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I shall self correct my grammar it should have been *you’re

Passive aggressively implying saying it was a “JV match” to try and irritate me doesn’t change my my point. Don’t be be childish. Your attempt at a condescending tone about “a major college dual” doesn’t really work either considering I wrestled DI. And your are sounding like the tough guy youth coach who quit wrestling in hs and overcompensates now. The exact same logic applied. Especially when the coaches know the reality of the matchups. Wanting to give your guys who shown up every day a home match doesn’t change hs to college either. Additionally, part of why penn state is so good is because they have a captain/stud in brooks willing to wrestle one of the couple guys that can beat him in a meaningless match… then let a teammate get a go when the elite kid for him to wrestle wasn’t there…

Holy hell man. Coaches match up athletes with similar abilities all the time. Especially if they trust the other coach to be honest about how good the kid is… I did it the other week. A coach I respect asked me to match up guys with similar experience and I had the Dual already when won on forfeits. He’s having a down year and almost every team in our area is devastated by kids getting sick. Throwing out my best guys to run over first year wrestlers in their first competition would have served no one… it seems pretty clear brooks isn’t hurt. Are you being deliberately obtuse

Won’t more DI programs help with that? Considering most girls programs are smaller and/or religious colleges?

Illinois finally added it, kicking and screaming, but finally. But they should have made it a fall or spring sport so more coaches could do both

I was going to say that you probably see it in the beginner stuff.. but then I realized.. most beginners usually DQ themselves/penalty themselves on locked hands or full Nelson’s. Long before they get to 4 cautions. yeah 4 cautions is on the coach

Honestly, given everything I’ve seen and been told about Texas athletics. It’ll be easier to add just a DI women’s program. and that sucks, UT is like Ohio State, the money is there

Well. I’ve heard many things about him. Good and bad. So we’ll see what happens

He was for sure fired?

Semi what I thought. But I’m not stressing the way the one person was. He’s been competitive and Sioredas is a good coach

What’s going on in New Orleans?

I’ll watch it when I get a chance

Was it a competitive 7-5 loss? Or was it he got a garbage time takedown?

I understand and agree Also, The way to approach/go after Title IX is actually pushing for “more” support for the women’s teams. Meaning. What often happens is the girls teams get the “scholarship” counts. But then no real support or funding. At UTC several girls teams had ratty or old gear and other issues but admin was covered by the fact that the girls were on scholarship So the thing to actually push for is changing the emphasis from “scholarship counts” to actually supporting women’s teams even if that means there’s less total teams Edit: so that it makes it easier to argue for men’s teams and it’s not “just” about scholarship counts

Sigh, it amazes me how awkwardly and stubbornly people cling to being the angry chip on shoulder wrestling people. For a sport like wrestling to be added to a major university. Even if you get a looser interpretation of Title IX.. if you don’t approach adding a program it from presenting the equity aspect and women’s wrestling. You just tanked any chance of it succeeding in adding a wrestling team. People can squawk and whine all they want. That’s the reality. Schalles put it perfect on his blog. Wrestling coaches need to stop acting like “playing politics” is something dirty. Besides a good chunk of the problems are wrestlings fault. Football and Basketball coaches became ADs principals and on the NCAA and state associations. Outside what are very clearly exceptions not the norm… Wrestling coaches stayed in their classroom and called everyone soft. Even if the court rules how you want.. it won’t do what you seem to think it will

Henson lost but he’s going to be a problem for people going forward

Injury or non injury related?

Take it as an extremely optimistic take from an alumni who’s heart is rooting for a UTC AA But who’s head knows better

Eh Rocky got the W. Hopefully he can give Ruschel an AA

Waddell going 184 only makes sense if Andrew stayed at 197

Why did Waddell go back to 184? He was much better when he went 197 last year

Nice. Go mocs

What match? I’m at a party and only able to catch glimpses

Agree. In practice, if they tie even in a game. Both guys have push-ups because they were double losers lol

In the alumni emails Ruschell talks a lot about being “gritty” and “tough” and wrestling hard more so than creating offense. UTC is in a weird spot recruiting wise. They aren’t really appealing to most of the actual elite kids from the south. They mostly go to the ACC and around the country. They used to make a living out of getting those tough one timers/multi time placers from Indiana, PA, and Ohio. That usually would win socon or qualify. But they seem to have stopped really recruiting up north. They have a strong alumni base, so the program should be safe but not the kind that can donate Iowa, PSU, ivy money. They seem to be caught in a weird in between spot. Between not completely awful not actually good. Mediocre I guess. Hopefully they can get it on track