It is possible I am misremembering the conflict there when it comes to the injury. Penn State has had a fair number of people wrestling injured come NCAAs over the years so I doubt they have a high bar. Even if it had been as I thought it wasn't a good example to compare as freshman you want to be able to wrestle well the next few years to what was supposed to be a one year fill.
Much of this is true, but the Iowa legacy might not be as big of a selling point that it was in the years following Gable. PSU has the location advantage. Ok St has legacy, money, a new young coach who had a great success that was running a wrestling school in a good enough location.
David Carr or Jason Nolf. Get either on board as an assistant ASAP. Get both if you can.
Beyond finding them they have to exist. In my wrestling life Gable, Smith, Brands, Sanderson. In 40years this is the list of Multi championship coaches. Whose next? Taylor seems poised to challenge for a title. Iowa has a decent base and solid recruits coming in but PSU routinely has half of the junior world team coming in annually.
Don’t be forgetting about Jay Robison. Miss seeing him around
You beat me too it. J-Rob had the Gophers pretty damn salty for quite awhile. 3 Natty's during his long tenure there. And some epic duals with the Hawks.
The current “culture/climate” that some elite recruits see as a negative at Iowa may also be a deterrent for recruiting elite assistant coaches.
Iowa is a premier program. Anyone that has any interest in coaching would listen to a call from Iowa to become the head assistant, knowing that puts them directly in line to become the head coach of one of the 3-4 best jobs in the country.
I would think that would be a pretty big issue as well. If you are bringing outside assistants with the Brands still there, I think you would be asking for problems. Iowa is a historic program. Gable created that "Iowa way" of doing things. It was super successful. The Brands not only saw that, but became a part of it. When you see that much success, it would be hard to see another approach. I believe any outside assistant would get a lot of pushback teaching a drastically different style. I would pay good money to see the look on their faces when Nolf spent a ton of time on play wrestling lol.
While I would tend to agree with the head coach position, I’m not sure many potential elite assistants would have interest without explicit guarantees regarding the eventual head coaching position. There are certainly no guarantees that any assistant gets the head position.
That relentless "Iowa Style" is apparent in one, maybe two of the current starters. The Iowa Style is non-existent and easily replaced by a style that wins.
Haven’t seen that Iowa style outside of a few of our studs as of late…the different style you speak of might be the Iowa style that Gable created and we’ve been looking for.
I see that, and I think most people do as well. Unfortunately, I don't believe the man at the helm sees it. That would be a big roadblock to any outsider coming in as long as he is there. He's not exactly know for his ability to embrace change.
Been out of action since November. Will take time to get back into active wrestling shape. So, hope it isn't too much longer.
The lack of windows in the new facility is making sense now. Can't have folks peeping in on a conclave.
Been sitting on that gif and I just got roped in because of my username or what? Not sure how else it’s relevant to me. Oh, and Angelo is probably the least concerning part of our lineup right now
Ferrari dropped to his knees 32 times last night. Just wanted to keep you updated with the wrestling news.
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Nobody wants that positive infinity BS in Carver. He is a good coach but has the driving skills of AJ.
Had lot of great guys. And only Spencer won a national title. Ridiculous. Yeah we can speculate about 2020 but who knows. History would show tom wouldn’t have them ready to go. I still think Lugo would have won it that year.
It seems like the primary disagreement was that Endene thought the neck injury was more serious than Brands and was looking at shutting down his season and getting a medical redshirt and Brands disagreed. If that’s the case, he’s not coming back this year even if he & Brands patch things up and get him to come back next season.
What does this even mean
He wanted to come back yet this season but needed more time. Mo was very certain he would be good to go with another couple of weeks. At this point he will get a medical year if he wants one, but highly unlikely it would be at Iowa. It could still happen that he would return this year.
Tom Brands patch things up with someone LOL good one
Ask Colman Scott, who gave up a D1 head coaching gig to be an assistant to Smith with the idea of him taking over for Smith. I believe he is an assistant at tOSU now.
The fans would go crazy and it would make Tom and Terry look bad... m
Fans cheering because a wrestler came back would be the last thing the Brands are worried about.
