Coaching Staff Next Year
- Thread starter WEH8ST8HAWK
- Start date
You have a guy who’s addicted to prostitutes, another who can’t stop fighting cops, another suspended for PEDs, and another who sexually assaults his teammates. Please get over your saltiness of Spencer rejecting you.
Man some of you Penn St fans have the mentality of a 7 year old. He lost going for 4 and his mom was upset. My guess is your offspring won't be achieving 10% of that
You might very well be right. That said, I think wrestling is a sport where I think a young guy can take the reins and be successful without a super long gestation period.
Spencer is the same age now as when Cael became HC at ISU, for instance.
Have you watched his kids wrestle? They're very versatile in their attacks and style. Steve wrestled the way he did bc it worked for him and if I recall he had a judo background. And maybe he's ready to leave ATT, (even if just part of the year) so he can spend more time coaching his kid(s)? I'm speculating but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
If he wins gold in LA, I'd take that chance in a heartbeat. As has been noted many times, head coaching experience is far less important than the ability to attract the top kids. With his PA roots and hopefully two big medals around his neck he'd be a big draw.
Imagine the level of loser one has to be to create multiple handles just to troll another fanbase.
JB would also fit that bill. Plus I think he would be an exceptional fund raiser.
I would not even have JB on a list to call.
Have to figure out HWT training partner one way or the other. They were looking for a club guy last summer even with Bob on staff. If Bob is leaving, this needs to be addressed in some capacity.
I like JB I just dont see him as the Iowa head coach. I do not think he is going to be a college head coach at all, but if were to take over a program I think it would be Rutgers.
Still have to call him and make him say no. If you dont, then you got the wrong person doing the job
2 time NCAA champ
6 time world champ
Olympic champion
Arguably the most decorated American wrestler in history
Growing wrestling academy
Recently expressed interest in coaching in college
Still in his 30s
Meh…”I would not even have JB on a list to call.”
No. Michael Mocco, Bobby Duffy, Owen McMullen, and David Calkins are the 2026 recruits. A very underwhelming class. Only Mocco is considered top 10 in class. None of rest are Top 50. You may be thinking about unsigned guys in 2027. We do have a lot of 2027 Top 30 guys “committed” but not signed. We know what can happen there. We are paying the most outside of PSU and OSU, and those guys would jump ship if offered more somewhere else. But, for now, we do have an excellent 2027 recruiting class on paper.
Biggest Brands fan boy says this. Never change grip.
National letter of intents don't exist anymore they actually sign financial aid docs now. No team in America has a guy until he actually enrolls now nothing binds them to a University
So you are saying we should still be holding out hope on the Raneys?
The need for donors is even bigger now. Don’t be surprised when wrestling gets little to nothing in revenue sharing. Even if they get $500k, That’s nothing for a Top program. They aren’t taking a million away from the cash cows of Football and Men’s Basketball. If those teams aren’t successful, especially Football, the whole thing falls apart pretty quickly. Wrestling needs to find their own donors. This is the only way it’s going to work. Regardless of coach, without donors, we won’t be a Top program. In fact top coach won’t come without donor funding commitments.
You're wrong about rev share . The # will be way more then what you said . Triple that at least
. Donors will help but with NIL Go now NIL has to be legit business not just donor $. And the average NIL Go deal now is under 10KI know I'm not the brightest crayon in the box but I also know for how long these know it all, close to the program guys have piled on me for telling it like it is. We should have made changes years ago and then, hopefully, we wouldn't be where we are.Quit acting like you’re the smartest guy in the room and that you’re the only guy who realized that we needed change years ago. That’s a bad look and besides we already know that MSU is the smartest guy in the room always!
Tom is a control freak so we shall see who the new hire is. My guess is it will be a guy who will do exactly what Tom says without questioning anything or giving new ideas. We'll see in a week or two.
"Those guys would jump ship if offered more sonewhere else". You know this... how? I'm assuming you have spoken directly and obviously intimately to the families. Interesting since the wrestlers all said they were not involved in the money talks, only the family was. And that they got what the families thought they wanted. So, do tell us...
Don’t count on the rev share being that high. It’s significantly lower than what was originally promised.You're wrong about rev share . The # will be way more then what you said . Triple that at least
Maybe we are hearing different things then. But I expect it to be a very good #
JB could be on staff for a minute and have more blue chips ready to sign than the current staff has in 10 years.
He was quick twitch with a great double. Can that be taught to anyone? Was JB top game in folkstyle something that people were impressed by?
When Ed Ruth became a coach everyone was so excited and what he was able to do was because of his body type and athletic abilities those things aren't things that are teachable to others.
Give me a break. Such a lazy take that makes me instantly roll my eyes. He was far more than a good double guy.
No coach teaches his guy how to wrestle exactly like him. It’s about getting talent/recruiting, mentality, and helping them develop. His mental game was a strong as they come. He also really evolved himself over the course of his international career.
Also, choosing Ed Ruth as an example was a choice…
Last edited:
It can be taught to elite talents. The kids Iowa misses out on every year. The elite kids that go to PSU and now OSU. Did TNT teach Spencer Lee his inside ties and turns for back points? Did you think they taught Metcalf to be Metcalf? No. Both guys would have been elite wherever they went. They were elite wrestling talents.
The current staff misses out on these guys every year. The ones they do get, the ones that could have gone anywhere, turn out just fine. They just dont get enough of them.
They F suck at recruiting. That has been evident since 2010. Its why they have to buy transfers now to finish top 5.
He was a very good college wrestler, but if my memory is right, Metcalf was better in college. He got his fame in freestyle. His big name and personality would recruit well. I just have a feeling Nolf would be a better technical coach, and having the PSU program blueprint like Taylor has is valuable.
JB was 2x NCAA champ and 3rd place finish as a sophomore (Metcalf won that year and beat JB in the semis). Won a Hodge his senior year.
Metcalf 2x NCAA champ and a runner up. Won the Hodge as a sophomore. Obviously metcalf was robbed of his freshman year.
Pretty comparable careers in college.