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Based on what you just said, I think I have to change my position. You DO get better at wrestling by not wrestling. Makes me the best that never was. Prove it wrong.

As a counterpoint to the size argument, David Taylor is 6' also. While Brooks did look shorter, he did not have big issues with the size difference. Taylor got in DEEP twice in their first match and failed to score both times (before ultimately scoring on the third deep shot). Then again in the second match Taylor gets in deep early and doesn't score. I feel like Brooks will have no problem with the size.

You are describing a guy who has not taken two years off of wrestling. Not AJ Ferrari.

I can envision a situation where he is the ultimate mercenary. Cash the Iowa check, "enroll" at Iowa, spend all your time training freestyle exclusively in Minnesota with Eggum and Brandsvold, show up at a few home duals, B1Gs and NCAAs and dominate anyway. Never bother with collecting that Iowa post-grad degree.

I don't feel like Steveson is reliant on coaches at this point to dominate at the college level.

Please step out of the room, Bernie, as we are about to discuss Santa. I can't be held responsible.

And WWE is considered entertainment rather than professional sport.

You are reading things that are no there. Your especiality.

When NIL was passed there was a privision that the athlete could not be paid above the going rate for the service (though I do not recall the exact wording). For example, the local car dealership couldn't pay $100k for doing a commercial if they normally paid (see what I did there @BlacknGold) $5k. I have no idea how the NCAA could even determine a norm for an athlete vs. a bit part, commercial actor, so it always seemed unenforceable to me. But it felt to me that this was their attempt to provide themselves some future enforcement muscle if the pendulum of power ever swung back their way, as unlikely as that is to happen.

Why would you want them coated in waterproofing material?

Maybe not even 141 given the off season Bartlett is having. Finals of US Open, and I saw him in Newark, so I assume Nick Lee's warm up partner and heading to Serbia.

What is your problem with the tweet?

Covid turned 4 in 5 to 5 in 6 temporarily.

I am surprised he doesn't do it more. He gave us a free playground. His place. His rules.

And there can never be too many.

There aren't enough Sexual Chocolate references on this board.

Even though they were not yet fixed at 33 wrestlers per weight, it looks like 2008 had only 2 more matches than 2023. And it looks like 2009 is when they went to 33 man brackets. Though there was one 32 man bracket that year.

You all flunk the class for failure to turn in your homework on time. It was bugging me to see if TF were down because MD were up at the 2023 tournament. Nope. They were actually a little below average last year too. In tabular form: In graphical form: Not much to say here other than the last two years were nothing like the prior five. Now, if PSU breaks Iowa's total points scored record because of incremental bonus earned through incremental takedown points, is it tainted?

Have at it

That doesn't sound like me.... But, as long as I have you here. My guess is that we will see a good sized jump in the regular season where there are some big skill mismatches that will make catch and release a viable strategy. But in the NCAA tournament we are unlikely to see that kind of talent disparity. For example, the TF without back points is the rarest of all animals. Going back to 2015 where they list whether something is a tech fall or major there have been 169 tech falls listed in the brackets and each and every one of them is listed as TF-1.5 (i.e. there were back points). Instead we look at majors that were near tech falls to guess which may have been bumped to tech falls with the addition of an extra take down point. In the 2023 tournament there were 88 major decisions. The breakdown was: 8 point major: 29 (33%) 9 point major: 24 (27%) 10 point major: 16 (18%) 11 point major: 5 (6%) 12 point major: 9 (10%) 13 point major: 5 (6%) 14 point major: 0 (0%) My guess is that very few to none of the 8 and 9 point majors become tech falls with the extra point. For example, lets say the score was 8-0 with 3 take downs, an escape and a riding time point. In the absence of more takedowns the new score would be 11-0. Of course, there is now a greater incentive to ride less and take down more, but I still think almost all 8 and 9 point majors would stay majors. That leaves us the 10 - 14 point majors. All 14 point majors would become TF, but there were none last year. And almost all 13 point majors become TFs (lets say all). But the probability decreases as the difference decreases. If 67% of 12 pointers, 60% of 11 pointers and 50% of 10 pointers become 15+ pointers then last year we would be looking at an extra 22 tech falls. Is 22 extra tech falls a lot? Damn straight it is. From 2015 to 2022 there were an average 23 tech falls. so, yes, a near 100% increase would be a lot. Note: There is one huge caveat. I only looked at major decisions in 2023. And the more careful reader may notice that 2023 was not included in my range in the paragraph above. If you want some free beer at the next NCAA tournament ask someone in a bar to set a line for the number of tech falls in the 2023 tournament, and you will pick over or under. You should almost certainly pick the under. There was a stunningly small number of tech falls last year which may also mean there were an abnormally large number of majors. I do not know because I did not check the number of majors any other year. Perhaps that could be your homework assignment. Think of it as extra credit. Tech Falls by Year: 2015 12 2016 25 2017 33 2018 28 2019 22 2021 28 2022 12 2023 9

I can't hold my tongue any longer. Casey's Pizza and Carver Cones are hot and cold garbage. Carver Cones are soft serve. What the hell is that anyway? It comes in a bag and then oozes out of a machine. This is the lowest form of ice cream, and just barely that. If it wasn't for alliteration absolutely no one would care. And as for the "pizza"...never mind that it is gas station pizza (strike one), but it is flavorless (strike two), limp (dropped third strike), and has crappy texture (thrown out at first anyway). Stadium food and gas station food are the worst forms of food there are. It is time we acknowledged this immutable law.

Watching that live I thought, "this is why I don't wrestle".

Do you even know what the definition of is is?

And I thought I had a cold heart. But major props for a great gif