a takedown with 1 second left.
Looked like Arnold wasn’t expecting anything with 3 seconds left. Wrestle to the damn whistle
John gets a takedown with 1 second left.
Looked like Arnold wasn’t expecting anything with 3 seconds left. Wrestle to the damn whistle
Wow - Gabe gets taken down with basically 1 second left - I think he was hoping for SV
Looked like a takedown live. quit wrestling with 3 seconds left
When will Gabe learn not to let it go to the very end?
Arnold is content to go 0-0 until the final 30 seconds and either win or lose with the last shot. I don’t know how he hasn’t figured out that you will lose more of those than you win. Frustrating.
I knew that without actually knowing
In his defense he’s wrestled like 10 matches in his career at his actual weight class but I get it man it’s frustrating
He is what he is. Dropping to 174 wont change it or morph him into an offensive juggernaut
Gabe looks small for the weight class
When you constantly wrestle a Morningstar style match you will lose late sometimes like that
Well that was incredibly stupid wrestling. So frustrating.
Gabe is giving up a TON of size. Remember, at one point he was at 174 this season. Hopefully he can do some damage on the backside, but the size difference in that match was pretty crazy…
Just sloppy there, frustrating. But not sure he would have been able to score in SV. Kudos to him for battling at multiple weights this year, just undersized here and really needs to work on offensive confidence this offseason. Has the potential to be really good at 174.
When he can wrestle his correct weight.
So stupid there’s no other option at 197.
Gabe is boring as is but he’s forced to make it ugly to even stand a chance at 197.
Gabe is boring as is but he’s forced to make it ugly to even stand a chance at 197.
Size difference wasn’t the reason to have a brain freeze with 3 seconds left. No excuse for that
I hope they continue to hit Angelo with stall calls. The backing up to the edge and the dropping to a knee are both painful to watch.
I mean, he’s done it at every weight he’s wrestled at collegiately. I think that’s just who he is right now. He’s got decent offense but I think he trusts his defense more. I just hope he can put it all together one of these days and actually use his offense to actually complement his defense.
Hopefully that was sarcasm. He wrestled 174 pretty far into the season. How in the hell was he going to bulk up?
Amazing that people really think GA has a shot to AA.
Don’t think I recall seeing one shot by Gabe the entire match. Just a lot of hugging and dancing. You’d think he’d have a quickness advantage on the bigger guys and attack the ankles or slide around.
Totally BS but he's created that reputation and the refs have an inner bias because of such. Even if they say the dont bring it into the match. They do. Humans man. Gabe does no favors for him self.******* stalling on Arnold for the guy touching his leg
Just pathetic ref
Wrestling a guy that much bigger and stronger than you takes a heavy toll. Short time awareness was bad there but the winner of that match deserves a ton of credit as well for staying on the attack for the majority of the match.
Let's not pretend that GA takes a lot of shots against 174s when he wrestles them, either.
If he hasn't by now, he never will.
He's a 165 that's too muscular and too short to be wrestling any higher.
Just finished watching Gabe Arnold lose in the last 5 seconds. Heart breaking! To me this is a colossal failure of the coaching staff. I would characterize Gabe’s wrestling losses this year to a strategy that is antithetical to the once Brands dominance! In addition, the coaches indifference to allow this to happen falls squarely on the coaches! And in addition, how does the #2 ranked wrestler in the country at 184 manage to wrestle on one knee and basically win by one or two points. There is a real lethargic attitude in getting a dominant win. Come on coaches get off your lazy asses and prove you deserve to be a Hawkeye coach!
Gabe has responsibility but mental toughness & match awareness falls on the coaches. Kudos to Gabe for wrestling whenever/whoever asked. Sad ending to a typical Hawk match. Been said before but we wrestle not to lose matches versus going out and taking it…
I believe he will score a whole lot more points next year at 174 than he has in his first three seasons combined! It’s truly unheard of for him to bump up 23 pounds even more so with the height discrepancy he will face at 197. His strategy has to be keep it close and hope to steal one at the end.