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In the spirit of Christmas, I just wanted to express my gratitude for having a community of people that like to talk about college wrestling and most of you happen to be awesome individuals. Cheers mother***duck**ers

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/11/espn-platforms-to-feature-more-than-200-collegiate-wrestling-events-during-2023-24-ncaa-season/?fbclid=IwAR1-n1sneRTkeZXCqLi144WyIoP3yIB5HbvwY4KBI6UpmRWwO158qFSr938 Thanks to Purler Wrestling for sharing this in Facebook. Click the link for the ESPN info. Screenshot is for BTN

Good post FC. Banter here sometimes puts us at odds, but that just reminds me more of my time spent in the wrestling room. Wrestling is a lot of things, but it isn't a chill sport. This is really a pretty cool place. Thanks Husker & Co for providing it. And Merry Christmas to everyone!

Merry Christmas to everybody. Let's hope 2024 is a great year!

I've been in better places with worse people...

In biology the answer is ONE "In a landmark paper based on the Human Genome Project, scientists showed that there are no “races” but a single human race—not in sociological terms, but according to biology. The project found that there is more genetic variation within a single population subgroup than between two different population subgroups. For example, there may be more genetic diversity within a population in Asia than between that same population and a different population in Europe."

I don't know if that was directed at me?? Mine was meant to get a laugh. Nothing more, nothing less. Wild Bill trying to define "is". Is weed legal in OH? If not, maybe it ought to be. Merry Christmas to you too.

You fu ckers are turning this into the Non Wrestling Topic board. FFS quit being cunty... Merry Christmas

Go ahead and take a stab at it, who knows.

Agreed, that’s why Cael doesn’t really have his own tree yet. But I was talking about Bobby Douglas.

Thank you for posting your video. It's wonderful. I loved it, as I love the Alistair Sims version of A Christmas Carol dearly. Your video is quite enlightening, providing a cool analysis of the beginning of the story, the background story of Laura Bridgeman and Dickens' writing about her. Very nice. One small quibble: I would avoid words like ridiculous when discussing this serious piece of literature that is everything that you so clearly expressed; it is a call to the reader to improve himself, and to do good in the world. It reminds me of some of the writings of Leo Tolstoy, who in one of his autobiographies lays out what he sees as our duty and responsibility as humans: to take this journey and make it one in which we improve incrementally, doing more good for others in the world. Merry Christmas to you and everyone. God bless us, everyone.

To flush all that tradition? This is awful. I grew up on Lehigh and EIWA wrestling on TV! I used to enjoy attending the EIWA's. An all-Ivy qualifier...nope - and I'm sure most would agree. Full stands in the arena? More likely a HS gym if they are lucky, and they won't be full. From a spectator perspective (important), I would say they took 10 giant steps backwards. Would love to know what group of folks thought this was a good thing??

Vision Quest starring Bo Nickal

Merry Christmas y’all. Have a blessed time with family and friends.

I wasn't talking about a good movie for the gf but one fellow posters might enjoy.

Cheers and Merry Christmas Holidays.

And cheers to you. Merry Christmas everyone. I second flyingcement's emtion.

I don't see Ferrari going for Italy unless he is banned from the US team. DeSanto... maybe but I doubt it. Suriano - absolutely

I hope Brooks smashes him.

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. There is no universally accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire over the last few decades. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American. So should we go with 4 or 5,000?

I think you already know the answer, i don't think your question is in good faith and I could answer, but i'm certain it would just start the whole process over.

He was but report is HL3 put him back in his place.

I have both these Channels. Let's do this

@ScribeOld Board. @scribers Not old board. Yes...

He gave ~3.4%, there's no 10% to church (which he talks about all the time) largest gift to his son's charity $5k. Also their effective fed tax has been a little over 20% but they should be in the 35 to 37% tax bracket, so why are they paying their 'fair share?' But you are evidently correct his son gives 10% to the father.

I thought FRL summarized it well. They took 1 good conference and turned it into 2 bad ones…

What’s everyone making for Xmas? I’m a big fan of creamed spinach and a good horseradish mashed potato. That and some big cowboy steaks.

Because I was bored and couldn’t fall back asleep when I originally made this post, I clicked on the profiles of the comments in question. I’m no forensic IT dude, but while there may have been a bit of trolling involved, they all made semi-regular posts about random topics unrelated to racism that interested them, so I did not get the impression that any were “bad actors,” but who knows. And like I said earlier, I totally get that X/Twitter is a cesspool. But that particular post seemed worse than usual at least in regards to wrestling conversation.

Suck it up, don't be such a loser, get over your panophobia, Charlie Brown. The best part of the Xmas Special is when Schulz goes all Kafka and has God turn his back on Charlie Brown in the penultimate scene, the true final scene before net execs Hollywooded it: Linus tells the true meaning of Xmas -- the Jesus savior bit -- Charlie Brown's spirits are lifted and then ... he kills the tree. God has abandoned CB. Edit: Wait ... I might be misremembering the order. This might explain a lot. Scheduling therapy appt now. Edit 2: Nope. I was right.

He redshirted in 2019-2020, though there was no NCAAs anyway.

Flo will be able to fall back on the thing they do that nobody else does... Yes, you read it here first. Flo will become the giant in High School wrestling streaming! While collegiate and international wrestling moves to one of the many better available options. (And, yes, HS's will soon figure out its easier and cheaper to stream their own matches. Win for AV clubs nationwide.)

