My opinion but this isn’t unique to Iowa, small towns everywhere are hurting. I actually think because of the agriculture in Iowa, small towns are doing better here than many parts of the country.
I really like some of the small towns in NE Iowa.
Waukon, Lansing, Decorah, Manchester, Osage all come to mind as nice small towns.
Ames and IC are in a class of their own and it really isn't fair to compare them to others within the state.
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The worst in Iowa is Fort Dodge.
I know a lot of great people from Fort Dodge and Fort Dodge area. Lived with two guys who went to hs at FDSH.
I had always thought they were exaggerating some of the stories I'd heard, and it was maybe a reputation thing. Then I worked om FD for a year...
Edina is despised by anyone who is not from there in MN because of the amount of wealth. A lot of the executives of the fortune 500 companies in the twin cities live there.
And I have to say of the people I have met from Edina, the cake-eater nickname fits. They are not very grounded, I'll say...
Gibson to rutgers.
Which is fine, I don't think he is near as good of a prospect as his hs teammates. He is a lot more physically mature than his HS counterparts.
I think it has more to do with Cody Merill (#1 ranked HWT, #2 pound for pound) coming in to okie st next year. But he probably wasn't going to say that.
Didn’t wrestle nationally last year after doing the full circuit the previous year. He fell a bit in the national rankings after losing to Harper at state in 2023. He had dominated Harper a couple of times prior to that.
They do a good job for the most part, but the most recent example i can think of that they made a bad seeding decision based on the matrix was last year at 184. Brooks beat Keckeisen at all star classic which doesn’t count on official record. Keckeisen and Hidlay split during the year. So...
I can’t find anything that does, but finding much info at all is hard to come by. can infer that is the tiebreaker based on them using that in prior year seeding when guys are tied.
completely agree regarding KOT and Carr being seperated, the process does allow for the seeding committee to...
I think Echemendia is going to get the 5 or 6. That would likely mean a QF match against either Ryan Jack or Real Woods. Sign me up for either of those.
Win % is split 5-5, they're the same, both 22-2
Conference rank is 15% and Coaches Ranking is 10%. They have it screwed up on the flo article.
David wins quality wins based on their tiered system but Ramirez gets 5 for having quality wins - I honestly don't know why they do it this way, but it...