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congratulations, i know it's only 9:30ct but this may win the prize for the dumbest thing said on this forum today...

Albania finally granted visas to the Iranian delegation we can now focus on the wrestling cannot wait to watch the 92 kg matches As far as I know ghassempour is undefeated in 92 kg his only losses are in 86 to Hassan Yazdani and a couple when he experimented in 97

They are anticipating a Trump victory, so there is a great deal enthusiasm to invest. Consumer confidence is rising. Thank you, President Trump,

but they said that scholarship athletes will not be able to compete (and so in effect going from 9 to zero as I said in the other thread I started)

This is gutwrenching for me. Obviously, Campbell is not a big school in a big time wrestling conference. But they have busted their butt's on and off the mat to build a very solid program. They have zero big boosters funding the team. They do have a lot of small donors who gave everything they could to help the program succeed. Coach Scottie Sentes has worked twice as hard as any coach should to work to keep the progress moving forward. He partnered with UFCfightpass to bring college wrestling to Fort Bragg. Teams entered matches from cargo planes in a hanger. He partnered with UFCfightpass several times to bring more exposure for the sport of wrestling, never taking the easy way out. Who does little ol' Campbell bring to make this happen? Michigan and North Carolina! Coach Sentes partnered up last year with Wyoming and Coach Branch to wrestle a match in a barn at over 8000 feet elevation. Of course with UFC fight pass it was a show. This year it CU brings Nebraska in for a match on the baseball field with @Claw wrestling showcasing a tremendous match during halftime. Innovation and hard work brings success and exposure and of course your program gutted!!!

I will never forget my grandmother that refused to leave her bedroom for well over a year until she became brittle and died (not of covid). I will never forget the absolute panic and anxiety the media caused my healthy wife who had zero scientific reason for concern. I will never forget or forgive my CEO forcing my colleagues and me to vaccinate or face termination. I will not forget that my son went from doing well to failing foreign language immersion school when given months off school and then moving to remote schooling. I will never forgive the media and government for the lies and control and censorship well beyond the point the data showed their bullshit. I'm aware that people were harmed and died from covid. The measures were worse than the sickness.

Is it Illinois? Projected starters according to wrestlestat: 125: Attasauov - 6th year SR (wrestlestat shows 2024 as not existing for him) 133: Byrd - 6th year JR 141: Pucino - 5th year SR 149: Webster - redshirt FR 157: Kraisser - 6th year SR 165: Scoles - redshirt FR 174: Braunagel - 7th year SR 184: Ruth - 6th year SR 197: Braunagel - 7th year SR 285: Luffman - 6th year SR

I don’t know if anyone else is having the same issue but these ads are so damn intrusive. They often cause the page that I’m on to refresh and they take up a good portion of the screen. I’m all for monetizing your site and getting that money. However this is probably the worst user experience for a site that I visit on a near daily basis.

There are several significant records within reach for the Nittany Lions this year. How many do they accomplish by the end of the season? 1) Most NCAA Championships by a single wrestler - current record 4 (Pat Smith, Cael Sanderson, Kyle Dake, Logan Stieber, Yianni Diakomihalis, Aaron Brooks, and Carter Starocci) Carter Starocci enters the season with 4 NCAA titles. Should he win again he will be the only person with 5. 2) Most individual NCAA champions by a single coach - current record 45 (Dan Gable) With 4 individual champions last season Sanderson moved past Ed Gallagher and Harold Nichols into second on the all-time list with 40 NCAA champs. If PSU gets 5 - a total they have done twice before - he will match Gable in only his 18th NCAA tournament as a head coach. It's on the table with PSU returning 3 NCAA champs and 2 runner-ups. 3) Most individual NCAA champions by a team in a single season - current record 5 (Iowa 1986, 1997; OSU 2005; PSU 2017, 2022). PSU returns 3 NCAA Champions (Haines, Starocci, and Kerkvliet), 2 runner-ups (Bartlett and Mesenbrink), 2 3rd place finishers (Van Ness and Kasak), and another wrestler who was the 1 seed at NCAA's last year (Davis). Five champs is a possibility. PSU will be the only team to do it for a 3rd time if it happens. 4) Most AAs by a team in a single season - current record 10 (Minnesota 2001) PSU could field returning AAs at 133, 141, 149, 157, 165, 174, 184, and 285. The remaining two weights, 125 and 197 are likely to feature freshman that have medaled at junior worlds. It could happen. 5) Most team points at the NCAA tournament - current record 172.5 (PSU 2024) This is largely the same team that set the record. They return 133 of the record setting point total and after adding Shayne Van Ness's 15.5 team points from 2023 this team returns 148.5. A better result at 125 and 133 along with more bonus points from a healthy Carter Starocci and it could happen. 6) Longest dual winning streak in Penn State history - current record 60 match (PSU 2015-2019) This PSU team enters the year on a 56 match winning streak going back to 2020. PSU opens with duals against Drexel, Lehigh, Wyoming, Binghamton, and Arkansas - Little Rock. They will be favored heavily in all 5. 7) Longest dual winning streak by a single coach - current record 69 matches (OSU/Ed Gallagher 1921-1932, OSU/John Smith 1996-1999, Iowa/Brands 2008-2011) PSU has 15 duals on the schedule and they will be favored in all of them. If they win the first 13 Sanderson/PSU will match the record. The Iowa duals is in the first 13 so Iowa has a chance to block them from doing this. If PSU keeps the winning streak going they will end the season with 71 straight wins and only 5 behind the longest winning streak by any school. It took OSU 14 years and two coaches to set that record when they won 76 sgtright matches between 1937 and 1951. They could also break the record for the longest unbeaten dual streak which is 84 (OSU/Roderick 1959-1966 and Iowa/Brands 2008-2012). That would require them to run the table this year and win at least the first 14 duals next year. Are there any other milestones Sanderson and Penn State could reach in the near term?

