Hammerlock3

1) his lack of experience, I agree if i were picking I'd take cunningham, but factor in donor hype and recruiting, two aspects which have never been more important, then taylor is a whole tier above. 2) Iowa is the place that can make it worth his while. And lets say it didn't quite make financial sense but was close, whether or not Taylor wants to be a college head is gonna supersede a relatively small financial disparity. 3) As far as uprooting his life, no one wants to do that of course, but he's exactly the person that wouldn't hesitate too. The fact that he's doing club, juice (seems like his wife does most of that just giving her credit), dad, train, and farm....this is a guy who can't sit still. Not saying you're wrong just adding nuance. I'd love to see it happen also that undermines the integrity of my claims too.

no during the week or before dual meets and what not. The contact is pretty consistent.

well one went from 133 to 141, the other from 125.5 to 145.5. His lack of offence has nothing to do with energy.

I get your point that they weren't ignorant, and I still think its a dumb rule but once I thought about how difficult it would be to investigate (you place a bet for your girlfriend whose shaving point in a basketball game or something) I can see why its in place.

it'd be a much bigger jump than pletcher and at a higher level of wrestling. His top work would suffer a lot, i don't think its possible.

I'm sympathetic to the gambling thing. A stupid rule being arbitrarily enforced is the height of bureaucratic laziness and apathy. But yeah I forgot the ferrari thing. You make a deal where you're trading directly on your reputation and then it blows up in your face and you get nothing except all the damage...not fun.

him and the other top coaches are on the phone with the head official pretty often, I actually think it contributes to a lot of confusion with coaches behavior, most know what the refs are being told to emphasize. I also think he wins challenges because he good cop bad cops it with cunningham.

he won two i believe

I think he has to have a bit of essential angst concerning his job. The gambling thing must have been beyond frustrating, but Iowa never really got any momentum going this year even beyond that. Ayala in finals, Caliendo is pretty great, but hard to know what else he's supposed to feel good about. Whether or not his job is getting shopped around doesn't change that he is almost certainly doing some soul searching.

From my perspective, it felt like I said, "He may do this on behalf of his legacy, ego and personal ambition," and got a bunch of people responding, "Yeah but he has a cow." I see what you're saying obviously all valid points.

i don't mean to give offense I just felt like i was getting the same irrelevant response over and over...

i thought he was great because he alluded a lot to the grossness of the portal. Also arguments with JB were interesting.

Yeah exactly, i've tried to get that across twice but I keep getting people flexing their knowledge of his instagram

I'm not saying he has too, I'm saying he isn't the type to settle into selling juice and coaching club.

Gable is way more critical than you think. Taylor makes perfect sense. He has the reputation to recruit against Cael, and he's probably the only one, unless he wants to chase GOAT status and wrestles a whole cycle, he has enough hype to inspire donors...and Taylor is ambitious guy, whats he supposed to chase if not Cael?

Big names who aren't qualified for the OTTs?

Cornell taking second again is probably the lost headline in all this.

I'd love that, for narrative reasons, but PSU has an interest in having a 5 time champ, and if they don't need the best guy in college I don't know what PSU is trying to do.

3 point takedowns and 4 point nearfall. obviously not.

that was an eye poke i tihnk

well he's probably going to demand a raise, so thats effectively hitting the portal. As far as what he says, the guy claims he doesn't care about anything until he's quitting and throwing tantrums.

he's gonna come back. All that talk was just him being an attention whore.

hey you never know, you're always one injury away.....oh wait.

the portal is terrible and needs to go away now.