VakAttack

I listened to this just now, and disagree with the representation in this thread. Ryan was being weaselly and assigning statements to Pyles that Pyles never said. There might be some merit to a discussion as to the value of Pyles' original statement that ruffled Ryan's feathers, but on the points of discussion here, Pyles was right, Ryan was wrong. I think Pyles did ask something about this but Ryan demurred. Also, Pyles gave him the opportunity to make clear his vague allusions to other programs and how they handle it vs. Ohio States "beliefs."

No. He and Pyles both tweeted about it, but OK State deleted the original Tweet and then sent a new Tweet afterward. Basically, that tweet was after the initial retirement announcement, so I interpret it to be about the new staff.

The coaching staff isn't running amok. The rumors re: the coaching staff are running amok.

Good ride, Cowboy. https://okstate.com/hidden/news/2024/4/11/cowboy-wrestling-oklahoma-state-legend-john-smith-announces-retirement

We'll need more years of data, obviously, but it is notable that this happened for PSU in the first year of the new scoring rules....but of course it also happened to coincide with a particularly strong (which is saying something) PSU team.

I'm usually the guy to favor the newer era, but in folkstyle, Cael was just different than anybody we've seen.

I'm interested on if this will also happen to Uguev and SIdakov, who also received similar complaints from Ukraine. Eff em all.

You're talking about two different things, just like Elon was. First Amendment doesn't have anything to do with private companies and their platforms. The previous owners were well within their rights to censor and restrict what was put out, as is Elon; it's just hilarious that he does it because he says he bought it to stop the "woke leftists" from doing it to his preferred ideology. Again, his right on his platform, but then don't get whiny when people make fun of you (Elon) for claiming to be a free speech absolutist.

I would doubt that in terms of scholarship given he's still a government employee, but could probably have a workaround related to playing time. You are free to Google Kim Mulkey.

Yes, because the government would not be able to make such a requirement. The government can not do something like this where they are regulating an individual's speech (although Gov. Landry is free to criticize the person or persons involved). Knowing the coach of LSU and her rep, I would highly doubt this is anything related to a protest and probably more related to her old-school ways and routine.

It's literally the definition of a free speech violation. It would be a government entity punishing somebody for their speech.

The only guy to get more mileage from assaulting Cody Chittum than Askey will be Anthony Ferrari.

Oh, good, an original thread topic.

Not a big free speech guy, apparently.

I don't even understand the complaint. The facility looks dope to me. That doesn't change my concerns with the on-the-mat product, lol, but the facility is cool.

Now read the next two paragraphs. Like literally, the next ones. And then, two paragraphs later:

Yup. A rock on a board on top of another rock on top of a raft in the open ocean. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/rfk-jr-backs-15-week-federal-ban-on-abortion-00111017

I literally said in my post that he did not move on the issue, what do you think you're winning here? He did move on gun control and abortion, two of the biggest issues on the left side of the aisle. You can clearly see where I wrote "abortion plan". Obviously a typo, but you're being disingenuous if you claim you didn't know what I meant. As to gun control, yes, his positions are right wing. Did they "move"? I don't have the specific links, but I recall interviews where he said he would sign laws banning assault weapons, etc., and now his position is against that. Either way, his position NOW is a right wing position. You're attempting to debate semantics as opposed to substance, which is fine if you want to do that, but I'm not interested in this, a substance-based point I made, and debating the semantics. I didn't even make an initial argument as to actual policy positions, just a discussion of the political strategy.

Yeah, but that initial headline....

He does not have to go through all these guys, though, just 3 or 4 of them.

I already named one in the post you quoted to make your original point: he's voiced support for a national abortion ban. He's also spoken out against gun control. He's also got his vaccination positions which have been mentioned, but to be fair those aren't shifts, he's long been an anti-vaxxer. His pro-Russian position during their current invasion of Ukraine. To the geniuses posting about how positions now for the parties are different than they were 5, 10, 20 years ago, no crap. That's politics. The current Republican nominee is literally telling people who voted for his opponent he doesn't want them and he's going to run those people out of the party, when they were the mainstream Republicans just 10 years ago. I see nobody has touched on the fact that the biggest donor for Trump and for RFK is ETA: Also, there's no ducking; I just usually take a break from posting right after NCAAs (or try to).

Most of the guys you listed either graduated last year or the year before, with this year being amplified by a gambling scandal that took additional starters away. Meanwhile those young and dynamic bucks at Illinois have had one All American and 9 NCAA qualifiers since Poeta took over according to the Illinois website. Iowa had nine qualifiers this year. WTF are we talking about right now?

Liberals are often brought in to speak at CPAC events. And they're notoriously big on national abortion plans. He still holds some liberal positions, but on Many he ha shifted to outright conservative positions.

Again, if you've listened to him talk over the last year or so, he's shifted many of his opinions rightward.

A weird situation in general. Kennedy's politics are all over the place but have shifted rightward throughout this process. His biggest donor is also Donald Trump's biggest donor. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rfk-donations-timothy-mellon-fec-1872315 Trump has reacted on his own social platforms, acting as if he was outraged, but it felt more like he was trying to position RFK as the spoiler against Biden, similar to the strategy Dems ran in several places the last couple of election cycles, most recently with Schiff and Garvey in California. Basically going on and on about how leftist and liberal RFK is.