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I cant stand Pyles talking videos. They need to include the relevant thumbnail of him just sitting there so I know to avoid them.

I might need to watch the Burroughs / Dake FRL where they go out (and Dake whines about the sitting out process) in anticipation for this event. Seems all the young guns are dropping out so chances of one of them getting taken out unexpectedly is more and more slim.

100% before, it's already started on Twitter / X hahaha.

PD3 vs Starocci should be gold. Cannot wait

But Steven Seagal would likely mop the floor with John Smith. I've seen him absolutely wreck martial arts legends with little to no effort.

Not to mention his "piss on his grave" comment for the finals. Pretty distasteful and just trashy trash talk.

Vince Bouzakis to Ohio State, confirmed this morning.

He did say we can get it Poppin as in Poppin a boner.

Ouch. Both him and Carr are out? That's such a bummer.

They think they're grooming / brainwashing children into become drag queens or transgender.

Regardless of how you or Brandon Slay feel about the situation, it's still stupid of him to post about it on Twitter. He was hired to run the RTC, not to be the guy in the room who thinks he's speaking the hard truths and stirring up controversy.

Yeah no kidding, especially with universities obviously siding with being inclusive and supporting more left leaning LGBTQ views. His tweets were shared by a few big names in the sport ridiculing them. Not a smart move to post things like that publicly, but isn't he just the RTC coach?

To be fair, a lot of people will care if he wrestles for Penn State next year. On another note, Carter finally responded to JB and said the reason he isn't making weight is because his shaft grew. I'm not even sure what that means.

If true, that's a major bummer.

I took it the same way. Pyles likes to twist arguments and toe the line so that he's technically not wrong, while making provocative / bold statements online for engagement. Ryan was wrong about his statement that "McKenna and Tate were NIL era" but the rest of his stuff seemed factual. I think his main point is that Pyles tweeting that Ohio State is going after these guys could stir up rumors in the room (oh shit, did he go after Cardenas too?) and degrade his culture. Overall, kind of a nothing-burger from both sides.

Interestingggg

Looks like he transferred in 2017, portal began in 2018.

Ahh, I see that now. 1 minute prior to OK State's announcement. So he might've gotten word of the retirement.

Great question. Maybe there's a game of thrones being played for the position. I agree with Jimmy C, should be Coleman's position.

His point is the NIL era is significantly different than the era when they had to recruit utilizing the 9.9 scholarships allocated, which all of his transfers came in during that time, including McKenna. McKenna took over a portion of that 9.9, whereas the recruits now can simply be given a bag of cash from boosters. They haven't picked up a portal guy in the NIL era where the 9.9 essentially becomes unlimited if you have the funds. Pyles was comparing apples and oranges. I did think it was a good discussion though.

Coleman Scott named "interim coach". Interesting. Willie is reporting rumors that the coaching staff is "running amok".

WHATTTTTTTTT

Pyles and Askren talked about this on FRL for a couple minutes, Ben claims that he was in Madison to "buy some sweatshirts from the team shop". He obviously wasn't willing to answer it, so Ben definitely met with somebody on staff there.

Overall, pretty damn close aside from the gut Dake got on him. Also, Dake would be so much more likeable if he didn't have all those petty antics for the ref (i.e. acting like Chamizo pulled his fingers off, stopping wrestling and looking over at the ref). Still love the Dake bombs tho.

Does he seriously shower with him? Weird.