CR Gazette Article on Coaching Search
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I will say this. You talk to one guy and he heard this and these people, you talk to another guy and he heard this and the lists don't match up. So I think most of the talk is speculation and a little bit of fact sprinkled in.
While I want to agree with this, and mostly do, I have to wonder about the extracurricular activities that have taken place during his reign. Does this reflect on KJ? If so, maybe this is one of his shortcomings? I don't disagree that he cares a ton for his wrestlers.
Varner knows how committed Jaime is to the program. Personally, I don't see anything Pollard has done as special other than taking the chance on CFH. And CFH begged for that job in the past. I was hoping he would have fooled someone and moved on by now though. I don't think this program ever revives with him in that office. He made a great move getting Cael early but has phoned it in since.
I love Heskett, but think he is already on his chosen career path. He is an Associate AD for sports at West Virginia. He stated many years ago that he wanted to be an AD.
I understand Nomedina. I have only attended 1 practice and that was during the summer a year and a half ago. I know very little about relations in the room between wrestlers and coaches, etc. I have heard the good stories and the bad. I am sure there are both.
I love Iowa State and Iowa State wrestling and will continue to support the team and CWC by attending and financially. In the end it will not matter who the coach is, I will give them my support.
I love Iowa State and Iowa State wrestling and will continue to support the team and CWC by attending and financially. In the end it will not matter who the coach is, I will give them my support.
Who works directly with the lower weights? Almost all the good stories have come from the heavier weights in KJs time. All the big money busts have been at weights 157 and lighter. We have seen consistent lack of performance there. The Paulson's take some of the blame as ISU has spent the scholarship money down there, it just has been a long string of busts and transfers. Hall is the only guy I can remember performing well, and his success he hasn't seemed to build much additional success the last 2 years.
Thanks for the link. I've been impressed with what Bono has done as well. Seems like the staff has made an extremely positive impression on the fans and AD. Another thing that you see in those posts (for what they are worth) is they are very impressed with Reader and think he is ready to be HC. Of all the wrestlers that left recently, losing Reader was most disappointing for me. In the few conversations I've had with him, he is a class act. He was a tireless worker in the mold of Bono. It would surprise me if he is not a top HC someday!
The MAC is a good wrestling conference but all you have to do is check out this board to see the opinions people have because it is mid major schools. Recruiting kids to compete against Central Michigan is a different game than recruiting kids to compete against Oklahoma State and home/homes with Iowa.
I assume Bono did, then Yero, then Troy and now Angel.
You mean Moreno, Lelund, Spangler, Sorenson? I would call all those guys are about Travis and Trent's weights
Travis came in 2010-11 and Trent 2013-14
I realize you are just speculating but if that's true, and I was a potential coach, I wouldn't like that arrangement at all.
We're gonna end up with two Olympic Gold medalists working in non-wrestling related areas of our AD.
I specifically said 157 and lower. Meeks, Gabe Moreno, Finch, Boston, Bauer, Trent Weatherman, Joey Cozart, the names keep going. Only Earl Hall seemed to develop. That is a huge list of wrestlers that never wrestled close to ability.
I know you love the program buf, but we basically threw away 4-5 weights the entire time Jackson was here, and most were at 157 and below.
I've wondered the same thing but I'd give Weatherman for sure and probably Moreno some slack based on injuries. Weatherman's career was cut short and Moreno has never been the same since his initial shoulder issues.
I know but recovering from injury and rehabilitating are all part of it. I think there are people that don't know how bad Kyven's shoulders were the majority of the time he was here. Yet he persevered and got a title his senior year, knocking off the vaunted Kyle Snyder. I saw an Ohio St wrestler win a national title on a broken leg, good wrestler overcome obstacles. I think our coaches need to do a better job getting kids healthy and ready to wrestle. The weight issues and all the conditioning issues that are apparent on the mat are just another symptom, just like the injuries you pointed out.
Didn't Weatherman have a degenerative disk or some other neck injury that could have paralyzed him if he wrestled? There's overcoming obstacles and then there's putting the rest of your life on the line.
I agree that weight management is likely part of the issue when it comes to our problems with injuries. I don't disagree with the overall tenor of your post..I'm just not going to lay what happened with Weatherman at he or the coaches' feet.
I am confused, are we talking recruiting or working with?
Paulsons were not part of recruiting Finch, Bauer, Cozart, and Trent W. they would have been Bono, KJ, Yero and Voelker.
Would of Travis even been involved in recruiting Meeks, Gabe and this class of seniors? Trent would not have been.
Our 165-184 have been our strongest weights and I consider them the main weights Trent and Travis works with
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are asking
I wouldn't lay that all on the Bono/Cyler match.
ISU went 0-5 in finals matches that night -- all by 1 point or in OT -- and any one win would have flipped the team race.
Clark lost to Precin, 3-2
Fanthorpe lost to Dennis, 4-3
Cyler lost to Bono (as noted)
Reader lost to Morningstar, 5-4 in TB
Varner lost to Herbst, 2-1
Yup. Plus at the end of the day no one cares who won the Midlands that year. Better to have your wrestler take on a good senior level wrestler than have him get a forfeit.
