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Counterpoint. The year OSU won was PSU's punt year. Iowa is still the only team to beat a fully committed PSU since 2010. And they were highly likely to do it two years in a row, both with predominantly homegrow and developed talent, had the pandemic not shut it down. That is more recent than OSU's title.

Or follow Askren's advice? If you want to go to Iowa, go someplace else first. If you do well, get paid to go to Iowa.

Worst one yet

It is 0 during the Brands era

While I agree with all of this, one key differentiator is Bramds has stayed more relevant than Smith was at the end. I just looked up Smith's age because I thought he was much older than Brands. I was shocked to see he is only 59.

The Brands brothers are a huge part of the brand. You cannot separate them, so they get credit for that too, to my way of thinking.

Only one coach has been better during Brands' tenure. Retirement doesn't look like it is needed to me at this point.

As a staunch supporter of booze in all forms even I can admit it does not help my wrestling.

Best one yet

Yes, it would be his fifth competition date.

So no Steveson after all.

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A+

I am taking my talents to South Beach...and hoping you are there.

You are the high bidder. By a lot.

What are you offering?

Now you are making a bad assumption that these are random variables that are subject to mean reversion. When has mean reversion ever applied to Cael Sanderson?

One more thing to keep in mind is my estimates for PSU tend to be on the low side. They have a tendency to do slightly better than their seeds and my model assumes they match the field (slightly worse for higher seeds). When comparing across the top teams (at least 40 AAs from 2010 to 2024) it is useful to keep the following in mind. Penn State tends to have the fewest wrestlers underperform their seed, resulting in slightly outperforming their seed in spite of having the highest average seed. Iowa has had the opposite experience. So you may want to factor that in when handicapping.

Yeah, that word "scheduled" is doing some work in that sentence.

None that I can think of.

Peanut Butter and Mustard sounds disgusting

Minnesota is sending the big guns: "The Gophers are scheduled to send 26 wrestlers to the Salute, including all 10 who appear in the latest Intermat rankings: No. 1 Gable Steveson (285 pounds), No. 4 Max McEnelly (184 pounds), No. 5 Isaiah Salazar (197), No. 6 Tommy Askey, (157), No. 6 Vance VomBaur (141), No. 9 Cooper Flynn (125), No. 9 Andrew Sparks (165), No. 11 Tyler Wells (133), No. 21 Drew Roberts (149) and No. 23 Clayton Whiting (174). https://gophersports.com/news/2024/12/27/wrestling-gophers-return-to-action-at-soldier-salute

Maybe this is him moving on

Some interesting developments there.