Until this staff starts recruiting the "long/tall" type of wrestler, things won't improve.
People on here can say what happened, people on here won’t say what happened because it’s not our place to say it. There are plenty of things you can criticize Tom for, the Endene situation isn’t one of them.
Or it wasn't as serious of an injury that he and his personal physician wanted the team to believe. Myself, I think he saw his stock rise after the Stout win and the windfall next year and shut it down. His loss could have been substantial when Big ten schedule came. Don't like it but can't blame him with today's college market.
I’ve been vocal about disliking Brands but I have never wanted or rooted for them or Iowa to fail. I have never heard anything about the weird Ayala thing but it wouldn’t sway me either way.
No, i dont see the similarities because your assumptions and facts are a little off
Me asking questions are now assumptions and facts? The floor is yours to correct the record.
Knowing the void they would have at 197 without Mo, do you honestly think this all happened cuz they wouldn’t wait a month to let him get healthier? It’s not like they have really been focusing on winning duals this year anyway.
It’s difficult to discern what’s real and what’s not with all the things being said and the ones with the actual knowledge refusing to say. I have no idea on how the NIL payments and scheduling work.
It may not sound like me, but I am not looking to go round and round on this one. I simply am telling you what I have been told. I am not saying I heard it from someone so tight inside the room that it should be taken as gospel, but I do trust it enough to confidently put it on here…take it as you will.
As long as there is some kind of issue, you could get a doctor to side with you (ie. favorable opinion for you) simply by asking. The doctor for the university has a vested interest in getting it right either way it goes. Just look at worker's compensation issues for a little insight on the matter. And don't give me the ethical BS that no doctor would ever do such a thing.
Put this in light of just having a kid. If you can't get your deal renegotiated with Iowa, this is your plan B. Don't love it as a fan, but get it as a father.
Franek won a ton of duals for us and also AA'ed. Teemer and Parco were also critical for dual success last year beating Nebraska and such. I would not call them misses. Austin Desanto is also a transfer. So is Jayden Eireman and Real Woods. All did very well for Iowa. Peterson is currently doing well.
Franek AAd and Parco was nails all year until his knee got twisted up
Two years ago when our second half of the lineup was: Caliendo, Kennedy, Riggins, Glazier, and Hill was pretty rough. I think 0 points at NCAA for 184/197/285. Rathjen at 149 wasn't very good either. Lee, Woods, Franek, and Caliendo were the only saving grace for the lineup, and that was the year Lee underperformed (6th), Woods underperformed (2nd to 4th), Franek underperformed (4th to 7th) and only Caliendo improved (7th to 4th). Teske at 133 was hit or miss for most duals, and I think he made bloodround at NCAA's. This, in my opinion, was the worst year for Iowa in recent history.
Parco was the 5 seed. Total miss. And it was obviously Toms fault he tore his acl in the tournament
It doesn't change the substance of what you said, but you can use two two-day tournaments or two duals in three days exceptions per season.
Is that for a total of four or a total of two? If it's just two I assume you could do one of each??
This makes Tom and Terry not look great. I said five years, but if you want to include all these guys, Austin Desanto was a great success and developed extremely well at Iowa. Jaydin Eierman, one of my all time favorite Hawkeyes, was great his first year and injured his last year. The same exact thing with Real Woods and he regressed. Teemer was seemingly hurt his entire Iowa tenure. Parco got injured in his only year at Iowa. Mo also got injured. Franek did a heck of a lot better at NDSU than Iowa. Every single one of these guys above (excluding Desanto) regressed and most got injured at Iowa. Every Single Guy.
Again Lugo was more than 5 years ago and wasn’t paid NIL to come to iowa for a year.
Eierman tore his ACL in match against Chad Red. Teemer hurt his hamstring in match against ISU. Parco hurt himself in match at NCAAs. How is Tom supposed to stop that from happening. Just not wrestle? Also Franek being “ a heck of a lot” better at NDSU is just not true.
So Iowa guys are constantly, and I mean constantly, beaten down and/or injured before or during March. Iowa should adapt to new school thoughts of training and injury prevention because whatever they are doing is currently about to drive this program off a cliff. It’s probably already happened honestly.
Agree with you on this. Add Woods neck disk issue (certainly not an over training issue). I'd make the argument that Franek suffered from having to wrestle a much tougher schedule in the Big 10 and lowering his seed a bit in the tourney.
PSU had serious injuries occur to Nolf (knee), Soriano (ankle), Cassar (shoulder), Van Ness (ACL), Rasheed (shoulder), Berge (concussion, Kerkvelet(knee), .... hell Nagao, Davis and Barr have all been hurt this year alone.
61 but I read at a 64 year old level.
Totally agree. I don't care what some H.S. recruiting class ranking stats might show, especially if averaged over a longer period, nobody can (with a straight face) look at recruiting over the last 5-7 years and think we are remotely close to PSU, and more recently, a couple other teams. I mean, how many Fr/RFr phenoms (actual D1 performance) we had? Was Spencer the only in last 10 years? That aside, I tend to agree with him on other points, in this video and others I've seen. Just think he tends to weigh 'development' more because he 1) makes money off it, and 2) he primarily works with youth and THAT is the time when development is MOST possible and crucial. But don't tell me recent Iowa recruiting has been anywhere near on par with PSU (and recently OSU).
No just pointing that out is all. Tom and the bunker mentality, oh yeah I see that.
Well having a bad neck isn’t going to help you get picked up by another D1 for a big bag. That strategy worked to get out of his commitment to us this year and get a medical, but now that he’s shopping around he needs to be suddenly cured.He was also at a local club wrestling with some HS kids guess his neck is fine
I think he wanted to renegotiate his deal for coming back next year and Tom needed him most this year, and knows when he’s being shook down.
Willie was just talking about jimmy Cinnabon on Basch and the brain recently.
I always look at transfers short term vs long term. Short term transfers are more like mercenaries, which has only gotten worse in the NIL era. Long term transfers are more like “re-recruits” who have time to be fully integrated and invested in the program. There are the occasional short-term mercenaries that work out (Suriano at Mich, Buchanan, Hamiti/Hendo), but if you look at both Iowa and PSU, the short term recruits are much more likely to regress (due to injury or whatever): Franek, Teemer, Parco, Endene at Iowa or Truax, Hildebrandt, Conel at PSU., the long term re-recruit transfer tend to be much more likely to live up to expectations (or exceed them): ADS, Caliendo, Lugo, Eierman, Kerkvliet,,Mesenbrink, etc. Reloading with mercenaries every year is a ticket to mediocrity.
I think you take the development thing all wrong. That and recruiting go hand in hand. Sure, they develop faster in the youth stage, but its not just about technique. He is big on alot of sports psychologist thoughts, and thats a big part of development at the higher level. Penn State tends to overperform when the lights are on. Unfortunately, Iowa doesnt. Its not just about about wrestling technique. I would argue that at the D1 level, the development between the ears is more important. He mentioned guys leaving both programs with different thoughts about their experience. PSU guys speak highly of the program, even after they move on. They talk about stepping on campus and going weeks without getting a takedown. Or getting ridden out an entire practice. Those are some wrestlers that probably spent the last few years dominating everyone. Thats part of development as well, and they themselves say that. Those kinds of stories help recruiting way more than shoveling sidewalks.
