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I don’t think Taghavi really acts as a weight class coach for the lightweights in the national team. You can kinda tell from what Ehsan Lashgari said after leaving the coaching staff - he said not only were they completely left out of the decision-making process, but they weren’t even informed about the head coach’s plans, let alone being consulted. Sure, Lashgari was brought in by Kaveh, but I don’t see any difference between Kaveh and Dorostkar in that regard. A real weight class coach should analyze the main rivals and focus entirely on them and his own guy. Taghavi, to me, seems more like a training coach than a tactical one. That said, I do agree with a lot of your points overall. Actually, just today I was thinking - it might not be a bad idea for the federation to start a college-style league in Iran and organize dual meets between Iran and the U.S. Like, have Tehran’s team wrestle a team from one of the U.S. states. They could invite American college teams to come to Iran. It’d be exciting for fans, and it might have some positive side effects beyond wrestling too...

I think they will also struggle to field a competitive greco team too in the near future unfortunately. Without Mijain Lopez their team is very weak tbh. I don't think Rosillo, Pino or Orta are going to be world championship contenders anymore in their respective weight classes and they don't have any promising new crop coming in either.

I wish they didn't have Dorostkar as the head coach. Why can't Dabir just let his ego go and pick Reza Yazdani as the head coach of the national team? Our biggest problem in freestyle is the stubbornness of the top brass as opposed to investment and talent. If Reza Yazdani was the head coach of this team I am very confident we would have won at least 2 of the finals in Paris last year. Dorostkar isn't qualified to be the head coach of Iran's junior guys let alone our senior team.

Hmmm... interesting. Let's go through this... If South Korea had attacked North Korea by crossing the border at multiple locations, killing thousands of NK's in ambushes and taking a couple thousand or so NK's back to SK as hostages for protection/negotiation. I would certainly expect NK to retaliate. They rightly should. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who thinks NK wouldn't or shouldn't retaliate needs their head examined. If NK retaliates with zeal - that should not be judged by outsiders. This is a personal conflict between countries with a deep past. In fighting fire with fire, things will very likely get out of hand one way or another. This was the gamble SK took to begin with - there was no guarantee they would be successful, or that a counter offensive wouldn't be swift and merciless. Now here we sit. NK's counter was swift, merciless, and even more powerful than anyone expected. SK still has the hostages they've kidnapped and continue to refuse to release them - even though the position they've chosen leaves them with the people of their country starving to death. Can the starvation be ended - yes, to at least some degree, by releasing the hostages. Can the conflict be ended - yes, to at least some degree, by releasing the hostages. But the conflict still continues? - yes, because SK refuses to release the hostages. If SK were to release all the hostages? - that would be a step toward the resolution and end of the conflict. I'm unconvinced that if NK had done something like this, that it would be any different than it is right now. The "atrocity" is far more about what was done on 10/7 and the currently unreleased hostages than the response to both these things. The response was swift, powerful, merciless, and unending. If I were a hostage, that is exactly what I would want. If I were a hostage's family member, it is exactly what I would demand. If I were either, I'd expect nothing less.

You seem to be solidly locked into your chosen political party over what's good for the people of this country. Everything about you as a poster sucks donkey dick... but at least you have conviction. The donkeys appreciate that.

JimmySpanks posting from Spanks HQ - aka his trailer park.

Yes, it's a shame Cuba's freestyle program is completely dead. They sent a 40 year old Garzan to the olympics last year. They must have cut what little funding they had to it.

Same place as now... nowhere to be seen. I neither whine nor act as a malcontent. I'm merely a rational person who applies logic to reality. Then again, rational logic does seem to seriously rattle you. You should try it. It'd be a better path.

