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Coach Robie exenmplifying the VT motto “This is Home”.

Coach Robie is a great guy!!! Being a former Hokie wrestler and just finishing my 28th year of coaching in Virginia, I have been able to have some great conversations with him. Been fortunate enough to have coached two kids who wrestled for him and he was inducted to the National Hall of Fame the same night as my father. He is a very genuine person, and a straight shooter. The Hokies may never win a team national title, but there is not any other person I would want to lead us in Blacksburg. This is an unbelievably selfless act and resonates with me what a tremendous person Coach Robie is.

What is ignorant is you keep saying he said something, or inferred something that he didn't...all because you, which you clearly stated, don't believe context matters.

What is your excuse then?

Investigate and report back to us

This is good news for America and for Trump. As he rolls out more deals, news will just get better. The coop de grat will be getting the beautifully big bill through and tax rates go down and spending goes down and the economy gets better and better. Oil prices are down. That is good news. mspart

Chicago born, Villanova grad, Cubs fan. It is like they chose one of my family members.

Last year was literally his first NCAA tournament. I know he may have gotten beat out at least one year and was having weight issues at one point, but he also had the 2020 tourney taken from him, and was seemingly injured at least one maybe more of the other years. I have less of a problem with him getting another tournament than anyone getting 5.

“Some Pigs Are More Equal” Absolute eloquence.

Why?

He pinned everyone in the Tublisi following the 80 Olympics. Only American to be Most Outstanding Wrestler

Dang. My fingers are crossed they will map out where the money went and claw it back. I wish I had invested in paper shredding companies prior to DOGE.

who created expedited removal? The one and only sir bill ‘the cigar king’ Clinton….. Yes, there is legal precedent for using expedited removal — which limits due process — and it has been used by presidents from both parties over the past 50 years. So, in that context, Trump (or any president) can legally continue or expand this practice, within the boundaries of immigration law and Supreme Court rulings. Key points: Expedited removal was created in 1996 under President Bill Clinton through the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). It allowed for fast-track deportations of certain undocumented immigrants without a full hearing. Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden have all used expedited removal to varying degrees. Trump greatly expanded its scope in 2019 to include undocumented people found anywhere in the U.S. who couldn't prove they had been in the country for at least two years. The Supreme Court upheld the legality of limited due process in expedited removals in DHS v. Thuraissigiam (2020) — ruling that non-citizens without lawful status and caught soon after entry have limited constitutional protections.

@flyingcement I respect your commitment to reporting the transfer news here. I'd miss a lot of info without this thread.

i think you answered your own question

Must be some big money in these contracts. Signed athletes: Askren Zahid Snyder Dake Brooks Carr Hidlay Blades

You’re still twisting words in knots boss. Try try harder but no one is with you on this.

I'm surprised Carr and Blades agreed to this given his history of giving his opinion about certain people.

as a sidenote, Greg Wojciechowski and I are good friends, along with Terry Steiner, who is also going in. I will also tell you I have run or been on the board of a couple of different Hall of Fames. A total of 10 banquets/inductions so far, so it has almost become an expertise. Preparing for an upcoming banquet as we speak......working on the slideshow.....one of the last things to check off!!! I appreciate you positive feedback.

The Church is clearly trying to avoid the tariffs.

It's not that people don't give AWA credit, it's that lots of people outside of Wisconsin assume Ben Askren is all these stars' primary coach. There are several AWA locations throughout the state with great coaches at each site. Obviously Ben is the public face of the business, but Max and many other coaches had a hand in developing these athletes from a young age. Ben would probably be the first to give credit to these men and women.

D3

I second the hugeness of surprise. I had an African pope on my FanDuel.

Cesar Garza from MSU to Cal Poly

I was absolutely wrong in the sense of him transferring somewhere at the end of his career. At the time I misunderstood the entire covid year being something that didn’t count on your eligibility rather than an “extra year” which it vaguely says in the NCAA rules. At the time I was just going by what the rules said apparently talking it too literal . Yep that was me though. He would have had to transfer prior to the start of the 2021 season rather than stay with Cornell and take his second Olympic shirt If he was to get 5 cracks at ncaas that is. As far as 2023, He may make the cut off date but he did wrestle in much more than 30% of his teams matches having wrestled in 8 duals

Nate Schonn from Iowa State to Drexel

Just to be clear, I don't think these folks should be executed. I just want that to be clear here. But time in jail, possibly prison, depending on the charges that can be brought. Those arrested are claiming to not be students because they did not produce student ID. If they are illegal, out they go. All others should be charged with trespassing and destruction of property. mspart

They’ve been numerating the Pope papacy name going back to like the third century, just part of the history and tradition. The first Leo was in the year of our Lord 440. Since about the tenth century or so pretty much all of the Popes have been numerated. I’m not Catholic either but my wife was and I’m a huge fan of history, so…

I managed to pick one up at its bottom. Up 30% as of now.

