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And another another thing. At both schools student-athletes are just under 2% of the student population. It makes sense then, in the NCAA study there were too few athletes to treat them as a separate category. It also makes sense that it is possible to have 67% of all students betting, but only 3-4% of student-athletes betting.

Oh, and another thing. The number of Iowa athletes affected was originally reported as 26. Googling the total number of student-athletes at University of Iowa yields "over 650", which I read to be in the 651 to 659 range. But assuming only 650, that is 4% of student-athletes who were swept up in this probe that seems, from the outside looking in, to have been rather exhaustive. At Iowa State it was 15 athletes. Iowa State lists 556 total student-athletes. That comes to 2.7%. Yeah, Tom, I am going to have to call BS on your 56% claim.

I was wondering about that 56% figure he quoted. It felt a little BS-y to me. The only thing I could find is this: https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/5/24/media-center-ncaa-releases-sports-wagering-survey-data.aspx It feels like what he was talking about, even if 56% is nowhere to be found. 58 is the percent of 18-22 year olds who say they gamble. But that isn't even right as it includes non-college students. Among college students the number is even higher. But lest you be tempted to extrapolate that to student-athletes they point out that "Current or former NCAA athletes may have been in the pool of respondents but not in sufficient numbers to examine their data separately." The point is not to take the rants of a coach facing sanctions at face value. Especially when they are quoting statistics. As in lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Does anyone know when challenges must be issued by for the US representative at the Pan American Continental Qualifier? And supposing there are challenges, when will the challenge tournament occur? As a reminder, a country has to qualify the weight in order to send a representative at the weigh to the Olympics. There are three paths to qualify a weight: Top 5 at Worlds, Top 2 at Continental Qualifiers. Nations may only enter wrestlers in a weight where they have not already qualified, Top 3 at World Qualifier, aka Last Chance. Nations may only enter wrestlers in a weight where they have not already qualified. Each weight will have just 16 athletes (5 from Worlds, plus 2 per Continent times 4 Continents, plus 3 from Last Chance). This year USAW altered their criteria to determine who to send to the Continental Qualifier. Rather than automatically send the World Team member at the weight they have the following allowance for challenges: A senior world medalist, at any weight, within years (2019-2023) will be given the opportunity to challenge the 2023 Senior World Team Member for the spot. a. If there is more than one challenger in a weight, there will be a single elimination tournament to determine who will challenge the 2023 World Team Member. b. There will be a best of three series between the 2023 Senior World Team Member and the challenger to determine who will earn the spot. For men's freestyle this only potentially affects 57kg and 65kg. For women's freestyle this only potentially affects 53kg and 62kg. For Greco Roman it potentially affects all weights (though I am not sure if there are qualified challengers).

As dominant at the team score level as PSU will be, I am taking the over on number of schools with a champion.

In the 10 weight era (1952 to 1965 and 1970 to present) the average number of schools to win at least one individual title is 7.5. The least number of schools to win a title was 5 in 1972 and again in 1997. There have been six years where socialism reigned and the 10 titles were shared by 10 teams (1963, 1988, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009). All four ranking services (Intermat, WIN, Wrestlestat, Flo) have #1 ranked wrestlers from 7 schools. 2022 and 2023 held true to form, though there were substitutions. In 2023, Princeton, Northern Colorado, and Missouri replaced Iowa, Iowa State, and Northern Iowa (tough year for the corn state). What will happen this year? And who are your surprise teams to win a championship?

He is definitely saying that. But that doesn't mean the reporters did not ask him a pertinent and appropriate question.

No-bake? Sounds suspicious.

What cracked me up about his rant is he kept saying they are asking the wrong questions of the wrong guy even though they asked the right questions of the right guy. He used that as a deflection to not answer the right questions. After answering their questions about the impact on his team perhaps he could have suggested they ALSO ask other questions of other people in addition to their right questions of him.

No, I excluded 2020. And for Amine I only included his first four placements.

Sheriff Farley did...

Sleep tight.

Tied for sixth on 22 (5+4+6+7)

A statement by whom?

Yeah, he probably does. I am not a big fan of the what about argument. And it surprises me that Brands would use it as it seems counterproductive to good wrestling. That said, I share your cynicism about the NCAA.

Tied for third at 18. Who is he tied with?

I was going to say something, but decided not to, figuring you probably had not seen the later post. Still good work.

You are correct, sir.

who says they were not investigated?

So dumb. Why didn't you quote this from the article, "Senator bangs gavel and calms tensions"?

A++ 100% Well done.

And here I thought he was a Bob Mould fan.

Trivia Question: Can anyone name the four time All-American with the highest placement total? Hint: He achieved his total of 27 at two different schools. This happened within the last 10 tournaments. Bonus trivia: Can anyone name the four time All-American, who won at least one championship, with the highest placement total? Hint: There are two tied with a total of 19. They also did this within the last 10 tournaments.

My list was the 40 who had higher totals than Fix while winning at least one, so it is 11 or greater. The guys with 10 and lower are not on that list. By the way, there are 68 guys with 10 or lower.

Mike Evans got 6th three times and DNP'ed one time.