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Imagine how fun this thread would be if we were talking about transfer portal news and not all this other crap...

"Why won't this person show loyalty to this program that, in this instance, has not shown loyalty to him?" Penn State did what they thought was in their best interests with the intent to try to keep Ryder. Ryder has to do what he thinks in his best interest. This kid specifically is somebody who moved to PA and skipped wrestling his senior year, he was all in on Penn State, and was hurt by this.

i'm not confirming it. i have not yet heard anything definitive. he's there. he likes it. the coaching staff wants him. all the kids on the team want him. but i cannot confirm he committed. i can confirm at dinner last night he came out as a flat earther.

i said on the show the other day that there's a curveball school. unc is what i meant. he's been in chapel hill since wednesday night.

I found this very brilliant post on another thread. Everyone should listen to this guy: We are being fed a very mixed message on tariffs. Some may call that a lie. Trump has attempted to sell these as retaliation for unfair trade practices (tariffs imposed on US goods, protectionists policies and taxes). If the goal was really to remove those barriers imposed by other nations then you would need to target those nations and those policies to have a chance at being effective. But that is not what happened. Tariffs are being imposed willy-nilly based on balance of trade. They took a hyper simplistic approach. And the effect was predictable. Now other countries will impose retaliatory tariffs on the US. Imbalance of trade can be the result of unfair practices. But what you describe above is not that. Cheaper labor in other countries is a structural advantage. Tariffs will never solve that problem. Tariffs will only serve to import inflation. The tariff formula they used makes matters worse. And they knew what they were doing was simplistic so they attempted to dress up their formula with superscripts and subscripts that have no meaning. And they added Greek letters that exactly offset each other (4 x .25 = 1) while citing studies that DO NOT support those values. This is so poorly executed after being so poorly conceived. That is why the market is selling off hard. A complete unforced error. And Trump will absolutely violate the first rule of holes. Now that he is in one, he keep digging.

I laughed out loud twice when reading this. First, when he says he wants to set the record straight. For a guy who is notorious for deleting the record when it is his record that needs to be set straight is rich. Then when he says he is in awe of the narratives set up by some. That is his entire existence. Setting up narratives. True, false, uncertain? Who gives a crap. Delete the truly stupid takes, block anyone who keeps track, and move on. His high road attempt makes me disrespect him more. But, I believe what he is saying that Ryder was blindsided.

Charges were dismissed too. Original Poster "JimmySpeaks" is a douchebag.

Listening to Trent Hidlay on Matcast for NCAA's I thought he would make a good coach.

Nothing a few backyard vodka shots wouldn't fix

I'd wager Rutgers. I also hope to see him decend to 157lbs.

This isn't true. Nowhere was this stated anywhere.

JimmySqueaks.. another fart out of his mouth

You gotta love people that have so much hate for someone that they want the entire country to fail just because of him. It’s a sickness for sure.

Being charged with a crime doesn't make one an offender. Charges were dismissed. You just slandered someone and maybe you are the criminal here.

Surprised Thompson isn’t already in the portal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ryder to OK State.

Erik Gibson of PSU - the mentally weak, can't handle setbacks not cut out to be the best wrestler enters the portal.

I am no fan of Bernie Sanders' economic theories, but they have also never been followed. I am no fan of Trump's economic theories. And now that I see the results, I absolutely hate them. Comparing this reality to some past theoretical world is useless.

Ryder or Rocco...

Why is it all the more reason to hold his ground? You just saying that doesn't make it so. "Look, your girlfriend cheated on you but she's SUPER hot, so you have to suck it up..."

Following the economic policies of Bernie Sanders is how you crash the economy.

Why would I waste any time listening to him when I have the world’s greatest authority on everything to tell me how it is? YOU. I mean I woke up to the Great Depression yesterday just like you said I would. Right?

Correction to my previous post, NIL deals coming from boosters and similar collectives could be prohibited. It depends on what happens on Monday's House settlement hearing. It looks like the P4 conferences are creating its own LLC and proposing that it be the entity that enforces NIL, salary cap, and investigations within its own subdivision of the NCAA. Under their proposal, collectives would have strict limits for NIL deals. Everything is still up in the air though, and many seem to doubt that the judge will approve terms of the settlement on Monday. So who knows.

Does it make you all warm and fuzzy to call people names constantly? What do you get out of it...other than making yourself look like an a-hole?

I believe that I do. I, for one, was happy to have Gable back. He also gifted us with a great moment (or two) after returning.

The Ryder situation is tough. He forwent his senior season in of HS to be in that room. To feel slighted is definitely fair.

I've certainly learned my lesson. My Roth will be where I buy NVDA, META, TSM and my brokerage account will be MORE ETFs and Index funds...though you can only put so much into your Roth, but I'm definitely going to switch it up so that the next time I think NVDA is going to go from 140 to 120, I can sell in my Roth with no penalty(I NEVER would have dreamed it'd get down to 92...I'd be buying that hand over fist as it now trades at a forward PE in the low teens). But that's how I had it set up.

