Originally Posted by buford

Kyven Gadsen is a class kid and extremely motivated. He has endured alot during his wrestling career and is not taking anything for granted.

I also agree that Michael Moreno and Tanner Weatherman are pretty bright spots for Iowa State. We are wrestling with alot more heart and desire than we did last year and earlier this year.

Hope it pays off!!

I met Gadsen when he was about 13 or 14 selling raffle tickets in Waterloo to go some junior nationals tournament. At that time he was THE most polite, nice kid that I had ever met, and even wondered if there was something wrong with him because of his demeanor! Nope, he was just that way, but his "charm" sure made me buy a TON of tickets, yet none of them were winners.

Originally Posted by Gantry

It does seem like ISU is way ahead of where they were at the beginning of the year. Their lower weights are all struggling though, I though Finch would be a top5 caliber guy by this point. Meeks should have redshirted...

Yes, Meeks is taking a pounding, but guys often redshirt in later years and benefit greatly from it; Joey Lazor is exhibit A.

With that said, I was a bit surprised to see how much Wolfensperger manhandled Meeks (even though the 6-1 score may not have reflected it). He just flat out got bullied by him in that match.

Originally Posted by Chop

When I say rebuilding I mean facility wise not athlete wise. ISU needed some upgrades but not to the extent like UNI which Schwab is getting done.

If you want some interesting reading related to this, do some searches from a few years back on panthernation where Penrith was saying that the facilities needed upgrading, I agreed, and you had two lone voices in the wilderness getting screamed at to, "stop making excuses," and that "the facilites are fine and just like every other school's!"

Today, it's viewed as "Schwab is getting the job done." Oh my...

You don't think doners were reluctant to donate with UNI not showing complete dedication to wrestling by keeping Penrith around? I think people were more willing to get out the checkbook once he was replaced with Schwab.

Originally Posted by ban basketball

Yes, Meeks is taking a pounding, but guys often redshirt in later years and benefit greatly from it; Joey Lazor is exhibit A.

With that said, I was a bit surprised to see how much Wolfensperger manhandled Meeks (even though the 6-1 score may not have reflected it). He just flat out got bullied by him in that match.

It's as though most kids 1 year removed from high school struggle to physically match seasoned, albeit less talented wrestlers.

Color me shocked.

Meeks not redshirting was nothing more than putting the athlete second so KJ could(try to) save his job. Nothing John has done this year suggested he was ready to go and compete year one. That's on Jackson. An all but wasted season for a true talent.