You are correct. A prominent lawyer in Pennsylvania was behind the funding to get Cael to jump. Big pay raise.
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Seriously? I've never heard that story before and it kinda doesn't seem like Campbell's style.
The only interaction I had with Cael in my time in Ames was I nearly ran him over in a parking lot his Senior year. Looking back I'm a little disappointed in myself for hitting the brakes.
The reality is far more bizarre. It was resources that swayed Gable. How about tape? A real head scratcher was ISU being stingy on how much athletic tape gable had access to. Iowa sent Gable an entire box. That was just one piece of the bizarre recruitment by Iowa. Behind the scenes there was also Les Anderson hoping to be the heir apparent to Nichols. That one surprised me at the time as I got to work with him at summer camps. Gibbons obviously worked out in the end though.
Wrestlers are wired differently. At the end of the day, financially we couldn't compete with PSU and there were similar stories about an AD with an ego that we've all heard about this last weekend. It's been 16 years....it is what it is at this point.
Cael was never winning 12 titles in 16 years here. But I do firmly believe he'd have 4-5 now. But that's also assuming everything else stayed status qou from then to now.
Cael was never winning 12 titles in 16 years here. But I do firmly believe he'd have 4-5 now. But that's also assuming everything else stayed status qou from then to now.
He showed up. It used to happen all the time, lately no because of the hires. TJ because of the relationship and JR because there wasn’t time in that window.
Now that I read that, I kind of remember that. I think he flew out there with Jamie to get him.
Yeah, remember the beating he had his team put on WSU in NCAA tourney a couple of seasons ago. https://cyclones.com/news/2024/3/23...victory-no-4-isu-overcomes-no-25-wsu-in-omaha
And how he took Aljaz Kunc and Dishon Jackson away from them?
If that doesn't scream hate then I don't know what does.
Otzelberger came from UNLV... by way of SDSU. Just like Rogers came from WSU... by way of SDSU. Not quite figuring how this is so difficult for you to understand.
He was in one of my art history class and I saw he got a 97/100 on a test being passed back.
It wasn't the kind of test you could get 97/100 without studying a lot, countless images/dates/names/facts needed to be memorized so either he really studied hard or star athletes just get good grades passed out. It would have been an overly tough class to take as an elective if you weren't an art/design major but more interesting than most classes.
On 2Guys pod Hassel was arguing Mouser is like TJ and some fans on the chat were arguing Rogers is like TJ and they're both kind of right but Mouser would be at the midpoint of it still needing to get a couple mid major jobs before coming back. Rogers is more analogous as of now with the exception he wasn't actually on staff at ISU.
Gable didn’t leverage his status to get the ISU coaching job and force out Nichols. Pretty sure Cael used the Ohio State opening as a way to force out Douglas.
When I was at ISU most profs in my experience either didn't care about the athletes or seemed to want to make an example out of them and make sure they didn't think they could get away with anything.
Cael or Gable could have built the #1 program at any power conference school with a good wrestling schedule too, I think ISU was on its way there (2nd, 5th, 3rd). There's no football coach who is that big of a personality/legend vs the rest of the sport at large.
Gable took the geographically closest open/available job to where he grew up and never left, I know the biggest ISU wrestling fans despise him but I respect that a lot even though I'm the kind of person to move all over the world myself.
I don't know as much about Cael as a coach but I have been to Gable practices in person and on video...I think he's actually just a great coach who'd have won anywhere. It's like if Deion was still Deion but also the mind of the greatest most experienced cfb coach. Players will come to that rare combination.
Our professor was the last guy who would be a sports fan, I just took it as Cael was a very serious student when I saw the grade.
I think i t depended on the professor. I had a couple that were quite chatty and showed favoritism to some athletes and others that obviously didn't care for sports and treated them like any other student.
165# at State College HS (Freshman)
He is coached by Bo Nickals's dad
Not going to lie....Teag at ISU would be great! Go after him, Dresser. For some reason I don't think he would fit with the "Iowa Style"...
Gable told me himself the plan was to come back to ISU after Nichols retired but the Iowa program blew up
