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There are two ~30 min episodes on YouTube. Pretty good show. Worth the watch.

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They don't really. Davino, McCrone, Kilkeary, Bouzakis,etc. Now if Bouzakis and Kilkeary/McCrone portal out...

tOSU means Ohio State not Oklahoma State

Fun REO Speedwagon tidbit for you peeps... When my sister and I were kids, we did the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and my sister's mentor was the mother of REO's bassist Bruce Hall.

Thanks for the update! Was hoping he was going back home to be a Boilermaker!

Didn’t sound like an anecdote. turn it around. If Tucker Carlson said … Arabs are the biggest threat to democracy. or brown people are the biggest threat to democracy. or gasp. black people are the biggest threat to democracy. the world would have ended.

I have no inside scoop, but I wonder if Diego Sotelo could find his way to Illinois (his homestate and they have an opening at 125) or follow in the footsteps of his former teammate Yara over to Rutgers.

I did a little research when I had time. I didn’t officially find my results against Tyler Caldwell, but I did see Tyler Graff, Matt Kyler, Tyler Clark, and Brian Owen all in my bracket at Fargo 2004 98# weight class. Caldwell wrestled 98 at Cadet Duals that year as well. I think Caldwell was the only wrestler out of the above listed that didn’t win a Fargo title. He was a stud though, as were the others. That’s the best answer I have for you as to when we would have competed.

I don't think terrorism has a skin tone.

Fair enough. At least two of the four mentioned will also grow. I believe Mendez still has a RS and OLY RS. Bouzakis OLY RS. Davino OLY RS. Love to have them at ORTC. Good if they go to Illinois...

From the beginning...

HS: Career 119. I pretty much quit growing taller after 9th grade. College: Career 126. Current: 165.

Was he in under 'mixed' and not 'mens' wrestling, by chance?

Like Muslims do

I've read and wonder if he is going 197 next season. Of course, that creates another log jam with Merrill.

That's interesting....

Don't travel to a place that's off limits because the people that live there will kill you?

Ya. She totally ran on policy lol

To clarify, he's making it seem like the VT visit popped up at the last second after he committed elsewhere which is not the case

Yes, he'll be in the fray with Gaj, Torres, etc. fighting for a spot in 26/27.

125: Ventresca 133: Campbell/Seidel 141: Tom Crook 149: Caleb Henson 157: Miller/Hipolito 165: Miller/Hipolito 174: Gage Wright 184: Ryan Burton 197: Sonny Sasso 285: Jimmy Mullen Still looking for a 184 but there isn't much time so that'd take a shocking flip IMO

Looks like OSU is playing the portal for the first time this year, Tom finally realized he needs to open up the checkbook or get left behind?

I’ve met Seth Wright a time or two. Nice guy and a stud wrestler. I believe he runs a club in eastern Idaho now

I would argue Thomas Gilman is the biggest villain in Oklahoma State wrestling history. But it’s our fault for thinking he had changed his ways.

Woke is a joke. Face it. Dems need to understand that the 20% in 80/20 issues isnt something that can be shoved down peoples throats just because they want to. Let it happen organically. Dem wingers went off the deep end and created Trump in the process. Enjoy your karma sammich.

I think we'll see a much more true 133lber this go. He started 125 then went 133 w/o the 'extra' 8lbs. He'll have the extra 8lbs this time. Edit: It could easily be argued that the end of season Strick was also a much different, better version as well - FWIW. He had much better management of his weight, which is huge

Forgiveness means letting go of resentment and letting go of that want for revenge. It does not forgoe consequences. Mathew does not abolish the law.

Don’t be stupid. Trump will not have a third term.

Turning on him already?

That seems closer to a, REO Speedwagon...

The wingers are DEFINITELY more strategic and unified than the Democrats. They toe that Trump line no matter what he does.

Blake Boarman to Purdue

TLDR. Your party ran against Hitler who would end democracy and they lost. That party is in shambles. They couldn’t figure out to run a vegetable or a literal dumb azz. Strategy is not the d stronghold any more. If I were you I would pine for the good ol days of smart democrats who were leaders. JFK. Etc. You’re looking to run Aoc next. Good luck.

The Democratic Party has a 27% approval rating at the moment. The d comedians are railing against your parties deeply strategy. And you lost against your literal Hitler who would literally end democracy. If you can’t see a shift there I can’t help you.

Your evidence would be irrefutable if the font was bigger and italics.

Watched the Ladies today. Some new faces (for me anyway). Looked like they won the team Gold...

FINAL - 65kg Composto 16-6. FINAL - 70kg Wiley 10-0.

Cause if Gilman can't get along at OSU Zadick will fit right in.

My brisket always takes an overnight black cherry bath. Only two of us so just doing the flat. Tacos on the dock at sunset this evening. Hopefully its a slow day on the boards and yall are out enjoying this beautiful country.

Sammy Sasso is a class act.

I thought the same thing, that's rich by Mineo, lol.

I guess he does know a thing or two about tweets being deleted. But yes, that is certainly an odd thing to say.

I don’t know if I could have been as mature as Sasso was with his statement…. Really shows you what kind of person he is

Yeah. I get it. Dude went for the next best thing. When you're offered more money than you've ever made, and you have some certainty directly after a very personal, public failure (to make an Olympic team), it makes sense. But, after a year of doing the actual job, in Stillwater, maybe it didn't make sense for him/his family any more.

