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On that note, ASU currently has 10 heavyweights.

You insert our best athletes to focus on the sport, the potential ceiling is raised. How is that not what I was trying to get towards? How would you do it? How would you promote we get better? We have had at least two great prospects that decided to forgo college wrestling to focus on it the last ~ten years(Bey and Hancock). Bey continues to show raw flashes of pure awesomeness... but underperforms. When do we accept that he isn't underperforming, he is performing to his developed peak? Hancock? He decided the support and coaching wasn't there so he completely left the sport. He saw the writing on the wall. Those two focused on only MGR after high school and both would have likely had rather stellar careers if they had gone the D1 route. I don't see how their ceilings could, or would, have been any lower than they already have been (1 medal between the two of them).

If it was going to happen, I think it already would have. If they do then we can talk, but until then they are all stretching the truth.

Maybe should have happened $2 billion ago in damage.

I understand that multiple means more than 1, but not necessarily all. Whether is slanted or not really depends on the feeling of all the executives at the meeting, which I don't think has been made public. The point I was making was more related to the fact that some portion of the executives in the meeting took it as a threat. I don't think you cutting losses theory makes much sense. It is not likely that ABC will save money directly by terminating his contract. His contract is up in 2026 so there isn't much to pay on it. Also they will likely have to pay this contract regardless. Litigation to prevent paying the contract will likely be time consuming and expensive. Executives in that meeting will likely have to answer questions about it and the fact that multiple executives didn't think he did anything wrong won't be a fact in ABC's favour. They will likely reach a settlement paying at or near the full contract value in part to avoid that discovery. Cancelling also creates immediate logistical issues. They have to fill that timeslot on short notice and whatever they throw in there would like bring in less revenue. Though Kimmel's ratings were down he was still #2 in the timeslot. To get a similar audience at that time they will have to spend some money. It is clear that the executives were either reacting to disapproval from the public or the Trump administration. The FCC chairs inappropriate comments at best only obfuscate that.

Wow Kasak has really bulked up. Crazy how he started his college career at 141

@lisa morales do you think I should be taken off the air?

Well now that Joy Reid is off the air.

Well, actually that's not what you said....what you said was: When I heard Dean and some other prominent D1 guys might decide to go the Greco route years back, I was excited to see how we could improve. But I'm not trying to get into a little whiny pissing match about it, was just looking for clarification. You are free to perceive that how you'd like. Carry on.

No one was worried when the Obama’s called Bob iger and had Roseanne fired.

Maybe the threat they were worried about was consumer boycott or further diminished ratings; a Bud Light type loss of revenues?

He was supposed to do a dual, but I don't remember if he actually did it (he was injured at the time, iirc).

...my kitty. Bridgett Macron going all in.

I never said that. What I said was I wish our Tier 1 athletes, the ones with the most success at our American Folkstyle, would focus on Greco. The reasoning is because what we have now is not working. If you are okay with getting zero medals and not even getting the chance to compete for medals (because we don't/aren't), then your opinion on the matters very little.

Yes, she knows her rights.

Those tone deaf words are not a surprise given the previous inaction of the execs.

Is this where reporting is dubious? if for example 10 execs. All 10 said he did nothing wrong. It would be reported every exec felt he did nothing wrong. if some fraction less than 10. For argument sake let’s say 2. It could be reported multiple execs said they felt he did nothing wrong. all the while. Understand you’re only getting the spin they want you to get anyhow. His contract was up shortly. They could have been looking for any reason to terminate him and cut losses. Easier that way than to just cancel. Corporate America can be cruel.

That would classify as very limited success haha

I like Chanley Painter and Carley Shimkus.

Is her father a lawyer, too?

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/average-retirement-savings Balances are growing.

58 dems voted against a bill to condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk

That isn't the order things have been reported to the public. The order was FCC Chair's podcast appearance->Affiliates announce their decision->ABC suspends Kimmel. Rolling Stone also reported of an emergency meeting with executives from Disney, ABC, and ABC affiliates where multiple executives felt Kimmel did not cross the line, but the threat of retaliation was a factor. "In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed. 'They were pissing themselves all day,' one ABC insider tells Rolling Stone." So whether you or I think it's a threat or USA Today simply thinks it sounded like a threat, it is more important that executives at ABC, Disney, and its affiliates took it as a threat. There is a good chance any FCC enforcement action against ABC/affiliates based on Jimmy Kimmel's comments would ultimately fail, as many of this administration's enforcement actions have, but it would still be costly and time consuming to fight. Blocking Nexstar's pending merger wouldn't even be an enforcement action and could be more costly than any fine or contesting one. The merger would make Nexstar the largest broadcast affiliate capable of reaching 80% of US households. Nexstar wants the merger to go through and what happened is problematic whether the FCC chair's comments were seen as a threat to the deal or Nexstar took the action preemptively to try and ingratiate itself with the administration to grease the wheels and allow a merger that might not be in the public interest through.

I think he did one dual?

Didn't Dake when he was struggling to make a world team in freestyle make a run at Greco one year to little success?