So in other words you either have no idea of a specific example of what you're talking about and are just blowing smoke, or you're completely disregarding specific wrestlers within the last 12 months that were dominant throughout the year.
Or you just want to keep changing what it is that you're talking about. Or possibly you're one of those people that hold on to our last NT in 1987 as something that has legitimate bearing on how we should view the program today because nothing else in the collegiate wrestling landscape has changed since then.
I can't speak for him but my recollection of aggressive wrestlers under KJ (and I'm sure I'm forgetting some) includes Varner and to a lesser extent, Zabriskie,....he was pretty aggressive for a hwt. Gallick was rounding into shape nicely under Cael and it would have been fun to see what he could've done with a healthy senior year. Long got after it pretty well and Reader was a freakin' animal his senior year. Andrew Sorenson was a blast to watch as a senior and yes, Gadson was dominant last year. Aside from Sorenson and Zabriskie, all the others were blue chips and all besides Kyven were Cael holdovers that KJ made better. The recent average is maybe 2 guys/season that I would truly consider aggressive...and lateral dropping yourself to a fall =/= aggression. A guy could probably look past it if we wrestled smart, tactical matches with an eye toward a solid 3rd period, but most of the time it seems like all we do in the 3rd is gas out, whether it's in December or March.
I've been a pretty steady KJ supporter but I don't like the way we're trending. We're recruiting ok but we're not closing any ground on the elite programs, and are probably slipping further behind from a talent standpoint. Unfortunately I see nothing on the development side to offset that. We can hope upgrades at '84 and '97 this season will help but recent data doesn't lend itself to that hope becoming a reality and even if those guys are legit it doesn't make us a top 5 or probably even top 10 team. Time will tell who is right, but I can no longer say I have a problem with people that want to call KJ's coaching into question. He can certainly coach elite talent, but national championship teams almost always have 1 or 2 under-recruited state champs that were developed in the room and made the podium. There hasn't been much of that in Ames under KJ.
