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You're getting at relativity, which is fine. But if we're going to make relative arguments, my view is that although compared to the field, Spencer is a good scrambler, it's probably his weakest skill. He is an absolute beast at muscling guys around and putting them off balance and then taking them down on his feet, and he is a killing machine on top. Those are dominant skills that he is the best at by far. In scrambles, however, his opponents have had far more luck in getting into winning positions and tagging him with his very rare losses.

Compared to other big budget sports, elite wrestlers and coaches are shielded from answering tough questions. Imagine if the Snyder situation was basketball, or Bassett was the number 1 football recruit. In these sports, the coach and those around the program would be pressured constantly to make a comment. Instead we live in a world where Snyder was shielded from the media at Final X and Cael never had to go on record about it. While the situation has improved in recent years with FLO and other outlets, sports journalists are still too scared of having access to top programs cut off. Fans and supporters are left to follow social media rumors and debate via chatrooms without fact checking. What would it take to have a better wrestling media other than money?

Scroogie must be in the waiting room. Again.

Yeah, 95 to 106 is 11 pounds. I know that Math can get difficult, but...not 9 pounds. And that's over 10% of his body weight. That's a BIG difference. That's a 150 having to Wrestle ~170. You asked me on another thread why I cared so much about a cease-fire. Why do YOU care so much about a kid being held back a year so he's ready to compete or MORE ready to compete given everything that's at stake for some of these kids? Live changing NIL money. Just 200K at 19 years old is tens of millions if invested right by retirement age. You have an odd metric for "deplorable."

I'm surprised the ones who got this wrong haven't yet put out an eye trying to use a fork.

Um, OK, not sure what you're asking, but sure, do linemen.

You were part of a thread in which I was literally arguing they should have used more MOPs if they were not certain they could stop and completely destroy Iran nuclear facilities with this strike. So again, you have to be...just comically stupid or asking this question as a precursor to another question. There's not a chance this is a sincere question. So just get to it already. This is like the 5th time you've asked something I've addressed probably 20-25 times, including in conversations WITH YOU.

It sounds like you've decided what you want the facts to be, and have your heels dug in. I've cited several studies and articles, you've cited none, and refuse to. Just saying "gee that sounds wrong" isn't persuasive. Yes, there's a lot more research out there. If you're genuinely curious, I suggest jstor.org, though an AI engine can help too. If you find anything saying there's no racial disparity in NIL, I'll gladly eat my shorts. As for the current NIL "money leaders", you're just throwing it out there without analyzing it for racial disparity. So what's your point? Are we to take your word for it that it reflects no racial disparity, without any cite or analysis at all? I don't see how it helps you anyway. Your SI list has the 4 top earners all being white. Disparity? In the On3 list, out of the top 10, nine are football players -- and of those 9, 6 are white and 3 are black, despite black players being over 50% of top NCAA football programs. Disparity? And did those 6 white players "earn" it on merit -- that is, are they among the 9 best football players overall? Not according to an On3 video which has 8 of 9 of the top players being black (here). (Where are the other guys in the NIL list? Waaaaay down.) Or compare the racial composition of SI's "top 20" list (here) with the top 20 NIL earners from On3. See the racial difference? I don't doubt that the white QBs have more social media follows which helps explain the racial disparity, but it's still a racial disparity. White athletes, on average, get more follows. Does anyone seriously think Livvy Dunne would have as many follows as she does, and $4M+/year in NIL, if she had the same skill set and personality but were LaTanya Dunne (i.e. black)? You know the answer. It's a racial disparity. I don't know why you're fighting me on this. It seems like you're trying really hard to resist facts that you must know to be true.

Read the thread. Read the last 2-3 pages. I've been SO abundantly clear on this, it's not a "valid question," it's a stupid game you're trying to play. You'd have to be Scout/Jimmy-level stupid to not understand at this point.

Yeah, no, I get that. I'm saying if you push back, they can't deny you and they're certainly not going to deny you in a high profile case that's on ESPN. I worked in health care for a period of time. I understand how corrupt it is. They still can't just deny a legitimate claim... So whereas I understand they may deny treatment for normal people from time to time, they need to have a valid reason for denying a transplant as Askren is certainly going to have the resources to challenge the Insurance company.

Is your desire for them to have or have not Nukes not a valid question?

Why do I care? THIS is the extent of what I said about it; And gee...lets think. Why would I possibly care about a cease-fire as opposed to escalating the conflict? Man...you got me. Just...silly, huh?

Wonderful. Do you have any point or are you just going to keep asking stupid questions like "do you think Iran should have Nuclear weapons?" As for the asinine and pedantic, argue with Trump; https://x.com/i/status/1937486228229697823

Instead of just clown emoji everything make an argument. Is 6-12 hours to prolonged for you? Also why on earth do you care ?

9 lbs with a year to grow isn’t a lot. Maybe don’t over train and over cut when you are 6/7/8th grade.

6-12 hours isn’t prolonged boss.

They either can have one or cannot from our perspective. Which is it.

Yeah...that is is a simple question. When you change a word and ask of out nowhere "6-12 hours in prolonged," I didn't know what you were asking. But yes, by definition...it is prolonged. Do you know what "prolonged" means? So I said...with no political bend to it, that I find it odd we're saying we're going to have set a cease-fire so you can launch off another attack...and then Trump said the same thing. So again...what are you even arguing? The definition of words? AGAIN...some of you really need to figure out what the hell you're even arguing. You also just asked if I thought we should allow Iran a Nuclear Weapon...and you're asking ME about MY reading comprehension?

It is a dumb rule. Who cares if a kid wants to take a 2 hour flight vs 4 hour drive to train.

If I'm not mistaken, Bo wrestled at 95 pounds at super 32 during his holdback year. His holdback was not to gain a "competitive advantage" but to avoid a massive disadvantage that would be wrestling as a notably undersized 106 as a freshman. @Caveira thinks this is among the more deplorable acts in human behavior. I simply disagree and say let the kid make the most of his high school years in athletics. High school wrestling was some of the best times I've had in my life, and to hold back and extra year due to being behind maturity wise (which is how any 15 year old weighs less than 100 pounds) is fine with me.

Oh Christ... I've posted probably 50 times about what I thought about the bombing and of Iran. If you're still asking this stupid ass question, it's rhetorical or to set up another stupid question, so...please just get to it.

Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists. I thought we were supposed to have binding info about what they spent it on? Did they hold up that end of the bargain? here is a good video to review

Because we made a binding agreement to give it back.

Just what I said.

Is 6-12 hours prolonged. It’s a pretty simple question.