Hammerlock3

if you polled the fans I feel like he'd be a narrow favorite. His negatives would definitely poll very low.

Just kidding, couldn't resist the chance to play Cinnabon.

I'll try to say a lot quickly, NIL is fine, the portal is bad. If you agree to take scholarship money and decide you want to go elsewhere you should lose a year of eligibility. Its not abuse to expect someone to live up to an agreement. The macro of why its bad is because talent doesn't distribute itself on a bell curve it distributes itself on a pareto distribution, where whatever the currency in question is floods to the top of the spectrum like money in monopoly. In the context of the economy its counterproductive to fight this effect, but in the context of NCAA wrestling talent the effect should be mitigated wherever possible. The portal is a causing talent to flow to ever smaller spaces, its destroying the incentive of smaller schools to do a good job, and its making actual coaching and the art of wrestling itself less important than how much money you can grub. The sleazier you are in this environment the better, thats why guys like dresser and ryan have already started trying to pretend they're the good guys in this scenario.

itd be ironic if tulane started a program

Ryan has some serious michael scott vibes...mixed with mike pence and the guy james woods played in casino.

i'd summarize as: Pyles said nothing, Ryan took the opportunity to posture as morally superior (inspired by dresser no doubt), and then they took the chance to sit around and not talk about it.

how about the fact that at no time in this boring interview no one bothered pointing out that the portal in itself is a bad thing.

didn't he commit to cornell first? or his brother goes there or something?

trying to stay contructive but yeah he drives me nuts. They start talking about portal stuff and his first move, which is very much anti-college wrestling, is to start playing down the idea that coaches are actually cheating or being unethical, then he walks it back by saying the obvious "but sometimes people cheat", and it takes 5 minutes to get those nothing ideas out....

I would have gone, "I don't always lose, but when i do IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS TO THAT M******F***** KYLE DAKE AND WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS THAT I HAVE TO PRETEND WE'RE FRIENDS UNTIL I BEAT HIM!"

thats a whole genre "I don't always insult religious figures, but when I do it's on ESPN while tripping on serotonin."

More of a freestyle thing... "I don't always drag the action out it bounds, but when I do its by tapping the hardwood with my pinky after a long useless pause with a bored look on my face."

"I don't always get poked in the eye, but when I do I immediately abandon all semblance of toughness and freak out."

money liking jerk....

its an individual sport. You can't hold Walter Johnson responsible for the Senators being terrible, you can hold him responsible for howmany people he struck out. Hey sorry i somehow just saw you made this point, but i think its pivotal. Maybe I could ask this to clarify, what is Fix great at?

don't people normally get jobs before selling their house? Guess the announcement could be imminent.

if i took that view I'd be leaning towards devil worship.

I'm trying to wonder how i would feel if he showed up, won, and ran through the olympics.

Even children who encounter one form of wrestling or the other for the first time know they are completely different. There is no competition between the two.

yeah what is he talking about.

The huge factor no one mentions is the difference between being a club coach and even a diligent highschool coach, let alone college. If Askren wants to be engrossed in wrestling and really in the thick of a competitive enterprise, a college position is where its at.

I know you can't see that he liked it based on that image, but that should enough info to confirm if you want. @nhs67

he "liked" a tweet asking him when he's taking over at wisconsin.

does retherford have plans post olympics?

ok i can play that game too. PSU is playing by its own rules, should be stripped of all trophies.