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Probably close to a 3rd Gold if Schulz doesn't beat Jim Zalesky out at 74KG. I think Goldman was also a runner up at the trials in '88...and won a Jr World Title. Not really relevant, but 5 Wrestlers who were Olympic caliber Wrestlers on one team, that's pretty wild.

The New York Mets will spend 500 MILLION more than the Oakland Athletics this upcoming season, just on players salaries...but your point stands. They at least try in the NFL(thanks to Wellington Mara who probably cost his family tens of billions of dollars) and the NBA makes a ton of money in revenue sharing as well(as long as nobody says Taiwan... But yes, at least the professional leagues make an attempt. But they at least are all under one unified group of owners. The NCAA didn't want any players compensated and they have no saying over that. The transfer portal was hurting athletes and that was just a good idea, but you combine the two and it's kinda chaos. I think this is going to all going to kinda settle down a bit though. I wasn't begging for it, but I wasn't necessarily opposed. I did see how if you were a Football player for example...and you went to play for Lincoln Riley because of the way he develops QBs, then he bails to USC and you're a Heisman quality QB who's almost certainly going to be the #1 pick in the 2024 draft, you should be able to leave without penalty.

And the rest is some variation of Anderson/Andersen, or Jacobson/Jakobson vet du ikke!

With respect, us white liberals will be the ones who determine what is racially offensive. I THOUGHT we'd already established this when we decided "LatinX" was a thing?

You can be cognizant of what you're saying and what some may find offensive...without being ridiculous. A literal lashing never cross my mind there. I also tend of think of RBY as being Latino, but...it really just sounded like a way of saying "ass-whooping."

He knows what he did...

Other than Cornell or over these Covid years, very rarely that I recall. It generally seemed to be highly touted recruits who didn't have success, took time off and came back. Can't think of a NC who did it, but...how often has a guy had an extra year to make that decision?

Ok, so that fits with what I've heard. I just saw that he was a 220 and...figured he'd rather grow into HWT, but I know he's close with Hopke, so really feels like UM is the leader and PSU is 2nd. Though he's saying the right things about UW as a Wisconsin prep athlete. Just be surprising to see UM lose their connection to Pinnacle to UW. And what a fix Hopke would be to that "hole" Minnesota has!

I'd juuuust about rule Wisconsin out based on this. It's flimsy, but Fickel...the FB coach(and arguably the best HWT in Ohio HS History) has told other recruits they can Wrestle, namely Dillan Johnson, the #1 ranked HWT(at least according to one ranking, I thought Mullens was the consensus #1). I guess Bono would probably prefer he just Wrestle, but I would think he'd be open to letting a talent like Hopke do both. You don't draw a line in the sand if you're Wisconsin Wrestling, you do whatever you can. Hopke's the type of kid who could come in, RS in Football, come into the Wresting season and probably AA as a Freshmen, or RS and contend for a NC as a Soph as he fills out. And at HWT, it's not like weight is an issue. As for who he has in the room, losing Trevor Branvold was a HUGE blow for the Badgers. I don't recall if he left when Davis did, but it doesn't matter. He was an outstanding coach and he'd be a great workout partner. The one thing that made me think Minnesota may be less likely was Gavin Nelson committing to UM, but I've been told -from a family friend of Hopke who's been told from Nelson he's planning on going 197...so take that for what very little it's worth. Not sure there's any team has a HWT in place that would make them NOT go after Hopke. I guess tOSU, OSU and Iowa would be the closest, but Keuter is a more highly regarded FB player and I suspect he'll focus on being an OLBer. And that's not through a friend of a friend of a cousin who's friend works at his favorite coffee place! ----I don't want to see this, I want to see someone contend with PSU, but with Kyle Snyder and even guys like Taylor, Varner...among others. I'd include Kerkvliet, but he seemed to have zero interest in Wrestling last year(just imagine if he had a motor like Cassioppi). Wisconsin and Minnesota both have had success with HWTs(one a TINNY bit more than the other, but UW has had a few AAs in recent history with Medberry a finalist, Hilger, Massey). But it's hard to argue against Penn State for really any Wrestler if you're looking at the best possible training partners and international success...

Again...he's talked about how he loves performing in front of large groups. Also, people are quick to forget how dominant Wrestlers were and they tend to just count their titles. If he's back and he has a year, why not?

I think he can(not that he will necessarily). And I think Chittum would potentially go 149.

No question. Not sure the ref realized what happened though. It happened quick.

Eh, fair enough. I'm just saying they weren't all 1 point matches and I think there's a little revisionist history after just kinda getting by for his 4th vs Van Ness and Murin. He wasn't Spencer Lee, but...I mean, two guys beat the man. I don't know what Dake's look like, but I suspect his was someone similar.

