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Provo improved a ton over last season - I think he is the guy there. Miranda should be the guy at141. The kid is tough on top. I agree that Garvin is the guy at 165. Byers had a pretty good freshman campaign, but I think he redshirts. I could see him making the bump up to 197 in 2024-25.

There is a difference between "weight cutting" and "weight management"... the difference is now hydration. Prior practices included no hydration rule and literally dehydrating to the point of death (see 1997) . Pre Season certs now have the hydration part of pre-certs.

When the NCAA moved all the weights up 7-8 lbs due to unhealthy weight cutting, nobody had to cut weight anymore....

"Seems like Koll may be suspect character" Does your character have a mustache? Does your character wear glasses? Is your character bald?

The UNC coaches page was updated with Francois (Dr. by the way) and Darmstadt. The update continues to have Ramos as the assistant.

A lot of irony going on here.... But anyway, are you saying his character is suspect because of comments he made about the UNC campus?

Check the Koll off to UNC thread. looks like Deakin staying and Rumors of Brucki

So ypu won’t be conforming with the others joining him not conforming?

What if everyone joins you?

Probably a tough 3 weeks wondering what was going to happen. if Brucki heads out I think they have one more spot to fill.

That's a good sign.... I believe they can still hire 1-2 more guys. Crazy that this carousel all happened within weeks of the official start of the season. Gotta wonder who goes to the portal for both schools this spring.

Looks like Darmstadt to UNC as well. Not sure about Kelly or who Ayres is bringing in at Stanford. I would think it will have to be announced soon.

Looks like Enoch Francois to North Carolina with Koll.

Didn't see that.... When...why...what????

Who is going 197?

I agree, it's not an ideal situation. It's a concern of all the schools that left the Pac-12... now they travel across the country. For football it's a drop in the bucket.... for all the other sports that play 25+ games/matches, this is a huge deal. I'm pissed if I'm baseball or softball now traveling 30x or more verses football who will travel 2-3 times across country, yet football get to make the decision and the money. Now all non-revenue sports have to get creative with travel and kids going on 5 day roadtrips to get games in while trying to do school.

Exactly... so we will feed off the large donors to those schools for our NIL money and now we will unionize and make the school and the NCAA provide our benefits. At what point, do these extra costs to schools finally outweigh the profit that is coming in to help the other sports? I would need to find the most current breakdown, but only about 1/2 of football programs make a profit. My question is the same above, when the investment into NIL and football takes money away from programs via donors spending on NIL rather than donations to the program itself, and if the unionization of football players happens, will profits go down significantly anyway and not make a difference to other programs? Is it better for the school to have football go FBS then lease everything back to the program and use those funds to fund other programs? I agree with @bnwtwg, that it will become less shiny and then donors are no longer giving really to their school but a separate entity connected to the school by name only. It certainly changes the landscape. As a side note, it has been discussed as a possibility that football breaks off from the NCAA, but I don't know the current status.

Stanford landed in the ACC so they are fine. Oregon State, Cal Poly, Bakersfield and Little Rock will be left in the Pac-12 for wrestling. Of course, all of that is up in the air because of the conference as a whole. Technically, I believe they get a 1 year waiver if they drop below the 6 teams. There are many scenarios being floated out there. As for Oregon State specifically, they have a very large endowment, great facilities, 100% support from the school and the school sits at the minimum number of sports needed, so dropping a sport is something they will not do. They also have more women's than men's sports. All that to say, they aren't going anywhere, except maybe to a different conference. There is so much speculation, but my personal opinion is that if the Pac-12 takes a 2-year hiatus and WSU and OSU have to go independent until they can rebuild, then my guess would be that OSU ends up in the Big 12. Just my guess. It seems most logical. I am not hopeful they can add two new teams to a 4-team conference since they would have to get those teams to move from better conferences at this point.

Here is the unpopular opinion.... take football out of the NCAA altogether and have the BCS run the whole thing. Schools can lease the school name, facilities and stadiums back to the teams to create revenue for the school and the BCS can run wild and unhinged with whatever they want to do. Yes, it becomes like arena football leagues..... should be very successful without the NCAA part of it involved.... or would it?

They may have wanted to keep Fagen around.

Yes, I am aware. Great young man. Glad to have him in Corvallis.

This seems appropriate here......

This is probably the most balanced OSU team top to bottom they have had in a long time. OSU also has some depth (finally) - that being said, some weight classes are up for grabs. We will see what happens this week with the intrasquad. At the end of the day, I expect an OSU win over Koll and Co.

My dad is 83.... my HS daughter plays on a pretty high level team. Almost like clockwork, when a serve is missed :"They should just serve underhand like we used to."

As a coaching staff, why would you not consider the head to head results of your top two guys when deciding a starter?