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Perfectly legal. His knees are on the mat behind the rear starting line and his hands are in front of the forward line. Anyone can do this. I have. I've also coached it.

5th U23 Worlds is it? Does that do it? Also said he is focusing on folk for the moment.

Nagao was on Basch-a-mania yesterday. It really sounded like Basch contacted him about transfer portal a couple weeks ago. Nagao said something about not considering it until Basch contacted him, but deciding to enter the portal a week later. This was sort of "glossed over" but it certainly sounded like what happened. Basch made sure that Nagao said he has not been offered any money by anyone at this point.

A mutual friend visited him when he was undergoing treatment. He told me Jeff was doing backstep drills while he had IVs in him.

I believe he was allowed to live in a University owned property as a condition of employment.

Yes, all I was saying is that the weight class had not been completely cleared out in 84. A doped Johansson is proof of that. I never said Blatnick would have won a fully attended games. Not to mention Blatnick had beat cancer not too long before that!

Thanks. We appreciate your take, Thomas.

Agreed, but still pretty funny.

Minnow called Slav to Michigan lol

No, freestyle refs just break holds instantly if they think it looks bad, no questions asked. Communicating with athletes is also communicating with coaches simultaneously. You are letting them know how you see things, and what to expect if a move starts getting a bit more iffy. Same thing for communicating who is in control during scrambles starting in top/bottom. As a ref, you want to let the wrestlers and coach how you see the position and who is in control. You know, maybe you're right. Should we call neutral danger, or just award points? How about verbal nearfall count? Also not sure why you bring up the military? Do you realize they communicate in the military?

A thing that is interesting to me regarding Cael vs. Gable, and I have brought this up before, is how they have won their titles. Someone ran the numbers a couple months ago. Gable was averaging an absurd number of All-Americans every year, 7 or 8? Ridiculous numbers. Cael has mostly been doing it with 5 or so absolute monsters every year and getting his points that way, but not as many placers. I don't know what this means, which is better, or anything. I just find it interesting.

Interesting. I've heard one of today's top coaches say John Smith is one of the few American wrestlers from 30ish years ago who's skills WOULD translate. Also, in the 90s and early 2000s, American par terre offense was way better than it is today. This is especially in comparison to the wrest of the world. Schultz was a beast on top. Smith. Cross in his Olympic run. Look at Zeke's win over Jordanov. Townshend Saunders made a final based largely on par terre offense. Slay gutting Satiev. Baumgartner was sold. That is just off the top of my head, but all those guys were threats to score just about every time they got on top. Who is dangerous from par terre today? Dake with his gut. Taylor with folkstyle. Who else is a threat against anyone?

Until someone's shoulder gets ripped out. Or a guy gets penalized for an illegal hold and the point costs him the match. "Preventative officiating."

If only he could do 665 without straps! I have no proof that he can even get 500 legitimitely.

I hear a tremendous amount of love and respect for Terry and his coaching from most guys on that team. Really, almost everyone he has worked with, including Cejudo. Terry comes across as a maniac, but I think he is pretty good in his role as an assistant, especially with the smaller guys.

Who rememembers "Things are about to get REAL in state college!!!"?

Exactly

Hold on... He claims he's the "paid hater" that Brands was referring to lol

Love this idea.

"pond scum"

Sorry, but this is more like it:

Authored by Nolan Zavoral, I believe?

Dude is a clown.

I am not sure if I understand your question, but the MFF counting as a loss is to prevent athletes from defaulting out of a tourney after a loss. We all know that in many such cases, they are healthy but don't feel like wrestling back for some reason. This has been deemed "bad for the sport.' Not to mention: some of these situations are flat out "ducks."