If @smalls103 wants to do a wrestling version of Message Board Geniuses tweeter, we're all here for it.
Lace up ‘em shoes, IT’S IOWA WEEK
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If @smalls103 wants to do a wrestling version of Message Board Geniuses tweeter, we're all here for it.
thefanswin has dropped some real doozies here and HR in the past.
If that scenario happens it might be Tom and Terry stripping down to their underwear and protesting!
Pretty sure that was investigated and so ended in the late 80s, so before the Brands went to Iowa. By that time Iowa had the recruiting advantage that we have now, in that it was the school you wanted go to if you wanted to win individual and team titles.
I posted the article. Brands was there; they arrived in 1987.
And beyond giving the extra scholarships… would Iowa have become as desirable a place to go if they hadn’t build a juggernaut with the extra scholarships?
1987. I was thinking they were in the early 90s, please ignore my oops post.
Please tell me you didn't just ask if wrestling for Gable was desirable other than for scholarships.
Yep, as I recall Iowa and Brands came into Rec Hall (imagine that) for a dual. Brands wrestled Jimmy Martin that night ...think Brands was doing as much wrestling and 'bullying' out of bounds as he was in bounds. The match ended up a draw and everyone thought Jimmy and Brands would meet in the NCAA finals that year but as fate would have it they both lost in the semi finals and wrestled each other for 3rd place and Jimmy came out the winner
Are they going to post something about the match that followed that one?
I may have missed this posted elsewhere here, but this user on HR (who I currently have blocked on our site) pokes pretty good fun at IA. His initial post in the thread he started over there made me laugh. 🤣
https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/are-some-wrestlers-born-to-wrestle-at-iowa.382531/
https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/are-some-wrestlers-born-to-wrestle-at-iowa.382531/
Brands is an idiot. Pick one they both are just not all there. I know I know they are great coaches yada yada yada. Now with the conspiracy shit. Maybe he's talking about Johnstown lol
You mean I should be getting paid for what I do?
Hey fellas, we are talking about this shit during the next slush fund budget meeting.
I’m pissed…
In. The. Binder.
Looking for a warm-up Friday night? Michigan wrestles Minnesota at 7 PM on BTN.
J.D. Radar expressed doubts that Steveson would be traveling to Michigan. No idea why, but hopefully we see him against Mason Parris. There are some other potentially interesting bouts, too: Suriano vs. McKee, Woodley vs. Bastida, and Brayton Lee vs. Lewan.
J.D. Radar expressed doubts that Steveson would be traveling to Michigan. No idea why, but hopefully we see him against Mason Parris. There are some other potentially interesting bouts, too: Suriano vs. McKee, Woodley vs. Bastida, and Brayton Lee vs. Lewan.
Fifteen freaking hours. Man, it's gonna be a long day.
It just amazes me that Tom has learned nothing about how sensitive and naiive he looks when he has these public revelations about Big Meany Things people have been doing to the Hawkeye program without his knowledge. He just makes the target bigger.
And he won’t get over it. Expect to hear more personal hurt about “robots” tonight on the BTN special.
And now, for the next 5 years, we’ll get to hear him lament the personal injury of schools (schools, I tell you!) colluding against him.
Mike Evans is so unimpressed.
And he won’t get over it. Expect to hear more personal hurt about “robots” tonight on the BTN special.
And now, for the next 5 years, we’ll get to hear him lament the personal injury of schools (schools, I tell you!) colluding against him.
Mike Evans is so unimpressed.
He can't get out of his own way. Never has been able to.
“Control the things that you can control”
Obvious Brands doesn’t live by that motto. Instead of putting a stop to the nonsense going on there, he’d rather call out those talking about the nonsense going on there. He wants to put guys like Desanto on his roster and not get any blow back from what comes of it.
Which line item in a school’s athletic budget / expenditure report do you think includes social media disparagement of Iowa wrestling? A lot of these budget / expenditure reports are publicly available. Do you think it identifies the Iowa wrestling program specifically? Or just the Univ of Iowa in general?
The whole thing seems so absurd. Almost all wrestling programs operate at a loss. There’s what - just 77 D1 programs left? And the Athletic Directors are authorizing expenditures to disparage Iowa wrestling via social media influencers? Call me skeptical.
I am spending part of it flying to Iowa!
Doesn't he realize there is an easy fix for this? He can protect the whole team for about $3. What a maroon.
PS - in full disclosure I was paid $0.32 to post that one
