The sky is blue and white.
All About Recruiting
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At night, when a meteor streaks by, the sky is black and gold. And during sunsets, the sky is orange.
I hope there are no meteors nor sunsets during all rounds of nationals.
That's what I'm afraid of really. Recruits, and let face it some of their parents are really psycho, who will play the part (or have been playing the part) to get in. There are people who would do that, not to mention run someone over in their pickup truck on their way to church, if they thought it would appease Cael & Co. I'm thinking we are way better off keeping the religion & politics stuff to ourselves and, except on an individual basis, out of the wrestling room.
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"Jammenz Shut Up"
Haha...on the 3rd day he said this, right?
Haha...on the 3rd day he said this, right?
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I have to give credit to Jammenz on this, or as some would call it, "positive reinforcement".
Ok, credit given, now I can go back to bashing him.
The sky is orange during disasters.At night, when a meteor streaks by, the sky is black and gold. And during sunsets, the sky is orange.
I hope there are no meteors nor sunsets during all rounds of nationals.
On the 3rd day he granted Pitt its 4th national championship in football - they won their first 3 on a parallel world created by another diety
The problem is Brands' wrestling style is how he coaches and those two things don't work. His style doesn't adapt well to being an elite college coach. One hell of a wrestler and very dynamic there, not the best coach. The world has shifted and people are different than what they were 20-40 years ago. The same mentality from back then doesn't work with younger kids today. Smith and Ryan are currently ahead of him in my opinion and clearly Cael is too.
I was was talking about the year before each coach showed up on campus. Like it or not, Cael inherited Bubba...a prior AA from 2008. What happened after was inside baseball.
Frank Molinaro was an AA his true freshman year before Cael got there. His progression was 8, 5, 2, 1. Molinaro was already damn good. You forgot to mention Q....who finished 6th (BC). English and Conaway are fine examples of good coaching...did Pearsall AA? Can't remember but I do remember rooting for English to AA. I guess I'd have to counter with Montell Marion (#115) (DNQ, 2,4,2,) Nathan Burak (UR) (DNP, 8,7,4) Daniel Dennis (UR) (DNQ, DNQ, 7, 2)...DD went from being an unranked guy with no state championships to making an Olympic Team.
I think I already proved that Iowa and PSU were in a similar situation at the time. Cael took DT, Brown, Cyler eventually Long, while having Ed, Molinaro, Q, and Bubba waiting for him. Your prior post suggested no loyalty from Brands because he left VT but I guess you are going to do this with each successive post in regards to transfers and complete ignore Cael's "transfers. Cael already had a "challenge" going on in Iowa. Let's not pretend he left for the challenge of taking over a little known podunk college with no history in the sport in a state whose high school kids think wrestling is something you do in the backseat of the car after a football game. Talk about some mental gymnastics. But yea...go ahead:
After the stock market moves, it's really easy to make an explanation.
Brands' style won't work, but if he gets a few more Lees and Teasdales, then his style will work. And if he does not get a few more Lees and Teasdales, then we can blame his style for not getting more Lees and Teasdales. But, then again, if we get too happy with that, then the other side will say that when Cael was not getting all the Lees and Teasdales at ISU, we should have blamed his style?
This whole thing is getting too much like explaining the stock market. There are a few things we can say for sure, but some other conjectures are like arguing about the number of fairies on a pin.
Frank Molinaro was an AA his true freshman year before Cael got there. His progression was 8, 5, 2, 1. Molinaro was already damn good. You forgot to mention Q....who finished 6th (BC). English and Conaway are fine examples of good coaching...did Pearsall AA? Can't remember but I do remember rooting for English to AA. I guess I'd have to counter with Montell Marion (#115) (DNQ, 2,4,2,) Nathan Burak (UR) (DNP, 8,7,4) Daniel Dennis (UR) (DNQ, DNQ, 7, 2)...DD went from being an unranked guy with no state championships to making an Olympic Team.
I think I already proved that Iowa and PSU were in a similar situation at the time. Cael took DT, Brown, Cyler eventually Long, while having Ed, Molinaro, Q, and Bubba waiting for him. Your prior post suggested no loyalty from Brands because he left VT but I guess you are going to do this with each successive post in regards to transfers and complete ignore Cael's "transfers. Cael already had a "challenge" going on in Iowa. Let's not pretend he left for the challenge of taking over a little known podunk college with no history in the sport in a state whose high school kids think wrestling is something you do in the backseat of the car after a football game. Talk about some mental gymnastics. But yea...go ahead:
Molinaro was not an AA as a true frosh. His RS Frosh year he was around .500 in the regular season, finished 8th at BIGs and got a wild card to NCAAs where with a few breaks in the brackets he finished 8th. He was MUCH improved the next year finishing 4th at BIGs and 5th at NCAAs. Not trying to call you out but you keep getting the facts wrong.
BWI: "Our guy is better than your guy."
HR: "No, our guy is better than your guy."
BWI: "No, you're not listening, our guy is better than your guy."
HR: "No, YOU'RE NOT LISTENING, OUR GUY IS BETTER THAN YOUR GUY."
BWI: "I'm gonna tell your mom what you said."
HR: "Go ahead, I dare ya."
BWI: "Well, nanny nanny boo boo."
HR: "Tell ya what, I'll bet you $100 our guy is better than your guy."
BWI: "You're on."
HR: "What are we gonna use as a measure?"
BWI: "Gee, I don't know."
HR: "I don't know either."
Followed by silence.
HR: "No, our guy is better than your guy."
BWI: "No, you're not listening, our guy is better than your guy."
