NCAA Wrestling dual meet attendance record broken

[Condem]

For anyone who gives a shit, 15,955 fans attended the Iowa-Iowa State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, last night. Broke the six year old record by over 300 fans. #1 Iowa beat #2 ISU 20-16.

[a la izquierda]

1. That's pretty impressive...

I actually like wrestling, my husband wrestled in high school, as did a few good friends of mine. OU's team is typically pretty good, so sometimes I'll go watch a bit.

[Condem]

2. I'll tell you michele77

When I first moved to Iowa City, I followed it religiously. However, after meeting a few of these knuckleheads, it quickly turned me off. Pound for pound, a sport with the LEAST intelligent athletes. No doubt. The good news is, the best of the best are entering Ultimate Fighting. Like Brock Lesnar. He put off pursuing his Doctorate in Nuclear Sceince to become the Ultimate Fighting Heavyweight Champ. OK...not really.

[Wetzelbill]

3. about every wrestler I know is pretty smart

Like me. Lesnar's pretty smart too actually.

[Condem]

4. Yes he is, Wetzel

If he can make $$ like that , he's pretty smart. Denny Hastert was smart. And, a wrestler. Whatever.

[Wetzelbill]

6. so was Paul Wellstone

And that guy was obviously not too bright. I know hundreds and hundreds of wrestlers, you maybe know a handful, don't be quick to make a snap judgment. Look at the graduation rate and career success of high school and college wrestlers, they're typically impressive people. Different though, almost kind of weird acting. It comes from doing things that most people wouldn't do, like dieting and working out like crazy. Wrestlers are odd people, I certainly know I am. But as a whole are they stupid? Not even close.

[terryg11]

5. don't paint with too broad a brush

I agree, have run into some of the iowa wrestlers and some of them are not the brightest. BUT, others have been great, Ironside and Zadick have always been nice when I chance to speak with them which wasn't very often but always nice. Coach Brands, well, he's just wired differently but usually pretty nice. Intense and focused doesn't even begin to describe the man.

Watched that match on tv saturday and it was great. kept switching between that and the uni-nh playoff game, just about lost my mind

[Wetzelbill]

7. Which Zadick?

I know Mike some, but not really Bill. Mike's a few years younger than me, he's a good guy.

[never cry wolf]

8. I take issue with that as well

Maybe at Iowa City, where they recruit nationally and the pressure is really on to take anyone, but I wrestled in high school and tried to walk on in college, I have followed the sport for over 35 years and found wrestlers to be some of the most intelligent athletes out there. It really is a chess match and there is no coordinator or coach calling the plays for you. It is all in real time and you have to meld feel for an opponent with knowledge of what may work against his style and how to counter him trying to do the same to you...

You also have to be realizing all this during the most grueling physical session you can imagine and not be distracted by how you exhausted you are. To be good requires total concentration and melding of mind and body...

Just my humble opinion but there are tons of high achieving wrestlers out there like Wellstone. (Not all on our side, like Rummy and Hastert, but Franken was a wrestler too.)

Peace!

[Condem]

9. Sorry, folks. My opinion and I'm sticking to it

I live in Iowa City and I've met almost all of them from Royce Alger to Lincoln McIlravy. Went to a high school in PA that won the state championship. In fact, I wrestled under a National Champion - C.D. Mock 1982, 142 lbs. Look it up. Yeah, they can exchange a few pleasantries but for the most part not very smart people. Besides Wellstone, name me one Democrat in the bunch. I'd never call them free thinkers. No bigger Republican in Iowa than Dan Gable. That's a fact. I'll never put intelligence and Republican in the same sentence. My sincere apologies if I offended any of you.