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How much has Woods even competed since graduating?

My memory is short so I’m going to keep this to the last 4 seasons, starting with your list. So far, comparing best NCAA tournament finishes for starters at old vs new school: PSU- Dean better Hildebrandt worse Nagao worse (still time to improve) Truax worse Iowa- Lugo better Desanto better Eierman better Woods better Teske same Franek worse Caliendo better Michigan- Davison better Gomez better DeAugustino worse Finesilver better Griffith worse Suriano same Brucki worse Storr same Based on this data, you could make an argument that Iowa has done the best with improving transfers. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but I think it should at least dispel the narrative out there that Iowa’s transfers end up getting burned out or whatever. But really throughout almost the whole list most guys placement only changed by a couple places, hence my statement that most of the big name transfers “were pretty much the same guy they were before.” IMO, the 2 biggest improvements were Davison and Gomez, who went from never making an NCAA semi, to making the finals.

What don’t you agree with? You can’t count those guys because they have no postseason performance to compare to (same with Micic, Spratley and any other guy that transfers before having wrestled an NCAA tournament - they’re still transfers, they just can’t really be part of the “did they improve after they transferred” argument).

Brakan Mead. I’m sure it did help him in particular especially if he got any scholarship money. Looks like he won a state title as a senior at 113, then wrestled 2 years at Ohio State getting a few starts, with his best win being over Jack Medley. It probably helps the guys the most that are on the borderline of being D1 or not. Not sure it makes much difference for the elite guys though.

Is he expected to wrestle at WTT?

What country is he transferring to?

Chael disagrees with you

He wasn’t. Here he is on x defending it: Honestly the most dumb thing he said in the video was probably that he thinks the 30 scholarship thing will actually lead to more total scholarships being available

I’m not sure I follow. He appears to be “joking” in the sense that he probably doesn’t really think every single kid in the room should get held back, but he certainly seems to be saying that it will benefit your wrestling career

Is he? I didn’t get that impression

Points at NCAA’s last season: Starocci 20 Buchanan 17 Teemer 17 Parco 11 Seems like Iowa is getting more points per $ in this hypothetical

1) Claiming that Starocci is getting $1.2-$1.3 million this year. Weird how the kid jumps in to correct the coach 2) Club coach telling all his wrestlers they should get held back (and the club was the one that posted this to social media)

I see wrestlestat is showing Jack Maida of American to be making the same jump

Technically he did score the same amount of team points in 2024 than 2022 (but less than 2023 and 2021). Although not sure if would have been less without 3 point takedown

Bolding mine. That’s a lot of words to say you agree with him.

Apparently I already had one downloaded but it wasn’t on. Turned it on and seems to have stopped them

Same number of high school wrestlers that Dean lost to?

I see Basch claiming that they are planning to sign him to the practice squad.

I’m not an NFL scout, but if he had “no chance to ever be an NFL DT,” he probably wouldn’t have lasted as long as he did. For example last year Coon was cut about 2 weeks earlier in the preseason. Hopefully future wrestlers still get a shot even if Gable doesn’t work out. The fact that he never played football before made him even more of a longshot. But I could see someone like Parris having more NFL potential as he was actually a good football player in high school.

Walker “wrestled Wolak tough” in 2023 by losing 5-2 in a year Wolak went 1-2 at NCAA’s. Arnold beat Wolak in the year he took 6th. I’d favor Ragusin over Ayala at 133 TBH. Parris probably owes Gable a thank you for retiring and enabling him to be an Olympian and getting a world medal, I doubt there are hard feelings. What is Coon’s potential beef with Steveson?

Whoops guess I am slow on the Siebrechts and hadn’t seen that Cobe had already announced to SDSU

Walker over Arnold would be a “NEHVUR” to me. Walker lost to Riggins last year. Saldate over Teemer, Bullock over Brands, and Steveson wrestling in the NCAA would all be very surprising to me. But that’d still be a 16-15 Michigan win if all of those were flipped to decision losses.

I don’t think anyone was really expecting him to make the roster. If he doesn’t make a practice squad then your point could be true.

The Siebrechts are also off the roster