Post by Casper on Dec 31, 2007 15:26:31 GMT -5
Is 149 scripted this year? It's hard to imagine a weight class with more radical changes and drama. Who knows who Roberts is? Go ahead, raise your hands. I thought so.
I mean everyone had their minds set on the ultimate in wrestling contrasts to be settled in the finals of the southern scuffle between Schlatter and Caldwell. But Caldwell got pinned in the lst round. That sorta messed things up, especially since it was by a non-seeded, barely known dude from BU. Anyone who was familiar with BU's Roberts wrestling while in HS in NYS, might have expected more, earlier: that's right -- what took you so long Mike?
But wait. Caldwell, while capable of some awesome wrestling and stunning upsets, is hardly reliable -- so who knew if Roberts would even make the finals, and who really cared much if he did? It's not like he'd really prove worthy of Dustin. And honestly, when your coach has an unending monologue going on over there in the corner with second by second instructions of what is going to happen and what you should do about it -- can you really be expected to react on your own, soon enuf, against one of the best?
Dustin's first short shot answered that, when Roberts front headed him and spun so fast to a leg that Dustin was dizzy while the crowd was dazzled -- and other than a splattering of BU fans, totally stunned and breathless!
Ok, ok. Maybe that was just a mistake....but Robert's showed throughout the match, it wasn't. Not at all. ANd he wasn't giving up anything, other than the expected escape. Roberts has an expert tie up game -- he was an incredible Greco wrestler in HS -- I mean spooky incredible.
But heck, what has he done so far this year? I don't even see his name on the list of individual results on this very site. I do see that Kyle Fried beat him l3-3 -- Kyle's a good wrestler, but when you see that result, you don't think of someone who is going to head on out and beat Schlatter.
Robert's showed speed, as good as any; he's very strong in certain ways that you don't want to deal with; he's got great position and does neat little short movements that can cause you huge trouble.
Ok, so what? Who knows. He's got the ingredients to do something. ANd he's composed.
And I think he can do it without the ongoing, and let's face it -- annoying-- constant, unrelenting coaching from the corner. That's the kind of stuff that should have gone away in the pee wee stage of wrestling.....but I guess there's some explanation for this:
The coach is Carl Adams, a 2X NCAA champ from the 70s, who is coaching a team that really hasn't shown much in the world of wrestling. This performance by Robert's might represent his last big chance, and perhaps he feels to need to be a bit overinvolved. You know, there are some coaches who sit patiently and allow their wrestlers to do their own thing, perhaps yelling once in awhile at some critical juncture of the match. I've never seen a coach who so actively yaks so incessantly throughout the match as this, constantly projecting what the opponent's next move is going to be and how to react to it. I don't mean loud comments here and there, which you would expect. I mean constant, unending yakking, from the gitgo to the very end of the match! Maybe this is part of his strategy, to unnerve the opponent, by verbally announcing his next step; I could see that being a bit unsettling. Maybe some of the big shots out there in the coaching world will pick up on this little tactic. Then wrestling can become a game of which coach can talk and think the fastest, artfully articulating the opponent's next move, hoping the opponent will hear him, and stutter a bit in his effort, hence altering the complexion of the match!
I mean everyone had their minds set on the ultimate in wrestling contrasts to be settled in the finals of the southern scuffle between Schlatter and Caldwell. But Caldwell got pinned in the lst round. That sorta messed things up, especially since it was by a non-seeded, barely known dude from BU. Anyone who was familiar with BU's Roberts wrestling while in HS in NYS, might have expected more, earlier: that's right -- what took you so long Mike?
But wait. Caldwell, while capable of some awesome wrestling and stunning upsets, is hardly reliable -- so who knew if Roberts would even make the finals, and who really cared much if he did? It's not like he'd really prove worthy of Dustin. And honestly, when your coach has an unending monologue going on over there in the corner with second by second instructions of what is going to happen and what you should do about it -- can you really be expected to react on your own, soon enuf, against one of the best?
Dustin's first short shot answered that, when Roberts front headed him and spun so fast to a leg that Dustin was dizzy while the crowd was dazzled -- and other than a splattering of BU fans, totally stunned and breathless!
Ok, ok. Maybe that was just a mistake....but Robert's showed throughout the match, it wasn't. Not at all. ANd he wasn't giving up anything, other than the expected escape. Roberts has an expert tie up game -- he was an incredible Greco wrestler in HS -- I mean spooky incredible.
But heck, what has he done so far this year? I don't even see his name on the list of individual results on this very site. I do see that Kyle Fried beat him l3-3 -- Kyle's a good wrestler, but when you see that result, you don't think of someone who is going to head on out and beat Schlatter.
Robert's showed speed, as good as any; he's very strong in certain ways that you don't want to deal with; he's got great position and does neat little short movements that can cause you huge trouble.
Ok, so what? Who knows. He's got the ingredients to do something. ANd he's composed.
And I think he can do it without the ongoing, and let's face it -- annoying-- constant, unrelenting coaching from the corner. That's the kind of stuff that should have gone away in the pee wee stage of wrestling.....but I guess there's some explanation for this:
The coach is Carl Adams, a 2X NCAA champ from the 70s, who is coaching a team that really hasn't shown much in the world of wrestling. This performance by Robert's might represent his last big chance, and perhaps he feels to need to be a bit overinvolved. You know, there are some coaches who sit patiently and allow their wrestlers to do their own thing, perhaps yelling once in awhile at some critical juncture of the match. I've never seen a coach who so actively yaks so incessantly throughout the match as this, constantly projecting what the opponent's next move is going to be and how to react to it. I don't mean loud comments here and there, which you would expect. I mean constant, unending yakking, from the gitgo to the very end of the match! Maybe this is part of his strategy, to unnerve the opponent, by verbally announcing his next step; I could see that being a bit unsettling. Maybe some of the big shots out there in the coaching world will pick up on this little tactic. Then wrestling can become a game of which coach can talk and think the fastest, artfully articulating the opponent's next move, hoping the opponent will hear him, and stutter a bit in his effort, hence altering the complexion of the match!