Obviously didn’t need to write anything down, he spoke from the heart. The fact that he even got back on the mat after this is truly amazing. What an inspiration.

Yep, "Christian Values"..., right? So many for the death penalty are anti-abortion. Those who commit crimes should be jailed every time? Donald Trump, anyone? He was convicted of more felonies than Al Capone and Bernie Madoff combined.

One of the things that I can do with Pablo rankings is to compare teams. So what I have done now is to rank the teams, from a dual perspective. A couple of things 1) The first step in the process is to identify a starting lineup for each team. I'm not going to go through every team's lineup to see who the coaches are sending out, so I just pick them on my own. I have a few guidelines I use a) The starting point is the wrester at each weight who had the most matches. In most cases, that's all you need to look at b) Sometimes, when there are multiple wrestlers with lots of matches, it can be more subtle. In that case, what I generally do is to choose the better wrestler (by Pablo rating). This means that if there is a redshirt who has lots of matches who is rated higher than a starter, I'm going with the redshirt. Close enough. And how many matches does a wrestler need? My general guideline was maybe to be within 5 matches of the guy with the most. In the end, I am trying to put the best team on the mat. 2) OK, with the team, the way I evaluate them is to do a round-robin comparison of every team vs every other team. There are 79 DI wrestling teams, so each has 78 matches. The rankings just show who has the most wins over those 78 matches. 3) Scoring: by using the rankings before the NCAA tournament and the outcomes at the tournament, I have been able to create a model to predict the outcomes of a match given a Pablo rating difference. Therefore, there is a prediction of how likely each wrestler is to win, and how likely are the different outcome (dec, MD, TF, fall) in each situation. Thus, I can determine the expected number of dual points given the rating difference. Note that this takes into account the probability of either wrestler winning (the basis of Pablo rankings) and the value of that win. In each dual, I compare each weight and figure out the expected outcomes for the two teams at that weight (note that "expected outcome" refers to the average over a large number of trials). The team that scores more wins the dual. 4) Tie-breakers: In those cases where teams have the same number of wins over the round-robin, the higher ranked team is the one that won the head-to-head. In case of a 3-way tie not decided by head-to-head (all three are 1-1), I used the biggest total point differential among those three teams. That being said, here are the team rankings. I've included the average match score difference just for reference (it isn't used for ranking), remember, there are 78 dual matches. This is based on final (post NCAAs) Pablo ratings. Rank Team Wins Avg Score Diff 1. Penn St 78 43.0 2. Nebraska 77 31.3 3. Iowa 76 29.8 4. Oklahoma St 75 28.0 5. Ohio St 74 28.0 6. Minnesota 73 25.4 7. Northern Iowa 72 24.6 8. Illinois 71 20.9 9. Cornell 70 19.3 10. NC St 69 18.4 11. Virginia Tech 68 17.8 12. Lehigh 67 17.6 13. Iowa St 66 17.1 14. South Dakota St 65 16.8 15. Michigan 64 14.3 16. Rutgers 63 14.3 17. North Carolina 62 12.6 18. Missouri 61 10.5 19. Oklahoma 60 10.8 20. Pennsylvania 58 9.9 21. Pittsburgh 58 9.8 22. Little Rock 57 9.8 23. Stanford 56 7.4 24. Purdue 56 9.7 25. Indiana 54 9.3 26. Oregon St 53 8.8 27. Arizona St 51 6.5 27. Army 51 7.1 29. Lock Haven 50 6.4 30. Princeton 49 5.9 31. Maryland 48 5.4 32. Virginia 47 5.3 33. Wyoming 46 4.5 34. West Virginia 46 4.2 35. Northern Colorado 44 3.9 36. Navy 43 3.5 37. North Dakota St 42 1.6 38. Northwestern 41 1.7 39. Utah Valley 40 1.0 40. Cal Poly 39 0.8 41. Bucknell 38 0.0 42. Columbia 37 -1.0 43. Central Michigan 36 -1.2 44. Binghamton 35 -1.5 45. Drexel 34 -2.0 46. Rider 33 -3.2 47. Appalachian St 32 -4.1 48. Cal Baptist 31 -4.3 49. George Mason 30 -4.9 50. Campbell 28 -5.6 51. Wisconsin 28 -5.7 52. Ohio University 28 -7.5 53. Chattanooga 26 -7.7 54. The Citadel 25 -8.4 55. Michigan St 24 -9.2 56. Bellarmine 23 -9.6 57. American 22 -10.9 58. Edinboro 20 -11.0 59. SIU Edwardsville 20 -11.4 60. CSU Bakersfield 19 -10.4 61. Northern Illinois 19 -11.6 62. Hofstra 17 -11.8 63. Air Force 16 -12.6 64. Clarion 15 -12.8 65. Harvard 14 -13.8 66. Brown 13 -14.3 67. Cleveland St 12 -15.8 68. LIU 11 -16.5 69. Kent St 10 -18.5 70. Buffalo 9 -20.1 71. VMI 8 -22.0 72. Gardner-Webb 7 -22.9 73. Duke 6 -22.7 74. Franklin & Marshall 5 -24.1 75. Davidson 4 -26.2 76. Morgan St 3 -27.0 77. Sacred Heart 2 -29.3 78. Bloomsburg 1 -37.9 79. Presbyterian 0 -38.9