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The Ferrari Family Circus

Me walking into work Tuesday morning fresh off my New Years break...

Here is the Texas OG for the salute.

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I liked this nugget from GIA:

“I’m the only other person who isn’t jumping on the destroy the Ferrari’s bandwagon. The only thing a Ferrari did today that was embarrassing and out of line was AJ flipping off the ugly crowd. He didn’t flip off TnT or blow kisses at them, and certainly didn’t smash Glaziers face into the mat, just a little push, like Rathjen did to his brother after beating him. Glaziers face didn’t get closer than 4 feet from the mat. At first I thought Rathjen and Glazier were being little bitches trying to start something with Ferrari’s, but then I realized they were just geniuses. Best way to keep you positions is to start something, knowing fans will be behind our beloved room guys, and basically run the whole family out of town for good. I understand there were many fans of other teams hating on Ferrari’s, but most of our fans jumped in also. Felt bad for Angelo. He was just in the tunnel watching his brothers, and the entire arena of fans he thinks he wants to wrestle for were booing his brothers off the mat like they just killed someone. I was waiting for objects to be thrown at them. We went right by his family trying to escape this ugly crowd and you talk about awkward. The whole family and friends from Texas were there, and they looked very anxious, almost scared. They must be thinking with “fans” like this, who needs enemies. I thought Anthony was fine. He gave the same weak shove back to Rathjen, then stood there for the handshake while Rathjen flexed in his face instead of handshake, ran around beating his chest, finally came back and Anthony gave him a genuine good handshake, then slowly walked off while our fan’s mercilessly booed the shit out of him. And this is a guy who will be officially on our team soon . Glad he was able to take the shit treatment by our fans better than AJ, but all are likely gone, and I can’t blame them. Thought AJ participating in this to knock the rust off was good idea, but didn’t think the fans and Iowa wrestlers they faced would use this weekend to make the whole family feel like very hated outcasts. No wonder we lose so many blue chip recruits. ****ing embarrassing.”
so your missing the whole point of good and fair play AJ is all about himself!NCAA shoould ban him!
 
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Is that from Nashville Hawk? Ill be honest, ive been shocked by his take on things. Really surprised me.
Nashville Hawkeye is off his f'n rocker. Why he's so desperate for the points like TnT is a surprise to me. Even Grip caved, which wasn't expected.

That program is circling the toilet, and could be the worst sports program in the NCAA at this point.
 
Nashville Hawkeye is off his f'n rocker. Why he's so desperate for the points like TnT is a surprise to me. Even Grip caved, which wasn't expected.

That program is circling the toilet, and could be the worst sports program in the NCAA at this point.
Re: losing Grip.

Grip losing faith on that board is equivalent to Walter Kronkite losing faith in the Vietnam War effort. You know you’ve lost “Middle America” so to speak
 
He's a she, so should probably also take some extra steps to protect herself. Unfortunately, it looks like she's still listed as the interim AD, so who knows if that comes into play, but she did follow through on firing Brian Ferentz.
Thanks... I edited the original post.
 
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I might have missed it being posted here but here's a more complete version of the train wreck:

read all about it yesterday but didn't see it till this post. that is just bad , i was actually hoping he would have learned from his mistakes and made some changes but that doesn't appear to be the case. I always hope that kids learn from mistakes and make the most of second and third chances given but that isn't happening in this case. His wrestling career should be over and maybe he gets it together eventually in life but there is point you have used up all chances you are going to get.
 
Brands should be thankful that this is wrestling a niche sport that garners very little attention from the media. If Brands was coaching men's basketball, AJ's antics would be leading Sportscenter and getting plays on the morning shows.
If wrestling wasn't a niche sport, the Brands would have been fired a decade ago.
 
