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Why is @Jimmy Cinnabon making a thread passing his own feelings off as those of “wrestling fans”….

I’m kind of astonished to hear this. He sounded rather done with the sport when they interviews him after world team trials. Can’t blame him, 99% of wrestlers end their careers that way.

Once we resign ourselves to the fact this is a solidly tier-2 or lower program, this will stop being interesting.

Coaches come in different types, disciplinarians, older brothers/uncles, hands off “that’s his problem” businessmen coaches, and coaches constantly patching up and covering up for their athletes when they do dumb stuff. The best wrestler to come out of ASU in the past couple decades has a documented baking soda problem. So much so that the AD took action, instead of the Head Coach himself. This is an AD at a school which often contends for the title of the biggest party school in the country. The bar for “moving the needle” on remarkable behavior is very high at ASU. There is no way you can be a coach and not know about things like “illicit habits” about your athletes. Dudes on the team just talk too much, you spend too much time together, especially when it is your program’s star athlete. Those relationships are 10x closer than with the backups. For an AD to step in and do something, making the announcement, etc. instead of Zeke, is a reflection of a dynamic that is a coach trying to protect his best kid in the short term (for personal gain), rather than help him in the long term. Both in High School and college I had coaches who would bend over backwards to patch up, humor, or cater to the “favorite son” on the team. It ruined team chemistry, and ultimately was pretty bad for the wrestler too.

Michigan and Ohio State have what it takes department-wise, but with the way things are heading, they will have a hard time standing out in coming years. Double the available slots to get access to the most modern “formula” is going to pull a ton of talent from the collective pool. I would expect that Cael may see more places show up and try to poach, bc before it was “yeah they’re penn state, what’re ya gonna do?” Now with more than one program with that playbook, scrutiny is going to go up a lot on tier 1B coaches, especially since they now see that they can in fact crack the safe and get people to leave. It’s amazing the speed of evolution on the coaching side.

This is amazing for Zain. He slayed so many demons today.

Especially in the NIL era. AA-ing is worth a few hundred grand. That’s fat stacks and no kid is going to pass that up. But even before NIL, nobody has ever questioned whether sauce was an integral part of football from D1 on up, yet somehow we just get magically blind and deaf when it comes to US wrestlers. It’s our sport’s version of believing in Santa Claus.

I mean when someone starts tapdancing this hard or peculiarly about adhd meds, it is because the ice is thinner than anybody actually knew. Also, skeptical eye detective finds it odd that said tapdancing is also on the dude with the most built body at all of NCAA’s. Taylor made the same Calavita special bump(hence that killer two car garage hairline), hard to believe he’s the only one. Our primary flaw as american fans is our complete lack of relative perspective. Yes, those big bad eastern europeans and russians would gladly juice to the gills, but our homegrown farm boys get ‘em with patriotism and hard work. [brought to you by NikeKelloggAdidasMorganStanleyMercedesRolexAsicsandNBC]

If I were Trent Hidlay and I was hearing this, I’d really have some strong feelings and questions about what exactly this dude who has been the ceiling to his career has been doing chemically for the past 6+ years. Jesus is great, especially when he gives you that yam-derivative jesus juice.

I was just about to ask “wtf?!” Steiber getting 1/3rd of what bo jordan is getting seemed a tad insane to me unless he is never in the room. Also, goddamn, good for Ohio State assistant coaches.

For any of you that ever had the terrible privilege of getting the funk from a match or tournament, that is worth every window you can possibly throw in. Everybody knows to stay away from the kid with the tube of Lamisil. Most wrestling mat funk (I’m not going to say all bc I am not a microbiologist) gets killed by UV rays, hence those neon deals they push around the mats at nationals.

Cael will keep this open until after the Olympics, then offer it to Dake, in the slyest move ever, limiting the options of the new #2 team in the country.

Oooooh, well that also changes the entire face of him coming in at Okie State too, old head coach throwing him a bone more like.

Oh dude……f*ing yikes. The ol’ “your pocket…now my pocket!” is a great way to get passed over for a coaching job. That sort of thing could be persuasive enough to convince a longstanding coach to retire too.

yeah please, little spark notes action would be great here