I'm hoping everything stays put until after I make an investment at the end of the month so I can buy low!

Somebody’s not following stock advice of anti-American vikings.

TSLA up 30% since Tim Walz celebrated its drop. Anyone know what else is in his hate portfolio?

You, Sir, are a Hall of Fame prognosticator. I completely missed this whenever it was posted (no date on the article, but it mentions the vote was 10/29/2024), but we have a winner. From the ranks of college wrestlers Darryl Burley and Greg Wojciechowski are members of the class of 2025. Other Distinguished Members of the Class of 2025 were Matt Lindland (greco) and Terry Steiner (coaching). https://nwhof.org/news/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame-announces-class-of-2025

The funny part of it is if those Jan 6 folks who did cause destruction to the capital building where illegals and/or on a work/school visa, I'd say deport them without charging them with anything and never let them return. That to me would be their "due process".

So in 1953, you would have upheld Plessy v. Ferguson's interpretation of the 14th amendment?

He was dismissed from the Chattanooga team very early on in the season this past year. I think the odds of him being picked up by any division 1 school aren't great.

Let's give credit where credit is due when talking about AWA wrestlers: although they are all friends and "teammates" under the AWA banner, Keegan O'Toole is a product of Ben (40 minutes west of Milwaukee) and Parker was coached by Max (10 minutes north of Milwaukee).

Have you never heard the term: accomplice?

If Alvarez actually gets another year, I will choose him. But otherwise Hipolito and Stewart are good guesses. ------ Gianni Silvestri from Clarion to Buffalo

He had due process. The result was an order of removal. It was withheld due to circumstances that no longer exist. He has shown no compunction for violence and breaking laws. He’s El Salvadoran and in El Salvador. He’s under their jurisdiction. It doesn’t make any sense to go to the expense to bring him back here only to re-deport him so some stupid lawyer can bill a few hours, to the American worker, for trying to swing him a plea deal.

He's jerking chains fellas. Here's his post from the deplorable section over in the NWT forum...

All of you with the seeming inability to not understand the simple fact that, in our country, one of the founding tenets is that everybody is entitled to due process, i.e. the government can put forward evidence in court of law. So Charlie Kirk finding a video from a traffic stop where he wasn't arrested in TENNESSEE (not exactly a bastion of liberalness) as evidence of another crime that he wasn't charged with doesn't mean anything. If you have evidence that is real and holds up to scrutiny, put it in front of a court. That's how our system is supposed to work. Not just a random group with no scrutiny just deciding who gets sent to a prison in another country, a prison designed for terrorists whom local El Salvadoran officials have boasted that "nobody leaves unless it's in a coffin". That lack of belief in America and basic humanity is startling.

Got some dust in my eye just as I was reading this

I'm guessing they don't want some "bowling" style celebration, so they are covering all bases? Flagrant misconduct would generally be a punch, a brutal headbutt, a bite, etc. Not a thrown headgear. I would imagine a situation came up last year where a ref thought a kid did something flagrant and it was a mistake. I'll give an example: When a shrug first started becoming big in the 90s, I taught my team the technique. My state champ 171 attempted one in a match. The ref had not been evolving with the sport and thought my guy had thrown a forearm shiver. He was penalized, thankfully not a flagrant. It only takes one or two situations like this for a rule to be put into place.

I think this chart sums up the impact of the NCAA's decision to take away a year of eligibility from the 2016 high school graduating class (approximately) and transfer it to the 2017 and beyond classes (approximately) in college wrestling. Using Willie's Big Board data, out to his top 100 ranked recruits I show the number of All-American honors won by each high school graduating class. Notes: The 2016 graduating class was poised to become the most decorated of the era before the NCAA decided to cancel the 2020 tournament. As it stands, without their final year of eligibility they were only 1 AA behind 2014, equal with 2015, and 5 AA's ahead of 2013. The 2017 - 2019 classes effectively received an extra redshirt allowing them to complete their careers a year older than they would have otherwise. While not all took advantage of the extra year, enough did that is shows up in the data. Curiously, the 2020 class, the direct beneficiaries of the fifth year, did little with it. While 40 of the 100 still have remaining eligibility, only 11 of the 40 have AA'd in the past. The class of 2020 is likely to finish with 50 - 55 AA's. The class of 2021 is a bloodbath. With only 16 total AA's from 9 wrestlers among the top 100 through four years, it is not looking good. The story can be told by its top 2 ranked high schoolers. Paddy Gallagher and Alex Facundo have zero AA's between them. While Facundo still has two years left (3? who really knows for sure at this point?) and Gallagher still has one, even if they AA out it will be historically low.

The best part was we didn't have to worry about them drowning because turds float

This is easy fellas. 1st ever hodge winner TJ Jaworsky is the answer