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It's been truly impressive. If they expanded to provide similar training opportunities across the state, I wouldn't be surprised if they had AWA type success on the national level. The AWA model spreads out the coaching talent while Valiant has an abundance of elite coaches in one location. Arizona is a huge state where a lot of wrestlers don't have the proximity to receive their coaching. I'm not that knowledgeable about Valiant, is it all essentially local kids or is it similar to Blair where kids move and live on campus?

Bruce Baumgartner never gets taken seriously in the GOAT conversation, I think he wins this hands down.

Well, we used to practice it a whole lot, but it's HS, there are some very uncoordinated guys but if you're running with the ball...what's the difference between a punch in the arm vs a helmet or anything else hitting your arms. It's cool now how a lot of players, DBs especially, but all defenders...are taking striking classes to get better at thowing punches to create fumbles. The old Peanut Tillman, Charles Woodson move is becoming far more common place.

Very. They have arguably the best coaching staff in the country.

Wow. What a loaded skwad

Mayor Baraka, whose dad went by the name Baraka (real name Leroi Jones) was a noted poet. Here’s a short example of his work: What can I say? It is better to have loved and lost Than to put linoleum in your living rooms? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/the-long-arm-of-the-law.php One of the comments: Bruno Mars tries to catch a grenade for you, while standing in his kitchen. He drops it and it explodes. Results? Linoleum Blownapart.

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I will also volunteer to do the mailbag!!

Rasoul Khadem can also be in the conversation for this as well. He had a pretty good record against one of the GOATs Makharbek Khadartsev. He got gold and bronze at the olympics and is a 2x world champ.

It's fine if you want to use a 2 year window, but I'm not sure how the 1 year window is only Jax edging out Blaze. Jax just TF'd the guy who pinned Blaze in the same tournament. In a 1 year window it's Jax ahead of Blaze and it's not him edging him out.

Fires and taking over buildings and the like. Is just. What. Mostly peacefully . Protesting. got it.

Get this through your thick skull: They did not illegally protest. That's why this is a big deal. They aren't accused of doing anything illegal. The only thing they're being accused of is supporting Palestine, which is not illegal.

Indiana- Maybe soon to be Nick Lee? Not sure I understand the question. LeRoy Vega was a HS coach of a successful team in Indiana and now coaches at Purdue. Chad Red is at IU, Angel Escobedo, Joe Dubuque

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The question was meant to be more hypothetical than practical. Jake Swartz is coaching at Notre Dame College currently. I'm not surprised to hear that about Kaylor. He bounced around to a lot of clubs when he was about schoolboy age and a club I coached at was one of them. I'd have him demonstrate a gut wrench because even at that age it was textbook. He was a great kid from my interactions with him.

But did you include Synchronized Swimming in those numbers? That kind of skews the results don't ya think?

Would you mind if I turned this into an article for my twitter? I would give credit and link to here! Let me know, this was a good read

You would think at this volume most the errors would work themselves out, maybe? I agree there are 100% errors in the data but this is all we have and there is no incentive to self report higher or lower so you can probably assume all the errors come out in the wash.

Chase Pami is doing a great job in Nevada with Gold Rush Wreetling Academy.

What Larkin is doing at Valiant is impressive.

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If Mangrum isn’t even coaching I don’t see how he is even a possibility to establish clubs to produce more D1 level guys in Washington. Are the Swartz still even coaching? I know Brad just competed at masters again. If you are looking at young guys I would go with Brandon Kaylor. He is the head coach at the Beaver kids RTC. He is great with younger kids. He is also doing some coaching and working out at OSU