Rutgers begins Big Ten Conference action this weekend with back-to-back road matches at No. 24 Indiana in Bloomington and No 4 Ohio State in Columbus
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That's wild considering MD lost to Columbia 18-19, as Columbia lost to Michigan 9-28, Indiana 21-23, Lock Haven 15-25 and Binghamton 16-25.
Shawver could be in some mid season funk.He will be fine.He always turns it on when it counts
This is exactly what happened at Midlands. Bullock stalled the entire time, did not get hit for stalling even once, and Yara got caught trying to be aggressive and win the match at the end. Same effing thing here.
I've been wondering if Shawver is nursing something ever since they held him out of the Princeton dual.
Nice to see RU win so many close matches on the road.
I think RU wins three matches on Sunday. Hopefully more, of course.
I think RU wins three matches on Sunday. Hopefully more, of course.
If I’m being unbiased I think we are only going to win 2 matches on Sunday, hopefully more… w a chance of being shutout…
Something is going on with him. No idea what it is but he is not the same wrestler. He was always super aggressive and he is very passive now to way he used to wrestle. He would ride a lot harder. Something is wrong. No idea if mental or physical but this has been all season long.
They're ranked #24. Are they pretty bad or was it going to be close?
I do agree Sunday will be much, much tougher... Very best case is 5 wins... But could legit get shut out if we don't wrestle well...
So you want to criticize me, yet you come up with this prophetic gem that's been discussed for several years. You are approaching Einstein level (not!) here. Brilliant observation..you almost got a like.
I thought it would be closer because I don’t think we’re very good this year. I think Indiana is bad as well.
I agree. It could be a couple of things. Sometimes when wrestlers exceed their expectations and win titles like big 10 champion and NCAA, All American they don't get really motivated anymore. Ha! Believe me I know this all too well. Or he could very well be hurt and i s being a warrior and grinding it out for the team. If that's the case, I would rather see him sit. I remember a guy named mark reiland from iowa. A couple years.
younger than me ( maybe 4, 5 or 6, don't know) Guy came out
and pounded everybody and even pinning Kevin Randleman. The following year he looked lethargic uninterested and it showed come Big 10s. He actually didn't even qualify for nationals. You have to be a very special certain type to live and breathe the sport. There are very few Jack Cuvo, Lincoln MclRavy, Steiner and Brands brothers types.
This. When I pointed this out earlier in the year ppl got mad n kept coming up w excuses.. well maybe he was under extra pressure.. maybe if he had won extra flurry.. maybe this n that.. that’s not the point.. he’s not wrestling w the same hunger in his belly from last season..
Seems there is a flu bug going around the team which is why Joey O did not wrestle. I am not making excuses if we do not do well tomorrow but just passing along info after my chat with Scott.
We saw what the flu did to Dylan Harper, i can imagine what it would do to a wrestler
It’s going around. I had it this week. Knocked me out for 3 days and I’m still feeling the after effects.
Flu or not if we win more than 2 matches against OSU starters it’ll be a miracle.
Whoever has the flu/sick/inj/not 100% etc should honestly just not wrestle… In the era of load management and the goal is just making it to nationals healthy.. it makes almost 0% to wrestle a wrestler that has a flu/not 100%.. so yeah whoever is not ready to go just sit out please…
Wrestling Weekend Ahead: Peterson’s Midlands Title Provides Momentum for Big Ten Slate - Rutgers University Athletics
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – No. 16 Rutgers wrestling (8-2, 0-0) begins Big Ten Conference action this weekend with back-to-back road matches at No. 24 Indiana (4-1, 0-1)scarletknights.com
I disagree. RU are ranked lower in almost every match. You want to wrestle and improve your potential seed. A loss in any of these matches doesn’t hurt but a win is huge
RU has an opportunity in every match to improve seed except 165 where Birden is unranked.
No. 16 Wrestling Downs No. 24 Indiana, 28-6
No. 16 Wrestling Downs No. 24 Indiana, 28-6 - Rutgers University Athletics
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 16 Rutgers wrestling (9-2, 1-0) opened Big Ten Conference action with a 28-6 road win at No. 24 Indiana (4-2, 0-2) on Friday night in Bloomington.
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