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Wrestleknownothing

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  1. Since you didn't specify current I will go back just a few years to pick Mike Macchiavello. I told this story on the old board, so bear with me if you already read it. My wife and I had never been to an NCAA tournament before, but got last second tickets to the 2018 finals in Cleveland in the mezzanine seats. There was an elevator you could take to get to the seats. When we got on the elevator the first day Mike Macchiavello was already on it. We struck up a brief conversation and wished him well. He seemed genuinely, pleasantly surprised that someone following another team would wish him good luck. After that we watched all his matches and were excited for him when he won 197. "Hey, we met that guy." The next year I was in Pittsburgh alone. Also last second tickets, so I flew in late Thursday night. When I got to the elevator at the hotel the doors open and who is getting off, but Mike Macchiavello? He looks at me with that vague sense of recognition that says, "where have I seen this guy before?" So I tell him about my wife and I meeting him on an elevator and wishing him luck the prior year. He immediately smiles and says, "that's why I won." To then hear Christian Pyles refer to Mike Machiavello as the nicest man in wrestling on FRL made me feel even better about the interaction.
  2. Oh, that we could all commit that thoroughly.
  3. Kevin Hoy 2nd at 285 in 2003. How is it Air Force has a bunch of guys who can't fit in a cockpit?
  4. Will Yianni Diakomihalis extend his NCAA tournament regular decision win streak to 18?
  5. If the Mongolians are available, I will pay to fly them in to handle any and all coaches' challenges.
  6. There wasn't a lot of scoring (before there was), but plenty of action in Carr v O'Toole. The scrambles were wotth the price of admission.
  7. My only complaint was that when they were joking about something instead of commenting you could hear Casey Cunningham coaching in the background. They thought their stuff was so funny they got louder and drowned out Cunningham. I love all three guys, but I really would rather have listened to Cunningham.
  8. Married with 2 kids.
  9. I used to play racquetball against a former Division 1 tennis #1. He would mop the court with me. His goal was always to skunk me. If I scored a point he would lose interest in the game sometimes and only beat me 15-8 or 15-10. One time in particular, after a long streak of points I finally scored. He turned to me and said "you know, that was 18 points in a row?" I replied," I have no idea what you are talking about. The current streak is one - nothing to me." He was so pissed, he went I tilt and I almost won the game. @jajensen09 kind of reminds me of me. You have no idea how much it hurt typing that sentence.
  10. Make no little plans with other people's money . They have no magic to stir men's blood.
  11. Yeah, but should he buy gold and silver, or not?
  12. Well, I'm 58 with no speed, skills, discipline, or flexibility. My eligibility is exhausted, and while I think it would be cruel to force others to seem me in a singlet, I really want this. Oh wait, I just read past the topic title. Never mind. And if my wife asks, I was never here.
  13. It is interesting to me because it seems like wrestlers have adjusted to not getting called. Both Carr and Mason Parris had looks of surprise when they realized they got called for the second stall so late and it was going to SV. Both were deserved though.
  14. I am good with both those stall calls.
  15. Hard to argue, but...
  16. Wow. That was some patient work for the pinfall
  17. Two stalls on Carr in last 30 secs
  18. Your answer is to hope the wrestler with the lead makes a mistake. Hope is a poor strategy.
  19. He only didn't need to make something happen if he did not want to win. How do you come from down 3 without making something happen?
  20. He said so many things. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Figures never lie, but lars always figure. The accounting firm of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe.
  21. Nagao was down 3. He needed to make something happen, but the only thing he worked for was a riding point. Never attempted a turn. And it apparently never occured to him to cut RBY and work for a takedown. It was purely bad match strategy. Lose by 2 or lose by more and you still lose.
  22. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. 89 takedowns in 16 matches, almost 6 per match. The only takedowns in the last two NCAA and B1G finals have been RBY's.
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