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Freshman AAs in 2023: Eddie Ventresca 7th @ 125 Aaron Nagao 5th @ 133 Lachlan McNeil 4th @ 141 Brock Hardy 6th @ 141 Shayne Van Ness 3rd @ 149 Caleb Henson 5th @ 149 Levi Haines 2nd @ 157 Michael Caliendo 7th @ 165 Who breaks into the top 230 all-time scorers?

This feels like a modern art project

And for the completests in the crowd, the years 1970, 1988, 1997, and 2008 were the only freshman-eligible years that did not contribute any wrestlers to the top 230 career scorers at the NCAA tournament.

Another way to think about freshman dominance is to focus on the entire career and then work backwards. You can argue that the top year for freshman is actually the year when the most career top scorers began. There were four years that contributed 6 wrestlers to the eventual top 230.

Who says freshman need time to acclimate to college? Try telling that to the crop that landed in 2015. Homework Assignment The title of the table might not be strictly true. I came up with this list from the list of the top 230 scoring wrestlers. So all the ones and twos are missing from my totals. I doubt that has any impact on 2015's status as the year of the freshman, but it certainly could impact the order of every year after that given how tightly bunched they all become. Sooooo, if there is anyone out there who wants to complete the calcs, here is your chance.

Tied for 31st at 71 points with Eddie Eichelberger, Lee Kemp, T.J. Jaworksy, Jordan Oliver, and Kyle Snyder. Behind Bill Koll, Gene Mills, Ross Flood,Mark Lieberman, Kenny Monday, Carlton Haselrig, Jason Nolf, Larry Owings, John Smith, and Terry Brands

If we harken back to days of yore when freshman were not eligible to wrestle there were a number of dominant wrestlers who left us with a bunch of what ifs. Among the three timers in the three time era (100%ers) who would have won as a freshman? Maybe that Sanderson guy wasn't so special. Maybe Pat Smith shouldn't have been the first. After all, there were 15 of these guys and 6 of them were undefeated. Surely one of them would have won as a freshman and done it in style. Like the answer to the question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?", the world will never know. But we can know what the intersection of their careers and modern careers looks like. Instead of adding fictional titles and points to past champions, lets do the more recent guys dirty and subtract titles and points. If we subtract the first year of competition and just focus on years they all have in common, years two through four (sorry Myles and Jaydin), who scored the most NCAA points? Without further ado, I present your new king of the hill: Zain Retherford. A few other observations: In the spirit of subtraction, I decided to also subtract the 5 points Dan Gable earned in his two pigtail matches from when brackets could be just about any size. If we look at it on a per match basis Dan Hodge would take his rightful seat on the throne as he scored his 80 points in just 13 matches, while the others at or near the top did it in 15 matches. Bonus points are huge (too huge? let the debate begin). The third and fourth positions are occupied by guys who only went 2 for 3 in their last three years. But, boy did they do it in style, with Dan Gable putting up a perfect 30 points in 1969 and David Taylor scoring 29.5 in 2012.

Wow

Not sure who they are, but what you are referring to is called Core CPI, not CPI. If you would like to educate yourself on the topic: https://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2004/october/core-inflation-headline/

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Yes, the Sandy Hook thing. That POS decided he would profit by heaping misery on people who had just experienced unimaginable misery. The details of what he did are horrific. He absolutely and thoroughly disgusts me.

This is what I care to admit about Alex Jones. I am ashamed that we are the same species.

Are you kidding? Or uninformed? He was Senior Advisor to the President .

Without an account I can't even generate 1 view.

Canada is even importing our mess: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-canada-shootings/#xj4y7vzkg "Weapons flowed to Canada, Guatemala, Thailand and elsewhere as the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation primed markets by stoking opposition to gun control. Gun companies had help from the US government, which has used the Commerce Department and embassies to recruit buyers." "In recent years, though, the number of semiautomatic pistols and assault rifles coming from the US each year has skyrocketed — from just 6,205 in 2003 to more than 66,000 in 2022. While those numbers are a small fraction of US domestic sales, in per capita terms Canada is now the biggest foreign buyer of American rapid-fire weapons." "Over the same two decades, the country’s annual rate of shootings per capita — incidents referred to as “discharge firearm with intent” — surged almost sevenfold."

Views are not even unique accounts on Twitter. It could be the same account 238 million times...cough cough bot cough cough.

Also, not the definition of a view on Twitter.

In a country with an estimated population of 335 million you believe 238 million views in less than 24 hours? Beyond naive. Good to see Musk is making such great progress on Twitter's bot problem.

define capable. Capable of sedition? Treason?

A giant, painful, infected pimple. The kind you get in prison.

I used to laugh at how Trump always leans forward and covers his balls. But then someone showed me a picture of myself speaking on a panel. I wasn't leaning forward, but holy shit, I was covering my balls.

I will have to get back to you on that.

When are we getting back to drooling over/taking pot shots at Elon Musk?

I think you are right. The odds they release any names are pretty low. I think it would have to come from non-university sources.

I just listened. Great stuff.