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The downside of Zain's win is that his GQ modeling career is on hold 'till after Paris. Snappy accoutrements!

Best Turkey day since last November

... 1965 when I discovered a stack of Playboy magazines in my Uncle's TV room.

Maybe he sells M2 to Brooks. The juice bars he could sell to the Russian Wrestling Federation.

I enjoyed Buroughs and Messenbrink trolling each other through the match. (Jordan shoud market a line of collapsing wrestling socks, MM a herky jerky wind up wrestler toy who attempts to shake hands and slap the back of anyone within reach). The headsmash at the end was arguably a bit much (could have resulted in a DQ on the international stage, however no ref who values his health would DQ Burroughs in a USA Olympic team trial) but I classify it as an isolated get-off-my-lawn old guy vs annoying-young-pup incident and a nothing burger. As far as the booing (also a nothing burger), Jordan pretty much said nothing when he moved past my section but Manning was yelling at the crowd (no idea what he was saying or responding to) and the crowd was responding to Manning more than Jordan by that point. Being an evil NLWC fan, I may have booed Manning (and Jordan too, the headsmash was deserving) but believe I was fully invested in laughing and enjoying the spectacle with the fans sitting near me and don't remember doing so.

So the good news for those rooting for the demise of nittany lion freestyle club is the club lost $258,211 in 2015. At that burn rate the $5 million 2014 contribution will be gone by 2034 and expenses will have to be cut. Unless they can find another donor that is.

thank you! It looks like someone(s) contributed $5,524,538 in 2014. So a one year pop. Not as much as I thought given the yearly expenses of an international wrestling operation. Salaries around $450k alone are close to the typical income for a year - may not be a sustainable model without periodic one time gifts. There must be other funds outside the club - do individual wrestlers fund their own travel and training expenses and have their own income streams? Of course this is for the freestyle operation and doesn't really shed much light on the collegiate side. Interesting for sure though. I'll have to put on my financial analyst hat and explore some of these links sometime. I suspect there is a lot more money moving on the collegiate side. OSU with a new facility. Iowa building something new. And NIL changes everything. We still haven't seen who wins and losses from that change.

It seems a tenet of the faith the PSU is awash in money - more than any others. Does anyone have a reliable source supporting this premise? Any details regarding who contributes money? Where is the spend going? I've never actually seen anything credible and am curious. I mean the University enrollment is declining, there is a budget crisis, state funding is less than most. The population of PA stagnated as the industrial base declines. Football makes money for the athletic programs but less than Ohio State and Michigan. So it must be mega-rich alums, right? Anybody have any references? Or is it "it must be true 'cause I saw it on the Internet" phenomenon?

Transparency would be epic - imagine the forum animosity and angst that would be generated! I'm sure Cael gets Manning's vote every year! Secret ballots are no fun! Which coaches vote for themselves?

Who actually makes the selection? Is there a list of voters? Nominees? Who voted for whom and results?

If they go the push out route they should at least make it entertaining: 1 pt - out of bounds 2 pts - off the mat 3 pts - into the scorers table of over a chair tech fall - into the lap of a cute wrestling mom

Interesting. In theory better action. However are there side effects - like would potential to injure increase?

I'm certain that this blunder will result in Cael never getting a high level recruit again and having all his wrestlers enter the portal. If Cael was Japanese seppuku would be the only option. Well, on the bright side Messenbrink's situational awareness will improve reducing his dependency on coaches and making him a better wrestler after his transfer.

I'll swim upstream on this one. Not a big fan of push out points. Puts too much emphasis on low skill technique. I prefer wrestler emphasis and points for real changes in control. But I'll admit, if it would have been turned on conditionally (no TD in 1st period or automatically in OT), it might have improved a few matches.

Past laurels help soften the impact when you team falls from grace. PSU fans don't need the record right now but eventually the wheel turns and this year will come in handy.