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    What Did You Expect? - NCAA Team Performance Relative to Expectations

    1. Can’t speak for everyone, but I was mostly kidding and poking at MSUs peaking thread. 2. I said I was mostly kidding, but health (Ferrari & Endene) and team management (Endene) are factors that still count toward peaking. My actual thoughts are that we wrestled somewhat close to expectations...
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    What Did You Expect? - NCAA Team Performance Relative to Expectations

    So really, we peaked in December when we were essentially predicted to tie for 2nd and score 108.. MSU will not be happy to know this.
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    Dare I call it……PEAKING!!!!!!

    Apparently it is to some around here. I think I’d rather have 5 top 3s than 7 AAs. If you’re in the top 3, you’re right there. If you’re outside the top 3, you lost 2-3 times and at least once to a non-finalist. Either way, AA is awesome and incredibly difficult so great to have 7 this year. I...
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    Dare I call it……PEAKING!!!!!!

    In fairness with the way you wrote it, we didn’t meet your proposed minimum thresholds. I do agree I’d rather have our 7 instead of 6 top 5s by just switching the 2 6ths to 5th though.
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    Dare I call it……PEAKING!!!!!!

    Is 4th place (possibly 5th) the new winning around here? 7 AAs is good. 1 finalist is awful. 4th or 5th place as a team is respectable, but same old story around here. How you call that winning is wild. If anything, the ones who said we should hire Taylor have been proven right and the ones who...
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    Iowa is the only school with 9 guys still left

    Fighting chance for 9 AAs given the matchups. I feel like Gabe is possibly a stretch against Cotton but who knows. That would be nuts.
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    Coaching Staff Next Year

    They’re expected to win nationals. This is Iowa. Or at least compete for the title into day 3. That means multiple National champs and easily a top 3 team, and within striking distance of the top team year after year, winning it frequently. Being happy to be a podium team and crazy far from 1st...
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    My thoughts on the Iowa performance this weekend.

    Fair. I just think that, as a rule of thumb, placing top 5 at big tens means you’re a potential AA. We had 6 of those. And I included Angelo as well.
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    My thoughts on the Iowa performance this weekend.

    Disagree.
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    My thoughts on the Iowa performance this weekend.

    I feel lukewarm about the team going into nationals. We certainly ended big tens mostly pretty good on day 2. But a very distant 4th place team finish is rough. I’m hopeful we could still get 7 AAs or so, which would be pretty good honestly. Still wish we were regularly getting 8 or so and the...
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    Official Conference Weekend Upset Results Thread

    Bottom wrestler, Jones
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    Fixing the Seeding Algorithm

    Next Basch and Brain should be interesting then lol
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    Fixing the Seeding Algorithm

    With the high number of wonky seeds, I also wonder if sometimes coaches thought better of fighting to change a seed when it might not make the path any easier.
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    Fixing the Seeding Algorithm

    Do you think they’ll just go back to coaches seeding it? How was surgery? What sort of pain pills are we working with? Gotta know if we can trust that you’re in your right mind the next week or so 😆
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    Official Conference Weekend Upset Results Thread

    157 lbs. #22 Swenson (SDSU) over #7 Zerban (ISU), Med. For.
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