VakAttack

Exactly. He's critical of it now because he's not able to fully utilize it to his advantage. If and when he can, he will.

The Ivies take pride in being about the academics over the sports and about competing with each other moreso than the rest of the nation. That's part of their whole "thing." He attacked a loophole. It's fine.

I know, I just listened to a podcast a few months ago on Deliverance, and read a bunch about it (and other Burt Reynold's roles) after Burt passed away.

Within the context of the NWT forum, it's made me look at Banjo Boy in a new light: he looks like a weird amalgamation of Joe Biden and Eric Trump

https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/tucker-carlsons-twitter-ratings-seem-like-good-news-but-theres-one-major-catch https://www.mediaite.com/tech/was-tucker-carlsons-new-twitter-show-actually-watched-by-114-million-people/ As suspected, the "views" of his Twitter show are...ahem...fake news.

Coaches use rules to their advantage at every turn in every sport. Ol' Finger Lakes Koll should know that.

Hard to believe Koll was nearly pried from his long tenure at Stanford where he has loyally toiled for 28 yea---wait a second....

Koll doesn't purchase teams! Now he himself is obviously for sale, but...

Holy Adeline!

Iowa was a bigger favorite in 2020 than they were in 2021. They weren't robbed of a title per se, but they were robbed of the very likely opportunity to win one. Collegiate wrestling is a grind, and by 2022, the guys were still there but even more ground down. However, again, I would characterize it as losing the opportunity at a very likely title. 2020 was Iowa's strongest year and Penn State's weakest in a long while; they took 4th in the B1G tournament, not second. Iowa lost their opportunity, as did many very great individual wrestlers like Kollin Moore, Luke Pletcher, Pat Lugo,, Matt Kolodzik (among the athletes who suffered the worst from an athletic perspective), Mark Hall, Vincenzo Joseph. Then you had guys losing what might have been their best opportunities for a title (Sasso, Rivera, Marinelli). All spilt milk though. It sucks, but it is what it is; but for COVID, Iowa is extremely likely to have won two titles and Spencer Lee probably has his 4 titles. They don't though, and ain't nothing changing that.

I would say that he has made some improvements, but not anything massive, more in line with natural progression. He's not a hugely different wrestler, just more fine tuned. Reasonable minds can disagree on the cause.

Like I said, it's going to be insane and vicious.

Didn't Ed Ruth crash into a Taco Bell?

I can confirm none of this was an enjoyable experience for me.

Yeah man. I don't care about that. Well, let me rephrase, it sucks, but also it's totally awesome? I'm not sure of a better way to phrase that. I don't begrudge Bo talking shit to Iowa, even though I don't enjoy it as an idividual, I enjoy it as a fan of the sport. That kind of stuff (and I put what Angelo Ferrari did yesterday in the same camp of showy disrespect) is the kind of stuff I like! We need more of it in the sport!

You caught me. Big Team Ferrari guy here.

Given how many points at next year's NCAA he's attributing to a rising high school senior....a lot.

Man, when you find out some of the things Bo Nickal has said and done toward Iowa, both while competing and as an alumnus, you're going to be very confused, I'm sure.

I think the chances of it going poorly are very high, especially since the older two are very likely involved. As far as we know, Angelo's only "sin" is who he is related to.

I mean...I guess. We (and the athletes) all know who is king of the mountain right now.

The point wasn't to fake out people, imo, so much as to talk a little smack. It could have been perceived as disrespectful to the coaches that recruited him to those other schools to use their hat as a prop.

Very happy to have him, enjoyed the little chippiness towards the current big dogs. Now if only we could avoid the brothers...

Next level trolling.

Undoubtedly the funniest outcome for the general public is Iowa missing out on him and only getting the middle brother, who is also the worst prospect and, by many accounts, the one who CONSISTENTLY behaves poorly (obviously the stuff AJ is legally accused of is worse than anything Anthony has faced at this point).

https://www.pennstatewrestlingclub.org/content/read_news.php?id=53 #12 overall recruit according to Intermat, I suppose (articles this old are hard to find, so you may have better sources than me). Shocking that the troll be trollin'.