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True that Iowa isn't as rich a recruiting territory as Pennsylvania, but there is no guarantee Cael wouldn't have landed all those dudes anyway if he'd stayed at ISU.

Brands is getting $700k a year?

Cael is good for the sport. We need a colossus for everybody to pull against.

True. Still it rankles me that OSU would induce Scott to give up a good job as HC at UNC with promises that he'll be the next guy after Smith retires, and then pull this. Classless. Plus there is the uncertainty of whether or not Taylor can actually be a head coach with everything that entails. He's certainly got the wrestling chops, but does he know how to schmooze the big benefactors? Will he have pipelines to local talent since he's an Ohio boy, and would he even need local talent pipelines since he's plugged in already in better wrestling states (Ohio and Pennsylvania)? Well whatever happens, it'll be interesting following the narrative.

I have no doubt whatsoever that if Cael had stayed at ISU instead of moving to PSU that ISU would have won 11 out of the last 13 NCAA team titles. ISU sure screwed the pooch letting him get away.

I'd love him to be the coach at OU. That would be an interesting move, getting jilted by OSU so he went to their rivals. He's a fine wrestling coach as well, OU would improve under his coaching, I have no doubt. No offense to Kish, but OU didn't show me much last year, and if there was improvement it was glacial.

If DT retired right now from competing he'll have achieved about as much as he could've ever hoped anyway. It's time for him to move on to coaching, and if OSU is offering him a boatload of money it might be the best thing he can do. On the other hand he'll have to move to Oklahoma, which will probably be a culture shock for him. I feel really bad for Coleman Scott if the DT stuff is actually going down and not just chatter. He gave up a good head coaching job at a program he practically built to be the coach in waiting at OSU.

From being the key word. I moved away from Oklahoma 30+ years ago. I still visit family there frequently and follow the state's politics, sports, and other affairs. I've seen it decline from when I lived there decades ago, and that's saying something because Oklahoma was always kind of a backwards hellhole.

I doubt he even thinks of Gable.

Wow, Ohio State's facility looks very cheery. That in itself means it's not worthy of being a wrestling room. Wrestling rooms should be dank, hot, stinky, oppressive, and overly well lit so the lights burn your retinas if you give up a turn.

Isn't that the dean of Agriculture at OSU?

Pfffft. Here's the deal, why stick around with a bunch of duds if you can go somewhere else and improve? If I was a young wrestler I'd always be looking to move on to a place where I'd have great practice partners and coaches. It sucks to be the only good wrestler on a team, it's nearly impossible to improve. Plus some of these guys aren't going to start at their current school, like Barraclough, and he could maybe be an All American at another school. Comradery is cool, but everybody wants to be pals with the best wrestler on the team and you can always make pals somewhere else.

I found their picture.

I saw their facilities in a youtube video a year or two ago. Pretty nice, a lot better than the dank, stinky pits I practiced in.

In my wrestling career I NEVER saw a wrestling room with a window and I know for a fact that John Smith's college wrestling room didn't have any windows I know you were being facetious about wrestling rooms with "natural light", but have you actually seen a room like that?

I wasn't impressed with it either. It looks tacky. Plus how much energy are they going to have to burn to get that mammoth building up to 90 degrees for wrestling practice?

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. T Boone is dead and rotting, where will they get the bucks they need for a new wrestling room?

Brands always looks like a guy who knows he's about to get some bad news.

I think Schultz training against Coon would probably be good for both of them. Steel sharpens steel. Or rather, in this case, steel sharpens ice cream.

Any idea where Schultz is transferring?

How so? He was nowhere near those other guys as a wrestler. Are you using him as an example of a guy who didn't have the greatest wrestler credentials being a successful coach, because he was certainly a successful coach. Different era though.

The oil companies own tons of land in Oklahoma and, of course, pay no property taxes at all. They completely destroy the land they pump, by the way, and leave toxic areas in their wake, sometimes complete with holes thousands of feet deep that they sometimes throw a plywood sheet over after they pump the location dry. They also pay far lower income taxes than all the surrounding states, the politicians in Oklahoma City (all beneficiaries of huge oil company "campaign contributions") justifying charging about half as much in taxes as Texas by saying they were "protecting jobs". Oklahoma should be charging at least as much for their oil as the surrounding states, but the politicians are all bought off.

I have no idea. I do know that OU doesn't give a damn about wrestling and they are just a few million behind PSU. Next year OU will surpass PSU though, OU will be getting SEC money next year. Yet, OU wrestles in a barn (compared to any other D1 teams). But man, their football lockers have ballhair dryers, PS5s, bars, freezers, 75" TV sets, you name it.

It the Taylor rumors are true then I do feel a lot of sympathy for Coleman Scott. Who knows, maybe Taylor will end up being like Mark Cody! OSU would feel pretty stupid if that happened, but OSU is used to feeling stupid

It's a hellhole of a state. The morons running the state have destroyed the tax base completely (they refuse to tax the oil companies, which is the only big business in the state). The roads have completely fallen apart except where the state has spent federal money. Seriously, Oklahoma should be relegated to territory status, it's not worthy of being called a state.