Bassett to Iowa
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So Iowa really offered $5mill? Thought Basset said those numbers were unrealistic and the final 4 made similar $$ offers?? Unless he really did get $5mill but wants to play it off like he didn’t ??
I'd love to see Larry try to pull a Tim Beckman. He'd maybe even equal Beckman's success and land a single backup. But more likely not.
DT followed Cael - he was all set to go to Iowa State ---
I'm hopeful there is a chance that he backs out and commits to PSU
it's only a verbal - kids say the darndest things
I'm hopeful there is a chance that he backs out and commits to PSU
it's only a verbal - kids say the darndest things
How could you spend so much time following college wrestling, recruiting, reading message boards and ask these questions?
He's Class of 2026.
Some people atarted speculating -- wiith no info whatsoever -- that he should graduate early and reclassify as 2025. Pure spitballing.
So the whole recruitment "process" was just a farce and him wasting a lot of people's time? He's smart, but not smart enough to know this is a *really* bad look?
He has millions of reasons to not care how this looks.
Welsh, Kilkeary, Shaw, Herring, Lawrence, Gibsons, Church, Watters ...
Kolby Franklin is the only "recent" Young Guns kid to go Hawk.
Iowa couldn't even land Francis Duggan after he transferred to Iowa City West HS.
Yep, you can't change history. When people start bending the truth, it's very difficult to tie up all the loose ends. Unfortunately, he cant keep his mouth shut and put so much in the public domain that the entire narrative doesn't make sense.
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Now, if they don't stop sending guys to these bum programs not Penn State, it's time to nuke them
It's all cyclical, but YG has not been atop the world since the Lee-Kemerer-Shields team at Franklin Regional.
They get a lot of volume because of PA D6 + D7. And they still produce lots of D1 talent. But nearly all are nice to have for PSU, not priorities. It's good to be the king.
Exactly. How on earth can it be "sour grapes" when PSU declined participation in the auction??? How can you be sour about losing when you didn't even participate???
I dont think Bassett is a PSU fan which is one reason he is going to a rival. As a 10th grader he was lecturing PSU fans on how to act at sporting events. He was not going to PSU.
Dude. Rule #1 is "don't cite Essentially Sports as an authority". Just sayin'. It may also be Rules ##2-5 also.How old is Bassett?
I found this story from LAST year that said he was 19.
Who Are Surging Wrestler Bo Bassett’s Parents and Siblings? Everything You Need To Know About the Young Prodigy’s Supportive Family
Meet Bo Bassett's supportive family: parents Bill and Karissa, integral to his journey as a rising wrestling prodigy.www.essentiallysports.com
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@voltz99 -- Bassett would be ineligible now if that article were true. PIAA rule: all athletes in all sports must be 18 or younger on June 30 to compete in the upcoming year.
Best info online that I found is the Bo turned 18 a month ago. Obviously, he will be almost 20 years old when he starts college wrestling. Iirc, Levi Haines was a similar age (i.e. almost 20) when he started his junior season at PSU.
Edit - West2East has his bday as Aug. 25, 2006, which makes him about 4 months older than I thought. So he will be a full 20 years old before he takes the mat in college.
Edit - West2East has his bday as Aug. 25, 2006, which makes him about 4 months older than I thought. So he will be a full 20 years old before he takes the mat in college.
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maybe your naïve? Did you watch his announcement last night? I'm not buying any of that bs.....he just said last week he wasn't going to commit til the summer, a couple days later we get breaking news that he's suddenly announcing in 2 days, so what changed? Large bag with a short deadline? Isn't the whole recruiting thing a waste of time though for a lot of coaches, these guys get whined and dined only to go elsewhere....I get it that's how recruiting works, my money is that he was not headed to Iowa until uncle Bob threw a pile of cash in his face and said here's our offer but its only good for "x" amount of days....just my opinion
I don't disagree. It's like the old line in a courtroom or deposition when you catch someone making totally inconsistent statements - "(w)ere you lying then or are you lying now?"
Exactly. He is the only party creating moral judgments and trying to put them in others' mouths. I think most kids would take the money (and I think most parents would counsel their kid to take the $$$ - he's a HS Jr, the chances he wins zero NCs is better than he wins 4 imho). He'd be silly not to take that kind of $$$ once offered - easy decision. But that doesn't make the Squawkeyes decision to offer this type of $$$ for a HS Jr a good one! Whatever deficit relative to revenues they operated at this year, well.... they just increased it many times over by their own actions! If you're at cornville right now and you have a great season including a high placement at Nationals, are you going to demand more $$$ and if they ignore you, start looking at interested parties who are willing to pay? They just increased the cost of keeping a wrestler like AF for two seasons before Bo Bassett even gets there
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Smart enough to maneuver a helluva high school wrestling career into serious, life changing cash. Good on him.
Since Cael arrived, Iowa is 10-14 in the finals. PSU is 38-19… other than Lee’s 3 wins you have 3 of 4 other champs, I think? PSU has had what 15 or so?
You cant go by that. As someone mentioned that can simply be a negotiating ploy for more money.
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If he ends up taking any redshirts he'll be collecting Social Security like Kemerer when he graduates.
Now that a HS student has decided to enroll at Iowa, can we please remove these last remaining Threads on him.
Agree. Besides....I need to spend my time trolling Larry Lee because a high-school kid is making 10 times what his boy is at Iowa. I don't have time for these threads anymore...
Income excuses are for wusses.
Wait till I tell him Iowa ALWAYS had their eye on Bo and family taking over the Iowa program one day and not Spencer. Probably gonna piss him off when I tell him Spencer should have made the easy choice instead of the "right" choice..
Ha! I had the same thought, especially after I stumbled upon this old photo of AB's nat'l letter of intent signing day. There was some HWT kid sitting next to him that signed on to go to Ohio State that same day.
Bassett said he wants to train at RTC his senior year of high school, so I'm guessing that's a move to Iowa City next year.
He'd be able to wrestle in hs tourneys and college opens. Probably a better schedule for him than staying at McCort.
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