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Is it easy to criticize? Sure. Does that make those criticisms invalid. Nope. I'm not saying that folks don't go a little overboard in their outrage. Even some coaches are known to go a little overboard in their rants. :0 I am reminded that we're talking about Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling, not some...

Pin, Thanks for the preview. I sure hope you are right about the results. This team has a lot of talent, but they've been wrestling below their abilities this year. Maybe this will be the meet where they start to turn things around. I believe that Tom Brands is the best wrestling coach in the...

Nice work, Tobini. Keep it up!

I guess it hurts the reputation of Penn State as a whole, but I don't think it will have much effect on their wrestling program specifically. I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone there who knew about this, but allowed it to be swept under the rug. We still haven't heard Paterno's side of...

If I get GG121&122, will Jim have to change his screen name?

Totally fair! If you make the weight, you wrestle the weight. Period. GO HAWKS!

Tom Brands gets good talent, especially good Iowa talent, but lately many of the top blue chippers from the highest-ranked state high schools (Ohio, PA, NJ) have gone to Penn State, Cornell, and Oklahoma State. He does have an easier time of it than the football team, but it's not like North...

AMEN

Indeed. GG121&122 (Jim's seats at Hawkeye Carver) has been a tireless award-winning promoter of our sport. Wrestling isn't about the money you can make. It's about the person you can become. It's just you trying to impose your will against someone else out there on the mat. I can think of few...

I thought this was a wrestling forum. Jon, where did these roundball boys come from? Did you mix up the forums, or are these *******s just trolling here? I haven't lived in Iowa for a long time, but I grew up there, and lived there in the Lute Olson years. I also have lived in some real...

Fact is that Cael couldn't motivate a fly to land on a cow pie. "Some folks call it a sling blade, but I call it a kaiser blade."

When team goes right into the belly of the beast in a very hostile place, and rips its lungs out, that's what I call great victory! GO HAWKS!

Way to go, Hawkeyes! And way to go, Tom Brands! Great coaching job!

I'd say that Penn State and Cornell are the big favorites right now, but there's lots of wrestling left. I did notice at National Duals that Cornell wrestlers struggled a little bit more with conditioning at the end of the third period than did most of the Big Ten/Big 12 wrestlers, but the had...

Thank you! That is exactly what I'm talking about.

No one is talking about the sky falling or jumping ship. That is hyperbole isn't it? No one but the Eastern rabble is taking this tourney as definitive of what the Hawks will do in March. That is just Hawk-hater propaganda. We hear this every year. Nevertheless Tobini, losing many close matches...

AGREED! Not a Clone fan here.

Well, I'm one of those guys who isn't satisfied. We can agree on two things: there's lots to like, and there's lots to to critique. The IOWA STYLE means attack and dominate. Waiting and cutting the corners is not our style. Ballweg got lucky. Overall, someone named either Lofthouse, Ballweg, or...

Spooner was just responding to Hawk4Life's comment about this year's team having good riding abilities. Has it been two years since Frayer left? Wow, time passes quickly. But the point stands: if we can't rack up back points, we won't win many bonus points in our stronger weights, or against...

I've noticed that we don't get back points as often as I'd like to see. Isn't that why they brought in Frayer last year? Wasn't he a guy who was known as someone who could turn opponents? Also, while we're talking, how are we doing on takedowns this year?