High costs = lack of qualified teachers to teach them. Teachers used to be able to go to school for very little and have a well paying job when they graduated, with very little or any debt. Now, they have massive debt and are paid very little relative to the cost of living in their school district. So, no one wants to be a teacher anymore. Turnover is incredibly high, particularly among younger teachers. Turns out, crippling debt isn’t what they had in mind when they decided to become a teacher. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Let's hope it's better than Pico's lol.

I think this is part of the problem with the world right now - people are so quick to characterize entire groups of people based on the actions of some individuals. But other than a common interest in the sport, I don't believe there is any particular characteristic - whether based on race, religion, political views, or whatever - that are necessarily in common to wrestling fans as a whole. We should certainly call out injustice where we may see it, but not attribute the guilt to others based on some other association.

The B12 home duals are generally on Espn+ and the b10 on BTN+ so why when there's a neutral site dual go to a smaller package streaming service. I do actually like the UFC product versus the Flo/track mess or Rokfin but why not just broadcast for the fans on both Espn+ and BTN+? the OSU v Iowa dual is in Stillwater this year so could be Espn+ will be on FS1. Thats a move up not down.

Ding ding ding

Stanford - Streaming on Pac12 Network. WVU - Has ESPN+ listed. Cornell - Has ESPN+ listed. ISU - Has ESPN+ listed.

One other tangent on the whole “growing the sport” thing is that while adding another subscription service isn’t ideal for wrestling fans, it’s also potentially exposing wrestling to fans of the UFC that already subscribe to Fight Pass.

Does Mizzou have any other duals on there? Their schedule only indicates the duals on Flo, but there are several away duals against good teams that don’t list the streaming info (such as Stanford 1/10, WVU 1/26, Cornell 1/28, and Iowa State 2/25).

Here's a disheartening game that my wife and I play when we watch duals on Sunday: keep a tally of times "explosive" and "athletic" are used to describe a wrestler, making demographic notes as you go.

Sure would be nice if UFC bought out Flo a streamed most of wrestling.

I have no idea what other words may or may not have been used. I am not on X/Twitter. But I'm sure that you're aware that people can say and do racist things even if they don't intend them to be racist, right? A person can say racist things and have no idea that those things are racist because their life experiences haven't shown them that they are indeed racist. It might mean that there isn't malicious intent, but those things are still racism. Some might view a situation like this as an opportunity to learn about the historical use of the words of phrases they write on their favorite social media platform and change the way they react to future events, others will brush it off as no big deal. Some will be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to passive/subtle and not-so-subtle uses of racist language, others won't. It's up to each person to make these decisions for themselves. I personally try to treat people with the same respect and dignity that I'd like to treated with. I'm going to give grace to people and allow them to be human and make mistakes, but I can still identify when people are using racist language and condemn it regardless of their intent.

I'm for more wrestling, but I see your point about wear and tear. It just seems to me that wrestling real matches gets the rust of better. But perhaps, they take care of that in practice. The top keeps being at the top. Snyder seems to be an exception here, he wrestles through the year. mspart

A few reasons in no particular order: The current trend across all sports is fewer actual goes in order to reduce wear & tear. Less mileage = ability to produce at a deeper depth when it matters for a longer sustained period of time i.e can do 2 major tournaments per year for 10 years instead of 4 major tournaments in 4 months for five years. This goes against the previous multi-generational "wrestle as many matches as possible" mantra. Seeds don't matter nearly as much with the medalists earning auto byes. And honestly how much do they really matter at the senior level anyways? Everyone is so good and the only goal is to win. At NCAAs sure a seed could be the difference between AA 8th and R16/R12, but if you want to make a world/olympic team you have to beat everyone. Refer to Vito and Taylor and Dake and Parris as contemporary examples that earned '23 world medals but were previously unable to break through domestic barriers. Some guys are banged up and are at a mental level where going to last chance to earn their spot is not intimidating. They would rather be healthy when it matters most than cause more damage.

Bailey was obviously pissed off he couldn't do anything. Arujau could have been a little nicer, I suppose, but this is wrestling. If you aren't tough you won't make it. That said, seeing those asshats in the comments is sad.

Lol if you believe that I have a bridge I can sell you. Let me know when you are ready to send payment Super convenient that their top wrestlers going against some of ISUs top wrestlers were the only ones hurt. Damage control at its finest.

I saw the letter. Lipstick on a pig, IMO

Being a mutli time USA Wrestling National Team member, or even long time international level wrestling athlete, is not at all a bad thing to have in your resume. The work force loves wrestlers

I guess I'll also add my thoughts on the weight classes. I'm and old fogie and really they don't matter as long as we have a wide range of weights. Anyone that complains about the weight classes is doing so based on their immediate experiences and most likely how their team is shaping up today and the future. There are years coaching where I wanted the old 103 start weight and years I wish the start weight was 110. There are years where I would have loved having 6 weights 170 on up and years where I wish there were 2! In my area we might have trouble filling 182lbs, but in others they may have trouble filling 106lbs. The bottom line is the weight classes won't do much to affect the forfeit issue that is there. Reducing the number of weights just gives coaches an artificial bump in saying their reduced forfeits and they'll keep doing the same things with recruiting and retention. The NFHS and NWCA need to focus more on educating coaches and working on retention of athletes more than the weight classes. If we do a better job of retaining athletes we will see a reduction in forfeits more than changing the weights will ever do.