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At least he wasn’t scrolling through his phone this time

Amine, Woods, and Hendrickson all missed multiple consecutive matches. That usually suggests something was wrong. Pretty confident Shapiro was concussed. The only one that doesn’t belong on this list IMO is Nagao. He lost a bunch of matches in the regular season last year too but then turned it on for NCAA’s, so hopefully for him that’s what happens this year too.

It started as a “cynical” tournament, but after the criticism Dresser did clean it up. And the new MFF rules will further do so. I went back and looked at last year’s brackets and there were some pretty good guys there including some in redshirt. Looks like DeAugustino injury defaulted to Spratley in SV for example.

I didn’t think that one was a TD. Did they not review it at all though?

Again, 2 of the 3 guys you list had those negative feelings purely because of the competition within their individual training situations, both of which were several years after college. I will say that PSU is better at handling those types of situations as guys know there are no guarantees at PSU/NLWC. But I’m still going to agree to disagree on Metcalf. Like you said, he was a Brands guy, he didn’t start as an Iowa guy. He followed Brands from VT to Iowa, giving up a year of eligibility to do so. Went 1-1-2 in his 3 years competing, then wrestled for HWC for several years and left on good terms. He trained under Brands for what, 10 years? I don’t think he has negative feelings about his time there, even if he felt there was an “us against the world” culture. And heck, when he was hired at ISU, Dresser (an Iowa guy himself of course), hired 3 Iowa guys all at once. If the culture was so bad why would he do that? You mentioned St John previously, has he made any comments “that can be interpreted as negative”? Overall, I’ve heard athletes say only positive things about the Brands brothers as coaches. I don’t think there is anyone currently available that would do a better job than them. What do you suggest Iowa does? Back to the OP of this thread, it seems one suggestion is “new blood” for assistant coaches. I will say I haven’t heard athletes makes many comments at all about Morningstar/Telford, so sure that could be an option. But as I mentioned they’ve certainly had their share of successful upperweights. Even Glazier this year looks like an example of an upperweight having improved in the room. I’m guessing they’re already planning to, but they need to get Spencer Lee on the staff, although of course that wouldn’t necessarily help any perceived upperweight deficiency. He’s still an “Iowa guy,” but isn’t the prototypical grinder. I also wouldn’t totally disagree that the Brands brothers are kinda the same person and having both of them could be a little repetitive, so if Terry wants to head up his own program I’d certainly encourage that.

Is he out for the year?

Davidson probably got the idea from ISU, Marcus Coleman and owner of 4 injury default wins at the 2020 Last Chance Open is one of their coaches

Kudos for Lindenwood guys going considering they’re not eligible for NCAA’s and their team got dropped, although I know they’re just there to pad other guys’ records

You realize those 2 matches occurred over a span of 7 days right? Could be various other things going on, or not

Maybe we see Kueter vs Hutmacher after all

And if he didn’t do that he probably wins the match…

I’m most interested to see Truax’s adjustments vs Soldano, who’s kinda the same person as Rogotzke

Kizhan Clarke was German, right?

Hey @ILLINIWrestlingBlog, what’s up with Luffman? Injured? He hasn’t wrestled since Midlands

Can you elaborate? Are you talking about how Carter Starocci was scrolling his phone in the middle of a dual?

You’re joking right? If he wins NCAA’s he did not regress… Funny you bring up Hardy, last year he beat him 11-1, 6-4, and 2-1. This year he beat him 8-2 (maybe 6-2 or 7-2 in last year’s scoring accounting for 3 pt TD’s), so right in the middle of last year’s results

I don’t get how their dual comparison predicts upsets in general, if it’s all based on an algorithm shouldn’t the higher rated wrestler always win?

Seems the rumor is he was sick

They even put the Penn State magic into the algorithm

Terps win 28-15 Good SV match at 157 between Saldate and North. Situation slightly reminiscent (but not nearly as egregious) of Davis/Kilkeary IMO where Saldate has to bridge off his back but gets off and ends up getting the Takedown himself. Situation starts around 23:00 in the video below. MSU forfeited 125 (where they would have been favored), and Hamdan got a minor upset over Kal Miller at 141, but everything else went about as expected. Full Results: 125: Tommy Capul wins by forfeit (Maryland 6-0) 133: No. 17 Braxton Brown TF (16-0, 2:41) Andy Hampton (Maryland 11-0) 141: No. 29 Jordan Hamdan dec. (6-1) No. 21 Kal Miller (Maryland 11-3) 149: No. 13 Ethan Miller TF (17-0, 4:39) Braden Stauffenberg (Maryland 16-3) 157: No. 21 Chase Saldate SV dec. (13-10) Michael North (Maryland 16-6) 165: No. 9 Caleb Fish major dec. (14-0) AJ Rodrigues (Maryland 16-10) 174: Dominic Solis SV dec. (4-1) DJ Shannon (Maryland 19-10) 184: No. 15 Lane Malczewski TF (15-0, 7:00) Chase Mielnik (Maryland 19-15) 197: No. 5 Jaxon Smith TF (18-2, 3:59) No. 30 Kael Wisler (Maryland 24-15) 285: No. 26 Seth Nevills major dec. (12-0) Josh Terrill (Maryland 28-15)

Could go different ways with this. I’ll take it to mean Ramos and Gilman don’t have hard feelings towards Iowa

I was impressed by Purdue’s crowd, good size and loud

I doubt anyone besides Gilman considered Metcalf a traitor. It’s not like he ditched Iowa for ISU, he was coaching USA freestyle and at a high school before going to ISU. I think it’s just Gilman that’s a douche. Present tense, as evidenced by his recent tweet about Yianni. Gilman kinda had to say that to Metcalf after he left himself to try to not look like as much of a hypocrite. How does Bubba Jenkins feel about Penn State? All teams are going to have some people that didn’t like it there. And it’s interesting that the two best examples for Iowa didn’t even “leave” while they were in college but rather several years after.

How many is “a number”? Feel what way? I don’t think Metcalf has any hard feelings towards Iowa, that interview was harmless. The main guys that have hard feelings towards Iowa (Gilman and Ramos, but feel free to provide some more examples if you have any), felt that way because they felt they were being replaced at HWC, after having already competed post-collegiately for several years with HWC.

Kasak doesn’t look undersized to me at 149, I could see him going back down to 141 for a year or two but not sure if he stays there for his career. Can also see Davis at 133 after Nagao is gone. Looks like Gibson is wrestling 133 now so I’m guessing he’d be more likely to be 141 in a few years.