Is it weird there's not more discussion anywhere about Barr's injury?

[VakAttack]

I was just thinking on this, we watched him be unable to bear weight as he was helped off the mat, and then no discussion on boards or on the major shows (that I know of).  Obviously we wouldn't expect PSU to say anything.

[ionel]

Believe Jimmy said he is on life support and Carl said drilling downstairs.  Other than that we got nothing.  

[lu_alum]

Asked and answered on Sunday:

Edited March 14 by lu_alum

[SocraTease]

Penn State 197-pound starter Josh Barr drew the number four seed for next week’s 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Wednesday night. On Thursday, Nittany Lions head coach Cael Sanderson offered his first update on the status of the redshirt freshman after he suffered an injury at Big Tens. After losing in the quarterfinals in sudden victory to Michigan’s Jacob Cardenas, Barr was forced to medically forfeit his consolation semifinal match with Minnesota’s Isaiah Salazar due to a left leg injury. Following an early scramble in which he appeared to hurt himself, the Nittany Lion was taken down off the restart, asked for the match to be stopped, and was eventually helped off the mat with the help of staff members. He was putting little to no weight on his left leg at the time. Barr also medically defaulted out of his fifth-place match.

Speaking on the Penn State Coaches Show with Steve Jones, Sanderson said he will be ready to go for nationals.

“We kind of had to carry him off the mat a bit last week. But, he’ll be ready to go and scrapping next week,” Sanderson said. “We’re happy for him.”

https://www.on3.com/teams/penn-state-nittany-lions/news/josh-barr-injury-update-whats-the-latest-on-the-penn-state-wrestling-197-pound-starter-before-nationals/

[SocraTease]

 

Penn State Wrestling: Josh Barr Gets Positive Injury Update Before NCAAs

On the Penn State Coaches Show, Cael Sanderson delivered some good news regarding Barr, who was injured at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships.

https://www.si.com/college/pennstate/wrestling/penn-state-wrestling-josh-barr-gets-positive-injury-update-before-ncaas-01jp8z95pt4r

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[Caveira]

83% true 

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

He's downstairs drilling right now...

[ionel]

37 minutes ago, SocraTease said:

 

Shirely i don't have to watch a 34 minute pod cast to get the answer.  

[Wrestleknownothing]

20 minutes ago, Caveira said:

83% true 

or 100 minus 83.

[SocraTease]

Here's some advice from a great poet.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

[lisa morales]

He pulled his hamstring.  He'll be wrestling but his flexibility will be nonexistent and that's a large part of his game.

[D3 for LU]

1 hour ago, SocraTease said:

Here's some advice from a great poet.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

That was... immensely insightful. Totally coherent and well thought out, sir.

BUT, in reality, it actually brought out THIS clip from "Billy Madison"

To which, YOU would say...

D3

[flyingcement]

if he has a hamstring injury, and you shoot in on his other healthy leg for a single, it may be much more difficult to get into the splits position to avoid a takedown or to bear significant weight on the hurt leg.  He may need to adapt by changing his stance to a stagger foot with his hurt leg leading.  basically saying "here take this one anyway - its half useless"  while reserving his stronger leg for pivoting and defense

Edited March 15 by flyingcement

[Boring]

1 hour ago, lisa morales said:

He pulled his hamstring.  He'll be wrestling but his flexibility will be nonexistent and that's a large part of his game.

He's young. Depending on the grade of the pulled hammy he might be affected for just a few days or a few weeks. I'm not an MD, but I watched the match. It didn't look like anything too serious to me. I wouldn't be shocked if he was 100% at NCAAs. 

[wrestle87]

NFW did he pull his hamstring.  He had a ton of lateral pressure put on his leg in a single leg scramble, that’s almost always a ligamentous or other connective tissue injury.

[ionel]

2 hours ago, flyingcement said:

if he has a hamstring injury, and you shoot in on his other healthy leg for a single, it may be much more difficult to get into the splits position to avoid a takedown or to bear significant weight on the hurt leg.  He may need to adapt by changing his stance to a stagger foot with his hurt leg leading.  basically saying "here take this one anyway - its half useless"  while reserving his stronger leg for pivoting and defense

Wouldn't it be easier to just wrestle on one knee? 

[ionel]

2 hours ago, 666 said:

 I'm not an MD, but ...

... have you stayed in a Holiday Inn Express lately?  

[Boring]

48 minutes ago, ionel said:

... have you stayed in a Holiday Inn Express lately?  

Does jail count?