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Guess what also has layers... onions. Peel them and peel them to your heart's content. Still it is onion. It will make you cry (in addition to giving you bad breath).
Let’s talk about next year
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Guess what also has layers... onions. Peel them and peel them to your heart's content. Still it is onion. It will make you cry (in addition to giving you bad breath).
Brock if he is given the right development, Arnold is not the same wrestler and has AA potential yet to be realized, Kueter may have seen his best finish as Big 10 Competition seems to caught up to him, Deluca we do not know what we have except a damaged 125 yet to wrestle a college match. So if this is better off welcome to mediocre … we can wrestle Wisconsin & Michigan for 4th place in the big 10.
Neither are meeting their expectations. Our 84 has been noticeably absent since he was injured in a match where he was frankly tactically overmatched. Gabe has been off the team once already, hasn't developed any offense, and has spent 3 years wrestling multiple weights largely as a sacrificial lamb against top guys.
I hope like hell they stay no matter what but my gut says otherwise.
I still think the potential is there. If Kueter had spent the last two years in the PSU room my guess is he’d look like a much different wrestler. Same with the others.
Mocco’s problem will be size and power. He could really use a redshirt year to physically develop. Ben said he’s going back to football as soon as the wrestling season is over. With only 2 years to develop as a football player, he will have to 130% football from here on out, and just jump in to wrestling at the end of the season, beat up from football, not in wrestling shape and rusty. After this upcoming football season, he will have to decide which sport to concentrate on. If it’s football, don’t even come back to wrestling for the last month. Prepare for your final season of football. If it’s wrestling, do what you can with a very short junior season, and spend all the offseason wrestling.
If Arnold and Ferrari quit on us after the season, we are cooked, and even I may be on the start from scratch bandwagon.
Agree, we could end up like Iowa State football. Whoever they hire better be a big splash and great recruiter to keep the best guys from leaving or decommitting. Will be interesting to see if Tom can add 2-3 more top 2028 commits. You need at least 2 back to back strong classes to make a comeback, and really need to land a few top guys a needed weights in 29 also.
Ya, that 2026 class falling apart will haunt us for years. We had Bo, Melvin could have reclassified to be our 165 next year, and if we could have held onto Raneys, all this doom and gloom would be replaced with” just wait for the next 2 years
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100%, knew it at the time; Iowa HAD TO nail that class. The talent, timeline, and weight classes were the perfect match. Honestly all of them could have went w/o a RS next year, including Melvin with a reclass.
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Honest question, if Kueter decides to play FB next year, do you look to bring in a transfer @ 285 if a decent one hits the portal? Honestly Kueter isn't all that impressive as a full time wrestler. Waste several months of getting beat up in FB, not being as well conditioned for wrestling, and then getting a late start on the wrestling season, likely sometime in January, doesn't bode well for success.
Let's get real Kueter isn't playing football. He's a marginal football talent at best.
I’m pretty ambivalent on his choices at this point. Football might be his best option, imo.
Exactly, we have the best young group of linebackers we have had in a while. Kueter will not sniff the field in football. It;s wrestling or nothing for him. Good luck Ben. I actually think he'll be fine once he starts shooting again.
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And I have serious doubts Keuter does jack shiit in football.
Too slow at linebacker and not big enough for Dline.
$$$ changes people's desire and motivation.
BK doesn't give me the impression that he GAF.
If he truly did get the rumored $500k, that might be the biggest waste of $$$ in the brief history of NIL.
Haven't found any in high proof and decent tasting
There’s really nothing interesting about that.
And I’m sure guys are going to be lining up to not develop for a coach in his mid 60s.
What next year?
We're folding the program after this season to save money and scholarships, and for NIL for the rest of the remaining sports at Iowa.
If that's the only way to get rid of the Brands Brothers, then that's what they're gonna do.
I’d set the over/under at 3 All Americans for Iowa. The only sure fire All American is Mikey C. Angelo is an All American if he’s healthy, but don’t know if he is. Hard to imagine that a two time finalist is a question mark to All American but it’s where we are. PK wrestles a lot of close matches. Everyone else is below 50/50 to make the podium.
I understand the general point you're making but using Ohio state is a little tough. They lost their 2nd best wrestler to the transfer portal and Penn state.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think estrada is pretty darn good. Maybe not historic Iowa good but I think he could be a surprise bright spot next year if he goes.
Since what could have been with the 2026 class is being discussed: Does anyone know what ever happened to Nate Jesuroga? Did he make it through Seal training? Hope he did. Thought he'd be special.
Somewhere on a podcast a while ago I believe he admitted that he quit on the first day.
Yep, think he said something about wrestling at the Naval Academy without seeming to understand how difficult getting in would be. Seemed a little lost to me. Not sure what his college options are with his Navy commitment but hope it all works out for him.
Well of course he would have!! If he wasn’t injured and continued wrestling like he is he would’ve been recruited over long ago. And that’s not a knock on psu but just good coaching as much as it pains me to say that. This “we like our guys “ mentality is getting very old as far as wrestlers and assistants goes!!
Idk if the program still exists but there is a streamlined process for young first term enlisted members to go to their respective branches academy and commission. One of my closest friends did this and left us grubby crew chiefs behind to become an officer. With his athletic prowess, if he had good reviews and cleared a few hurdles he could definitely go. My buddy had to spend a year at the academy but it was a gap year of sorts, can't remember what it was called now, where they prepped for a year to enter the academy and then his four years began.
Clearly there will be many portal additions to have to plug into the starting lineup.
Question is: How good/impactful will they be?
Another question: are we convinced Ferrari returns?
So I’d agree with others that day next season has the makings to be “potentially” the poorest season Iowa wrestling has seen ever. 100% the key is Brands’ ability to sign at least 3 portal guys who will be outstanding. I’m not confident about that.
Where did the question of Ferrari leaving come from? Multiple posters have alluded to it but I’ve heard/seen nothing on it at all
