PortaJohn

1 hour ago, Antitroll2828 said:

Cardenas and Fernandes will be graduate transfers somewhere else next season ( probably Michigan where they will compete in like 5 duals meets and make 6 figures) 

Why wouldn't they do what pretty much every former Cornell wrestler I've met and go into finance for a major bank in NYC and make 3 to 4x that amount?

44 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

I know this is Jimmy, and I wouldn’t say he’s undersized but I could see him having trouble with a really strong guy like Caliendo.  I think he dominates Hamiti though

He won't struggle with Caliendo's strength.  And @Jimmy Cinnabon.  Messenbrink is not undersized.  Stop with that nonsense 

Don't know where Jax projects to go for college but with Knox, Lilledahl, and DeLuca the future looks bright at 125 pounds 

51 minutes ago, cowcards said:

You got all but 2!

6 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:

Forgot Borislav Novachkov from Bulgaria.  Can't figure out who I'm missing

Never mind.  It's Franklin Gomez Dominican Republic.  Lol, forgot the one guy who's a part of NLWC

45 minutes ago, cowcards said:

You got all but 2!

Forgot Borislav Novachkov from Bulgaria.  Can't figure out who I'm missing

Was Mike Amine born in Lebanon prior to his dad moving the family?

55 minutes ago, cowcards said:

New question for the day:

Wrestling is an international sport with at least 13 countries (by hometown) having wrestlers who have earned AA honors:

An example would be Lachlan McNeil with Toronto is listed as his hometown even though he went to Wyoming Seminary in PA. 

Name those countries (bonus points for naming any).

Japan, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Canada, Russia, Mongolia, Iran, Germany, Hungary, South Africa, 

This dual is a great example of why we should never trust the clock displayed on our TV screen

3 minutes ago, JimmyCinnabon said:

That’s Sta(l)rocci to you sir. 

At this point in time only a Jimmy Cinnabon would continue with that moniker

Someone let @nhs67 that Starrocci stalled in the first avoiding the tech fall so he could get the pin in the 2nd.  

Just now, JimmyCinnabon said:

Imagine knowing all week you have to wrestle MM on Sunday.

He's one of the scariest nerds on the planet

Decent home dual for PSU so far.  Home crowd definitely helped Levi wrestle with a little more urgency but hoping Levi is able to do that on the road

1 hour ago, fishbane said:

The obvious solution would be for Cael to keep Bubba happy at PSU and convince Taylor to move up a year earlier.

Have to respectfully disagree.  As has been admitted by himself and  his teammates who were on the roster prior to Cael's arrival Bubba had no intentions of jumping on board with Cael's vision.  Bubba and Cael both made the right decision.  

Molinaro: I’m sure Bubba will argue against this, but the thing about Cael is he’s the same with everybody. That’s what I liked about him most and that’s what made him change the culture so fast. He was consistent. He wasn’t picking and choosing which guys to discipline.

Vallimont: Cael came in and cracked down on some rules and a curfew. He had coaches come to make sure you were in class. If you weren’t there, you had to come into the wrestling room late at night on Fridays and do extra study hall hours.

The main thing I can remember is that under the former coaching staff, Bubba had a little more freedom. He would sometimes show up late to a lift. Cael came in very strict and was not really messing around with people tip-toeing the line, and I think that may’ve been a point of conflict between them. There was a bit of tension that was visible every now and then, but I don’t think anyone knew how serious was until he left the team.

Jenkins: [After the 2009 season,] some injuries were starting to catch up to me and I needed a break. I knew I needed to hit reset physically and mentally to get back to the podium. I made some personal moves to make sure that if I needed to redshirt, I would in fact redshirt for the first half of the season.

I purposefully didn’t show up to classes, so I would be academically ineligible. I had extra credits, so I calculated my ineligibility and eligibility to still perform in January for the Big Ten season, so I could at least have that half a year to get healthy and get back to being that wrestler I came to Penn State as. I forced my redshirt year and possibly my departure from Penn State when Cael realized I was ineligible for the first half of the season and that we had different demeanors.

4 minutes ago, nhs67 said:

You gents are giving this turdbiscuit far too much credit.  He, plainly and simply, is a shitstain to society and should be dealt with as such... only he isn't the same one as TheMat forums because the mannerisms are different as well as the way they respond to posts... the old JC did not do that very often and when he did it was basically to make a failed bet.  This one actively parades around like the dumb dick he is.

Being that Jimmy was in Middle School when he started we are now dealing with a High Schooler.  His brain is developing and it will be interesting to see his posting style when he hits 20.

We've already done the annual Dual Championship thread.  We've also done the annual greatest to never win it.  Haven't seen the annual if they would've wrestled thread how would this athlete in a other sport have done or the annual NFL guys who wrestled.  You could do one of those broken record threads.

I love to hate Jimmy.  

We should stop being so harsh to Jimmy.  It's not like we knew this.  I'm quite shocked.  If only wrestling media outlets would've kept us up to date with how good PSU is.  Even FRL, they haven't even touched on PSU wrestlers rankings all year.  It's not like they did a segment on, "what's more likely PSU with 6 champs or 10AA's.". Thank you Jimmy for keeping us up to date

@BobDole blueandgold is another Cinnabon handle correct?  The penmanship and thread format is identical.  

1 hour ago, TylerDurden said:

but the majority of their guys didn't attempt anything resembling an offensive move last night. 

When you have opponents that excel at reattack your offensive output will be less and more calculated 

1 hour ago, TylerDurden said:

PSU smoked them last night, and it wasn't because of reattacks. You can't reattack a collar tie. 

Hand fighting and collar ties slow the match down on purpose to try and set up cleaner attacks and avoid scrambles and reattacks.  Something the PSU wrestlers excel at.  Lower offensive output from UMich wrestlers had more to do with how good their opponents are and less to do with UMich wrestlers not showing up 

5 minutes ago, TylerDurden said:

but in the majority of matches it felt like we were watching paint dry because the Michigan guy was blocking and refusing to engage

PSU lives on re-attacks.  Way too much hate on the board for the UMich wrestlers.  

4 hours ago, Rassling said:

Mesenbrink is in the conversation for a title imo

KOT is tailor-made to beat Messenbrink.  

5 hours ago, jackwebster said:

What about the double break: Alton vs Grajales?

Greatest tag team in the history of college wrestling

3 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said:

but I’ve never been dead on feet before

Have we all forgotten Andrew Alton? 

17 minutes ago, Mr. PeanutButter said:

Angelo is in high school. The 2 older Ferrari's are not enrolled anywhere 

The joke is specifically for Cinnabon 

37 minutes ago, Hammerlock3 said:

he's really popular and shockingly technical but not known for physicality or shape. Its all subjective but IMHO i'd read those strengths into my guy. Maybe he's a wrestler's wrestler in free but not folk?

Based on how the OP framed his question regarding certain attributes that Gilbert Arenas highlights I don't see anyone else who was more admired than Dave Schultz for exemplifying those same attributes in wrestling 

@peanut Always assumed its been established that Dave Schultz is "that guy"