I predict that the NCAA ill-enforced "Stalling" rules will be turned on their head yet again in CHA and heavily factor into the scoring of the match in Iowa's favor both in terms when it is called (and providing points to assist bonus points) and when it is absurdly and inconsistently ignored to prevent bonus scoring in Iowa's favor... Anybody who has watched through the years realizes this is certainly nothing new, but to me is what made Gilman's statement before the Okie State match so pathetic - and why he looked so foolish after the match....and he did make a complete fool and clown of himself (preemptive strike against the "I have no problem with what he said" crowd....go back and read his comments, he used the reference "we" multiple times in his statement referring to Iowa as a team - not just himself. He declared that Okie State's "style" of wrestling sucks as compared to Iowa's....and that Iowa aggressively wins matches and takes what is theirs....while OSU attempts to back into wins....blah, blah, blah. The performance that Iowa turned in overall [and how Iowa has wrestled the last 6 years] relative to those comments demonstrated how asinine and foolish those comments were - I don't think his comments provided any additional motivation for OSU [any respectable team has maximum motivation going into a match regardless of whether their opponent stays classy or goes classless with their public comments], I just think he made an idiot and clown of himself via those comments to anybody whose watched Iowa wrestle over the last 5 years and watched that match.).
If anybody should be making the comments made by Gilman, it should be Zain, Jason or Bo in regards to their up coming Dual Meet with Iowa @CHA this Friday as to the absurd way "Stalling" rules will likely be called there, but they aren't going to worry about because they're just going to go into CHA and take what is theirs regardless of how absurdly the homer-officials want to call the Dual... Now Zain, Jason, Bo nor their Coaches would ever waste their breathe making such useless statements, but if they did say it, at least they would be speaking simple facts and the truth rather than absurd, asinine ridiculousness like Gilman.
