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As a staunch advocate of realignment in wrestling, there isn't a whole lot that really can be done or suggested until the NCAA's Transformational Committee finishes its work. Conference affiliation has been a constant excuse when it comes to shifty ADs looking to cut sports - if you take the conference aspect away from Division I wrestling, you put pretty much every program at risk if a conference has the out to no longer sponsor the sport. This is the primary reason I'm against regionalization models for Division I. While it may work to a decent degree (save the arguments in Division III for how tough some regions are from year to year and people being left home outside the Top 3), the Division II and Division III athletics model isn't the same as Division I and the conference affiliation is less of an issue for starting and maintaining programs. The NCAA (at least at Division I) got away from historical data to determine qualification methods. These conversations were held back at several NWCA Conventions and the issue is big time financial. It's also about how you distribute the teams. Geographical won't happen with equity. You wouldn't get Top 8 in 4 regions because the geographical imbalance would be too great. Shifting all these teams around just weeks before a regional creates that big financial issue. A hybrid model was broached, with the Top 16 teams being split into regionals and then keeping it primarily geographic, but there were too many financial hurdles there too. The system we have now is ultimately the best D1 has had since it was an open era prior to (I believe) 1968. One tournament doesn't make or break you for the entire season. Sick on the weekend of the regional? Too bad. Everything I've read from the fanbase about the current tournament is you want the best wrestlers there, right? Current format may have its flaws, but no system is perfect. I don't feel the playing field gets leveled for the mid-majors and smaller programs in a regional model. The big programs will just get shifted to each regional. Right now, we need to create MORE conferences to create more access. We need to create, not contract. The Big Ten isn't the roadblock, but I believe the dissolution of the sport's deepest and only full-sponsored conference (until the So Cal schools officially join) would be an absolutely terrible thing to happen. I feel protecting the teams we have is more important to the future of the sport than coaches doing what they do to exploit the qualfying/seeding rules to their advantage. We can change rules, but it's pretty damned hard to get a D1 team back after it's been dropped.

And for the real ones out there:

I do sometimes find the “grow the sport comments”. As if. Parent: hey little Johnny. Wanna go out for wrestling this year? 7 year old Johnny: Nah. I think I’ll play soccer. parent: interesting. Why? Johnny: I don’t like the conference tournament deciding who goes to NCAAs. It’s not fair. Now if they had a regional qualifier. I would totally be in.

Permission to treat the witness as hostile?

You mean the NCAA let his wrestlers go.

It always used to be the one between 6 and 8 but maybe they've moved it.

Lock Haven vs Cal Poly (5th/6th) Oregon State vs Central Michigan (5th/6th) Ohio State vs Lehigh (3rd/4th) UNC vs Cornell (3rd/4th) Nc State vs UNI (1st/2nd) PSU vs Iowa State (1st/2nd) Not sure the times but my Rokfin shows 5 hours from now till 5th/6th. 7 hours from now for 3rd/4th and 11 hours from now 1st/2nd

Nah. The proposal is sitting on a desk. Just need Bono to sign it.

Found it

That was a work of art. Keckeisen started down in period 2, got the escape, then shot a head inside single and Hidlay tried to kick out towards the circle while Keckeisen tried to climb up. Keckeisen caught the one leg and started to pull Hidlay back in and Hidlay seemed to lose focus for a split second and got his head too close and Keckeisen slapped a cradle on him real fast. Then Keckeisen rolled over his back to get Hidlay rolled to his back as well. Held him down with his own back towards the mat but Hidlay's shoulders were perfectly flat a good while.

Pros know that if the company doesn't shut down for 2 weeks over the holidays then you don't burn your vacation. It's an easy time where everyone is "heads down working on those side projects that never get touched." Examples of those projects include: starting late, grocery shopping, long lunches with old friends who just got in town, getting a haircut, procrastinating your OKRs and annual eval until the last day, and signing off early.

I once lived above a Pakistani restaurant in London that had been built after the land had been parceled and our address was 2-4 Gateforth Street (there was already a 2 and a 4, so they gave us both with a hyphen). We got our mail sometimes

Im sorry everyone. I jinxed it when I said it was good to see O’Connor wrestling. I apologize

Weren't you the one who said either: "sportsmanship" or "he's a national champ, he's proven himself" or " he doesn't need to wrestle a backup" or " maybe he's hurt or sick" or something like that? Any of that sound familiar, Mrs. Haines?

