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Hey Vak please share how you felt when you started your thread 3 hours ago. I bet that was exhilarating when you first learned of this, huh. Iowa has been taken it hard here for a few weeks so this is now your opportunity. Of course JC is gonna chime in.

Which finals opponent of his are you discarding?

Heating oil needed in Sri Lanka? I find that suspect. It's a tropical climate. Maybe 80F is cold there, who knows. mspart

“Penn State police were unable to contact Starocci over the course of the nearly six month investigation, Beau said. Since they couldn’t get an admission of guilt from Starocci, the case was closed and referred to student conduct.” says nothing about what protocol was used to try and contact CStar

what does your semester final, however many years ago, have to do with the price of tea in china and why no one cares?

I understand what you are saying, but this is why we send kids to school. Very few students in school feel that education has intrinsic value, but it does. Knowing basic facts about the world always has intrinsic value. The schools are not doing the job they are there to do. mspart

Read the article, bro

Not a fan of either entity (police or CStar) but are they not able to make physical contact to try and get the admitting of guilt?

I noticed Basch didn't make an infographic yet so I thought I'd help him out

They said they could only take action if he admitted it because there was no actual evidence that he stole anything. They reviewed the security camera footage and he was never seen with the allegedly stolen items. Seems pretty logical to me.

No one should be eligible for 5 seasons in college. Or else everyone should be eligible. I count him as a 4 timer, not a 5 timer. mspart

So I guess you won't be posting here any more? Cya.

That’s Tampon Tim’s MO. When his National Guard unit was set to deploy, he bailed.

Uh, I'm not... I despise the guy. Did you read the article? It literally said the police could only take action if he admitted to the theft. That's ludicrous. Almost as ludicrous as you coming at me over my criticism of the police protocol.

Rudis is so happy it wasn’t another one of their guys in the drama this time lol

You just make any thread you respond to 27% more stupid.

You were never a whore!

Jimmy my man, I'm not here to tell you who to root for, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions based on a very small amount of evidence. Not every miscreant is a Jerry Sandusky, and not every coach/admint response that doesn't rectify it a Curley/Paterno. It looks bad for Starocci, as I see no reason for Beau to lie. But remember, a lot of these other allegations are anonymous, and most have never been reported to police (or PSU). In any case, one bad apple does not mean the whole tree is rotten. As I wrote earlier, there's a lot of open questions about what the coaches knew and what was reported to them. There's no indication that anyone complained about his behavior toward women or, importantly, his in-practice conduct. If they were, those are game changers, but no one is saying that. As to the theft, I'm not sure what a coach can do besides point Beau to the police, as they aren't detectives. Once reported to police, it is not appropriate for coaches to intervene. The photo of Beau while naked is the most serious of the allegations that are said to have been reported to coaches. But even there, there's much we don't know. Beau was naked, but did the photo itself show his privates? If it did, was it immediately deleted? If not, was it among those posted to a group chat? When reported, did the coaches (a) ignore it, (b) discipline Starocci, but short of booting him, (c) report it up the chain, and they did nothing? Even if an AD dropped the ball, were the coaches willfully ignorant about what they knew to be serious (as they were aware of other perverted conduct), or did they understand this to be low-grade misconduct? I can see scenarios where there is culpability on the part of the coach it was reported to, but I also can see scenarios where it was handled properly. If you want to take the position that "if a student-athlete ever takes a locker photo of a naked teammate, they should be immediately kicked off the team, no questions asked," you can. In the aftermath of this, I suspect some will take exactly that position. But it strikes me as extreme, as misconduct like this is highly fact-specific. Taking a picture as a gag and promptly deleting it after a laugh is far less culpable than posting a pic of his wang on a group chat, there's the related question whether it's a joke gone awry or more vindictive (as Beau sees it). From our vantage point, it's the other reports of misconduct that makes the photo so problematic, but it isn't clear the coaches had the benefit of that lens. To be clear, I'm not trying to make excuses. I'll be at the front of the line calling for resignations/firings if there's facts showing real culpability. But I loathe snap judgments based on one-sided ambiguity-laden reporting. Let the facts come out before making judgments based on facts you don't have. I'd join you in calling for an investigation, but not for calling for anyone's head at this juncture.

"BTW Cael (pronounced almost like Kyle) had my guy Carter on a training regimenT that had him winning VERSE anybody in collegIANT wrestling. This is a nothingburger of the highest caliPER. BTW did I tell you that Carter is my guy?" - Some of my favorite Baschisms

Why are you even remotely defending his actions? He knew they were looking for him and did nothing to help

Why's he stealing shoes? That's gross and probably not even the right size. Probably doing that just to be a dick and screw with Bartlett cause there's no benefit to him with taking someone else's smelly, too-small shoe.

They are scared. Really bad timing considering what just happened with KS. Also really bad that it’s a NLWC athlete…again. And don’t give me that he wasn’t signed BS either

They checked the football stadium, soccer field, basketball court, volleyball gym, track & field. There was literally nowhere else to look.

4.5 hours since the article came out and all the major wrestling media members are so quiet that you could hear a mouse fart

I think it is a good idea if matches are competitive. Otherwise, they would just be hosting matches that only freestyle nerds care about. The average wrestling fan (college only) and casual MMA fans won't care as much about the current freestyle matchups (which they can see at worlds/WTT anyway)