Even if it were true that Drake decided to leave and “bring 6–8 guys with him” (and I know for a fact that this is a lie), it wouldn’t be nearly as slimy as the things you’ve done to other universities to get wrestlers to Iowa—paying them and then having them underperform.
For a few years now it’s been well known that Drake has been offered by other schools. Are you implying that Drake only came back to Iowa because Iowa kept matching his offers from other schools? I find that a bit hard to believe.
Lmao!!! That engagement was completely started by Khaled blasting dogshit music and talking **** to our guys, not our staff. Our contingent kept thier cool and basically laughed him off, while Tom basically told him tif he wanted to come after anyone to come after him. Guy was a giant goofball, spook the whole time in Vegas.
Sounds like a rational, level headed approach to a situation. Makes it hard to argue against Gobblin & ol' Bob in their recap of the Drake situation and whose at fault there.
Drake was offered a position in Iowa City with the HWC, but not as a competitor.
I believe you are the troll on twitter with like 10 Greg Johnson usernames. You are an idiot.
Would I be correct to assume that this is the piece missing and maybe this didn’t sit well with Drake?
Drake doesn’t want to compete anymore so no. Plus we have all seen what that match looks like..
No. Drake was through competing and TnT were fine with that and would’ve still liked to retain him.
Okay then I’m back to being confused. Next time I’m back in state I’ll ask my friends about this. I just find it very odd.
Very true. Don’t think I’d favor Drake. The avenue for making money in the sport of wrestling is narrow after college. It’s RTC’s or its coaching.
Look Stud, whatever I did was within the boundary of the rules at the time. The rules have changed 3x in the last 3 years. Go check if you like
The something that happened is he graduated. There's simply not always room for everyone who does.
I get it if Tom is just defending his guys and I respect it. It just seems like there are burnt bridges(if there ever even were bridges to start with) with so many of the top clubs in the country. It's not a good look. Drake seems like he was Sebolt's guy more than Brands, which is fine, but Iowa potentially losing any Sebolt favor with Drake going to ISU will hurt. The top high school wrestlers across the country are more than likely at these high level clubs, so creating bad blood with them is only going to make recruiting those guys that much harder.
He was a true freshman wrestling up a weight and keeping it close with some pretty good wrestlers before he was ready for the big lights. Hopefully he has improved a little over the last year and shows it. I hope to never see VV or JW in a hawkeye singlet again.
Another example where any Iowa fan that pays @WillieTheBrain is just giving money to someone who’s trying to smear the program like Mineo, but at least Mineo has the balls to admit that he’s a hater
I’m going to guess it’s not worth pursuing since it didnt ever happened. If I had to guess, he never actually told Peterson to come with him. You’ll see soon enough that Peterson won’t end up at ISU.
I wouldn't remotely put Willie and Mineo in the same category. I really don't think Willie is looking to smear Iowa. IDK what the facts were behind this, maybe he heard 2nd hand info and interpreted it wrong, maybe he's spot on IDK, but agenda?? I'm not so sure.
I just told you exactly what happened though.
Mineo likes getting fans riled up, he thinks it's fun and he doesn't like Iowa so that makes it more fun. Willie can be called a lot of things, but he's not out here running smear campaigns. At a certain point if everyone is telling you that you smell like **** it's not because they don't like you, it's because you need to shower.
Just speculating but Willie’s version may be viewed through the lense of someone who saw a snippet and your context may provide a bigger picture view.
That guy went out of his way to be an antagonistic prick to our guys all weekend…. Incredibly classless and immature.
Wow, that’s crazy! I’m surprised we didn’t hear about this sooner. I assume it was the country music, because that twangy business will set anyone off.
The difference would be if he was poaching Iowa wrestlers before or after notifying Iowa staff of the impending move, imo. (It sounds like he was poaching before notifying the Iowa coaches.)
I'll put a word in for Wille too. He's a good guy that LOVES wrestling. It's his life and made it his life's work. He does not smear Iowa at all. He has recommended Iowa to HS recruits and transfers. I enjoy his comments on Iowa as constructive, and his rankings are what he believes. Lastly, I have had the opportunity to talk to him a number of times and it's always pleasant and honest.
Mineo is a first class prick, you are correct sir
Welp......sure glad he didn't understand it.
I don't think he is beating Desanto and he must know that. I got a lot of respect for Ayala but not against Desanto.
Don't you b!tches have a board to visit to stroke each other off? Go away!
Makes sense, he has zero future at 57 or 61.
Sure glad Jacob Warner will be able to! Also, after the open I would say Drake has pretty similar shot at those weights as the current HWC guys.
Lee, Buchanan, and DeSanto are all better than him at freestyle. I’d argue Kennedy and Caliendo too.
