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Great post, much appreciated! Does anyone know or anticipate what time they expect the challenge tournament to finish up the first day?

Love this

100% agree... I'm not going to bag on Stutzman because he did have some great years by their standards but for them to not sniff an all American in 11 years is kind of rough. Would love to see them at least 2nd behind Cornell in the state vs having Columbia, Long Island and the Binghamton outperforming them.

Pipe Dream... Burroughs falls short at Olympic trials and hangs up his shoes... his wife being from Buffalo finally wants to move back near family after helping Jordan chase his dream all these years. He agrees to take the Buffalo coaching job and turns Buffalo into a new epicenter of wrestling in the northeast ready to compete with the big dogs!

By the looks of the press release, UB has let go of John Stutzman... Who should they bring in for the new coach? With programs like Little Rock punching in 2 all Americans for the short amount of time they've been a program it's not all surprising a school like UB would reconsider who their coach is... Considering the location geographically, they could draw mid tier recruits from PA/NY/OH/NJ and field a decent team, they just haven't been all that good at recruiting in my opinion. Would love to see them bring in someone young with at least a little bit of pedigree to jumpstart the program. what do you guys think?

How much on average are wrestlers getting in NIL money? It's got to pale in comparison with Football and basketball... just curious if anyone has insight into the amounts the top and mid tier guys get?

What was the news?

The hard part for me to see is him moving on from his life in state college with how engrained he and his family seem to be there personally and professionally alike. Although the same could have been said about Cael leaving Iowa/midwest for PA. When I think of the "Iowa Style" or just the Hawkeye way, DT isn't who would come to mind but maybe they need a total retooling of the culture there. Wrestling evolves like all things do and it's a matter of if Iowa is O.K. With changing their approach to the sport. Out toughing guys isn't really a thing anymore in my opinion because everyone is tough... I think it would be really cool to see that kind of change looking to the future of the program vs continuing down the current path. It just doesn't seem like they are having a ton of fun, not a lot of smiles/very serious can wear on an athlete and a program. We joke about penn state always saying they just have fun but there's some truth to it being an important ingredient.

One thing to remember is they also had the late scratch with Cornella who seemingly would have scored some amount of points. I just think for lack of transfer portal options, lack of traditional athletic scholarships, academic standards etc... It's amazing what they do there. They may never be on a list behind the likes of Penn state, Iowa, Ok St, Ohio state etc. for national titles but to always be right at the top in the mix is really something. Then you could go on about the international success the RTC has had as well. Its entirely possible although somewhat unlikely (assuming all weights are qualified) that half of the olympic team could be occupied by former Cornell wrestlers.

The whole tournament I was thinking Cornell was way under performing and was frustrated by it... for them to underperform as much as they did and still place 2nd is pretty insane...

This aged very well

Hahah hilarious

I'm always usually for the underdogs meaning I'll occasionally root for teams other than penn state but it's impossible not to root for MM.

When he pointed to the line at the center of the mat I got freaking goose bumps, he just seemed to be in a totally different place mentally... I do like crookham but he's very much a counter wrestler and getting behind on the scoreboard does not bode well for him especially against someone like Vito.

Absolutely beautiful by Vito when he locks in he is superhuman

I really hope Shapiro is the next Cornell 4 time champ

Didn't have Brock Mauller going 2 and out on my bingo card

Askey big brothered chittum only to be big bothered by Shapiro

Felt the same watching the end of that

Anyone feeling Abas here?

Outside of Yianni and Vito it has seemed to me the past few years that Cornell guys are lacking a bit in the size of their gas tanks

Crookham is just so stingy barley giving up anything

Did not expect McKee to get handled the way he did

Fireworks out of the gate, I'm betting on a big upset or two

He loves saying"Resilite" it would be like a college football analyst calling out the turf manufacturer every other time there was a big tackle on the field