Good comparison. Both Starocci and younger Gilman seem like ultra-competitors who were just bad at trash talking and overcompensating.
There was some preseason fundraising event a while back that Iowa, ISU and UNI we’re all at. Gilman went to rep Iowa while Dresser and Schwab went for ISU and UNI. When Gilman went up to speak his attempt at roasting left out any humor and was really just a couple of dumb angry insults of the other two programs. They fell flat and people were kind of laughing at Gilman, including both Dresser and Schwab. There was a clip of this somewhere.