I don't think folk gives them an edge. I think, like us, they just have a lot of wrestlers and going off olympic medal counts they also produce the best athletes in the world. I mean we are talking about USA but they flopped in the Olympics also for mens freestyle. We flopped too with that ridiculous 3 silvers but not as bad as them. I think Iran's main problem is winning olympic freestyle golds. We have 3 olympic champs since 2000. 1 of those was due to half his weight class failing the drug test. We are now at back to back olympics with no freestyle gold. That is really, really bad for a country that considers itself a major wrestling country. I don't like Dorostkar either. Guy randomly resigns a year prior to the Olympics then randomly comes back the year after. But it's not all his fault. As for the coaches, we have weight class coaches, Taghavi is is the coach for the lighter weights for example but yes they work under the federation and head coach. Difference is in the USA they mostly train at their own wrestling clubs with their own coaches for the majority of their preparation whereas in Iran they all train at the national camp almost year round. You can't take that system and put it in Iran because while the national camp is certainly an impressive facility, we only have one of those. They have comparable facilities throughout the country. As for wearing guys out, not all their guys are like that. We currently have and have in the past had guys like that too. Zare wears guys out. Firouzpour wears guys out and will likely be a world champ this year even though he has a terrible style of wrestling. In contrast their 86 this year struggles to wrestle 6 minutes. I think that is more to do with the individual athlete.

You gave it away in your first sentence. Trump projects constantly. If you ever want to know what he's doing, just look at what he's accusing others of doing... and you'll immediately know what he's doing. Trumpsters think he's getting away with it, but he isn't. His 80-something mush brain fools none of his opponents or adversaries. He's a decrepit senile fat old orange man who offers nothing to our country, just his intent to grift and personally profit. His followers are blinded by some preconceived ideas they have and don't see how obvious it is. Now, YOU, on the other hand. Are obvious to everyone. You are bipolar and are projecting that onto me. You are one crazy biatch... but only about half the time. I'm pretty much done arguing with your crazy, and gambling about it being on your bi-good days or bi-bad days. You be you. Best of luck to you. Just leave me out of your future crazy.

It's like Biden chose to withdraw from the election for his own reasons and chose to endorse Kamala Harris. Harris had no competition. So, she became the Democratic candidate. It really was as simple as that. (But keep on with conspiracy theories... you tools love that garbage.)

It’s like people that back a party that lied for an entire term until they couldn’t any longer. Then they thru the weekend at Bernie’s president out with the trash and appointed a replacement without people having any say. But they’re all telling the truth.

Is he not technically in the portal anymore?

Hopefully whoever told Sammy Alvarez he could get another year isn’t giving Gabe any advice about this

Its like people believe that a convicted felon, racist, and shady businessman who has cheated on all of his spouses and doesn't release his taxes is somehow telling the truth.

from what it sounds like he was working out there and was likely to end up there, but as of now, he is not officially enrolled

A few will likely grow but I don't see any getting bigger than 174, so likely just growing from one crowded weight into another crowded weight.

I don't think guys leaving will ultimately effect OSU much. They will each likely give it 2 or 3 years of attempting to make the starting line-up and transfer for their last year or two of eligibility if that's what they want to do. The guys on the roster will still have plenty of training partners on the college roster and with the cowboy RTC to where training shouldn't take a hit. OKST will massively benefit from all of these guys knowing that their spot isn't guaranteed and knowing they can't take a day, or a match off.

not as good as the samuel L black snake moan gif but right up there.

Nah

There's probably some growing boys in that group though don't ya think?

Guerrero has the bloodline though.

Pan am's at the age level has largely turned into US vs other US guys that are representing Brazil or PR so often times they are matches that have occurred multiple times already in folkstyle.

the kid from ukraine I believe is a 2 or 3 time euro finalist and now a 2 time u17 medalist probably one of the best guys there. Iran has a shot at 71 James is one of americas best guys for sure but the Tajikistan guy was really really good that iran beat.

I think the way Americans train in folkstyle gives them an edge that carries over into freestyle. Folkstyle just has way more constant engagement - there’s way less downtime where you can just stand around and wait or handfight endlessly. So they grow up learning to wrestle non-stop, and that kind of pace wears our guys out. Also, this whole “one coach makes all the calls for every weight” approach is outdated - especially at the senior level. They’re spending millions, so clearly there’s money. Why not bring in specialized coaches for each weight?