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Gob once again thoroughly smacked.... Is yianni hurt or is mendez really that good?

They totally hit Bartlett with the “you have college left, and you get NIL, this is Joey’s job” call reversal.

Yeah, this is a 2008 three 2-minute periods “pick the ball in the bag” for the overtime leg clinch level of dumb idea.

Peacock channeling their best flowrestling quality broadcast.

Spencer is the real deal, his knees, however, no longer are. He and austin gomez live in the same category in my head. They have all the skill they need to win an olympic finals match. But they both are one weird shot or a leg lace away from injury defaulting out of the tournament.

This absolutely made my day. This is a very high quality thread....the truest spirit of this place.

You have me imagining john smith in all of clint eastwood's best cowboy roles...and I gotta say, it's not a bad look

4 is the odds on number. Any less would actually be a disappointment for the club. Which 4 it winds up being is up in the air, but I think 4 is not an unreasonable number. Once again crazy that competition coming from within that room at many weights is more difficult than it is coming from the rest of the country.

I yelled this same thing in my own head when I saw this bracket structure…just lazily constructed.

I know about the first one, what happened to these dudes? Did they all just decide to run that zoo?

Higher Ed is a mess...and as politically driven as any "industry" that exists...competing with politics itself. AD's have near zero accountability within an organization, and institutional opacity is tremendous. In poorly run organizations, athletic departments are basically unchecked fiefdoms at small D1 schools like ODU. I love what they best programs are able to provide to the sport, but they smaller programs very much live and die at the whim of random administrators, hence the sports collective distrust of Stanford as an institution.

Oh yeah...sorry I was not meaning to imply any similarity whatsoever in terms of personal character

We’re in a very weird place when I don’t know if a comment is more appropriate for PD3 or J’den.

Straight spitting bars

That was quite an evening...that was the week we were reminded that USAW has suits.

Don't go too far down this rabbit hole...from what I gather, the North Face tried to do some moral boasting with a donation to a particular organization...and is now trying to manage its perception within the LGBTetc community by making another donation to an organization with a different mission. They stuck their right foot in with a donation to one place...then tried to course correct and got their second foot stuck...now they are fully in it.

Ah, thank you, that both explains it and…explains…it. Well, goddamnit that the best women’s club is closing, and goddamnit that such an environment was allowed to exist or continue within that club. Hopefully they go and and stuff Park Merry in some paper pushing admin position far far away from rising athletes with hopes dreams and trusting hearts.

I’m not going to lie, when I saw this thread title my first thought was “dang, that still exists?” Kinda like hearing that somebody’s brother finally decided to sell their old rusty early 90’s saab they had parked out back for two decades.

While absolutely clown status, PD3 is a former world team member, the dude is not a bad wrestler. Now, nobody in the world knows what he's been up to for who knows how long, but the dude is indeed a legit wrestler. Starocci, equally a legit wrestler. The idea of calling a 4x champ pathetic after winning the title in a stacked weight class on one knee is also...gently silly.

I would not be surprised to see 'ringer, Hall, and Marstellar call it a career at trials. Hall hasn't really been that into it since his senior year of college, 'ringer is a 'tweener in the most brutal sense, same with marstellar. They are both very good, but neither of them has the frame or the style to be consistently making teams and succeeding. Downey will probably be done after this, but he lives in his own world, and I don't think he would view a "shoes on the mat" exit as a reasonable thing to do.

There are definitely layers to this thought process. I am clearly still new to the "chess not checkers" level of coaching movement analysis.

This is a great point. No matter how hard they may try, NYC proper is not a hub for wrestling, which is kind of astonishing considering how much north jersey and bergen county are. Letting go of a head coach position would be a pretty sizable step down in career path though, especially since he was at the helm for bringing a kid to AA status while swimming upstream running a program in Manhattan.

This is an incredible point, I had not even thought of that. But you are right, UCLA and USC should have nearly entirely mongolian and japanese teams. They would clean up.

I don't always tape my wrists and ankles, but when I do, I also pull the drawstring on my hoodie real tight. I don't always sweat in buckets from my wrists, waist, and ankles, but when I do, I make sure no opposing coaches are anywhere nearby.

They used to be super legit back in the day, what the heck happened?