September 1: First Contact Day For Class of '18
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I put my foot down over his request for Budweiser - he'll have to be content with unmarked 20s
The good news for us is Willie is looking to redeem himself after the last go around.
I live close to Berge... Feel free to drop me some cash, 40's, and dip, and I'll be sure to send the NLI right back, overnight.
Bump - Willie on FRL predicted Wittlake to PSU
What is Travis' projected weight in college? I'm assuming he starts at 84.
What about Hall? I think it's a LOT more likely that Hall ends up at 184 after Nickal graduates. However, projecting weights more than a few months out is a total crap shoot so no telling what happens.
Hall wants to wrestle freestyle 74kg/163 lb. Bumping up to 184 puts that in serious jeopardy. I'm not sure he's big enough to put on the lbs to be a good international 86 kg/189 lb.
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I'd be willing to bet you that Mark never gets above 174lbs. 184lbs is a target weight for PSU right now.
I'd assume Beard may get more attention after NLI day, based on the size of next year's class. I think if you can get Beard, you have to get him, regardless of Nevills.
I agree, but then I don't have to allocate the 9.9 rides.
To play devil's advocate: If Beard and Nevills are too overlapped, maybe Cael would rather wait a year and go after Josh McKenzie, or wait until 2020. Or, maybe it's related to Beard's 2 losses to Warner at cadet team trials.
Does anyone think Brady's performance yesterday against Griffith at WNO moves the bar at all regarding PSUs interest?
Yea, how was the audition? Was he good enough to make the cut?
Define "PSU's interest." Berge was supposedly visiting PSU on his way home from WNO, so PSU was already at least interested enough to meet him.
If you mean money, doubt it changes much. Coaches hold the leverage here: with the middleweight stockpile, he needs them more than they need him.
Well he's surely no Marinelli who it sounds like is beating Stoll, Brooks and both Brands brothers at the same time
Don't forget Evans...and Kemmerer, and Sorenson, and everyone else they threw at him. Practice is practice. Not the real world except during wrestleoffs.
While cutting to 141...
if it isn't a bad razor, nothing much seems to impress Evans, does it?
Thanks El Jefe. Yes I was referring to $ interest. Your answer makes perfect sense.
I think with our stockpile of middleweights, it makes more sense to go after someone like Beard, providing depth for upper weights. I recall someone mentioning the redundancy with AJ Nevills at 97. It appears there is more depth at the middle weights though.
That Marinelli must be something else. Says a lot for the guy we got (Hall) who handled him quite easily. I like that...
Ya know, now that I think about it that was a dumb comment that I made here. I forgot about the Iowa fans argument that Hall was bigger and may have had a few pounds on Marinelli at the time. I mean, they forget all about the weight difference while putting Marinelli on a pedestal for beating Sorensen in the practice room but hey... who's keeping track of all that.
If Marinelli is laying a whooping on everybody in the Hawk room, I take that to mean he wrestling aggressively and offensively. Does that mean the Hawks will be red-shirting him now. May take an concerted effort to beat that offense out of the kid and get him trained to the push, push, push "heeeee's staaaaallling" move.
Sounds like good preparation for freestyle wrestling--saw a good bit of that at the Olympics!
rumor is that Brody Grothus is NC threat too. wait....wrong season. Carry on.
I was thinking the same thing. The expectations are crazy for both of those kids. Marinelli is too small to wrestle 165 this year and beat Hall, but he is beating Brooks and Evans who probably weigh around 185-190lbs right now. I think Kemerer is going to be good this year, but I'm not expecting him to be in the finals this year especially since he is moving up in weight. I think JoJo is better than him and the physically stronger of the two. That will be an interesting bout this year. I actually really like Kemerer. He seems like a great kid.
Not that different than a number of posts on this board regarding Suriano and Joseph. Just sayin'.
Is this Mike Evans....lost track of him; thought he was on the staff at Cal Poly?
Back with the Hawkeyes?
My friends and I sat right behind Gilman's Step-Dad, Mom, and Girlfriend (who is Mike Evans sister) during an away dual in WI (where I live) this past season and we made some conversation during the meet, at one point they showed us a picture of Mike Evans because one of my buddies had mentioned The stache. He had a pretty massive beard/stache combo and looked like a mountain man, pretty awesome lol. Although I'm not sure it its still quite that wild these days.Hey, thanks.
Update on his 'stache?
