Another PSU Recruiting Advantage

[Wrestleknownothing]

It is about time PSU caught a break on the recruiting trail.

Over on the International board there is a discussion of training partners for the upcoming World Championships. It struck me how many PSU wrestlers are making the trip as training partners.

Beau Bartlett, Shane Van Ness, and Alex Facundo each get an all-expenses paid vacation to Serbia while still undergrads due to their affiliation with PSU/NLWC. That has to be a huge recruiting advantage on top of their already significant advantages. 

The other undergrads I see on the list are Cael Valencia and Lucas Davison. High schooler Luke Lilledahl is also on the plane, but I do not see that as having anything to do with PSU in spite of his announced commitment.

[ionel]

  On 9/9/2023 at 12:56 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is about time PSU caught a break on the recruiting trail.

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Yes Carl is underperforming.  Would it be against NCAA rules to give the recruit a brand new dodgeball?

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 9/9/2023 at 1:49 PM, ionel said:

Yes Carl is underperforming.  Would it be against NCAA rules to give the recruit a brand new dodgeball?

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Better yet, a game-worn dodgeball. Maybe with Bo Nickal's or Cael's face smudge on it.

[Ohio Elite]

  On 9/9/2023 at 2:13 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Better yet, a game-worn dodgeball. Maybe with Bo Nickal's or Cael's face smudge on it.

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Let's start the bidding now!

[CHROMEBIRD]

I thought the other Penn State recruiting advantage was ice cream.

[Ohio Elite]

  On 9/9/2023 at 6:24 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

I thought the other Penn State recruiting advantage was ice cream.

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Frozen yogurt 

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 9/9/2023 at 6:53 PM, Ohio Elite said:

Frozen yogurt 

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Frozen yogurt is a weak substitute for what they serve at the PSU Creamery. I went back three days in a row, and finished my wife's all three days, as well.

[ionel]

  On 9/9/2023 at 8:41 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Frozen yogurt is a weak substitute for what they serve at the PSU Creamery. I went back three days in a row, and finished my wife's all three days, as well.

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Does ice-cream float to the top in a pool? 

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 9/9/2023 at 8:52 PM, ionel said:

Does ice-cream float to the top in a pool? 

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Ice cream does. I don't.

[AgaveMaria]

Cael has a garage in Heber City, Utah where he grew up and it is filled with Wheaties Cereal boxes with his picture. He gives a box of cereal to each recruit who comes to the school. "Eat the 20 year old Wheaties or wrestle at Penn State"!

To cement the deal he threatens to give them a Cael Bobblehead doll if they don't sign with him.

Wonder what the Wheaties boxes are worth these days?

[manatree]

  On 9/9/2023 at 12:56 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is about time PSU caught a break on the recruiting trail.

Over on the International board there is a discussion of training partners for the upcoming World Championships. It struck me how many PSU wrestlers are making the trip as training partners.

Beau Bartlett, Shane Van Ness, and Alex Facundo each get an all-expenses paid vacation to Serbia while still undergrads due to their affiliation with PSU/NLWC. That has to be a huge recruiting advantage on top of their already significant advantages. 

The other undergrads I see on the list are Cael Valencia and Lucas Davison. High schooler Luke Lilledahl is also on the plane, but I do not see that as having anything to do with PSU in spite of his announced commitment.

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It’s the same advantage that Iowa had when Dennis took Spencer Lee with him to Rio. As long as they follow the rules, there’s no problem.

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 9/9/2023 at 11:22 PM, manatree said:

It’s the same advantage that Iowa had when Dennis took Spencer Lee with him to Rio. As long as they follow the rules, there’s no problem.

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Yes, the same advantage, but three times as much of it. 

[Le duke]

Apparently people missed Starocci and Brooks going to Tokyo with Bekzod and DT, respectively.


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[bnwtwg]

What is Richards supposed to do, bring Justin Cardani?

[nhs67]

  On 9/9/2023 at 2:13 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Better yet, a game-worn dodgeball. Maybe with Bo Nickal's or Cael's face smudge on it.

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This doesn't exist and never will.  He is GOAT of all.  Period.

[Ohio Elite]

  On 9/10/2023 at 1:56 PM, nhs67 said:

This doesn't exist and never will.  He is GOAT of all.  Period.

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Not racketball tho..

[WildTurk]

  On 9/9/2023 at 6:24 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

I thought the other Penn State recruiting advantage was ice cream.

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They have God on their side

[D3 for LU]

  On 9/10/2023 at 3:31 PM, WildTurk said:

They have God on their side

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AND ice cream?!?

Game over...

D3

[ionel]

  On 9/9/2023 at 8:41 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

 PSU Creamery. I went back three days in a row, and finished my wife's all three days, as well.

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  On 9/10/2023 at 5:39 PM, D3 for LU said:

AND ice cream?!?

Game over...

D3

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Sure but there's a chance as some of their fans are consuming more than their fair share of the ice-cream.  If the Creamery starts running short of ice-cream put your money on Iowa or an OSU.  

[CHROMEBIRD]

I'm shocked that Kyven Gadson didn't go to Penn State

[gimpeltf]

  On 9/11/2023 at 7:22 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

I'm shocked that Kyven Gadson didn't go to Penn State

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He might have had to go 285 and never placed!

[CHROMEBIRD]

On a related note, it looks like PSU Wrestling really does pull some good NIL money. Last night my wife saw a video on social media of a kid doing a backflip and then biting into a burrito supreme. She asked why the heck everyone was commenting "We Are."

It was Beau Bartlett doing a Taco Bell ad.

[RicoSwaff]

  On 9/10/2023 at 5:57 PM, ionel said:

 

Sure but there's a chance as some of their fans are consuming more than their fair share of the ice-cream.  If the Creamery starts running short of ice-cream put your money on Iowa or an OSU.  

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A chance? I figured it was a certainty, but this is going by my own mindset with ice cream when at wrestling events, in which my train of thinking generally prioritizes the wrestling a distant 2nd in comparison to trying to beat the world record of most Dip N’ Dots ever consumed by a human at nearly every event I’m at! And as an Iowan, I can vouch that yes, a shortage of ice cream of any kind would instill anger into the veins of any Iowa wrestler in attendance and I would put my money on them with these circumstances as well!