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Terrible. I agree with the sentiment that other programs will follow in the new landscape.

Why do these idiots keep deflecting to Biden? Did he re-enter the race or something?

I think so. If the the top three guys show up anywhere near their top form it will be an epic competition

I’m not coming up with the broadcast network that practices similar tactics for ‘our side.’

Someone explain this to me like I am 5 years old please. Campbell will fund 3 scholarships, but if you receive a scholarship, you will not be allowed to compete. Who are getting the scholarships? Only redshirts?

I don't see Title IX compliance issues mentioned as a factor here, but it sure sounds like Title IX to me. Why else would they say that wrestlers who wish to keep their scholarships would not be allowed to compete? That tells me it isn't just a funding issue as they are OK with spending the money on the scholarships -- but if they do, it just can't be characterized as an athletic scholarship. Given the default Title IX requirement (as interpreted by the Dept of Ed) that male/female athletic scholarships need to be proportional to male/female enrollment, it sound to me like they're trying to revamp the teams to make the schollies more proportional.

There was a guy in Hawaii that was found way out in a small craft like a kayak. He was lucky to be found. Yes, glad to hear all is well with WR. mspart

You sure are an equal opportunity A-hole

Right? It's insane that scholarship athletes will not be allowed to compete. Wtf?

This is really disheartening to see for a program that has really elevated itself from losing to club teams 15 years ago, to now producing All-Americans and beating Big 10 teams. I hope the community can come together to save the program, or better yet the AD figures it out.

Do you feel better now that you were able to get that out?

Thank goodness we only have 3 weeks left. Then all the craziness will end hopefully. mspart

You are grabbing at straws now. For your first paragraph, all cited illegalities against Trump were misdemeanors that had run the statute of limitations. But by combining them with "another crime", that made the total package of accusations felonies. Please stipulate the "another crime" Trump was charged with. Still waiting. Here are the first three allegations against Trump: https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, by this indictment, accuses the defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows: The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization. SECOND COUNT: AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows: The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842457, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization. THIRD COUNT: AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows: The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842460, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization. All the allegations read similarly. Have you ever considered such a vague allegation going to court? No one has. So again, review with me the allegation. What is the "another crime" specified in the indictment? Please specify? The Judge's instructions: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c033m2qdm0no He told the jury that prosecutors do not need to prove these secondary crimes, nor do jurors need to be in agreement on which specific one Mr Trump committed. They must reach a unanimous verdict on each of the 34 counts, however. This on it's face is ludicrous. Of course the prosecutors need to prove the secondary crimes, they are what make the accusations felonies. And obviously, there was no specific secondary crime because the jury could pick and choose. Jonathan Turley described this as follows: https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4691715-a-manhattan-canned-hunt-the-trump-jury-is-out-but-is-the-case-in-the-bag/ Consider just a few highlights from the curious aspects of these deliberations. First, the judge has ruled that the jury does not have to agree on what actually occurred in the case. Merchan ruled that the government had vaguely referenced three possible crimes that constitute the “unlawful means” used to influence the election: a federal election violation, the falsification of business records, and a tax violation. The jurors were told that they could split on what occurred, with four jurors accepting each of the three possible crimes in a 4-4-4 split. The court would still consider that a unanimous verdict so long as they agree that it was in furtherance of some crime. Second, the judge said that he would instruct the jury on the law but then omitted the key elements that established there was no federal campaign violation. Indeed, the blocked legal expert, Ben Smith, the former chair of the Federal Election Commission, was going to testify that this could not have been a federal election violation. Moreover, even if Trump’s legal settlement money could be viewed as a federal campaign contribution, it could not have been part of a conspiracy to influence the election since any reporting of a contribution would have had to occur after the election. Third, not only can the jury disagree as to what occurred, but one of the three crimes is so circular as to produce vertigo in the jury room. The prosecutors zapped a dead misdemeanor back into life by claiming a violation under New York’s election law 17-152. The argument is that the crime was committed to further another crime as an unlawful means to influence the election. However, that other crime can be the falsification of business records. So the jury (or some jurors, at least) could find that some documents were falsified as an unlawful means of falsifying other documents. This case will be dismissed by the appellate court. mspart

It's like watching Benny Hill run for president.

