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Fernandes is generally Portuguese, but so much stuff happens with spellings before, during, after immigration that I would be willing to believe it could be Spanish.

Coach John Smith

Is his son still on the Lehigh team? Grandpa Jake is the striking coach.

Yeah. One team is usually winning, and the other is usually losing. Makes benches look different.

Funny... Andrew Alirez thought Woods made a big improvement last year.

I doubt it would ever happen, but if it is determined that Mesenbrink is repeatedly putting himself purposefully into a PD position, it is an offense that can (and should) be penalized.

or defense.

I saw much of the match, but watched it a 4:30 AM on Saturday. Penn State looked great. I was particularly impressed with Haines and Mesenbrink. Mesenbrink is a lot of f*n! Caliendo had his moments, but was unable to convert. I look forward to watching MM compete over the next several years in NCAA and then beyond. Gotta keep that knee healthy though! This is the type of jump I expected to see from Haines all year. He really opened it up on perhaps his toughest opponent yet. Very impressive. I'm sure Davis will improve, but I didn't see a lot from him. I don't think Ayala wrestling from one knee was as big a stall as others felt. When contact was made, he came up to both feet and handfought from there. My guess is Davis has good shots from the outside, and they gameplanned? Nagao looked good (mostly late) against an overmatched Schriever. Nagao got the turns working late and this was when he looked impressive. For the most of the match, he seemed content to ride legs and get his RT. He does this thing where he acts very frantic as if he's trying to turn his opponent, but he may have been putting on a show for the official. I also love the one armed RNC, a Nagao special! Oh, and though Bartlett looked good and seems like a nice kid, I'm not sure how much of that match was about how "Bartlett got a lot better" as opposed to "something is up with Woods." Wish I saw Kerk vs. Kueter but the match went over and I wasn't able to record. Nice job by PSU and congrats Nit fans. No big surprises for me other than some margins of victory.

Casey Cunningham seems like a decent man. He was a good wrestler. I am sure he is very strong, but some are stronger. He is a very good coach. He cannot hold Terry Brands' jock as a wrestler, as far as ability and accolades.

It didn't work.

The ref in the Cox/Taylor matches disagrees with this statement, but only after dodging challenge bricks and chairs.

Gable is on record saying he pretty much felt like he was dying during and after Tom Ryan vs. Pat Smith final. That may well age you.

Also: Rowlands and Mocco wrestled 19 times over the course of their careers! Mocco won 11.

Shane Sparks podcast has been enjoyable.

I wish him well, and he has been fun to watch, but just a dumb dumb idea.

If Franek majors Haines and Haines falls apart in the third? Would that be a Carvering?

I also like when he was making excuses for Starocci missing a couple matches saying something along the lines of "30-40 matches a year wears on you, these guys need occasional breaks," as if Stall-rocky was ever very active. (The PSU 174 even said that he prob would have wrestled through his ailment in past years) Also his recent insistence that Real Woods has always wrestled close matches. Maybe a lot through his career, but he was a bonus points machine for much of last year. Some truth to those statements, but not as much as Basch thinks.

Smoked meats!

Haha! Beat me to it!

I agree. All the coverage of who Basch's "guys" are and who he has texted lately never seems to make it to FRL. Also did you know NLWC will put 5-6 guys on the Olympic team and Iowa is going to be shut out tonight? (Neither is out of the realm of probability, but each is a bit unrealistic)

I give lengthy presentations on a regular basis, but was completely thrown off when I was on the witness stand for a criminal case. And when I say "witness stand" I mean STAND! As in "no chair to sit in." I present standing up all the time, but this was a terrible set-up for me. Not to mention that nearly everything I said was objected to!

Hmmm. Does Spartan Combat RTC "occasionally" practice with the Cornell team? I wonder if Kem ever offered any advice to Cornell athletes? But given that info, it makes sense he would want to officially be on a staff to build his resume. I think he has said that he wants to make a career of coaching.

What happened to Kem at Cornell? The season isn't even over!

Mocco. Thoma. Collier. Pedro. Others.