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Please. Read his posts......he is all about Jesus now. The Lord guides him now. The Lord just took a bathroom break in OT. Just say you are sorry.....that you momentarily got possesed by the Devil and now you are back in the good graces. Just give the Jimmy Swaggert speech. It works 83% of the time :)
Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers. If you get the King Jersey version, it's explained in the notes, that Jesus then did a split with the double bird to the money changers.
 
Re: losing Grip.

Grip losing faith on that board is equivalent to Walter Kronkite losing faith in the Vietnam War effort. You know you’ve lost “Middle America” so to speak
When Iowa fans start agreeing with johnstownsteel (GIApet) and he builds up a 3 to 1 like to post ratio in one night, you know Hawk fans are losing their minds...
 
For all the “trust TnT” Iowa fans… the problem is that you can’t rehabilitate someone that doesn’t think they’ve done anything wrong.

I saw a few GIA posts trying to compare AJ to DeSanto. First, there is no comparison regarding their behavior. Second, DeSanto acknowledged and apologized for his mistakes, sought help, and wanted to change.

AJ doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong and doesn’t want to change. At least, that’s what I think I see.
What do you mean, he doesn't want to change? He grew a mullet. DeSanto didn't embrace Iowa to that extent.
 
Trust me from the sermon I heard this morning He wasn't surprised.

Well, if we going to go theological here, Iowa invited the prince of darkness into their state a few weeks back. He's kind of really busy with all the wars and corruption, so he sent his field agent.
 
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I liked this nugget from GIA:

“I’m the only other person who isn’t jumping on the destroy the Ferrari’s bandwagon. The only thing a Ferrari did today that was embarrassing and out of line was AJ flipping off the ugly crowd. He didn’t flip off TnT or blow kisses at them, and certainly didn’t smash Glaziers face into the mat, just a little push, like Rathjen did to his brother after beating him. Glaziers face didn’t get closer than 4 feet from the mat. At first I thought Rathjen and Glazier were being little bitches trying to start something with Ferrari’s, but then I realized they were just geniuses. Best way to keep you positions is to start something, knowing fans will be behind our beloved room guys, and basically run the whole family out of town for good. I understand there were many fans of other teams hating on Ferrari’s, but most of our fans jumped in also. Felt bad for Angelo. He was just in the tunnel watching his brothers, and the entire arena of fans he thinks he wants to wrestle for were booing his brothers off the mat like they just killed someone. I was waiting for objects to be thrown at them. We went right by his family trying to escape this ugly crowd and you talk about awkward. The whole family and friends from Texas were there, and they looked very anxious, almost scared. They must be thinking with “fans” like this, who needs enemies. I thought Anthony was fine. He gave the same weak shove back to Rathjen, then stood there for the handshake while Rathjen flexed in his face instead of handshake, ran around beating his chest, finally came back and Anthony gave him a genuine good handshake, then slowly walked off while our fan’s mercilessly booed the shit out of him. And this is a guy who will be officially on our team soon . Glad he was able to take the shit treatment by our fans better than AJ, but all are likely gone, and I can’t blame them. Thought AJ participating in this to knock the rust off was good idea, but didn’t think the fans and Iowa wrestlers they faced would use this weekend to make the whole family feel like very hated outcasts. No wonder we lose so many blue chip recruits. ****ing embarrassing.”

 
The Brands might still be in on the Ferrari clan but I have a hard time believing that the University is. Do we know if AJ has actually been admitted?
 
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The Brands might still be in on the Ferrari clan but I have a hard time believing that the University is. Do we know if AJ has actually been admitted?
Candidly if they’ve made it this far, they’ll go all the way. The experiment will end with a much worse ending IMO.

Few Iowa parents are going public with the fact they don’t want their kids around him at this point. I’m very curious how a team vote would go also.
 
Can you imaging Brands telling him "son, I know where you are, I was there".

We have a guy at the gym that walks by the mirrors and he nodded at himself today. I asked the kid on the Treadmill, who told me he was wrestling 113 this year, if that was AJ. We both got a good laugh out of it.
 
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