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Bassett will not pop for peds. That’s my prediction.

Bassett isn't making the NCAA finals four times

Lol yes god forbid someone pay their rent. That darn evil guy who is honoring a contract signed between two parties in accordance with state and federal law. People should just be able to break a lease and live for free.

This kid is annoying. And of all the young guns making noise these days (Jax, Blaze, Duke, etc.), I'm predicting Bassett is the most likely to underachieve, relatively speaking. He's Daton Fix 2.0, at best.

I said hookers and blow. Don't leave out the blow. PS Sads is a punk

I am starting to come around to the counter-intuitive. If you want to increase risk taking, lower the score for a takedown to 1.5. If you only get 1.5 and a reversal is worth 1, you can no longer run and hide after a single takedown. A single stalling point loses the match. If you want to be safe you need more takedowns to build your margin. I am beginning to believe they went the wrong direction if they want to promote scoring and risk-taking.

Disagreeing with your dad??? What the heck??

You can’t really be stupid enough to believe this right?

So Nicolls is talking like he runs the program at the same time Brands is telling Bassett's mom to not tell him how to run the program? Did I follow along correctly today?

I'm gonna have to side w luchador on this one. When was the last time you were in an evanhelical christian church? Full of whack job extremists. I'd think about packing around those crazies too.

I am sure this was part Bill Bassett's complaint. But we also don't know how the Iowa AD/Compliance views wrestling. The AD stepped in to stop AJ getting admitted after the double bird, they had the gambling issue to deal with and just recently had to make a public statement (or lack thereof) about William's arrest. It's entirely possible the AD said, no we are not going to risk a violation on this (pure speculation on my part). David Taylor is the new penny on campus and just had success that is bringing positive attention to the school. With Paycom bring in new revenue, maybe OSU is just saying screw it, the NCAA lacks teeth and we will do what we want. It also raises the question of who pays for the flights? Bo's NIL deal with Bob Nichols was already agreed upon and now with revenue sharing, who pays for flights if Bob says I already giving you $5M. that flight money has to come from Revenue Sharing. Maybe OSU NIL deal with Paycom included flights to Stillwater and Bill Bassett is just upset he didn't get the best deal. My point is there is a lot we don't know. It seems very unlikely Brands would say Bo couldn't train there unless compliance or paying for it was an issue. So if its out of Brand's hands and that is the reason Bo de-committed then it probably wasn't going to work anyway. I agree with the notion that Bassetts are probably at fault and Brands could of handled it better and been a little softer around the edges. But I doubt he committed to Iowa because he thought Brands would deliver every message with sunshine and roses.

A visit to the portajohn with some greatwhitenorthern might be in order.

That does bring things much closer. In 2023 and 2024 the 3-2 match was the most popular with 6.9% of full time matches (6.8% of all matches). While 2024 and 2025 saw the 4-2 score top the list with 7.9% of full time matches (7.1% of all matches).

Hopefully this means the hostages in Gaza will be released.

For me just going by the eye test, close matches just don't feel as close and the optics of a guy on ice skates for two minutes at the end of the match is not a great one to watch... I definitely think that offensive wrestlers should be rewarded with the 3 points but there also needs to be some kind of counterbalance for the other wrestler to score in more ways than just stall calls at the end of a match when the other wrestler just shuts it down ie. push out potentially. There has to be another tweak that can make matches feel close again and not be as boring to watch which I really noticed in this past years' finals.

USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts; Two Companies Admit Criminal Liability for Bribery Scheme and Securities Fraud https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/usaid-official-and-three-corporate-executives-plead-guilty-decade-long-bribery-scheme

Chuck Norris can't act. But he can do many incredible things. Chuck Norris CAN divide by zero.

I excluded TF because I wanted to focus on matches that went the distance. But even if you include TF the direction does not change. The impact is more muted, but still large. Including TF, one take down matches then were 5.1% and now are 7.1% (+39%). There is no impact on zero takedown matches. They still rank 9th now vs. 27th then. I will come up with a way to illustrate the noise.

This is a dude who evicts cancer patients attending chemo. He’s obviously a terrible person https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-evictions-monarch-investment-rental-properties/

The Gabe reference felt gratuitous.

When you post it in a pompous, threatingly way.

I see what you did there. Nice.

Now the opposition in Iran needs to finish the job. It’s hard to see the regime have much credibility after this. How can they get their ass handed to them by “puny little” Israel with no real response, have the US put the nail in the coffin, then agree to a ceasefire imposed by the US and go back to chanting death to America, death to Israel? Even the most die hard supporters are hanging their heads right now.

Jesus fookin Christ dude. There was nothing racially motivated about that post whatsoever. For someone who obviously lurks on HR like it's a part time job I guess you missed the many posts Bnicky has made that were positive about Iowa wrestlers, including Buchanan and Real Woods? Gabe Arnold apparently was partying, or at least not taking training seriously last off season. Perhaps he is reverting to some of those habits this off season and that is what Bob was referring to. I get that you are a passionate hater but this is utter weak sauce and limpdick behavior Edit: Bnicky gives me the creeps and this post wasn't an endorsement of his posts or behavior across carte blanche. Rather, I think the attempt to take this a point it doesn't need to go to is what I was railing against