Interviewed_at_Weehawken

" Who is Gable going to work out that can replicate Taha or Geno? There is no one in the US who can wrestle like those two. Gable is in for a rude awakening if he meets up with either of those two!" Those people had it backwards!

Wow! Thanks. I lost track of it. Good "news," I guess!

Yeah. Well, my uncle died last year, so I am going to call BS.

The ones I see are about 2/3 female!

Strange! I generally see boys having lower GPAs than girls on average and AP classes having more girls than boys. Possibly because homework and studying are discriminatory vs. boys!

My uncle was a college tennis coach at a d1 university, who also taught a class on sports ethics. He marveled at all the 'really smart, really poor' athletes who got into Harvard, played hockey, and had great financial aid packages.

Looks more Minnesota focused!

LSU had a nice squad (8th). I was coached by a guy on that team.

Seems as if someone was making some assumptions...

I just came up with a similar stat (above). I wasn't counting individual AA's, just schools. I also counted Bakersfield as a dropped program. In 83 they were D2 but, as you remember, they moved up to D1 and eventually cut the program.

I think I counted all-Americans from 14 schools who have dropped their programs.

With all these stats being thrown around, keep in mind that there were many more programs to compete against in 1983.

Yes. Once again, I am stunned by the number of all-Americans Gable averaged each year.

Right. PSU was a given based on your "PSU and other schools." Keep in mind that PSU wasn't exactly killing it either. They were top ten but nowhere near a trophy and they were the second best team in PA. Big 8 had 4 schools in the top 10, Big 10 had 1.

What "others" of note? Maryland? Rutgers?

It is going to start getting even easier. Columbia, for one, has just dropped SATs as a requirement for admissions. This makes it much that easier to gain admission for a kid who has solid grades, and a "hook" or "talent" of some sort but struggled on entrance exams.

I know. Wasn't sure if the original poster was counting Blair/St. Benedicts, as they are not NJSIAA. Wasn't sure if he was referring to geography or athletic association.

Do you count Perry, Evans, or Mocco as NJ? And if you do, that was a while back...

Looks good. Hasn't OK been a bit down, with the exception of Stillwater and Edmond North?

Pretty good list. I might put WI ahead of NY right now. Iowa is also very strong at the moment.

Mom just made a great post on social media about the Journeyman classic. Seems to be a nice person. Best post I have seen all day! No offense meant toward anyone here!

Thanks for questioning me! I just went back and listened again. (Keep in mind I rewound this part a couple times last night, but I was also walking a Golden Retriever.) 22:03 Basch: When did you start deciding that you might want to enter the portal? Nagao: It was... uh...you know you ask(ed?) me two weeks ago and it wasn't even a thought... but you ask me a week ago ...that's when the thoughts and considerations... I considered opening the portal up. So, I now have a different interpretation thanks to your question. I'm guessing he is not implying that Basch contacted him initially and just saying that at some point the idea just popped into his head. So I apologize to anyone and everyone: Basch, Nagao, PSU, etc.

Apparently, Basch contacted him to see his thoughts on the transfer portal. He thought about it. A week later he was in... No bags of cash have been offered. Yet.

I'm not sure what to expect from Teske. I try to keep in mind that it sounds like he missed a lot of time this year due to a serious case of staph. I'm not sure exactly how bad, or how much it effected him, but he missed quite a few matches. Something to think about.