The recruits Iowa needs to compete with Penn State, Oklahoma State, Ohio State and now Va Tech won't be impressed. A phone call from Warner would solicit a "who?" from most recruits.
My bad. That would have been perfect one of my top 2 young guys to get to round out a staff- other Carr. Also imo speaks volume about any prominent outside guy wanting to come into a "narrow minded" room. I cant blame them for not putting themselves out there only to not be heard or valued. Its very unfortunate. We just flat out are not attractive right now.
I pretty much agree. I have only heard positives about what kind of a person Warner is and expect him to do very well given the situation, but it just seemed like a different perspective could have been nice here. The more people in the know talk though it seems like maybe he does bring some extra mojo that could benefit the team. I have been strongly of the thought that a change at the top is needed, but if Brands is going to get more time to coach he should get to control his staff.
I’m guessing Yianni may have been a first choice and JW came into play after he fell through, maybe?
Warner is a 4x all American and a finalist, Smart and a hell of a nice guy. Your points hold no validity of why Warner cannot succeed to be an excellent college coach.
to be a good college coach.
He basically said what do you expect with a coach who probably has no more than 2-3 years left. A no lose situation for rookie coach like Warner. Even if a new coach comes in a few years and cleans house, it will be a nice first job to have on your resume. Doubt if he helps sway any 2028 mid to upper weight recruits, which we desperately need in that class. He mentioned only way to get a bigger name would be a head coach in waiting deal, and they don’t see Iowa doing something like that, just taking what they can get at the time Tom retires. I find it hard to believe we can sell any more big time 2028 recruits knowing TNT could be gone the after or even before the first year they compete, depending if they redshirt. Someone said last year Hutcherson and his dad asked what successor plans are. Wonder what they told him? We will just see what we can scrape up last minute? I know he most likely is PSU with Taylor now always having a shot, but this doesn’t help.
Not that it moves the needle for anyone, but I have seen it posted numerous times on here. Jacob Warner is one of 3- 5X All- Americans. With Lee and Kemmerer, the others. Just giving credit for his achievements.Warner is a 4x all American and a finalist, Smart and a hell of a nice guy. Your points hold no validity of why Warner cannot succeed to be an excellent college coach.
Why does everyone think You need to be a world beater or name recognition
I say we Need to get the best on the team and have tremendous resources, but as many here said coaching is more important. Warner could be the next best coach around, all you do not know otherwise.
What is there to like about the hire if it’s happening? Do people remember how much criticism Warner got his senior year? It’s the same criticism many of our guys currently have, not getting to offense and losing close ones because they didn’t open up the whole match. I was a Warner fan but if this is the hire it shows exactly why we won’t ever be passing Penn state or Oklahoma state. Warner brings nothing new to the program just another plotter who fights hard but doesn’t have many ways to score and can’t scramble.
I've always been in the camp in what you stated above, the Brands were non stop *** kicking and attacking. That isn't debatable, and I have a really hard time believing they want their wrestlers to be the exact opposite of them and teach them to wrestle that way. There is no way in hell that's true, so either they aren't instilling that correctly or they aren't getting the right guys to pull it off. Or some combination of both.
I don’t know that is right to say people are down on Warner. Nobody really knows what kind of coach he will be.
It's really not about being down in Warner, it's about being down on the status quo.
Exactly. If Warner is the hire then at least it gives a greater chance the next season is the last season for the Brands at Iowa.
He is not the big name people wanted. But in my experiance with the program, my kids remembered four guys. Spencer obviously, M*, McDonough, and Jacob. One of the nicest kids I have ever interacted with. Jake Varner is an Olympic Gold medalist, isn’t he?
The current AD is not giving them an extension.
So we should hire bad wrestlers as coaches over good wrestlers because bad wrestlers are better coaches? Typically Iowa cuck wrestling fan—defend whatever we do and make it sound good
VHS is a serial liar. He doesn’t know anything. He made it up. He got caught lying about wrestling at Iowa. He should be banned.
nothing changed on that one. bad rumor from the start. yianni was never contacted
i'm pretty sure i get it now.
It was actually comical people believed it was possible TnT would hire someone like him to begin with. 0.0% chance that was ever happening.
For the record, on behalf of the cesspool (other than Grip who is universally positive), I hereby admit to all deficiencies.
The hiring process might of went a little bit along the lines of one of our biggest donors giving TnT a call and just “mentioning” he’s had a guy working for him for a while that he thinks would be a good hire.
You clearly don’t know a thing about Bob or Tom.
