Missouri vs Northern Iowa in Hartland, Wisconsin (UFC Fight Pass) Tuesday Night

[flyingcement]

Edmond looking to go upper body.  Happel backs out of it.  30 seconds left.  Edmond keeps pushing but Happel plays it smart.  2 stalls called on Happel its 4-3 and thats it.  Happel wins a tight one.  6-3 UNI

 

[flyingcement]

Adam Alard vs Logan Gioffre stepping up at 149

[flyingcement]

Allard is Realbuto's backup.  Gioffre is ranked 23rd in the country, but has faced a tough schedule so far this year.  

[flyingcement]

A lot of locking up and not a lot of risk taking in period one.  Neither guy committed to a shot. 0-0 after one

[Camel Wrestling Fan]

Both teams do not seem to want to open it up in the 1st periods. Wrestling tight.

[flyingcement]

Gioffre starts on bottom in the second.  Allard does a decent job holding him down.  Second caution on Gioffre trying to escape early.  Allard has 45 seconds of riding time and lets up a reversal, and his time starts ticking against him.  Period ends at 2-0 Gioffre who also has 7 seconds of riding time (clock starting ticking in the wrong direction after the last stoppage, and they haven't yet corrected it).  3rd period 2-0 for Gioffre

[flyingcement]

Allard escapes.  Riding time is corrected (16 seconds for Gioffre).

1:30 left in the third.

more lockups with minimal action.

Gioffre is hitting an array of fakes and goes for a shot.  Allard uses heavy hips to stop it.  but time ticks away.  2-1 Gioffre. 6-6 for the dual

[flyingcement]

Ryder Downey first period with a takedown.

Second period escape and another takedown.  Hazard tilt for four points.  Releases the lock, goes back for it- gets another four.  And that's all she wrote. 15-0 Downey and its 11-6 UNI after five.  

Edited November 27 by flyingcement

[flyingcement]

Ben Askren joined the broadcast for halftime.  Talked about how he always wanted to compete in the state of Wisconsin when he was in college, so he's happy to be able to help Keegan and Parker do the same.  

[flyingcement]

I got distracted but Thomsen won in a nondescript decision.  O'Toole up next.  14-6 UNI

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

16 minutes ago, flyingcement said:

Ben Askren joined the broadcast for halftime.  Talked about how he always wanted to compete in the state of Wisconsin when he was in college, so he's happy to be able to help Keegan and Parker do the same.  

 

That time Ben Askren ruined our family camping trip. 

[flyingcement]

O'Toole barely gets a major over Fox. 14-10 Panthers

[flyingcement]

I had to take some time away from the keyboard and just watch this match.  Keckeisen was hunting him the entire time.  Hawks stalled a couple times and Keckeisen got a point.  He was just too overwhelming.  13-2 now in the third. 40 seconds left

[flyingcement]

Let him up take him down.  16-3, RT locked up.  Let him up again.  17-4 final score for Keck.  18-10 Panthers

[flyingcement]

Voelker takedown in the first.  up 3-0 over Sinclair going into the 2nd

 

[flyingcement]

Voelker over Sinclair 8-5

[flyingcement]

21-10 Panthers going into 285

[MPhillips]

Cheers Fly...

[flyingcement]

Runyon who is up from 174 to heavyweight is beating Nitzel 6-1 after a takedown and a reversal versus an escape.  Very impressive for a guy who ust havae put on fifty pounds in the offseason.  

Dual finishes with 24-10 in favor of UNI.  Runyon 7-0 at his new weight class.  And now we move to extra matches.

[MizzouFan01]

24 minutes ago, flyingcement said:

Voelker over Sinclair 8-5

I thought Smith should’ve threw the brick, to me seemed Sinclair had the TD on the edge. It was close, not saying he would’ve won, but to go up 3-0 rather than down 3-0 is very different. Overall not a good showing by the Tigers. One day hopefully we will have a full healthy lineup. 

[flyingcement]

I agree - I thought it was a takedown when I first saw it

[wrestle87]

Is Mizz really bad at NIL, or has NIL really tanked the culture in that room? I really wonder what’s happening down there, they used to be world beaters.

[MizzouFan01]

1 hour ago, wrestle87 said:

Is Mizz really bad at NIL, or has NIL really tanked the culture in that room? I really wonder what’s happening down there, they used to be world beaters.

Health. These last 2 years have been brutal on us. I know everyone deals with injuries and such, but when you lack capable depth it tends to show more than others. Smith will right the ship. We have had pretty good recruiting classes, and I would suspect it turns around sooner rather than later. We aren’t a trophy team, a couple, 2-3 AA is probably the ceiling this year. 

[MidwestMan]

As an old pragmatic man that has been involved in, and followed Missouri wrestling 50+years, here are my thoughts on the current status of Mizzou wrestling, and many of the factors that determine a programs success overlap.

NIL/Tradition: Everyone loves a winner.  Everyday Joe, or Jan, wants to hitch their horse to the winning wagon.  Winning hits those endorphins buttons and makes their daily grind a little easier to tolerate.  It's fun to be a "we" or a "our" when winning is involved.  Winning tradition and carrying a "blue blood" label doesn't happen overnight.  Also, programs that have a storied history and "got there first", have a huge advantage.  True wrestling enthusiasts are aware of the history of programs with legendary coaches that have arenas named after them.  Unfortunately, with all sports, many of these winning blue bloods also flourished when there was less oversight and some very gray boundaries concerning "athlete compensation/benefits."  Let's call it what it was, cheating.  I'm not sure fans cared as long as they were winning.  Winning fills the seats and opens wallets, whether it was buying athletes back then, or now with NIL.  Much like a country where the rich just continue to get richer, because have the wealth and power to buy the resources, and winning is all that matters, programs can now buy athletes and coaches at every level, HS, college, etc...  If you can't develop them in your room, just got out and buy a finished product.  And I don't even want to get started about college training centers and those enticements.  I want to gag myself.

If your program has the bucks, you can buy depth.  The more talent you have in a room, the more exposure to great technique and development.  "Eagles fly with Eagles and lesser birds are the prey!"  A rooms culture is generally a reflection of the head coach and the culture he wrestled in, and that goes for assistants also.

So how does this relate to Mizzou wrestling?  Mizzou is no where close to being a wrestling blue blood, and as much as I appreciate the job coach Smith has done in elevating the program to a consistent top 10 level of respect, Tiger wrestling fans have to be realistic with what the ceiling can be when weighing all the factors I described earlier.  On top of that, I personally don't think Smith and staff develop talent as well as some have stated.  It may be HEW from the extra year from covid, the culture in the room, and I've openly called out Tiger wrestlers as lacking toughness come "nut cutting" time.  Tiger Style wrestling culture is great for a consistent top 10 program that develops great young men that will succeed well in life, regardless if they ever see a NCAA podium.  If Tiger fans want more, get your wallets out and join the "arms race!"

 

[Gus]

13 hours ago, MizzouFan01 said:

I thought Smith should’ve threw the brick, to me seemed Sinclair had the TD on the edge. It was close, not saying he would’ve won, but to go up 3-0 rather than down 3-0 is very different. Overall not a good showing by the Tigers. One day hopefully we will have a full healthy lineup. 

I thought it looked like a takedown as well. Voelker looked at least one, if not two, weight classes bigger than Sinclair and was pushing him all over the mat.