Meyer Shapiro to Cornell
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Yes. His senior year.
Should have been more specific and said kids who wrestled all or most of their HS career at each school
Ferrari spent less than 1 year at Blair before transferring to Bergen Catholic.
While it sucks anytime we miss out on high-level recruits, having some of these kids on other teams is what makes this so much f*n!
Every year, we have a couple of duals, individual matches, and storylines that keep us on the edge of our seats. This is what is exciting! Not to take anything away from Kizhan Clarke, but I was a lot more excited about RBY/Fix than I was Lee/Clark! I truly felt the good guys were going to win both of them, but there was a level of uncertainty with RBY/Fix that kept me glued to the TV even though we had the team title locked up early.
If we got every blue-chipper, we'd lose this. I love to see the development of these guys, year over year. And I honestly feel we develop these guys better than any other room in the nation! Case in point, RBY. His freshman year saw him get decked by Gomez (fluky as it may have been), lose to Ben Thorton, John Erneste, Ethan Lizak, one to Pletcher, and the matches to DeSanto. In the last 3 years, he has lost exactly twice (once to Seth Gross and once to SeaBass). Sure, we missed out on Fix, but I think we're still doing alright and it makes it a lot of f*n to watch!
Every year, we have a couple of duals, individual matches, and storylines that keep us on the edge of our seats. This is what is exciting! Not to take anything away from Kizhan Clarke, but I was a lot more excited about RBY/Fix than I was Lee/Clark! I truly felt the good guys were going to win both of them, but there was a level of uncertainty with RBY/Fix that kept me glued to the TV even though we had the team title locked up early.
If we got every blue-chipper, we'd lose this. I love to see the development of these guys, year over year. And I honestly feel we develop these guys better than any other room in the nation! Case in point, RBY. His freshman year saw him get decked by Gomez (fluky as it may have been), lose to Ben Thorton, John Erneste, Ethan Lizak, one to Pletcher, and the matches to DeSanto. In the last 3 years, he has lost exactly twice (once to Seth Gross and once to SeaBass). Sure, we missed out on Fix, but I think we're still doing alright and it makes it a lot of f*n to watch!
Did you say Bergen Catholic NCAA champs?
Nick Suriano
Shane Griffiths
AJ Ferrari
Robbie Howard (okay I jumped the gun but I have faith!)
Keep an eye on 197lb Jacob Cardenas at Cornell. Had good toruney this year. He could challenge for the 197 title. I could see him as another BC champ.
Ok, spent very some time at Bergen , I guess spent most of his time in Allen texas righ?.but anyway I'll take a Blair guy over a sem guy, meaning I think Van ness is better than Shapiro for 2 reasons it just science.
Bergen claiming Ferrari is like Pitt claiming 3 dozen football titles.
Sorry! The man likes to travel and he was on our roster and believe that we were able to mold him as wrestler. Note: I confirmed that he DID NOT take Driver's Ed at Bergen!
Willie interviews Shapiro about the decision (pronounced sha-PIE-ro, btw) here
Doesn't sound like Penn State was near the top of his list, but it also sounds like it was always Cornell and that never really changed.
Doesn't sound like Penn State was near the top of his list, but it also sounds like it was always Cornell and that never really changed.
Gobblin the super insider over on HR led them to believe Shapiro was gonna be a Hawk. Seems now he never even considered them.
Iowa was never really in it for Meyer
Yeah, everyone knew that all along. Well..everyone but Gobblin. LMAO
He's only as good as the info in his phone.......
As of today on HR, TNT had their eyes on Joe Sealey instead of Shapiro.
Lol. Yeah...you have Gobblin sayin' that at the 11th hour, Cornell stole Shapiro from the Hawkeyes. Then you have others trying to say the Hawks weren't all that interested in him.
If I were to make a suggestion, during this...the 12th hour, those fools need to decide who the real insider is over there because they are just making each other look stupid...
Channeling MSU158 (poetic license on weights, wrestler names and other facts):
They have the next 4 timer in Kennedy, just ask them. Why would they want Shapiro, just to sit the bench? Even if he went down to 157, Reyna is there and he would already be an NCAA Champ this season if he wasn't in High School. Again, just ask them. On top of all that, he couldn't even possibly cut down to 141 with Woods there. That just wouldn't make any sense.
There just simply isn't any room at Iowa for someone of his caliber, just ask them!
jUsT aSk ThEm!!!!!!!!!!!!
They actually believe that about Pat Kennedy though. Never mind he has had 2 years in the room now and is turning 21 next month and his results this year indicated he's a lower AA to R12 rather than a finalist.
I think Kennedy is going to be a stud. We'll agree to disagree on that one.
And he alluded to Arnold flying to Iowa this week with another potential recruit from seminary lol. What's that about
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I think he's going to be (is) good but they hype him up like he's on the same level as the top tier at 165 (Keegan, Griffith, Hamiti, Kharchla). Could he be? Sure but he hasn't shown anything like that yet. They're literally using an easy season open against Marinelli where it was close to extrapolate. He's certainly ahead of Facundo at this time, like I said I'd say he's lower AA and I could be wrong by end of next season.
Lol your right there's always that guy on hr with the reverse psychology take lol.
I just hope his body holds up. Being 24 yo senior in that room doesn't exactly bode well for success.
He’ll be wrestling the first match of his freshman year at about the same age (21y, 6 month) I was when I graduated college
Look stupid?
Shapiro, based on his resume is an intelligent kid who probably has serious national championship aspirations. No way in hell Iowa was ever a consideration. Cornell can coach him up to a national championship and combine that with a Cornell Ivy League degree and you have a solid combination that is hard to beat.
Let the kid go someplace to learn to wrestle first. Then call him, and get him in the portal.
Chances are you will be wrong by the end of next season. He'll probably be more like a R12.
Met Arnolds Uncle on a flight. They hate Cael. Arnold is a close relative to Cox and lotsa bad blood according the the uncle from the Taylor match where Cox was gifts a win.
They must really hate KJ
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