Jason Bryant

Dessert was awesome.

This isn't just as simple as getting an AirBNB for a few days and calling it done. I live near a hub (MSP) and my direct flight to Paris is approximately $800 on Delta/Air France. That's pretty decent. Since he's been in the news lately (and I talked to him about this at the HOF) Coleman Scott had over 75 people in London watching. That's a large family and may be on the high end. So let's be conservative here, say it's 20 people that's part of the family who wants to go - it's the Olympics, I doubt he's just talking about just his immediate family - Just 20 people MINIMUM is like $16,000 in airfare alone. If you're going hotels, the Olympics typically have minimums for lodging. You aren't just going to go in for one day, get a room for two days and peace out. We've got thousands and thousands of people trying to do the same thing. So even if RBY had a big NIL payout and has a decent check coming in, I don't know how many people can just drop 50K down at the drop of a hat, especially wrestlers fresh off their college career.

Using search results as a type of social proof for anything misses the fact SEO has been gamed by advertisers and brands and even competitors. If you didn’t already do this, people scroll beyond the first several options of results because of this unless it’s a niche type of search.

My unsubstantiated guess here is Lee Roy has been nominated but he’s declined the nomination since he’s currently the Executive Director of the NWHOF.

All-Star counted at the time. It doesn't count now, I think it stopped counting in the early 2000s. Also, that 8-9 duals was PER YEAR on UPJ's schedule, not total.

Just got off the horn with Pat Pecora - we figured it out based on dates and times with the schedule. Haselrig won 71 in a row before the tie against Greenlee at the All-Star Classic. His only two losses in his career were his freshman year to Dean Hall of Edinboro, once at the regional and once in the semis of the D2 championships. Pat also broke out the schedule - they wrestled 8-9 duals against D1 schools in that era and a number of opens with D1 squads, so while they were a D2 school, his schedule was very D1 heavy (no pun intended).

That’s incorrect. His win streak was snapped with a tie (which no longer exists) but he has an unbeaten streak, not a win streak. I can’t tell you exactly what his win streak was at the moment, since I don’t believe a published report of all his matches exist. I may reach out to UPJ to answer this question, since he’s got to have two considerably long win streaks on either side of that tie. And much to my displeasure, the term pinfall did exist in the record books and rule books prior to WWII and maybe as “recently” as the 1950s. I don’t dispute its former usage, it’s just not an applicable or accurate term in the more modern era of college wrestling (post-Gable era as some call it)

Social D melted my face on Tuesday night. Wasn't a big set by any means, but the cool part was the opener was Love Crimes, led by Mike Ness' son Julian. Julian came on stage late in Social D's set and did a song with his dad, which was pretty freaking cool. First discovered Social Distortion as a freshman in high school with one of their lesser acclaimed albums, but it was me waking up to a video on MTV that year that clued me into the band, then I could do a deeper dive into their older stuff. Got to hear Sick Boys live, which wasn't on this tour's set list very often. While not their "greatest" hit, "I Was Wrong" was the video that sparked the interest and they did drop that one in the set, so I was very pleased to hear the first song I'd discovered by the band get slid in there - since it also wasn't a regular on this tour's set list.

And as we know, revenue and profit are different things, but that's something that's impossible to explain to the tribalistic psycho fans who blather on about how their sport (which they almost certainly didn't play at the school they cheer for to begin with) is so much more important because "it makes all the money for the other sports" when that really isn't true most places.

Someone else did.

If I had to guess, he was probably just told that was the number. I've found most "records" prior to the internet are just spread via word of mouth. Someone said a number, it fit the narrative of dropped programs since 1972, the year most often used due to the passage of Title IX. Some of the lists I've pruned pointed to schools that "dropped" the sport prior to that. So from a speaking point narrative, saying we've lost x-amount of schools since the passage of Title IX implies that's the direct result, when there's more that was in play. Some schools started teams and then stopped after 2 years or the schools closed, or dropped athletics. The NJCAA doesn't really have great records, but thankfully, AWN really did a great job at at least publishing anything and everything they were sent. So that's the most likely way for me to come up with it. One of my long-range products is going page-by-page to log all this stuff. I'm building historical tournament placement archives, team scores, etc. and as a by product, I can hae some semblence of a better idea of what we had, when we had it. My problem isn't the junior colleges, rather its the dual affiliates - schools that competed in both the NCAA and NAIA. The NAIA doesn't have participation stats going back that far.

They weren’t all in existence at the same time. We never had that many programs simultaneously- I’ve been working to comb through actual archives to count a documented number of teams. The NCAA didn’t count participation stats until 1982. We have lost a bunch, but there’s been an ebb and flow. It’s been a repeated unverifiable myth over the years. I don’t have that file that I’m working on at my disposal here in Istanbul , but the list of dropped teams I was first provided with (when I worked for the NWCA full-time) also had multiple schools counted multiple times due to name changes. I can’t (yet) tell you what the actual high water mark is, but I can tell you with extreme confidence it’s not that high.

No there were not.

Social Distortion in two weeks (one of my bucket list bands) Greg Warren the week after that. Kidz Bop with my girls come the MN State Fair this year. Saw Nate Bargatze last summer.

As moronic as we as a fanbase can be with some of the things we say on social, nothing holds a candle to wwe stans. It’s just the same thing that’s been repeated over and over. I’ve seen legit people try to explain the laws etc in Mn to them and it ends up how you might expect. They’re the same type of people who don’t believe anything after the first google search result. The smart fans in that demographic don’t engage.