Yeah…totally different vibe with the 125 lb Iowa veterans through the years. Ramos, Gilman, now Spencer drama…WTF is going on in IC? Is it the Hobbits stoking something negative down in the lower weights with their alpha male bravado BS?
So no evidence? But you think Iowa wrestlers are more well known in their locale despite PSU dominating the last decade+ in both individual and team champions? I have to disagree.
Since the Big 10 network put out their schedule this year, I have been curious if there's somewhere we could see the ratings of matches they have aired for say the past 10 years or so. Iowa is on more this year than PSU so unless they are dumb, I'd say Iowa may draw better numbers. I'll say though, who Iowa or PSU is wrestling affects those numbers as well so just looking at the raw numbers won't give a complete story.
Bro I already put a disclaimer that this was speculation on my part and have listed my reasons for thinking there’s more potential at iowa for a superstar (i.e. Spencer Lee) to make more money….
Interesting. But you’d also have to look also when/ what time the matches are and what else there is to show at the same time.
Hahahahahaha. They air a wrestling documentary after the year’s biggest dual meet about one of the team’s coaches in the dual meet and a lot of people watch it. Shocking.
363K watched the dual, 175k watched the Brands documentary. That means more than half (188k) did NOT care to watch the documentary. Not following your logic?
Logic: it’s friday night, Iowa just lost, and now you want me to sit through a documentary I can simply DVR? No way in hell north of say 75% of iowa fans watching the dual stuck around for the documentary- and the Brands’ are not universally liked in our fan base whatsoever.
I'd take a $700 hog farm deal and a free Pioneer Seed trucker hat over a couple titles every time. Some guys have different goals.
? You’re comparing two very different measurements…. One is a generic sport rating and the other is specifically a dual between two competitors that actually provides enough data for us to draw some reasonable conclusions.
I was at Carver- And there’s the kicker…. We were already missing 10k+ from our tv ratings.
So PSU vs Iowa draws a ton of viewership and that supports more Iowa fans?
LOL the whole State College, PA thing combined with Iowa City and CR being oh idk at least 5X as large in population….
Honestly idk… finals are just a bad number for our question. I will say a back and forth between Iowa/PSU on a more regular basis would be excellent for the sport.
We want more back and forth too, like Iowa coming to State College when not forced by BigTen scheduling, like they actually promised….
Or they fell into a deep sleep and woke up after the documentary...
What in the heck are you talking about sir? This isn’t even necessarily a “who has more fans question?”. It’s a how well known is this guy for me to pay him for affiliation with my local/regional business
Actually, one could make the argument that more people in PA know who SL is as opposed to Iowa just saying.
As a pct? I doubt it. Anyway I could see wrestling becoming even more concentrated at the top because of NIL.
That's kind of the case as is though? The bulk of the top talent is all going to PSU, Iowa and the 2 O States. The second pack (schools IMO like Arizona State, Missouri, NC State, Michigan, Virginia Tech, Nebraska) will collect a Top 10 PFP every now and then and build the rest of their team on some talented kids who might take a few years to be an AA.
I hope NIL never becomes much of anything in collegiate wrestling and kids constantly leaving to go to the big programs. I still think we will lose smaller programs if that starts to happen. Why would they want to continue losing money on a sport, using their own resources to develop kids only for them to go elsewhere when they are ready to succeed. I admit, I could be way off on this one but it is a concern of mine.
I would agree that it is a big concern, and don’t want it to happen. Just saying someone’s going to start cranking NIL to get an edge… then it’s dominos. I’d put money on Ohio State to kick things off.
Hey, did you post over on HR under a similar handle and get banned? If so and I remember correctly you are nothing like the "you" that posted over there. Lol
Same dude. If I was a dick on the wrestling board I was probably drunk or trolling trolls…. I was already pretty psyched up over there because I spent way too much time on the political forums arguing away aimlessly….
I rarely drink but eventually im gonna pick a night when something controversial with the Hawks is happening and HR is buzzing, tie one on and see what happens. Lol
HR is under new management… idk if that wrestling board can make it. The guys running the site seem like a bunch of amateurs who got suckered badly……
