Have a few questions after this meet. Is Gadson a small 197? He looked outsized on the mat. England match was for him to lose, and he did just that. I like Meeks, but is he ready for college wrestling? I was happy to see Troy Nickerson join the Cyclone ranks as a coach, are we improving based on his talents?
Have a few questions after this meet. Is Gadson a small 197? He looked outsized on the mat. England match was for him to lose, and he did just that. I like Meeks, but is he ready for college wrestling? I was happy to see Troy Nickerson join the Cyclone ranks as a coach, are we improving based on his talents?
It wasn't the loss itself that bothers me - I mean, we're going to lose badly to Iowa and the Oklahoma schools, and I'm not going to freak out about that. It's just a fact. What bothers me was that we were the more talented team and other than 149 and 157 there was absolutely no reason for us not to win every match. We allowed ODU to control the pace of the matches and on multiple occasions we gave up leads late in the match. I've given Jackson the benefit of the doubt because of the situation he walked into and a string of really bad luck. But when our guys show up to the first home meet of the season unprepared to wrestle and showing regression from last year my patience rapidly disappears.
It's the first meet of the season so its too early to call the season a loss. We need to get our act together quick and wrestle better against Iowa to keep it somewhat respectable. To get my confidence back we need to leave December with a 1-2 dual record and multiple high place winners at Midlands.
Not much else to add to what has already been said, but what frustrated me was the lack of progress..,. JP, is there a CJL-type wrestling coach out there?
It wasn't the loss itself that bothers me - I mean, we're going to lose badly to Iowa and the Oklahoma schools, and I'm not going to freak out about that. It's just a fact. What bothers me was that we were the more talented team and other than 149 and 157 there was absolutely no reason for us not to win every match. We allowed ODU to control the pace of the matches and on multiple occasions we gave up leads late in the match. I've given Jackson the benefit of the doubt because of the situation he walked into and a string of really bad luck. But when our guys show up to the first home meet of the season unprepared to wrestle and showing regression from last year my patience rapidly disappears.
It's the first meet of the season so its too early to call the season a loss. We need to get our act together quick and wrestle better against Iowa to keep it somewhat respectable. To get my confidence back we need to leave December with a 1-2 dual record and multiple high place winners at Midlands.
Is this Gene Chizik Part Deux? Nice recruits with not enough coaching?Out of ten matches I was expecting us to lose at 149, have a few good, tight wins (125, 141) and dominate the other seven.
Of our ten guys that went out I hold nothing against White and liked what I saw out of Moreno, Beard, and Gadson. Gadson gets a pass for being tentative at first because it was his first match coming back from a very bad injury. And by the end of the match he was doing a great job pushing the action and generating offense. If our other 9 wrestlers had looked like Gadson we would have won the meet handily.
The other 6 matches though... I rewatched the meet again this morning and we just did a horrible, horrible job of creating action. Jackson's teams usually are much more aggressive than what we saw out of Sanderson's wrestlers and that was nowhere to be seen most of the meet. ODU wrestled the "Iowa Style" of riding hard, wrestling on the edge of stalling for most of the period and then scoring a takedown at the end. And we let them. Our guys allowed the ODU wrestlers to control the match from start to finish.
As an aside, I'm not sure what to take out of Molina getting trucked like that. I wonder if the cut to 157 is too much for him. He looked like a stick out there.