All of Iowa's best wrestlers are transfers?

[burgerman]

58 minutes ago, jchapman said:

Borschel won a national championship at Iowa.

My apologies. I guess it does pay to go to Iowa then. 

[Winners Circle]

On 11/9/2024 at 6:52 PM, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

Seems like their best guys this year will be:

Parco (ASU)

Teemer (ASU)

Caliendo (NDSU)

Buchanan (Wyoming, Oklahoma)

 

Meanwhile homegrown studs like Ayala and Brands aren't looking so hot...

 

What does this say about Iowa when all their best guys weren't actually developed in the Iowa room?

 

 

Don't forget Joey Cruz and Victor Voinovich were transfers as well!

Edited November 11 by Winners Circle

[Caveira]

22 minutes ago, Winners Circle said:

Don't forget Joey Cruz and Victor Voinovich were transfers as well!

And messenbrink and ngao and dean and kerk and truax and Kurt Mchenry

[MPhillips]

2 hours ago, jchapman said:

Tom Ryan

EIWA champ for 'Cuse' to a 2x B1G champ 2x AA. 2nd and 3rd...

[1032004]

2 hours ago, burgerman said:

 

 

What is the reoccurring theme here? Excluding Metcalf, all came seeking gold and left without it. All had similar results at Iowa that they had at their previous schools. 

Those guys listed all did better at Iowa actually.

Caliendo 7th —> 4th (with 2 more seasons)

DeSanto R12 —> 5th/3rd/3rd

Woods 6th —> 2nd (then 4th)

Eierman 3rd —> 2nd (then R16)

Lugo R12 —> 8th (then Covid cancelled 2020)

 

 

[Winners Circle]

14 hours ago, Winners Circle said:

Don't forget Joey Cruz and Victor Voinovich were transfers as well!

I'd also argue that Keuter is a transfer from the football team. Football staff should get a lot of credit for his success.

Edited November 12 by Winners Circle

[Winners Circle]

14 hours ago, Caveira said:

And messenbrink and ngao and dean and kerk and truax and Kurt Mchenry

Yea I was more so trolling JC. 

1. I don't care who has transfers or how many. 
2. I don't care if they're the best wrestlers on that team or not. 

It's the new age of college athletics. 

[nhs67]

This thread reminds me of a line Thor used in Avengers: Infinity War.

"Thor: Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored, there with a man we call the Collector.

Peter Quill: If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone.

Thor: Or a genius.

Gamora: (To Thor) How do you know he's not going for one of the other Stones?

Thor: There's six stones out there. Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it last week, when he decimated Xandar. He stole the Space Stone from me when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers.

Peter Quill: The Avengers?

Thor: They're Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Mantis: Like Kevin Bacon?

Thor: ...He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while. As for the Soul Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore, Thanos can't get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're welcome.

Gamora: Then we have to go to Knowhere now.

Thor: Wrong. Where we have to go, is Nidavellir.

Drax: That's a made up word.

Thor: All words are made up."

At the end of the day, everyone is a transfer.  Ergo, all teams' best wrestlers are transfers.  Ergo x2, this thread is pointless.

[nhs67]

13 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Those guys listed all did better at Iowa actually.

Caliendo 7th —> 4th (with 2 more seasons)

DeSanto R12 —> 5th/3rd/3rd

Woods 6th —> 2nd (then 4th)

Eierman 3rd —> 2nd (then R16)

Lugo R12 —> 8th (then Covid cancelled 2020)

There is depth to their results that isn't shown, such as people leaving the weight class (via graduation or to a different weight class) as well as complications at their former institutes that aren't taken in to consideration (Woods' workload, and the fact that Woods was better the year before his final year at Stanford - as it were).

I am not disagreeing with you, to be clear, just playing Devil's Advocate.

I also think it is poppycock that people regress.