Come on now. You know that was different. He was up against someone actually on the team.
Booing at Carver Hawkeye
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Come on now. You know that was different. He was up against someone actually on the team.
Whoever started the woo should be banned from carver for life along with anyone caught doing it. And I'm only half kidding
.The Brands probably deserve a few boo birds walking back from the handshake line. That was beyond awful.
I’ve argued this before, I’ll try again. This woo thing started as “pew,” the sound of a gun shot, when Sam Stoll returned to the lineup after the infamous gun shot wound. I remember the first night it happened and remember thinking, what the hell is this! I saw people laughing and asked the guy in front of me, who was laughing, what it was. He said they were mimicking a gun shot sound.Whoever started the woo should be banned from carver for life along with anyone caught doing it. And I'm only half kidding
It's the audible version of the stadium "Wave." How long did it take for that trend to die out?Whoever started the woo should be banned from carver for life along with anyone caught doing it. And I'm only half kidding
I was already in a pissy mood, but following that abysmal showing at 174 my wife stands, walks around the back of the couch, leans over running her hands down my chest and sensually whispers in my ear, "Come to bed. I'll make you forget all about this."
I do nothing. I don't move. Instead I stare at the TV and quietly say, "No. I'm going to sit here and take it. I'm going to wallow in my own misery."
"Oooookay," she replies as she goes off to bed. Alone.
Upon further self-reflection I now firmly believe those that haven't checked out at this point are just idiots. We're all morans.
Is that acceptable for you? Please discuss with Basch on your next episode.
Entitlement mindset. Respect is earned. Excitement is earned.
I still love Iowa and desperately want them to succeed. Tom has to earn my respect and excitement.
Fandom doesn’t have to be a cult. You can voice dissent/dissatisfaction/disinterest and still be a fan.
And from a practical standpoint, disinterest is a means for moving the program in the right direction. Season tickets not selling out sends a message. Blind support doesn’t. If you’re a fan who wants to win and you don’t believe in Brands, you should be withholding support. Standards over participation trophies.
ok fine. you're right. you definitely need a break
LOL. I’ve been there my man. With my Mets and Giants
it’s why I love Penn State wrestling. The one team that never lets me down.
To the rest of the Iowa faithful here..I feel for you guys right now. I mean it
There wasn't over 3500 fans at the meets at the end of the Zalesky era and that's no joke. My wife dropped me off and picked me up because no one else in my family wanted to go. It was a snooze fest. I am not bragging on what happened up there Friday night either. That was a embarrassment to the sport of wresting. Why would anyone want to spend money on that product. Horrible
I don't want to be argumentative, but it started when Stoll was battling injury and we had the meet against Lehigh locked up and we sent out the back-up ( kid from Dubuque, it's too early in the morning for names to work in my brain) in his place against Lehigh's highly ranked returning AA (also his name not coming to me). People started the woo making fun of him beating up on a back-up. I think it was before Stoll got shot, so I don't think it was a pew, but that would make sense if it was after.
That was a sad time. I liked Jimmy, but it was a couple years overdue. I din't want Brands to come at that time, but he grew on me. I think it's overdue for him now.
It more had to do with the idiotic plan to always, without fail, have the NCAA wrestling championship the opening weekend of March Madness. Literally choose any other weekend, but that one. And the NCAA won’t do it. It’s crazy.
They have done a better job not going after grinders the last 3-4 classes, but lost the ultimate grinder that everyone wanted in 2026 class. Would you call any of the 2026,2027,2028 recruits we have so far grinders?
Who did you want them to hire back then? Brands seemed like a no brainer.
The obvious choice would have been Cael. They screwed the pooch on that one.
When they hired Brands they thought they had the next Gable. He was given a pass when his double recruiting class won it all. Look back and see how many times he has truly challenged for a national title in 20 years. He has 4 GREAT. Covid DOES NOT COUNT. I say he has had 1 or 2 total. Better then everyone other then PSU, but. Not up to Iowa standards. Keep running out the say old lines after a poor performance. Come March there should be a change. Iowa is becoming the Pittsburg Steelers of college wrestling always have a winning record but not getting over the hump.IMO
Hindsight, and highly unlikely you could have plugged and played Karl at any school and had the same results he's had at PSU. MAYBE at one of the other perennial schools like Iowa, but certainly no guarantee. Same could probably be said for Gable/Iowa.
Actually, and I hate to say it, Tom Ryan. He was a more proven and more mature coach at that time. Not the whiner he turned into. Tom had been a head coach for a couple of years, but still acted pretty immature at the time and I didn't know what to expect from him.
My mind is foggy about the whole timeline right now. I don't remember if ISU had just booted Douglas to make sure they kept Cael. I think it was all started because Hellickson was retiring and Gable was afraid Brands would go to tOSU, so we booted Zalesky to get Brands before we lost him, so ISU panicked and booted Douglas because they were afraid we'd take Cael like we did Gable back in the day, taking him off the table. Then he bailed on them in a couple of years anyway. I think that's how it all played out. Then Brands brought Gable back as an assistant for a year until he coaxed Terry away from the Training Center. When tOSU missed on Brands, they took Ryan, who was an established, successful head coach already.