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Your data is stark and sad. I do not understand the reasoning for the free covid year. Not impacting eligibility. What was the logic? Can someone remind me? Seems poorly thought through.

or be "injured"

What about Ruiz from Cornell? Not counting due to Grey shirt?

I gotcha. It used to be extremely common, but happens very rarely anymore, RTC’s, clubs, NIL, low pay with restrictive contracts, and the “entertainment” driven nature of the UFC, storylines over straight competition, has collectively put a pretty big cap on the amount of wrestlers going to that organization anymore. The growth of BJJ as an independent entity has started to draw wrestlers straight from college as well. Lastly, in the current era of UFC, you have to be a clown to get fights. The UFC only understands the mcgregor model or the khabib mountain samurai model of storytelling, so if a fighter doesn’t fit into one of those two categories, they don’t get any traction within the promotion. Hence everyone dying their hair and giving ridiculous interviews after their fights.

OK, now I took the time. In the last ten tournaments only twice has there been a single true freshman AA. Lilledahl this year and Hamiti in 2022. In 2024 there were 6 true freshman AA's (the most) while the rest of the years had between 2 and 4. Shout out to @cowcards for making this so easy to find (https://wrestling.guru/college-men/ncaa-d1/ncaa-d1-database/)

I’m specifically curious about D1 to UFC, so that’s why my question was phrased the way it was.

I'm a formerly obese ref who has been running marathons the past 7 or so years. I was way more sore the day after a tournament when obese. Like almost unable to move for a couple days. It sucks to be fat.

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I'm no expert, but I do listen to the experts. A lot of what I heard was: - Bo hasn't evolved enough to be a real threat to strike with good guys or submit them - Bo needs to mix in at least the threat of the takedown - Bo needs to be willing and able to use his wrestling when needed. - Bo was too easily bothered by some of the weaker shots he was taking - DC and Chael appeared to question Bo's toughness and willingness to FIGHT when things got tough for him on Saturday. DC brought up Mark Ellis who trained with AKA and gave up after one MMA fight, bc he realized that he wasn't mentally cut out for it.

Many doctors are chubby nerds.

I'm more interested in others with no chance; Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie. Less intervention...

Always wondered why so many Physical Education teachers and sports coaches were lardbutts? They were pushing physical conditioning yet many couldn't even bend over enough to tie their own shoes.