Brent Metcalf - A season for the ages

Zapp Brannigan · 05-15-2008, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by tooldude

He got the late takedown to win the match. So just because he was attacking doesn't mean he was scoreing. God Iowa fans are so ignorant it pains me to have a conversation with ya. You all live in the past when in fact Iowa has gettin a beatdown this decade. We get it Gable had some great teams but Minnesota and Okie state have been the teams to beat for the last 7 or 8 years. You guys get to the top of the podium this year and you act like we are suppose to be overwhelmed. It was just acouple years ago Minnesota had the only team ever to have 10 all americans in the same year. So go blow smoke up somebody elses backside about how great the hawkeyes are. I think the gophers will be ok. The gophers will be down for a year or two but with the top ranked recruiting class this year and most likely next the Gophers will be back.

Speaking of ignorant. You post that Schlatter controlled the tempo, I correct you, and you shoot back by saying "Metcalf wasn't scoring". Thank you, I'm aware, I watched it. But it has nothing to do with tempo or control of ties. Watch the match. Metcalf was moving Schlatter around, controlling the front head lock, forcing Schlatter to back up, taking all of the offensive shots for the second and third periods, with Schlatter having a few counter attempts. So please, enlighten me on wrestling if you're going to make those ridiculous statements with no logical basis behind them.

Then you go into a longwinded rant against the Hawkeyes which has NOTHING to do with the discussion. If you'd like to get "owned" in that debate, please create a new thread, and I can elaborate on that subject for you.

tooldude · 05-15-2008, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by contini

Has there been any other guys who won the NCAA's as a freshman and then never won it again? Schlatter could become the first.

If that happens his whole college career should be labeled as a failure I guess huh? That NCAA champion loser

your a hawkeye fan and I see where your going with this. Now lets make a list,has there ever been a D-1 wrestler who has never won a NCAA championship? I'll bet there has. Then lets make up a long list of "true" freshman that have won a title so your point is ignorant since the list of freshman NCAA champs is very small. Typical Hawkeye fan. After all, all you have is the hawkeyes, clones and I-cubs so I see why your so proud

Wiltz · 05-15-2008, 09:07 PM

Contini a Hawkeye fan? That's news to me. I think contini was just asking the question "has it ever happened before?".

Just because someone doesn't share your opinion that doesn't make them ignorant.

contini · 05-15-2008, 09:12 PM

Indeed, I was just asking whether it had happened. I am a hawkeye fan though: I like Iowa because they bring a lot of excitement to the sport. I'm a big fan of Metcalf. I was a fan of Schlatter when he won it as a freshman, but I have since been disappointed by his style. I would certainly cheer for him again if he returned to the style he wrestled as a freshman, except when he wrestles Metcalf!

tooldude · 05-15-2008, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by Zapp Brannigan

Speaking of ignorant. You post that Schlatter controlled the tempo, I correct you, and you shoot back by saying "Metcalf wasn't scoring". Thank you, I'm aware, I watched it. But it has nothing to do with tempo or control of ties. Watch the match. Metcalf was moving Schlatter around, controlling the front head lock, forcing Schlatter to back up, taking all of the offensive shots for the second and third periods, with Schlatter having a few counter attempts. So please, enlighten me on wrestling if you're going to make those ridiculous statements with no logical basis behind them.

Then you go into a longwinded rant against the Hawkeyes which has NOTHING to do with the discussion. If you'd like to get "owned" in that debate, please create a new thread, and I can elaborate on that subject for you.

bring it on. I am from Iowa and it amazes me how Iowa fans beat their chests and brag about the glory days. Who cares? Like you are any other knucklehead on here had a thing to do with the tradition of Iowa wrestling. D schlatter never used the excuse that he wasn't healthy but you get on here and act like it was a built-in excuse. I know he wasn't healthy since I went to the pavillion and he wasn't wrestling that night acouple times this year. Or when the gophers were wrestling on the road I would open the newspaper and they had Mellmer listed as 149 for the gophers. So I had it pinned down to either Mellmer won a wrestle off (yeah right)or just maybe D schlatter was hurt.

Zapp Brannigan · 05-15-2008, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by tooldude

bring it on. I am from Iowa and it amazes me how Iowa fans beat their chests and brag about the glory days. Who cares? Like you are any other knucklehead on here had a thing to do with the tradition of Iowa wrestling. D schlatter never used the excuse that he wasn't healthy but you get on here and act like it was a built-in excuse. I know he wasn't healthy since I went to the pavillion and he wasn't wrestling that night acouple times this year. Or when the gophers were wrestling on the road I would open the newspaper and they had Mellmer listed as 149 for the gophers. So I had it pinned down to either Mellmer won a wrestle off (yeah right)or just maybe D schlatter was hurt.

The funny thing is, a Hawkeye fan wouldn't even have to brag about the glory days (although there was a lot of glory), considering THEY JUST WON THE TITLE THIS YEAR!! YOU, by talking about the years past, are the one doing that. But then, you seem to simple to grasp that concept.

And where did I say Schlatter made an excuse. ONce again, YOU are the one building in an excuse.

"If Schlatter's healthy, he takes Metcalf".

Logically speaking, if that were true, if Metcalf beats Schlatter, it is only because Schlatter was injured. A built-in excuse. Now, lets see if you can understand that.

ODH · 05-15-2008, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by contini

Has there been any other guys who won the NCAA's as a freshman and then never won it again? Schlatter could become the first.

Matt Reiss from NC State won it as a true unseeded freshman in 1980 and then placed 8th the next year and apparently never wrestled again.

tooldude · 05-15-2008, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Wiltz

Contini a Hawkeye fan? That's news to me. I think contini was just asking the question "has it ever happened before?".

Just because someone doesn't share your opinion that doesn't make them ignorant.

See if you look at his favorite teams it says purdue and Iowa so I am assuming he is a IOWA fan. Maybe thats a typo though

tooldude · 05-15-2008, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by Zapp Brannigan

The funny thing is, a Hawkeye fan wouldn't even have to brag about the glory days (although there was a lot of glory), considering THEY JUST WON THE TITLE THIS YEAR!! YOU, by talking about the years past, are the one doing that. But then, you seem to simple to grasp that concept.

And where did I say Schlatter made an excuse. ONce again, YOU are the one building in an excuse.

"If Schlatter's healthy, he takes Metcalf".

Logically speaking, if that were true, if Metcalf beats Schlatter, it is only because Schlatter was injured. A built-in excuse. Now, lets see if you can understand that.

did you see the IMO after I said that. that means "in my opinon" . You guys won this year? really? wow, they couldn't of done it with out you.

We all know IOWA won this year. Were happy for you. Were you happy for the 2007 champion Minnesota Gophers last year?

Zapp Brannigan · 05-15-2008, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by tooldude

did you see the IMO after I said that. that means "in my opinon" . You guys won this year? really? wow, they couldn't of done it with out you.We all know IOWA won this year. Were happy for you. Were you happy for the 2007 champion Minnesota Gophers last year?

ANd of course you fail to acknowledge a single one of your dumb statements. Was I happy for the Gophs? I was happy for the individual kids and some of my friends who are Goph fans, but as I am a fan of an opposing team, no, I was not particularly happy for the Gopher program.

And of course I saw the IMO, that's why I said that YOU were making an excuse for Schlatter already. I'm sure Dustin doesn't try to make excuses. You have already decided in your mind that the only way Metcalf can beat Schlatter is if Schlatter is injured, erego an excuse.

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