They are not using Signal. They decided to use instant messenger on Facebook. All is well.

AJ in the lab trying to come up with a way to combine a Tar Heel or a Ram into his trademark 5/7ths of a split celebration.

My money is on Sacred Heart. The Holy Spirit sent him a message.

The View is now on this thread. Welcome Whoopi and Joy.

I believe the process takes 3 days...

Day 2. Still no GREAT DEPRESSION LIKE THE SCOURGE PROMISED

I don't know. Welsh is obviously getting paid for his services, and if you're Iowa, or Missouri, why pay a guy to come fill a weight where you have a high caliber wrestler? It would make more sense to bring in a guy at a weight of need. PSU is the only team with such an embarrassment of riches that they would bring in a Rocco when they have a Ryder at home.

My point is that, to the best of my knowledge, no one on this message board knows what happened between Rocco and the PSU staff. I also don't actually care what happened between the two parties. I don't actually care if coaches are actively poaching athletes in the current landscape of college wrestling. Whether a wrestler is in the portal or not, we are living in an era of no contracts and everyone is a free agent. I understand that "technically" a student has to be in the portal to be talked to, but at this point, there might as well just be an open recruiting process every year.. athletes in the portal or not. My issue is people white-knighting for PSU when they don't know any more than the rest of us, but want to act as if lack of evidence is the same as lack of misconduct. I don't know if there was anything below board with the whole ordeal, and I'm not going to argue that there was anything below board.. because I don't know what happened. I'm also not going to argue that they did nothing wrong, because just like you, I don't know if they did anything wrong or not. Just because they haven't been caught doesn't mean they aren't doing anything wrong. How many basketball/football programs were caught years after their misconduct for paying athletes illegally in the last 30 years? Again, I don't care if they did contact Welsh "illegally." It's just obnoxious when people white-knight for PSU when they have no idea what actually went on behind the scenes. I do hope that @VakAttack enjoys watching PSU homers squirm to defend their program now that they are the evil empire of wrestling after having to fight the battle for Iowa all these years.

Rocco approached them about the transfer but it wasn’t a done deal until they worked out the financial side of things. That is where the friction began on Ryder’s side because yes they paid Rocco quite a bit.

Do not expect any middle ground around here. It is to the extreme on both ends. This is where we are now. It’s not USA USA, with enemies abroad anymore. It’s Right Right, the left is the enemy, and vice versa. Remember those couple months right after 911? That was the UNITED States of America. Long gone now. I announce baseball games, and when introducing the anthem I say “…..Ladies and Gentlemen THE FLAG, and the UNITED (short pause) states of America” That’s my dream world. But we’re far from it right now.

Looking forward to seeing Ramos coach Terukina up

I'm going to be so pissed if Ryder was poached away with a bag and PSU ended up saving money because Welsh doesn't care about getting paid

If you go to New Glarus Brewing they actually have beer that is better than spotted cow. Also a great brewery tour. Good bike race there too.

Ooof...that sucks for him. Good for Wrestling fans...but not for Kueter. I hope he can come all the way back, but...that's gonna hurt his chances at playing Football at the next level. Though, he reminds me of that NC State kid Peyton Wilson who was drafted by the Steelers last year. He was older and had an injury history when he came out.

Devil is always in the details

Because their cars aren’t very good. Probably why they still have so much inventory

Haven’t car companies been offering this promotion for like decades?

Would anything ever please you? Somewhere along the way someone hurt you bad or made fun of you for your weight, but you are so damn jaded. Something tells me you could win $100M and you would find a way to whine about the taxes you have to pay on it. You in all seriousness need help.

From one of those other threads: Let's explore the concept of dumb as it relates to tariffs. I just saw the formula Trump used to decide how each country's tariff was decided. It his nothing to do with being reciprocal, in spite of the marketing tag line. It charges tariffs based on the size of the trade deficit with the US - not on whether there are any tariffs on us. It is the most simplistic calculation possible. Call it the artifice of the deal. Take the trade deficit, divide it by how much we import from that country, then divide by 2. That is the percentage tariff on that country. Why is that dumb, you may reasonably ask? Because many trade deficits are not caused by tariffs or protectionist policies. Many trade deficits are structural. Another country pays its labor less than we pay ours causing goods from that country to cost less. All we are doing then is importing inflation. So now we make our own t-shirts and sneakers? Who wants those jobs? Perhaps we can bring back some immigrants we just deported to handle the work. If Trump really wanted this to work, without blowing up our economy, he would have spent time to actually attack the problem - protectionist policies and tariffs. Instead, he is too lazy to do the hard work and will throw out the baby with the bathwater. Once again - The Dumbest Trade War Ever.

You make up a lot of stupid crap so why wouldn't we think you weren't the creator? And just because someone else says it, doesn't mean you have to keep posting it until we break. Caliendo would have walked away with a title if it wasn't for MM so why the heck would he move down a weight?