This was my first truck. 1994 Ford Bronco. Gramps sold it to me for $3000 after he had to stop driving, but he put ~40000 miles on it and it was his prized possession. He put the brush guard, some big ass tires(I don't think he had any lift kit on it, but he did drive it all around through the woods, so it had a winch). It was 10 years old by the time I got it, but it meant the world. Had to get out and manually put it into 4-wheel drive. Put over 200,000 Miles on it before she died on me...but she died JUST as I was pulling into work, so it was a good death! Gramps didn't have a lot of money, so that was a gift I really appreciated. But THIS...is my favorite vehicle to this day.

My thoughts exactly. I'm a little surprised he's a big fan of mat Wrestling and he didn't have Dake higher, but... that's @jdowntownlist. I do think people are slightly embellishing Yianni's style. He was pretty dominant. He had close matches with guys like McKenna, Sasso or the like, but he had ~50 pins or techs out of 115 matches(also just the 2 losses to Eierman and Gomez...but I get the point, Lee was a machine on top.

No, it wasn't. He was unattached at the Edinboro Open, the first 5 matches of that season. He first wrestled the 8th vs Columbia and then wrestled Cornell on the 9th, weighing in back to back days for his first two matches of the year. So not his first, his second, the first weekend...the point remains. They wrestled twice and Richard didn't score an offensive point in either match. Kolodzik dominated the action and... And the familiarity comes into place because they're two guys...in the same conference and Kolodzik was a 3X AA at the time. Same as Brands and Starocci for example. I don't believe they've wrestled before.

No, I don't think you're wrong. A couple programs have a lot to offer in terms of crowd size, but the first College Wrestling match, I remember just...silence. My HS was about 10X more enthusiastic at that point. But that's on the schools to try and get students out for the matches, maybe give out free tickets if they're not selling enough. Just something so you don't feel like you're wrestling in an empty gym where you can hear everyone clear their throat... I envy the Iowa Wrestlers. That's the best environment to Wrestle...even if I think Iowa fans are a bit much at times!

Yeah, they were not a power house. Still, it's cool to see schools on the level of Princeton have guys have that type of success. And they do have an elite recruit coming in as well as some other solid recruits.

This is not almost beating him. This is Kolodzik's first match being pulled from a RS and he was the clear aggressor and ONLY one actually attempting to score. This is akin to saying there's "no way" Starocci wins it this year if it hadn't been contest, or O'Connor wouldn't have won it because he lost to Ed Scott and then barely beat him. A Cornell guy who was familiar with him Wrestled him close. How many NCs had close matches with guys who were Wrestling to not get beat this past year or any given year? The only point I was initially making was that Princeton had a guy VERY recently who was competitive and a 3X AA in 3 trips, but people are really underselling him. He was a stud. He was the 2nd highest returner in that bracket and...AGAIN, he'd beaten the one guy who placed above him and had 4 or 5 wins vs the #1 seed(2 in 2019). The next point I'll make is the transitive property is not applicable to Wrestling. Because you Wrestled one guy close doesn't mean...really anything when predicting how that Wrestler would wrestle against other Wrestlers.

I thought he was a PSU alum*-not positive though. I'm pretty sure the size of the deals he's given to Nickal and RBY last year are MUCH bigger than other College athletes. Could be because they appear to be the best, most obvious athletes who'll transition. Especially RBY(edit-He says while Nickal is actually tapping dudes out in the UFC...) I don't think he's doing this without getting something back. It'll be interesting to see if he gets Starocci a deal while he's debating a 5th year or IF he's debating he may come back.

I mean, I was just thinking DT as the face of a program would bring in a LOT of top recruits to Ohio, he's friends with Dake... I don't know, there's not a lot of avenues I see for programs to compete with PSU. Jordan Burroughs seemed like a great option, but who's the HC? Plus, Dake and Taylor are friends. And I think DT would do better if he were talking about other athletes. Some people don't like talking about themselves(Dake has no such problem)...

I actually assumed he was coming back to Wrestle in College next year as well...just because he's been talking about it or suggesting he may return, Eggum has said he hoped to have him back and now that he's going to get back to Wrestling...why not Wrestle the 20 matches in College next year, win another Natty and then onto the Olympics? He said he wants to perform in front of big crowds...you don't get bigger crowds in Wrestling than CHA, Bryce Jordan...and then the NCAAs. But, we'll see. I'd imagine he wasn't super focused on school at the end there as he was already making quite a bit of money. But it'd be fun to see!

The gender gap was a pretty large part of the reason behind the changes; https://19thnews.org/2022/03/colleges-admissions-dropping-sat-exam-gender-gap/#:~:text=For SAT critics%2C test-optional,at a disadvantage for years. And if they REALLY gave a shit about equity, they wouldn't use legacy students as any measuring stick.

Yeah, I believe you...I'm just going off the National Averages. Biology for example, that's closer to upper 50s for girls. Physics, just the opposite and in the ~60s for boys. I completely believe you see 66% female in your AP classes.

It seems really weird to plea this down and not get probation out of it. Maybe they're using probation and then deferred judgement interchangeably(though, it'd be 12 months in that case).