Agree. I also think there are fewer diamond in the rough type recruits, due to all the national events and big clubs these days.
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Agree. I also think there are fewer diamond in the rough type recruits, due to all the national events and big clubs these days.
Agreed. Coaches can scout nearly every kid with ease now. I’ve heard stories about guys just showing up at the Iowa room who ended up being All-Americans and National Champs. That doesn’t happen now
You’re probably right that the one-off would be a foreigner without much folkstyle experience or relatively unknown. Kid blowing through the 125 bracket ISU recruited and he went to Oklahoma state instead
Maybe not since Downey? Joe Colon also a very high level JUCO kid.
Jakason Burks was a very highly rated recruit that is currently JUCO at 125.
Burks was close to coming to ISU and went to okie state. Jack gaukel is also at iowa western now. They also have Blake Thomsen. Some decent Iowa kids.
I agree with. I’m saying there is still some out there, even though there may not have been recently. Doesn’t mean we can just blanket write it off.
Tanner Harvey for OSU is currently ranked 17th and was a JUCO champ. Jason Shawnee is ranked 19th for OSU. Got from Minnesota is ranked 23rd and a JUCO guy. Just beat Warner.
Todd Small was a pretty good wrestler for ISU.
I honestly haven’t followed super close, but there is still decent talent coming out of there. Although not NCAA champ material.
Todd Small was a pretty good wrestler for ISU.
I honestly haven’t followed super close, but there is still decent talent coming out of there. Although not NCAA champ material.
Todd Small? I think we have vastly different definitions of “high D1” or “pretty good” wrestlers.
We’re going to have 4 weights not qualify for NCAAs. Could use a few more Todd smalls in the room.
Sawyer Bartelt wins a Florida State Championship with a pin in under 2 minutes. I believe that's his 3rd
No clue where you disappeared to for so long but go back please.
People still hate that I was right about KJ, and KD is again proving me right. I think my favorite take was that I didn’t like KJ because he’s black, and not because he was a terrible head coach.
We need to keep working at landing top 50 recruits from all over the country, but I do like seeing our roster sprinkled with Iowa kids. I think building the fanbase and attendance is a mix between having star power and some local kids. Juco shouldn't be ignored if we need a stop gap, but I'm glad KD isn't the type to rely heavily on that route.
I think we have that at 125 through 165. Quite a bit of depth there for next year.
174 through heavy is what I am concerned about as far as depth goes.
I'm pretty confident in MJ Gaitan at 174 next season, 184 will likely be Julien Broderson (Tate Naak will wrestle his 5 free events, but I'd like to see him redshirt), then Yonger at 197 (Hagerty as a backup) and Schon at Hwt. I would agree that it would be nice to have some more depth at those weights with how we got hit with the injury bug this year.