That's funny, last night I was thinking back to 10 years ago when the hawk fans were all saying that Cael couldn't coach, he could only recruit. Well it's obvious that Brands is a better recruiter than a coach. He had several recruits followed him from VT that he recruited, but he also had the guys already at Iowa. He won the three titles early on with those recruits and in 2021 on a PSU rebuilding year, but Brands said his team was hurting in 2021 because PSU had 4 champs and head to head Starocci beating Kemmerer, Lee beat Eierman add RBY and Brooks winning. PSU was celebrating second and Iowa was sullen in victory and the Iowa board reflected it. Iowa has picked up transfers off of the portal in Eierman and Woods and others. Woods their only finalist this year.
I think the Brands bros are good people, But I haven't been a fan of Brands with the thug mentality of his team always wrestling after the whistle, grinding the head into the mat, poor sportsmanship and everyone speaking with the same inflection
That said Brands inherited a dynasty, Cael has built one.