Well, it was sportsmanship on O'Connor's part. You don't need to wrestle a national champ against Bear Claw's backup. O'Conner has already proven himself as a national champ, why should he bother to take the mat against someone who has a loss this year against the immortal Vince Zerban? Sportsmanship, my friends!

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We need to figure out a way to reward wrestling matches. As is, not wrestling matches is rewarded.

Thanks for the correction. Now think about how crazy that is. It treats the athlete like property. They only get an opportunity elsewhere without penalty if their former coach says they have no opportunity there. But, if there is an opportunity, however that is defined by the coach, then all other opportunities are to be denied. You can see where a control freak coach might be able to use that one-sided relationship to punish someone who challenges their control. I am not saying that is what happened here, I am saying this is the kind of relationship between the NCAA and athletes that causes all manner of hypocrisy.

I think they’ll still have Brooks at #1. Dean is back. Beats Bastida 4-1. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Had Brooks pinned. Ref lacked the testicular fortitude to stand up to Cael and call it.

Brooks was stuck! Should've ducked!

Technically everything that I ate with dinner was edible. So however many grams 100 beers weighs. Edit: ~37,500 grams

Honestly? I know some gents carry weight differently. Hall and Bartlett are two such gents. I don't know if he could make 133. I think he could be lethal there, though.

I'm just tuned in to see if that ugly PSU 57lber loses

Announcer thought RBY "got the full allotment" but he did not. 2 swipes only.

The NCAA is stopping him from competing. He left and went to Nebraska.

This is looking like yet another rabbit hole I've seen the 30 percenters go down for 20+ years. This is just elections are rigged and Pizzagate all over again. Wowza! Makes one wonder when the boy that cried wolf moment hits.

Screen graphic says Swiderski will wrestle Bartlett

Bumped two others, why not three...

pap should get a medal for not ducking Keck

we know tbar calm down

Hello, Mrs. Vak. Good to have you back.

I love penis

I figure it's because we're adorable and hysterical...

I don't know but why would your initial assumption be those? He wrestled last night. And he made weight. And he wrestled Fix. You think he HEW'd since the weighin today?

Again, it's gross to debate semantics as you literally take away a part of the young man's very limited asset: his collegiate wrestling ability. Once his college wrestling career is over, Chris Bono will still be coaching, and the AD will still be ADing, but this kid will not get another shot to compete in college wrestling. Saying he has an opportunity to compete in a weight where they literally brought an experienced All American into the weight requires such mental gymnastics, I can't believe we're even doing it. Kyle Burwick has no opportunity to wrestle for Wisconsin this season. They preferred Taylor LaMont. He is now wrestling for him. And now they are stopping him from competing elsewhere.

So should you be. He wrestled Fix.

Rumor is that ISU's heavyweight may be out for the rest of this event. My apologies if this has already been said.

My point was broad. The administrator signs, but I am sure they do it only after consulting the coach. So, ultimately it is the coach who makes the decision. And the way that form is written it seems there is a lot of leeway for coaches to define terms. Now talk about your bureaucracy, NCAA Bylaw 14.02.12 says: 14.02.12 Grade-Point Average. For purposes of calculating a grade-point average for NCAA eligibility (e.g., progress toward degree), a student must achieve a minimum grade-point average based on a maximum of 4.000 grading scale, unless otherwise specified in the legislation. (Adopted: 4/29/04)

He's not in the portal, he currently attends Nebraska. Did Nebraska recruit over Serrano?

JB just hit the nail on the head. Actually...I take that back...I'd change exactly one letter in his post, in the word before "ADs"...I'll let you all figure out what the word actually would be.

schultz and amos both have the same problem right now... they are still wasting time learning how not to wrestle... amos has the advantage currently just because we have very little depth at 97kg... rulon is coming back at 130kg this year... that adds excitment... and there is a kid aden attao who just picked up a bronze at U20 this summer while terrorizing heavies all across this nation...

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Well, that sure isn't me. Let's take the negotiated sovereign immunity for MBS, for starters.

Ferrari is going to be the coach?

Jenna Burkert more likely.