boconnell

That's a decent job completely explaining away a pretty solid AA run. I am pretty sure you could make a similar argument for most 5th place AAs if your goal was to explain them away.

I'm sure they won't mind if you stop pretending.

Says the guy slinging insults on an internet discussion board in a thread about a social media post. The lack of self-awareness is staggering.

You're doing some serious mental gymnastics to make sure a tweet isn't wrong. I'll just leave it alone at this point because I should never have cared whether the tweet was right or wrong.

If he was offered more money elsewhere then he would be correct. I don't think he claimed that and I don't think anybody believes that happened. If it did I believe we'd have a report about it. We usually hear when huge numbers are thrown around.

Home and money over money elsewhere would be accurate. You can't claim home over money when home was more money. That's not how the english language works.

They can both be true if you acknowledge them. You can't claim to stay home for loyalty over money when you stayed home for loyalty and more money.

Yes. That is what I agreed with. PSU is the premiere program and nobody has the money to match them.

Cael already works for the team with the biggest warchest, but if you think someone has enough money to hire Cael away then good luck on that belief.

I would agree that PSU is now the premiere program and nobody in college wrestling has any hope of hiring Cael away.

I don't really root for Iowa, but it's funny to mention Austin Desantos not continuing to score on RBY in the context of not improving. Nobody in the country improved if the standard is whether they kept scoring on RBY. Especially for a guy a clear level (or more) below RBY's talent.

It's a dumb term that the sports world has applied to a really good prospect. By definition it should mean a guy who comes along once a generation (20+ years).

No way to justify Fix that low. He's got better FS credentials than every guy but #2 and better folkstyle credentials then all but 1-3 and 7 (and 7 hasn't outplaced him since 2019). It would be a stretch to put him at 5. 8 is dumb.

Great interview.

This is really what you're asking.

Yep. Messenbrink did nothing the whole match then got fake tough at the end. JB then got fake tough in retaliation. The ref awarded a penalty point. End of story.

It absolutely wouldn't have happened if it wasn't a PSU wrestler and it wasn't JB. But who cares that it happened. It's completely okay to root for one wrestler over another. If PSU fans booed JB in the olympics while he represented the USA, then I'd raise an eyebrow. But this? This is nothing. PSU fans cheered for their guy and against the opponent. That makes them like all other fans.

All-time stupid post to call JB a perpetual runner-up after a tournament where he wasn't even the runner-up.

Yep. The seeding was an issue. But the heavier half of the team went up in weight when Weigel got hurt. When Weigel came back in January there were no good decisions. He could have not allowed Weigel to come back, not let Nolan Boyd drop, not let Jacobe Smith drop, not let Joe Smith drop, or let them all go the weight they want and have a wrestle off. I think the decision that got made resulted in fewer points for the team, but I don't think it was even slightly unfair. I think the best lineup for the team probably squeezes out Boyd which would have been even more brutal.

If you are going to talk number of weight classes while comparing men's and women's wrestling, then you're not being serious. The number of weight classes argument has to do with number of competitors and countries being squeezed into smaller groupings. The number of competitors and countries in women's wrestling is far lower even if the men split into 20 weights instead of 10. It's an absurd argument you just tried to make.

That paddle is a serious weapon.

BJJ>Wrestling is not a given. BJJ doesn't work nearly as well when you're on cement, when the other guy can headbutt you from your guard, when you can get kicked and kneed while you're on the ground, and a number of other things. The BJJ practiced in competition has less direct application to a real fight than wrestling does, because the advantage of being on top in a real fight is much bigger than the advantage of being on top in a grappling competition. BJJ also loses some effectiveness if you don't walk around in real life wearing a Gi.

It's common knowledge that most of these guys have a hard cut that affects them. But it's not the reason he went up.

Since when is the cut why he was at 79KG? He lost to Dake and immediately went up. Did he grow right after that loss?

If duals don't matter than why were you yapping about how he wouldn't have won 10 duals? You can't bring something up and then whine about how it doesn't matter after you're wrong.