There's a pic of the 62' mat on this story: https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2018/11/19/wrestling-no-323-meet-big-bertha/
Hilarious!
David Taylor to Oklahoma State & related news
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Hilarious!
Don't have time to read the whole thread, so this might be old news.
According to a guy I talked to today, who is pretty tied into NY wrestling, and talked to Dake last week...If Dake goes to OSU, it won't be to coach, at least until he's 100% done competing. And, even then, he's not high on coaching. Based on the conversation, this guy said Dake just isn't into the extraneous stuff that "coaching" entails. If he coaches, he just wants to coach, not schmooze, recruit, administrate, etc.
Take it for what it's worth.
According to a guy I talked to today, who is pretty tied into NY wrestling, and talked to Dake last week...If Dake goes to OSU, it won't be to coach, at least until he's 100% done competing. And, even then, he's not high on coaching. Based on the conversation, this guy said Dake just isn't into the extraneous stuff that "coaching" entails. If he coaches, he just wants to coach, not schmooze, recruit, administrate, etc.
Take it for what it's worth.
LOL well there isn't a mat big enough to keep iowa from the edge and stalling!
M2 is the succession plan.
Gilman called some of the wrestlers in OK state today
Maybe he would like to coach at a RTC or Senior Level. Then you are coaching adults and can treat them like adults. No worrying about academics, behavior problems, etc.
What? This is Earth-Shattering news brought to you first. Bow down to greatness
My nephew just got back from DT’s emotional last M2 practice. Sounds like as assumed, McKnight is taking over.
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Why don’t we just not wrestle then? Just give it to Keck. Unreal. You must have wrestled JV four years … apparently never believed anyone better than you could be beat.
McNugget is taking over. Keeping the name M2 but now stands for McNugget McKnight. He is a great person and coach. We will miss DT but glad it’s still going on
He actually seems like a pretty cool guy. I wonder if he has any interest in wrestling.
PS Watch their video for We’re Not Gonna Take It and without cheating, see if you recognize anyone else in it.
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Jimmy Kennedy will be Assistant head coach, Dake will be the assistant and 1 more still not named (Molinaro most likely).
Gilman is HC of the RTC
Gilman is HC of the RTC
Do you really think so? Because of the staff DT has coming with him? They are all great wrestlers but other than Kennedy have no real coaching experience. Club coaching doesn’t really count. Nothing like coaching at a major university. Casey, Cody, and Varner are all staying and to me those are the keys. I would be more concerned if 1 or more of them left but as it is I’m really interested to see how these guys adapt to full time coaching. I think they will do really well but I think it’s going to take a bit longer than most are thinking and I don’t see OSU challenging PSU for quite some time. As long as Cael and CO are at PSU they will be the top dogs
I’m not sure why you felt the need to take a personal shot at me because we disagree about certain wrestlers being considered title contenders or not, but oh well.
It’s just an offseason opinion. I never said we should not bother wrestling those weights.
Instead of getting petty and personal, I’ll respond strictly about the wrestlers you mentioned (Plott, Hamiti, Spratley). Yes Plott made the finals, so feel free to consider him a contender. Me personally, I don’t instantly consider the #2 guy a title threat. I feel like Keich is levels about Plott and anyone else at 184 unless Starocci would go 184.
Same goes for 174 with O’Toole.
125 is a crapshoot, but I don’t think Spratley is a top 5 guy.
If you are convinced those 3 are title contenders, I’ll gladly make a bet with you that none of them make the finals.
It was meant toungh & cheek, thus the Carl and plan. I tend to be a little more concerned about the NLWC guys bolting.
It was getting about time to reload the NLWC anyway with several guys in it now on the wrong side of 30.
I heard Dake is staying (though obviously things can change if an offer is good enough) but Zain is going. It's a fluid bidding situation I imagine.
I like the idea of just prioritizing Lilledahl as the new 57 man with RBY (who said he has another cycle in him), he's competitive at the senior level now as is.
I hope Nick Lee stays around but heard yes and no with him. Otherwise, I'm good with Bartlett taking over as the man soon and telling a high schooler like Blaze, Forrest, Bassett they will be prioritized as a 65 guy
74 we have Nolf and Mitch,
86 AB and Carter (Bo still involed as a coach)
97 Snyder
125 Kerkvliet
Snyder/Kerk rolls around mostly together and throw in Varner/Cael still? We're good.
Hah! Either side of 30 would be just fine when you get to my age! 😁
Zain going where? CWC or the work world?
Zain going to CWC would bum me out more than most others as I thought he was the bedrock of this program - Pa kid, never looking for the limelight, etc
That’s wild. It sounded like he was done after these Olympics. Doesn’t he have a great job waiting for him? Not saying it’s not happening just that I had thought he was about the least likely because his future seemed pretty set
