More redshirt pulling in Iowa City
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Yeah, that is pretty dang obvious. Whatever it is, Tommy hit a limit. Of course that limit will be stretched heading into the Big10s.
Turk is probably feeling bad about the cards Tom has dealt himself.
Low-hanging fruit has always been my specialty. 😁
There's generally 2 reasons to pull a shirt. One, trouble, either academically, behavioral, or injury. Two, the athlete demands to perform or they will leave. They surely didn't pull a shirt just to beat Northwestern.
You do more with it than the rest of us.
I am looking forward to opening the thread "Tom clears the DeSanto mystery, while also explaining the Hawkeye tap out skills" and being 2 paragraphs in before I realize Slush suckered me again.
I think ADS is banged up to the point he needs extended time off. He’s not sick or in trouble since he was there IMO.
Low-hanging, condescending fruit with a dose of impetuousness thrown in for good measure
, although in your case slushhead your awesome "news" stories show a veritable plethora of forethought!
That's some top notch stuff there.
If AD was banged up, Tom B. would have given a similar response that he gave for 141 lbs.
Or maybe he was there so they could keep an eye on him, ya know, like how you would never leave your 5 year old home alone?
I am curious myself. My reply was because your post reminded me of "Clue" discussions my family has had.
Remember that when Desanto defaulted against RBY...Brands basically said that Desanto panicked because he had never been injured before and it was Desanto's decision to default. This could very well be similar in that it "Was Desanto's decision" not to wrestle and Brands decided to pull a shirt and put out a willing wrestler to give Desanto the choice: If you "can't" wrestle.....we have someone that will. Your call. I kinda think this may be on point.
Someone could show Tom how to use one of those tracker apps on his cell phone.
I think he already uses that for Terry. Might be too heavy a lift to babysit more people.
Shock collars work great on the dog and wife, dont see why it wouldnt work on DeSanto.
I was pretty sure I read someplace those instructions are included in the 3 inch binder.
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Unfortunately, Mr. Lee accidentally put the version written in French in the binder so Brands has to have it translated.
Two post weekend observations:
1) What's with Byers repeatedly calling him Desantis? Is he fixated on Florida politics?
2) my suspicion, AD is in the dog house, with Brands' managing him on a tight leash. Probably some sort of double secret probation. His post match outbursts and antics within the last two weeks plus whatever might be happening behind closed doors in their room probably has him sniffing strike 3. As a result they have pulled the shirt as a contingency plan of AD having yet one more screw up. I bet we see him compete within the next week or so, but he is skating on the thinnest of ice.
Granted 100% conjecture, but I don't think he is done (yet) and I don't think he is injured. I do think he is Austin Desanto, there is only one.
1) What's with Byers repeatedly calling him Desantis? Is he fixated on Florida politics?
2) my suspicion, AD is in the dog house, with Brands' managing him on a tight leash. Probably some sort of double secret probation. His post match outbursts and antics within the last two weeks plus whatever might be happening behind closed doors in their room probably has him sniffing strike 3. As a result they have pulled the shirt as a contingency plan of AD having yet one more screw up. I bet we see him compete within the next week or so, but he is skating on the thinnest of ice.
Granted 100% conjecture, but I don't think he is done (yet) and I don't think he is injured. I do think he is Austin Desanto, there is only one.
strike 3. Thin ice. Your talking about Iowa, they need him for any shot at title he will be wrestling big ten championship even if its not till then no matter what he’s done or doing behind the gold curtain. They burned a shirt in hooes of keeping dual win streak going. Didnt care about kid not wrestling post season evidently, just whats goid for TNT
My guess and my guess only: ADS looked gassed against a way inferior opponent when wrestling Minnesota (like ADS at his best techs him within a period) and I don't think he wraps his hand for a fashion statement. Pretty clear something is ailing ADS physically and it's not COVID since he's with the team. Possible it's affecting ADS mentally and he told Brands he's done for the season (hence Brands said it was Austin's decision) and Brands doesn't fully buy it's that bad (similar to how he publicly stated after his default against RBY, he felt ADS could have continued). Tom is currently trying to convince him to return (after getting medical evaluations to convince ADS he's okay) and he's pretty optimistic he will.
But because ADS declared he's done, Tom has to get ready for the postseason without him. Cullan has been told there is a chance ADS would be back and thus he'd lose a postseason and Cullan is okay with it.
But because ADS declared he's done, Tom has to get ready for the postseason without him. Cullan has been told there is a chance ADS would be back and thus he'd lose a postseason and Cullan is okay with it.
Also, Iowa has a major logjam at 125 through 141 but I think it's also clear who their long term answers are at those weights. 125 - Jesuroga, 133 - Ayala, 141 - Henson. Ybarra and Schriever are the odd men out overall IMO. Schriever could bump up and beat out Henson but that isn't something I'd bet on. Since Ybarra and Schriever kind of de facto redshirted, that could factor in the decision. Who wants to stay 6 years in college when you aren't starting a good bit. The fact is 2021 not counting threw a lot of things off but especially for Iowa when you factor in Lee is now around another year and that's a full scholarship that isn't coming off the books.
Isn’t this actually Schrievers second year at Iowa? I’d bet Desanto is just going to be out a couple weeks and Schriever decided he doesn’t want to be in college for six years and took the opportunity to be in some duals?
Pure conjecture or do you have some inside info — ie, a guess, but an educated one? Either way, really interesting take that seems entirely plausible and demonizes none of the stakeholders. Nicely done.
Except that Iowa could have forfeited 133 to Illinois and Northwestern and won comfortably. Glad you took the opportunity to trash Iowa's coaches though. Good on you
I’m sorry, but ADS vountarily saying he doesn’t want to go the rest of the way does not sound plausible to me.
Only way I see that is if he is saying ‘no’ to some sort of condition or ultimatum. Which I then find implausible by his presence on the bench (unless Tom were giving him some sort of grace period to make up his mind).
Gotta be something else, imo.
Maybe he doesn't want to get ragdolled by RBY in Carver again?
@McScoreley I was in the process of Liking it and then you deleted it. Valid point.
Didn’t want to start a war but I’ll repost. I basically said we did the same thing to Seth while working to get Kerk eligible to save duals. It didn’t work out and turns out those duals were valuable. Should we not even have recommended wrestling duals to his family? I’m sure the possibility of losing a postseason was mentioned and his family accepted. Clearly there’s no hard feelings because Seth still wrestles for us to this day despite moving onto football.
I deleted because I remember Hawkeye Report vehemently attacked Cael for doing that and I’m ironically defending them now as they are backtracking on the take that letting kids wrestle duals without a guarantee of a postseason when redshirt is available is an automatic evil thing. But I remember now we do hold ourselves to a higher standard on BWI and thus can take the high road.
So mcsoreley your saying brands recruited over some blue chippers. Say it isnt so, according to HR cael only does that
Austin has already said No Mas against RBY…so saying he doesn’t want to go isn’t unprecedented
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