boconnell

What a brutal use of a single data point. You're either intentionally trolling or you're not very bright. I'm going to walk away in case it's the latter.

It's classic to put Merrill in with those guys.

If RAF was good at selling wrestling to a mainstream audience then they would have sold RAF 2 with Kyle Dake to a mainstream audience. What RAF is good at is selling almost wrestling to a mainstream audience. Because the almost wrestling is the part of the card that sells. It's like saying the Savannah Bananas are good at selling baseball to a mainstream audience. But what I do really appreciate about RAF is that their highly skilled sale of almost wrestling allows wrestlers to get paid for wrestling.

So you're going to pretend you didn't mean bad or lesser. Interesting. How does this fit with you saying that if you think the home team represents you, it's because of 20th century propaganda meant to fight the red scare? Did you intend that statement to mean that people fooled by old propaganda have equal motives to you? Or maybe better motives than you? You can't tell someone their rooting interests come from propaganda against the red scare and then claim you never said their rooting interests are lesser. Your words weren't misunderstood. They were clear. If you didn't intend them, then say that and explain it better.

Yes. You made rooting interests by where you live a base reason. That's absurd. If someone from Cleveland roots for the Cavaliers that's not a lesser reason. And if an American roots for the American wrestling team it's not because of a response to the red scare. Your attempt to combat some borderline nationalism was weirdly dismissive of people rooting for the home team. Your reply here about more nuanced reasons is just as dismissive. If you pick based on style instead of laundry, you aren't more nuanced or better.

100%. Your post was brutal.

I agree that nobody should be rooting for anyone. Fan interests don't need justifications. But it's absurd you telling someone they can't root based on their own fan interests. The vast majority of fan interests in every sport are tied to where you live. You don't get to gatekeep fan motivations any more than he gets to gatekeep what an American is.

what time is wrestling today?

It's awesome that you say lots of the world looks down on America because America looks down on other places.

Good stuff. I didn't realize they underperformed last year. Hopefully that becomes a trend.

This would be super relevant if they were underperforming their seeds. Since they aren't, it's completely irrelevant. It's absolutely reasonable to not like how PSU goes about winning crazy amounts of titles. It's unreasonable to attempt to dismiss their titles because you don't like how they go about winning their crazy amounts of titles.

Isn't the stiffest competition the NCAA tournament? Isn't winning that tournament the definition of what wrestling stands for?

I bet almost the exact same.

The only thing he is getting closer to by the day is the world championships.

Go read your posts and tell me you were saying decide for yourself.

So you want us to ignore dad and count you as an expert on their comparative athleticism?

He had offense until guys stopped pressuring into him. Once his slide by was scouted he couldn't score on elite guys.

Whether something is dead or alive isn't semantics. Words have actual meanings. When you say something is dead that is alive, you aren't making a semantic mistake. You're making a mistake. I fully agree college sports are unwell.

I think you might be struggling with the meaning of the word dead. Nothing you wrote comes close to saying college sports are dead. I am definitely not what I used to be. I'm not getting the numbers I used to. But I'm not dead yet.

Who said everything is fine? You're beating up a strawman. What you can't do is declare college sports already dead because parts of it aren't fine.

Don't turn on the TV today if you want to hold that opinion.

That's not at all what you did. You said if you can't get a degree in 4 years you shouldn't be distracted by wrestling.

What a dumb answer. How are 4 postseasons and a RS (or 2 or 3) somehow more in line with the academic model than 5 postseasons. If you don't like people taking more than 4 years, then what does it matter if year 5 has a postseason?

Why is 4 a better arbitrary number then 5?