Lopsided dual, but I'll take any wrestling right now. On the broadcast they said the dual was supposed to happen last year, but due to Covid they had to cancel. Dresser kept his word and rescheduled it for this year.
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And I can't believe a high level D1 program scheduled a ho hum community college to a 1-1 mid regular season dual. I remember when this board made fun of Iowa for wrestling at the Luther Open.
Its nice that ISU has people ties to this small cc. I wish Lelund and others the best. But cripes, D1 scheduling is not a social call. To an important degree, your opponents signal your aspirations.
All wrestlers got practice cutting weight and otherwise preparing for a meet--and live competition with different body types and skills. I also like to start with the assumption the coaches know what they're doing.
Well if it wasn't for covid they would be on a plane tomorrow to go wrestle a top 10, largely stacked team in Arizona.
Yes, that's the appropriate level of competition. And Covid sucks.
Want to support Lelund's team? -- invite them up for a practice day with the team at the ISU facility.
Last year they were looking for anyone to wrestle to get matches and they talked with this school but it never happened. The coach reached out to Dresser nonstop to get a dual with them this year and he decided to do it after holiday break with the idea that they get their weight back down before heading into a tough schedule. It was more about making weight before heading off on a tough road trip than anything.
I wish they would have sent guys to some of the bigger holiday opens to get some quality matches. The team is young and need opportunities imo. Our Big 12 schedule isn’t exactly a meat grinder.
I guess we will see in March if this lesser schedule pays off with healthy wrestlers or if the lack of competition will bite us is some of the tight matches. Honestly I don’t know. Seems like more teams are resting matches and FF out of tourneys. It goes against the old iron sharpens iron adage but this may be the new reality.
I have seen some discussions about starting the season after the holidays, pushing the NCAAs back to February. I like the idea to be honest. It may help guys with weight management and allow them some family time.
I guess we will see in March if this lesser schedule pays off with healthy wrestlers or if the lack of competition will bite us is some of the tight matches. Honestly I don’t know. Seems like more teams are resting matches and FF out of tourneys. It goes against the old iron sharpens iron adage but this may be the new reality.
I have seen some discussions about starting the season after the holidays, pushing the NCAAs back to February. I like the idea to be honest. It may help guys with weight management and allow them some family time.
I don’t know if you remember Adam Tirapelle. He wrestled at Illinois. He posted some of his ideas around getting away from the holidays/holiday tournaments and moving the season back. He has some good posts on Twitter related to all things wrestling.
This is nitpicking, but if the pin came in 17 seconds why wouldn't they just add 5 seconds on the beginning of that clip so you get the whole match rather than starting when the match is 3 seconds in? Just seems weird.
If you think about the last couple of years, I’m ok with using health as priority in decision making (if that is what is happening). I mean, if we were still wrestling down in Arizona this weekend, I’m not even sure we’re still having this discussion.
I do find the discussion about shortening the season intriguing. If we as fans think it’s long, imagine how long it feels to guys cutting. Historically, I’m a little old school though and think it’s college wrestling, nut up or get out. But I could come around to that idea if that’s what ultimately helps the sport grow in our country.
I do find the discussion about shortening the season intriguing. If we as fans think it’s long, imagine how long it feels to guys cutting. Historically, I’m a little old school though and think it’s college wrestling, nut up or get out. But I could come around to that idea if that’s what ultimately helps the sport grow in our country.
There either needs to be more competition allowed, or a shorter time span.
Current:
First practice - Oct. 10
First allowable competition - Nov. 1
Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb - max of 16 competition dates (1 per week, on average)
March - Conf/NCAA
Move it back so that NCAAs are the weekend directly after MBB. (This year, that'd be April 7-9). Work from there:
First practice - Nov. 26 (day after Thanksgiving)
"Open" season (Nichols, CKLV, Midlands, Scuffle, etc.) - Dec. 18-Jan. 9
Dual season - Jan. 13-March 13 (no schedule limits)
Conference tournaments - March 25-27
NCAA - April 7-9
*Overall season is ~4 weeks shorter
*Same number of practice days (22) before competition
*Same break between duals and conference meets (12 days)
*Same break between conference meets and NCAA (11 days)
*No competition during fall semester allows for focus on practice and academics
