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Anyone else notice that it is now called Hawkeye Beacon? An improvement over Go Iowa Awesome.

They heard Bo "Knows Wrestling" Connell was in town.

Don't you mean credit to PSU?

Goose meet gander.

What did you think when Trump thought Nancy Pelosi was Nikki Haley?

how handy are you? what year was the house built?

I am a fan of spray foaming the joist bays formed where the floor joists meet the rim joist. Close down the bug superhighway.

Project 2025

With regard to recruiting I took a look at Willie's Big Board data and tortured the numbers until they spoke. Rather than post this in the thread that got me to thinking about it, I decided to start a new one here. After playing around with the data a bit I realized that simply averaging the rankings was misleading. The key to success is stringing together top recruiting classes. So if you lay an egg in there it is not a big deal. It is really about nailing it two or three times in a four year window. A good Iowa example of this is that they had their best recruiting classes in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 followed by a title in 2021. On the PSU side from 2020 to 2023 they went 7, 1, 22, 2 and we all know how that ended. As for that 22, it was because they had a single recruit. But that single recruit was Levi Haines, so... Ultimately, I settled on averaging the best three out of four classes for rolling four year windows from 2012 to 2023. Then I determined who had the top 3 classes for those windows. The results: Clearly PSU rules the roost on the recruiting trail. Five times they had the best series of recruiting classes (red) and twice they had the second best (blue). Iowa is mostly third best (green), but overall I would put them behind Oklahoma State, Ohio State, and Cornell. That Iowa tends to outperform three of the four schools in front of them has to be an endorsement of their coaching at the same time it is a mild indictment of their recruiting. Oklahoma State suffers the opposite malady. Results that do not live up to their recruiting ranks. Ultimately these recruiting ranks will need to be updated for transfers. Michigan's ranking ending with 2023 probably moves to around fourth from seventh, for example. Maybe even third. I cheated a bit on ties.

can you quantify on occasion and regularly?

Still the second best coaches as measured by results.

How involved are you with the HOF? Do you vote on nominees? Do you help select nominees?

Turns out he is not, or should not be. I found two examples of people inducted less that five years after a comeback of sorts. Henry Cejudo wrestled Tony Ramos in 2015 and was inducted in 2018. Andre Metzger attempted to make the World team in 2014 (at 54 years old?) and was inducted in 2017.

Quite possibly the worst website ever, but the results can be found here with much effort: https://results.bricskazan2024.games/schedules

And yet, the same athletes and the same coaches. The way I look at it is Mugsy Bogues had different moves, techniques, training protocols, and skills than Shaquille O'Neal, but they played the same sport.

Clearly. But it isn't about whether it could happen, it is about incentives.

On the subject of leadership, Cael Sanderson has talked about being a servant leader. Even the head coach takes his turn cleaning the mats or sweeping up, for example.

Because there is only downside for Dake. What if Sidakov decides it would be fine to go after a knee, elbow, ankle, shoulder, etc.? What is the worst that could happen to Sidakov? He is already not going to the Olympics. It is the same reason Olympic alternates do not serve as warm up partners for Olympic starters. For example, while Nick Lee traveled to the Last Chance Qualifier in Istanbul with Zain Retherford, but it was Jordan Conaway who warmed him up.

Same sport, different scoring sequences.

Between that and Sanderson's social media antics, it has to be.

amen

Even more rare than a true freshman champion (18) is a true freshman #1 seed (10):

I will not accept this lie. Minsk I was signed to stop the Russian invasion. Then Russia violated it's own agreement 4 months later. And NATO cannot violate an agreement it is not party to.

But could Trump take Dan Gable?

I have my doubts about that ORS.