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@BobDole @Husker_Du WTF

I knew that when I responded, and debated whether to qualify my statement, or not (3 out of 4). I decided to not qualify, but am torn. The tie breaker for me was I could not find any international achievements for Branch. This is certainly not a hill I would choose to die on, more of a hair split on what constitutes THE top. As an aside, I love that his bio on the Wyoming website barely even mentions that he wrestled. There is paragraph after paragraph about the athletes he coached and coaching achievements, but only a few sentences about his wrestling.

The rule reads that the injury occurs before the start of the second half of the season, which is the 10th date for wrestling, AND the injury occurs when the athlete has not participated in more than 30% of eligible dates, which in wrestling is defined as six. He is fine on the number of competition dates (four) but his last competition date was the eleventh for the team, so he participated in the second half of the season. Given that, I am not sure how he gets another year for 2024.

This got me thinking about the ways that Gary Hall Jr. and I are complete opposites. Hall Jr.'s father and grandfather were world class swimmers, too. I do not every recall seeing my father in a pool, and my grandfather was a coal miner. While he passed before I was born, I just can't imagine him in a pool either. Hall Jr. was a drop dead sprinter. World class at 100m and under. Never saw a 101st meter. I was a distance swimmer's distance swimmer. It took me 500m just to get going. Hall Jr. medaled in three Olympics. I once qualified for a lone Olympic Trials. So, I'm real close on this one. At 218 lbs. Hall Jr. needed 6'6" to carry that weight. Very inefficient. I get within a biscuit of that while only using 5'10".

Give me two weeks with Terry and I will have him beating Tom.

It seems like those are examples of guys who faught their body type to get close to the top, but not THE top.

https://usawrestlingevents.com/event/2500181702/schedule May 15 at 7:00 pm EST per above

"With a professional swimming record of zero and zero...." Love it.

It raises the question, what is the perfect body type for wrestling? I heard a TED talk a while back that argued part of the progression of records in sports is attributable to specialization by body type. For example, in the early Olympics the shot putters and the sprinters looked very much alike, now there could not be a more stark contrast in sports. Michael Phelps with his long torso, short legs, big feet, long arms, extreme shoulder, knee, and ankle flexibility is the perfect body type for swimming. Sadulaev also has a long torso and short legs. Is this the perfect wrestling body type? Would Phelps also have been a world class wrestler?

It doesn't look like NLWC has submitted any entries yet. They do like to wait until the end.

The single attribute Donald Trump demands from everyone who works for him is the blind allegiance of a yes man. To turn around and claim he is only following his lawyers' advice is to ignore that they only tell him what he wants to hear.

When Biden was in office you guys were a bunch of investigators. Now, it is - shrug - he says a lawyer told him to do it, it must be right.

She left Stanford a couple years ago to train with Anthony Nesty at Florida and has been steadily getting back to her best. She now has 23 of the 25 fastest times in the 800, and all of the top 10.

Amen. She would melt people.

My neverending work to bring culture and refinement to my wrestling brethren.

Simpleton

It's like you guys don't know who the president is.

True, but what he describes is a permanent inflationary effect for the US, too. If US companies are forced to abandon China to find the next best labor deal, it will still be the next best. So prices will still go higher. Worse for China, sure. But still very bad for the US. That said, China is the biggest culprit when it comes to unfair trade practices, and should be the target of hard negotiations. But I believe the tariffs need to be targeted at unfair trade practices, rather than the current across the board craziness of using a made up formula that equates any and all goods imbalances as unfair, while ignoring services imbalances that typically go in the other direction, and the fact that many imbalances are structural (i.e. China has cheaper labor, and nothing will change that). And a policy needs to be well thought out, rather than the willy nilly, reactionary, at the whim, set of "policies" Trump is currently pursuing.

Don't leave out her math skills as being off.

Playing around with the placement data and I noticed that while ISU averaged more than 7 national qualifiers per year from 2014 - 2025, they had only 1 in 2018 (Jarrett Degen went 3-2, scoring 3 team points). Followed by years of 9, 8, 9, 8, 9, 8 national qualifiers. What am I missing? What happened in 2018?

Good news / bad news? They had a rough 8 year stretch from 2016 - 2024 where they underperformed each year. But they snapped back nicely in 2025, beating their average seed by 1.1 spots. That also means Iowa now has the longest active streak of underperforming seed at 5 straight years.

Three days ago she said DEA has seized 21 million fentanyl pills, saving 21 million lives since Trump took office. Mind you in 2023 there were ~70,000 fentanyl deaths. Two days later she said it was 22 million pills, saving 119 million lives since January. Today she said it was 22 million pills, saving 258 million lives. Apparently 76% of us were this close to taking up fentanyl and dying from it. Sadly we were going to need to share those 22 million pills though.

I assume if there is scholarship money available they can, and they can definitely get NIL.

I think that is the loophole @Idaho referenced above.