Probably not going anywhere near people who are threatening them for existing.

As of this year, NCAA DI rules do not allow the reduction of a scholarship unless the athlete quits, becomes ineligible, or enters the transfer portal (there are some other exceptions, but those are the big ones). Holding scholarship athletes out of competition is an unfortunate way of encouraging them into the portal and removing the obligation to keep them on scholarship.

I don't understand how they can justify this part. Obviously we disagree with all of it. But the cutting from 9 to 3 scholarships, the admin can "justify" by saying they need to save money for other sports etc. But the other part. How can that be justified to anyone with a brain?

. How much time every day do you spend on Kamala. Prior to that Biden? It’s almost as if projection is a prerequisite into the MAGA fan club. Only three weeks to go. Enjoy!

and a Seebolt (IA) club wrestler.

They never count athlete-paid tuition as revenue. I know @Jason Bryant has done a good job articulating why they should at some of these smaller enrollment driven schools that don’t have particularly high academic standards. I guess the argument is that they still could have let someone in other than the athlete. is it true they’re not letting scholarship athletes compete? That doesn’t seem legal, but I am not a lawyer.

Someone forgot to take their meds. Or maybe took to many meds?

To me it feels like they're using this as a set up. So next year or the year after they can completely dump the program and blame it on not being profitable. Despite them being the ones who ensured it wasn't.

No. Because I think that after he loses the election, he is either going to off himself, or flee the country….fearful of all of the other felonies he is awaiting trial for.

I know it sucks to see, but the numbers don't really lie. They are a large program (~50 kids), right? Since they opted in, they will be forced to reduce down to 30 as a cap. They would still be bringing in less to the school even if they had zero scholarships for wrestling. I fear this is not the last of this.

I am fairly close to the program. I am just an alumni, fan, and live close by the school. Buies Creek is a VERY small town. Take away the students and professors and it is at best a 1000 or so population. A couple of small businesses. All that being said, it takes a lot of hustle to make it. From what I am hearing the revenue sharing is all consuming. Football and mbball is sucking all of the air out of the room. The school has not done a good job of budgeting and are "belt tightening." They are fighting for any money they can to maintain the glamor sports. Wrestling doesn't draw well, has a large roster, and had 9 schollys. (Had already given back .5 schollys) So wrestling has to shrink. Shrink roster and shrink scholarships. I do not understand the math and it has not be explained fully to me. 45 on the roster minus 9 scholarships = 36 paying students. If the roster is cut to 25-30 with 3 schollys you have 22-27 paying, meaning a net loss of income.(???) But I feel (IMO) it is revenue sharing and balancing men and women's scholarships, and the number of participants. All while trying to increase scholarships for football and men's bball. It is a sorry state of affairs in The Creek. A big knot in my stomach. I feel helpless. I have no idea what the answer is. Local fundraising is tough. There are not any Ashton Kutcher's around to save the day. I am grateful the program was not cut completely, but I do not feel much better. CU has (had) a very solid program. Then the rug pull. Sickening. I am telling you, you do not want this feeling. Go watch your favorite team, donate, and be an active supporter, but even that may not be enough.

Few folks on X have given great insights. Many times the AD of these small schools is looking to move to a bigger conference and so needs to serve football and basketball first

O damn, Big Byrd in the house! I hope Lucas is as salty as ever. He'll be fun to watch.

He's been outed as a fraud who edits his videos and has repeatedly been sued and lost. I also believe he is a convicted felon as a result of his activity.

Cutting from 9 to 3 scholarships, but the worst part of all is: They will not allow any wrestler that is on scholarship to compete. In essence going from 9 to zero scholarships for their actual wrestlers.

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Wee Willie needs money to cover his gambling losses (probably). So in order to keep his thumbs from being cut off (what a shame that would be) we get this.

You’re so cool I’m gonna call you cool-o

It’s a change from when she was working with Willie brown and Montel Williams…. Off her knees

Obama spent more money interfering in Israel’s election than Russia spent on the 2016 election. Hiliary spent more money interfering in Russia’s election than Russia spent on our 2016 election. The majority of people in this country realize that the indictments are a result of Trump’s candidacy, not a cause. Kamela’’s campaign hasn’t touted a single accomplishment that would justify her candidacy, other than she worked off her ass.

Wait! Both steroids and PEDs? That is nuts!

Good point. If he is in the room training and his athletes are watching, great example of what you need to do. But what if he decides he needs to fly back to PA to train with Dake for 3 weeks to prepare?

Why do you have a fascination with trying to look intelligent?