What is your second favorite team?

[poorwrestler]

Gopher fan but went to NDSU (because U of M is outrageously expensive) so NDSU definitely my #2 team. Love Obe Blanc.


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[poorwrestler]

My primary team is SDSU. I am partial to Iowa because I went to the 12 day Iowa intensive camp back in the day and Phil Keddy was my counselor and was an awesome guy. 

You and I were destined to be enemies


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[BloodRound]

Rutgers is my #1.  Iowa would be #2.

I am just a masochist at this point.

[Gus]

34 minutes ago, poorwrestler said:

You and I were destined to be enemies


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Haha! I guess so! 

[D3 for LU]

On 3/12/2025 at 10:40 AM, 666 said:

 

Woah!

They even kept the STRINGS on them in the picture.

(The funny part of watching them is the way the move & talk... )

It cracks me up...

D3

[Bardamu911]

My favorite team is the Sun Devils but number 2 is Maryland Terps cuz i grew up and wrestled in the state of MD, just wish they’d recruit more local kids. 

[ionel]

[Konquest]

I don't get how the answers to this question aren't 100% the UNI Panther Train.  Unless that's everyone's favorite team.  UNI's wrestlers literally put on work boots and built their own room, and they just were in a tight team race decided in the final match with a team and coach that were mostly purchased by some billionaire as a tax write-off.  I don't get how people wouldn't cheer for UNI.  They are the college wrestling embodiment of the "Rocky" story.

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[Truzzcat]

Pretty much cheer for any guy who's style I like and whoever is wrestling PSU simply because being in central PA and not being a psu fan is the worst. I do like Cornell a lot because yianni,dake,vito,shapiro,Leen have all been some of my fav guys to watch.

[BarSeries]

Don't really have a first team. Mostly cheer for the underdog. Favorite duals are the mid-tier teams trying to put it on Iowa and PSU. 

[Konquest]

Another team that ought to be your favorite or second favorite is Nebraska.  Those guys seem like they are all really close like brothers cheering for each other and getting bench warnings, despite historically being a pretty geographically and ethnically diverse group of guys coming into the program.  Heck, one of their stars sells a merch line called "Wrestling is Fun".  They also don't really have a "style" per se, other than sending it.  They've got mat specialists, brawlers, and whatever the heck Lenny Pinto is, but they're all pretty entertaining.

[BarSeries]

5 minutes ago, Konquest said:

Another team that ought to be your favorite or second favorite is Nebraska.  Those guys seem like they are all really close like brothers cheering for each other and getting bench warnings, despite historically being a pretty geographically and ethnically diverse group of guys coming into the program.  Heck, one of their stars sells a merch line called "Wrestling is Fun".  They also don't really have a "style" per se, other than sending it.  They've got mat specialists, brawlers, and whatever the heck Lenny Pinto is, but they're all pretty entertaining.

I was going to say if you had me choose a team it would probably be UNI or Nebraska. 

[jackwebster]

1 hour ago, Konquest said:

I don't get how the answers to this question aren't 100% the UNI Panther Train.  

The purple?

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, Konquest said:

I don't get how the answers to this question aren't 100% the UNI Panther Train.  Unless that's everyone's favorite team.  UNI's wrestlers literally put on work boots and built their own room, and they just were in a tight team race decided in the final match with a team and coach that were mostly purchased by some billionaire as a tax write-off.  I don't get how people wouldn't cheer for UNI.  They are the college wrestling embodiment of the "Rocky" story.

That is an excellent point. I am pulling hard for them to make the podium this year. They will have to have a hell of a tournament to do it (ala Cornell last year), but it is possible.

[Konquest]

18 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

That is an excellent point. I am pulling hard for them to make the podium this year. They will have to have a hell of a tournament to do it (ala Cornell last year), but it is possible.

Whether they win a trophy or not, it's just insane that these guys are training at an off-campus warehouse that the team personally converted to a wrestling room, eating at "Mama Rahn's House".   Meanwhile a few other schools have state of the art everything, fly around on private jets, and have 3/4 of their lineup bought and paid from other schools by a billionaire...and UNI is WINNING.  It defies all conventional wisdom about "kids these days" and is a bright spot in a college athletic environment where money and clout are more important than loyalty and integrity.

[BarSeries]

IG meal updates at Mama Rahn's House for the win!!

[Friendlycamper]

Little Rock No.2. New program succeeding...but then again just cheated lol.

[ionel]

52 minutes ago, Friendlycamper said:

Little Rock No.2. New program succeeding...but then again just cheated lol.

cheating seems like a strong term.  We wouldn't want all our favorite programs to have to give back their trophies now would we?