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Are you sure about this enrollment thing? I cannot find anything that says that you cannot take an Olympic redshirt if you are enrolled. And guys like Snyder and Kolodzik pulled their Olympic redshirts late in the season to wrestle college matches implying they were already enrolled.

In the last half dozen years, among teams that have been in the top 20 recruiting rank per Flo at least four times, Iowa is indeed second, @Mr. PeanutButter

Counterpoint. The escape is easier than the push out. It certainly occurs more often, I believe. So now the reason for criteria is MORE needed in folkstyle than freestyle. Let the criteria wash over you. I wish I could argue with you, but.....

I have been thinking about switching to an EV for a year or so now. My wife has a good old fashion gas guzzling SUV we can use for long trips and, with a recent move, my commute is down to 2 miles each way when I decide to drive to work. Given how little I now drive my car and always locally, the idea of an EV intrigues me. Also, I have switched to a lot of battery powered tools and I love them. I have not done the math on them, but I am pretty sure the math Texas Policy did is wrong based purely on the number they came up with. If you are not skeptical when you see a number like $17.33 per gallon then I know a number of "financial advisors" that will want to talk with you. That they are currently banned from the industry, or serving jail, or both should not dissuade you in any way. But off the top of my head Texas Policy talks about the "cost of owning", but then include "costs" imposed on others. I put costs in quotation marks because they also use some questionable arguments/assumptions to calculate those costs to others before imposing them on the owner. For example, they do not do any netting. While there may be costs to others, what about the savings you are imposing on others? Nope, lets ignore those. Anyway... I have been meaning to look into the true cost of ownership: cost of electricity, cost of car, insurance, cost of inconvenience, etc. for some time. I just haven't.

I always suspected @ILLINIWrestlingBlog was protesting too much about speedos, but now I know why. My sources in Myrtle Beach were able to locate him and obtain this surveillance photo.

I kind of like the reversal being worth more than the takedown based on how rare the reversal is because of how hard it is to execute. I am OK with the 3:1 ratio of takedown to escape. At a 2:1 ratio, the escape carried too much weight to my way of thinking. But as an alternative I would not mind keeping the 2:1 ratio if they added in a form of freestyle criteria. In that way a 2-2 match that featured 1 takedown versus 2 escapes would favor the wrestler with the takedown. It helps that I am a big fan of criteria. I love that someone is always trailing and is incentivized to attack. The end of tied freestyle matches are sooooooo exciting, while the end of tied folkstyle matches are soooooooo boring.

My kingdom for recruiting class rankings data. Flo has 2022 and prior years behind their paywall and I am no longer a Flo subscriber. As for the Brain, are those on his Rokfin? I did not see them on Intermat.

And why, pray tell, would the NCAA, an organization that has a history of overly harsh punishments, all of a sudden changed their minds? Because they know what I know, but you seem to struggle with, that their punishment does not fit the crime. And their punishments have not fit their crimes because they have not been about justice. They have been all about protecting their monopoly and its large pay days. If that meant sacraficing athletes at the altar of profits, so be it. But now that they are being forced by Congress and the courts to justify their actions on many fronts, all of a sudden they are thinking about fairness. Since they cannot justify the punishment, they are changing the punishment. I don't get why people don't get this.

gour-freakin-met

In the last 14 tournaments they have 3 team titles, 2 seconds, 4 thirds, 4 fourths, and 1 fifth. No other team, including PSU has finished in the top 5 each of the last 14 tournaments.

Thems fightin' words

Then I looked at the best five year run for each: Most interesting to me is that Manning is on his best 5 year run now in spite of the length of his career. Let's hear it @jajensen09

Did a little something different with this one. Rather than look at schools I decided to look at coaches. Using the top 10 schools that have had the same head coach for at least the last five seasons (sorry Cornell) I looked at their individual and average finishes over their tenure.

No 2020. No three way. Why do you wish bad things for me?

No, they did not make the decision. That is the whole point of the post.

So clear that by Nov. 7 we still won't know what the punishment is. Please.

If you step out of bounds and get suspended for the season, people may have an issue.

Oops. Thank you all for not pointing out that I had failed to include 2023 results in my prior table. I appreciate your forbearance. Corrected:

Him and me both

They are the inverse Oklahoma State. Their last four are seventh best. Their first six are not in the top twenty.

It is recency bias. He has had two rough finishes in the last 4 years. From 2019 they went 13, 3, 3, 14.

Will you accept Top 20 instead?

Iowa is absolutely number 2 based on average NCAA finish. Can't remember the rest off the top on my head.

As clarification for anyone reading, the Pan Am Games and the Pan Am Wrestling Championships are two different things. The Pan Am Wrestling Championships are used to qualify a country at a weight for the Olympics. That is scheduled for March 6-10, 2024 in Acapulco. The Pan Am Games, starting Nov. 1, are like a mini Olympics for the western hemisphere. There are 45 other sports in addition to wrestling. Results here stand on their own. They are not part of Olympic qualifying.