More importantly, did the Mom look like Mrs. Fast Cars?
Recruiting weekend
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More importantly, did the Mom look like Mrs. Fast Cars?
Yes - recruiting and when others began innovating. Its a copy cat world, my high school coach would yell “Brawl” at any point during practice and you basically stopped what you were doing, went to neutral and began snapping/cross facing/shoving your partner. This was part of our “Iowa Style” training...in central PA. Iowa was on top, TJ Williams from the Cal St (Poweraide) tournament was heading there, Steiner/McIvalry/Brands pictures were on a poster of last year’s all-Americans. Iowa was IT. We all practiced to be like Iowa. The style was aggressive on the boarder line of fighting. You were going to win by manhandling your opponent, no expression, no joy just business. You were hungry (literally) and mad yet stoic. My sons wrestle now and from their elementary program to their clubs and camps the whole message has changed - score, finesse, create...enjoy this competition. Iowa is just now changing, pictures of Taylor, Wright, Retherford are on the walls. Iowa fell behind when their competition became the innovators.
I like the look of that kid but I don't think Cael can approach 2021 kids yet. I am not sure the rules if the kid approaches Cael unsolicited.
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The rules changed earlier this year. "Due to a rule update by the NCAA, effective May 1, 2019, official visits for all other DI sports can begin August 1 before the athlete's junior year of high school. For almost all sports, this bumps up the official visit date."
"All other sports" = not basketball.
Also, no official visits during the Dead Periods -- 3 of them in wrestling: NWCA Convention Week (July/August), National Letter of Intent Week (November), and NCAA Tournament Week (March).
https://www.ncsasports.org/ncaa-eligibility-center/recruiting-rules/official-visits
"All other sports" = not basketball.
Also, no official visits during the Dead Periods -- 3 of them in wrestling: NWCA Convention Week (July/August), National Letter of Intent Week (November), and NCAA Tournament Week (March).
https://www.ncsasports.org/ncaa-eligibility-center/recruiting-rules/official-visits
Also should've mentioned: for 2020, there are zero uncommitted 184+ wrestlers ranked in the top 50. The remaining ranked guys make no sense for officials -- they could start elsewhere but are pretty much guaranteed depth with Brooks, Beard, and Nevills all potentially shirting this year.
2021 has a number of strong candidates at those weights. Kaminski, Haas, and Craft are the headliners. Nate Schon is also 2021, not sure he's quite at that level, but he's probably under-ranked since he hasn't gone to Fargo or Disney or Super 32.
That leaves flips and depth. Catka would be the only guy worth trying to flip, but we weren't among his finalists, so that's unlikely. That leaves depth guys -- who we need, they're just not as exciting for the fans.
2021 has a number of strong candidates at those weights. Kaminski, Haas, and Craft are the headliners. Nate Schon is also 2021, not sure he's quite at that level, but he's probably under-ranked since he hasn't gone to Fargo or Disney or Super 32.
That leaves flips and depth. Catka would be the only guy worth trying to flip, but we weren't among his finalists, so that's unlikely. That leaves depth guys -- who we need, they're just not as exciting for the fans.
El Jefe, is Facundo projected at 174 or lower in college? I assume yes since you didn't nention him in your list in 2021 class. TIA.
Excellent post. I was forming the same thoughts while reading El Jefe’s good post. All business is the same really. If you don’t innovate, someone else will. success can create its own inertia, and I think that happened to Brands and has many others in all walks of life. It isn’t easy being on top and still having the hunger to innovate again and again.
Give Brands 2 or 3 double recruiting classes again and he might be right there.
Wouldn't that entail leaving Iowa, getting a good replacement in Iowa, destroying another program and returning to Iowa 2 or 3 times? People might start catching on.
Excellent point, but I was saying just give him 2 or 3 extra recruits a year for 3 or 4 years. You know, Gablesque.Wouldn't that entail leaving Iowa, getting a good replacement in Iowa, destroying another program and returning to Iowa 2 or 3 times? People might start catching on.
Just wait till Asher and Hayden Cunningham graduate, PSU will come back to Earth.
