I don't know, but I would say it is possible and maybe even likely.. The area the majority of Russia's good wrestlers come out of is roughly the size of New Jersey (Dagestan/Ossetia/Chechnya)
I think it is a pretty much a win-win for ISU and the athletes, we've seen it a few times at other schools but not all that often. I'm surprised we haven't seen it more at NCAA level.
Much like Hoiberg mastering the transfer portal, I think we will in the near future.
Ames >Russia or most any other country .
Collegiate wrestling is the absolute hardest college sport for the student athlete. You have to do all that training, go to classes, study, and watch every single calorie.
This is a pretty myopic point of view. From a purely wrestling standpoint you could flip it on it's head and question all the folkstyle wrestlers who had difficulty transitioning to freestyle. They are just different beasts.
You said my post was myopic, or lacking intellectual insight, then just summed up my post by “They are just different beasts”. No **** Einstein, that’s what I just said. Way to go deep there
I'll take that. Perhaps 'myopic' wasn't exactly the right term. Maybe one-sided would have been better. You basically said that foreign wrestlers couldn't hack it at the American forms of wrestling because of intensity/commitment/lifestyle, etc. I pointed out there are other reasons that play much more heavily into it if you bothered to look at it from their perspective. Of course every individual is different.
Couldn’t agree more, I said just to name a few. However, those things I mentioned are true and massively important. Cuba has some of the most athletic wrestlers I’ve ever seen. You think they want to stay in Cuba? What about Russians, do they want to stay in Russia and be drafted into Putin’s evil plans? Not turning this political but if you went down the socioeconomics path it would be easy to see how this plays out.
