Wrestleknownothing

177 points is pretty strong evidence against their worst season. You are only focused on ceilings and ignoring that floors raised significantly more than ceilings fell.

Those are two different time frames. Yields are basically unchanged since the Moody's downgrade.

I will ask the question I have not seen asked. Does it matter that Moody's downgraded the US to Aa1? After all they are the third of three major rating agencies to do this, and the first one did it 14 years ago. And it is not like it affects anyone's ability to hold US government debt. And with the ability to print money it is not like a default is likely either (though for brinksmanship reasons it is sometimes threatened). So what does it really matter? If your answer is that it will make the cost of borrowing higher, that isn't true either. In 2011 interest rates on treasuries went down after S&P downgraded. If you are a corporate issuer it would be true, but the official rating of US government debt does not have any meaningful impact on demand for the securities, so rates are not affected by the rating. For sovereign credits ratings are mostly a trailing indicator. Moody's is just confirming what we all already know. Debt is too high, and the latest budget proposal only adds to the problem.

JC's take would have been Thursday. My take was that the most likely outcome was 3 champions (29.1%), followed closely by 2 champions (27.7%), then 4 (17.9%), 1 (14.9%). Anyone who thought PSU could have 9 in the finals was, by definition, not being realistic. They were being optimistic. So 6 guys on the backside Saturday (aka wrestling for third through eighth) would fit perfectly. The only way you can argue "underperform" is if everything went perfectly for 10 guys. It just never happens that way.

That ignores a whole lot of stuff. In spite of the fact that their average finish was third....read that again....their average finish was third.....across ten guys, it is only "underperformance" because their average seed was 2.6 AND they could do no better than finish first in any weight. I will go out on a limb here and say that no team will ever have an average seed of 2.6 or better AND outperform that seed with six or more wrestlers. The highest average seed to ever outperform their seed is 2024 PSU which was seeded 4.0 on average and finished 3.6 on average. Of course, to do that they needed the prohibitive favorite to get injured, forfeit two matches, and get seeded 9th so that there were 8 potential slots of improvement. Let's say Starocci was seeded first instead. Then they would have had an average seed of 3.2 and an average finish of 3.6 for an identical -0.4 performance as 2025.

Now I have to learn the flags? Come on UWW.

The other thing that was different from past years was PSU's average seeds. No team has ever had an average seed of 2.6 before PSU did this year. Add to that that they had 10 wrestlers seeded that high and that makes it nearly impossible to outperform the average seed. As far as past years, PSU has underperformed their seed in 6 of the 15 seasons (40%) since Sanderson took over.

The circles on college mats are between 32 and 42 feet in diameter. Freestyle mats are 9 meters (29.5 feet), a seven meter central wrestling area and a 1 meter passivity zone all around. Seems especially weird (and amateurish) because there is no passivity zone on a college mat, but you are right, the videos I saw are on college mats.

You added quotes about an entirely different topic. Not such a great memory after all.

Just stop making stuff up then claiming that you remember "y'all" said it.

What you know, but will not say, is that every single one of those quotes is about college wrestling. And if you are trying to say there is no way Starocci is in the conversation about the Mr. Rushmore of college wreatling, then you are a fool. Still no one has every said Starocci is on the Mt. Rushmore of wrestling.

Why do you always feel the need yo do this? Can you name a single person on this board who has Starocci on the Mt. Rushmore of wrestling? You say you can remember this so I am sure this won't be challenging for you, right?

Kentucky turns its athletic department into an LLC in anticipation of the House Settlement being approved: https://swimswam.com/university-of-kentucky-transitions-athletic-department-into-an-llc-ahead-of-house-settlement/ And of course, it is a swimming publication bringing us the news.

Strange. When I click the link there are two pages. Anyway, here is the full Division 1 manual: https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90008 The hardship waiver rule begins on page 62 and the criteria table begins on page 68.

That's my point. He says only a serial offender would know what he and Snyder know. I still don't know what it means. And don't want to, either.

I will take that as a yes.

Is that the voice of experience talking?

Seems more like SOP for a first time offender.

Medals for what?

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/iowa/wrestling/2025/05/15/iowa-wrestling-transfer-portal-sammy-alvarez-hawkeyes/83568993007/ Answers many questions. He does not yet know if his application for a medical hardship for 2024 will be granted. If it is not granted he will sign with HWC.

This line of thought needs to make its way into the free $400 million airplane conversation.

The box of rocks is awake.

HVI says due to injury

That tracks. Perfectly.

I stand corrected. Those are some odd takes. I am not sure how you can argue against his genius. And I am not saying that he knows how to build a rocket, write code, or make electric cars. I do not think he knows any of that. But he sure knows how to build companies that do those things.