HR: "No, YOU'RE NOT LISTENING, OUR GUY IS BETTER THAN YOUR GUY."
BWI: "I'm gonna tell your mom what you said."
HR: "Go ahead, I dare ya."
BWI: "Well, nanny nanny boo boo."
HR: "Tell ya what, I'll bet you $100 our guy is better than your guy."
BWI: "You're on."
HR: "What are we gonna use as a measure?"
BWI: "Gee, I don't know."
HR: "I don't know either."
Followed by silence.
Those who still think Cael can't coach = brain damaged cretins. All the rest is noise.
All except for the fact that HR, not BWI, folks are the one's who started this nonsense all the way back in 2009 by mocking Cael, who they deemed "Carl", for claiming that he was going to dominate NCAA wrestling by simply moving from ISU to PSU and Pennsylvania (they repeatedly talked about how Iowa and Brands dominated ISU after Cael was named Head Coach for the 2007/2008 season - Brands was named Head Coach at Iowa for the 2006/2007 season and Iowa beat Cael's ISU teams including placing higher at Nationals in 2008 and 2009 before Cael left for PSU). HR folks repeatedly scoffed and mocked Cael's (or "Carl's" as they called him) comments that he was going to PSU, and leaving ISU, because it would allow him to build a dynasty to dominate NCAA wrestling from. Well, when Brands and Iowa won their 3rd Consecutive NCAA Team Title at the 2010 NCAAs in Cael's first year at PSU - the HR folks were pretty mouthy about "Carl".......it would seem they have become a whole lot less mouthy about how Brands and Iowa are going to dominate "Carl", and how "Carl" can't coach, since "Carl" and PSU have won 5 of the last 6 since 2010 (including 4 consecutively from the 2011 NCAA Tournament through the 2014 NCAA Tournament).....and Brands and Iowa have been no better than an "also ran" after Brands "VaTech Double recruiting classes" ran out after the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
If anybody needs to "just shut up" with their absurd rationalizations and excuse-making about how "Carl" is going to stop winning any day now.....and how he can't coach or develop talent......and how he just caught lightning in a bottle with David Taylor and Ed Ruth and then it'd be over.......etc, ad naseum......, it would be the pathetic HR Brands -Iowa's still the greatest, Carl sucks blah, blah, blah "rationalizers" and spinners.
I regret that I have but one like to give.
Hmmm, I'm thinking of something, but not sure I can post it...
Oh, what the hey . . .
Well, he started it.
I like Cael, I like PSU. I like Tom and Terry, I like Iowa. End.
I like Cael, I like PSU. I like Tom and Terry, I like Iowa. End.
Correct on Frank on the RS thing, I always thought he shirted when Cael got there...thanks. I also think you are selling Frank short. Unranked RS Freshman loses in the first round (to the eventual finalist) and wrestles back to an AA? That would be like saying English lucked out. English beat a 12, lost, unseeded, unseeded, and a 10 to become an AA in the bracket that TShirt won. He got into the NCAAs largely on open tourney victories and a 5th place finish at B1Gs in which TShirt and Sueflohn were the finalists. Frank=Caught breaks English=Great Example of coaching...as I've heard many times on here. You're even doing it to your own guy. I am not knocking either. IMO, wrestling back to an AA after a first or second round loss is studly no matter who is in the bracket or in the corner. I'd take both results from either a RS Frosh or a sixth year guy who had been plagued with injuries his whole career.
FIFY. C'mon now Fart...even Cael Happel makes jokes about being called Carl
(Hint: it autocorrects on your phone as Carl) (Another hint: HR has a peculiar spell check function thing going on...ask Streibler)Just think if Brands could start with a super talent like say a Metcalf, and Cael was stuck with the lesser ranked guy like Frank the Tank. Can you imagine how far the gap would become with the great developer coaching the super star and the great recruiter trying to coach up the less heralded guy? Metcalf would crush him! hmm?
I actually like jammenz but it's hard to pass up the opportunity to use smalls quote...
You would think these phone manufacturers would make a way to change an autocorrect. It would be so convenient, if someone really wanted to.FIFY. C'mon now Fart...even Cael Happel makes jokes about being called Carl
Yeah, I have the same problem. Seems spellcheck frequently "converts" my name to "jackass". Funny, my name isn't even close in spelling to that, but I get these letters... Spellcheck is funny.
My new Samsung Galaxy S7 (no, not the phone that melts on airplanes) does. As you're typing, there's a check mark on the suggested words bar that you can tap to add any word to the dictionary.
The hitch is: if you forget to click the check and instead manually correct by deleting and typing over, then it auto-corrects things in weird ways and remembers those, and IDK if there's a way to remove from the dictionary. So my phone auto-corrects "Cael's" to read "Cael'sanderson."
But my old phone -- Blackberry Z30 -- did not let me add to the dictionary, and so I constantly had to manually correct words common in my industry. Really great feature for a work phone. Especially when you're a defense contractor ... phone-induced typos can be a problem. (The US Army hates when I say Carl instead of Cael.)
Yea I know, right? Maybe I should ask my Queen of all She Sees, er spouse, to help me figure it out.
Jefe, thank you for that lead. Though I wouldn't see my wife using such mild language, I'm looking into it.
Correct. Molinaro went from being a roughly .500 wrestler his freshman year to an undefeated senior with 23 bonus points wins among his 33. Saying Cael can't develop wrestlers is being either ignorant or ridiculous. And Frank is not the only example by any means. He can recruit and coach and wins championships. I'm more than a little done with unsupported positions that deny the obvious, especially ones that use convoluted statistics.
