Also remember Bono’s character. When he was an assistant here he was still trying to make the Olympics. When we attended Midlands, I think it was that one, he would enter himself unattached. Which is fine, but when he came upon an ISU wrestler he wouldn’t MFF out like a coach should, he would wrestle them. I had physical therapy with him back in college. The guy had issues then and still did up to the last I knew.
Yup. I'm pretty sure Bono was at UTC at that point and probably wanted to stick it to Cael, but that was the last straw for me with Bono. And yes, we could have gone ahead and won one freaking finals match and taken care of it ourselves. Was that the first time Brester beat Varner, because I remember being shocked by that one.
I've seen other coaches screw the pooch like Bono did. Where other coaches can overcome this is by publicly and privately congratulating the wrestlers they snubbed and say they were wrong and are happy for them. That isn't in Bono's DNA to do something like that though. Hopefully Bono learned a major lesson there, don't ever totally write off a wrestler, if you aren't as interested, you just don't offer as much in scholarship money or ask them to walk on.
I agree, but again I think the high school stuff is completely overblown as the cause of friction between AWA and Wisconsin.
They've tried. He recently talked about it on FRL again. Been offered multiple college jobs (including UW) and isn't interested in it.
Bob might have done both but he was at one of the smaller schools in MN (Mankato? Moorhead?)
He said he doesn’t like having a boss and doesn’t want to deal with the university bureaucracy essentially
Just watched this match on Flo. For as big as Herrera is, he is very quick and can get in on leg shots
