2025 NCAA Wrestling March Madness

[Gellar]

@ChaosOneZero asked me for no spoilers. So far there’s not much to spoil. I see wrestlers that want to win and wrestlers that are content. It’s pretty pathetic.

 

[Gellar]

2.5 hours and I’m home. The scoreboard says Penn State dominated. Iowa was never really threatening but I wouldn’t call it dominating by Penn State. It should have been a shutout with some extra bonus point wins for tge Nittany Lions. There are lots of people saying the Iowa style doesn’t work. Well, what I’ve seen the last 5 or 6 years is not the Iowa style. The Iowa style was relentless pressure until your opponent breaks. The Iowa style was scoring on the edge of the mat and at the end of the period. The Iowa style was pushing to get another takedown to earn a major decision. The Iowa style was not being content with 1 takedown and the skating to the edge of the mat the rest of the match. The Iowa style was beating your opponent back to the middle of the match. The iowa style was escaping your opponent by an explosive first move.

 

[Outlaw99]

I grew up a black and gold blooded wrestling fan. Searched out and spent a huge amount of money for the 1992? Iowa wrestling calendar with the Brands brothers on the cover in Cowboy hats. Framed print of Carver area with the mats out on my wall. I love all things Iowa style wrestling. Brent Metcalf, Mike Ironsides, Tom and Terry, Royce Alger, in your face kind of wrestling……this is almost too much to type but I’m gonna give it a go

The time for Tom and Terry, Morningside and everyone else associated with the coaching staff has come to go. It’s not working and quite honestly hasn’t been working for quite some time. I know Penn St dominated the score but not necessarily the matches….. I don’t care. To treat this dual as a rivalry anymore is about like comparing Iowa and Nebraska football as a rivalry anymore. It’s not.

Here’s the way I see it. We’re no longer getting the best recruits…..Penn State or Oklahoma State are. We have zero development with the recruits we are getting. Aside from Spencer and now Angelo, what have our top recruits done? Arnold? Keuter? Ayala?? Ayala back to back runner up and now this years performance? Go back a few years when we had Lee, Kermer, Marinelli….. a crazy amount of talent! Come March, we fell flat as always outside of Lee.

When did it become acceptable to lose to Penn State at home only coming away with 3 points but we wrestled real hard?????

I feel like we’re going down the path of 90’s Nebraska football and we need a complete reboot before the hill is too steep to climb out. I’d love to see Kyle Dake, Ben Askren come in and completely revamp the program. I think it’s working in Stillwater. I’d love to see Metcalf come back, but I think for once we need to look outside of Iowa ties for a complete reboot.

Look at the HWC, we used to be the premier stepping off point for international success…not so much now. Woods is doing real well up there in Michigan though.

I honestly cannot hardly stomach watching the Hawks as of late. Part of me wants to ignore it all till March and see how the chips fall for everyone nationally.

Rant over, my fingers are numb

 

[Outlaw99]

We aren’t developing, we aren’t recruiting, and the NIL transfers we are getting, aren’t competing at a high enough level to dominate like Iowa is used to, and expected to do