Russ Rose is also 1100 wins over .500 in his career.
Let that sink in.
PSU - Northwestern '26 Match Thread
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Let that sink in.
That’s a tough question to answer when you’re comparing two different sports. Rules, scoring, etc are different so it’s hard to make a direct comparison.
However, a more apples to apples question would be whether any of Iowa’s teams under Gable could compare to the recent teams at Penn State. Iowa had some good teams and winning streaks when Gable was coach. How did they stack up? The stats guys should be able to give some solid numbers on this one.
Ol Bob is taking some infrared heat over there.
personally, I think it’s a pretty weird thing to be a big time college athletic booster. Is there not an actual charity that might make better use of your money??
but with that said, it seems just as weird for the non donor class to ***** about it.
Years ago Gable put a mat together around 64 feet in diameter to prevent Oklahoma State from working the edge.
I think they called mat ,Big Bertha??
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Don't forget part of 109 match win streak.
Ohio State, Oklahoma Sate, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, Cornell, Iowa State and maybe Iowa all fighting for team trophies 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Seems to me there is parity, it's just standing in line behind PSU.
Funny, someone mentioned the calm, quiet coaching style of Cael and the first thing I thought of was John Wooden.
Gable I'm sure gets pissed off when people say that. Iowa has nobody who wrestles like a Gable trained wrestler. Gable wrestlers did push and shove, and when they got you to the edge they would shoot driving you off the mat. They also would beat you to death with handfighting, but they scored takedowns and offensive points.
Iowa hasn't had a Gable looking dude since Metcalf. I can't even label Spencer as a Gable looking athlete, Gable would have never tolerated Spencer's conditioning.
Lehigh could be in that group. If they stay healthy they could have a real good tournament team
Props to Northwestern who came to wrestle. Have always been impressed with Storniolo as a coach. He always gets a lot out of his team and has had quite a few AAs at a tough school to recruit and retain talent at. I promise you, he would get much more out of the Iowa roster than Brands does. #PAStrong
Kurdelmeier was the coach who ordered that mat and is was used for a meet against Oklahoma.
I bet Gable absolutely adored Cory Clark winning a title with one arm Frankensteined onto his body.
@El-Jefe got the rules correct. To give it a tad more context, I'll offer this.
Mats are expensive. While the NCAA would prefer that every institution uses a larger mat (52X52), they don't want to force smaller programs to have to purchase a new mat. Plus, they are aware that some smaller arenas, where some of the smaller programs compete, really don't have enough space for 52x52, plus the required 5 feet from the edge of the mat to anything (tables, bleachers, wrestler seating, walls) that could be considered dangerous to the competitors. So, they've been forced to compromise, and provide minimum and maximum sizes of mats, so that all NCAA programs can use their existing maps, and hope that if/when they purchase their next map, they'll purchase a larger one (if the arena/competition site allows for such).
Mat costs, and competition site limitations, are an even bigger issue in high schools and middle schools. That's why the out-of-bound rules that the NCAA adopted were slow to be (and still not fully) adopted by the NFHS, which sets rules for high school & middle school.
Another factor is tournaments. Some schools might be able to trot out a bigger mat for duals but not have space for 4-6 big mats.
I am sure he admired the toughness Clark needed to get that championship.
I always thought that was a Gable OkieSt thing also. A couple years ago I read an article on how that really played out.
Except Wooden was probably the biggest cheater in NCAA history outside of SMU
Wooden and UCLA did nothing other than follow the Alabama football model.
Oooh. Ouch! There’s a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct! This is a great sport and every college wrestler deserves our respect for getting on the mat to scrap. Northwestern has numerous issues with their wrestling program, not dissimilar to what PSU experiences with Basketball and Indiana with football (oops). Matt stands up to adversity and coaches his guys to get the most out of what they bring to the sport. Thats nothing to be embarrassed about.
Don't think Fishback is a top 4 guy.
They are collecting aluminum cans to pay for it. I donated my empty beer cans from Iowa week............they should have a new mat by next weekend.
Well....you would be wrong.
. He has been in the OSU room for months. Under Ryan's tutelage....he has earned his Black Shirt. Do you think he gives them out to just anybody? In the words of Thomas Jefferson: "I pity the fool" Tee HeeBlack shirt.Well....you would be wrong.
No one said that there would be “math” involved
No. 323: Meet Big Bertha
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