Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Friday & Saturday)
- Thread starter Judoka
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3-7 loss for Tanner. Whatever the team has been doing the last month in practice needs to change. Lots of shots stopped as soon as they finish the initial attack, heads down on bottom, and hanging out happy to hope to win by 1 in the third.
Outside of Hall, this weekend has been EMBARRASSING!!! This is disgusting wrestling and as ISU fans we should NOT find this acceptable.
Our wrestling program is at the point where we are only getting two wrestlers to the semifinals (none to the finals) of the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (not the national championships)...and we are rewarding our coach for it with contract extentions. We are not even competitive with national title contenders now.
Sorry for the rant, just can't believe how far the wrestling program has dropped under Jackson, and nobody that matters in our athletic department seems to care.
I am usually as positive as they come but I am out of words. The start to this season is just awful. Frankly, if it can get worse, I don't know how. The Iowa meet was my last one- I cannot watch our guys struggle from the bottom position and/or not finish shots anymore.
We lack in every area you can name. There is possibly- top 20 talent in the room and if is that good, it certainly is not being trained into top 20 talent.
I am frustrated with performances like this. Today- I want to scream SHUT IT DOWN. Let's just drop wrestling if this is how good we are wanting to be.
I will bounce back tomorrow and be supportive but today (and yesterday) has me ****** off
We lack in every area you can name. There is possibly- top 20 talent in the room and if is that good, it certainly is not being trained into top 20 talent.
I am frustrated with performances like this. Today- I want to scream SHUT IT DOWN. Let's just drop wrestling if this is how good we are wanting to be.
I will bounce back tomorrow and be supportive but today (and yesterday) has me ****** off
ONE!!!!! Not two semi-finalists...ONE. Earl Hall. He wrestled Brewer very tough, but didn't look great in other matches. This weekend has been horrible. And Midlands will be more of the same and finally NCAA's will put us out of our misery. Looking at next year, we lose our likely lone decent point scorer - Hall. So damn frustrating...
Definitely have to figure the match wrestling out. I don't mind so much if the guys don't want to ride, except when we have 15 to 20 seconds left in a period. That 2 for a takedown and 1 for escape is huge at the end of periods. We seem to give up more of them than we get. But Tanner did get a great ride out in blood round against McFadden.
But on the other side, we don't get out from bottom and can not give up that riding point and not get the escape.
I also was hoping Dante, Logan or Kyle would establish themselves as a starter this week, but have to think all spot are open for Boston, Meeks and Nardo yet.
But on the other side, we don't get out from bottom and can not give up that riding point and not get the escape.
I also was hoping Dante, Logan or Kyle would establish themselves as a starter this week, but have to think all spot are open for Boston, Meeks and Nardo yet.
