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2006 was the Year of the Pinfall. But I am not sure why. Any theories? And it happened across the board. Virtually all weights were up.

While I do not agree with his example, I do agree with his statement, as did the framers of the constitution. We don't have a pure democracy. The Senate exists as a check against purely representative government. It is there to specifically stop the many from strictly and always imposing their will on the few. Weren't you in the room where it happens?

That part I get. But it only explains the decision to leave real wrestling for minor league pretend wrestling. It does not explain qualifying for worlds and then backing out in the eleventh hour. Nor does it explain coming back to NCAA's after the worlds bow out.

A freakin men

This seems exactly right

Will they? Won't they? Today is supposed to be the day that the D1 Council makes their decision. The original decision got kicked back to the Division 1 Committee on Student -Athlete Reinstatement and Legislative Committee (name chosen by the Department of Redundancy Department?) on October 4th at the request of the Collegiate Commissioners Association (good thing there is not a ton of bureaucracy slowing this down). https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/10/4/media-center-di-council-to-reexamine-sports-wagering-reinstatement-guidelines.aspx

What makes you think that? I do not know either way. And I certainly do not know the ins and outs of the judicial process like @VakAttack, so would be interested in his experience.

What do you mean by "now"?

So, I saw this question when you first posed it and it saddened me. Not the question, per se, but the fact that I did not have the data to answer the question properly. But, then out of the blue, another member of the forum came along and offered me exactly the thing I was missing, a match by match breakdown of every NCAA Tournament from 1988 - 2021. I about crapped my pants, I was so excited. And while I need to do a little more work to answer your question better (even though it was very poorly phrased, after all what the hell is a pin?), I think this simple bar chart suggests what the correct answer is. No, there probably was not a meaningful change in pinfalls as a result of the 2016 change from 3 point near fall to 4 point near fall. However, there was likely a meaningful uptick in techfalls and major decisions.

I spit on spreadsheets

Indeed

That Trump chose a bench trial and lost that trial has been very widely reported.

What I don't get is letting minor league pretend wrestling / interpretive dance get in the way of real achievements.

Every cowboy cut I ever saw is sizable.

I think the PSU guys are aiming for US Open rather than Farrell. At least that is all Casey Cunningham mentioned in his pre-season email.

Its Vito for me too.

I just finished building a miter saw table. That is the best I can do.

good stuff

To come full circle we also need to look at the teams who have had success recruiting outside of The Big Board. These schools would have to be considered the raw materials champs. They get those lumps of carbon and turn them into diamonds. Cornell Reigns Supreme There is a reason Cornell has become a regular podium contender: 11 AA's from 6 wrestlers who did not make the Top 100 Big Board slots. Caveat: When dealing with name data things can get messy. Mapping Toms to Thomases and Zaches to Zacharyes is time consuming, manual, and very error prone. And weeding out the Ramon Bravo-Youngs from the Roman Bravo-Youngs or the Sorensons from the Sorensens is inexact at best. Add to that that you are looking for the absence of something and I expect that these numbers are very good approximations rather than according to Hoyle correct.

He was outperformed by Henderson AND McKenna. But he teched Rivera.

An the oath is a lie. Flo claims these are not predictions, but then to come up with their team rankings they treat their individual rankings as though they are predictions.

I have expounded on the un-serious way they set up the seeding points. Have all the tournaments in the most difficult to get to time zones for the western hemisphere. If they show, they have two choices: get there a week early, ala the world championships, to acclimate and optimize performance (and spend loads of money - see point 2); get there just in time, and feel like crap, and maybe get hurt. Have the points accumulate individually so that a deep country, like the US, will have to spend a crazy amount sending multiple wrestlers, but PR can just send the one that they know is their rep. Make it a perfect attendance award rather than merit, because attendance lines their pockets, not achievement.

Yes

Lee was 7th, not 8th. But not the 7th best wrestler there. See Repechage is French for Stupid.