Wrestleknownothing

@Voice of the Quakers nailed it. Swim slowly as fast as you can. It is the diving of swimming.

It was the best of days. It was the worst of days. I was 10. I was stuck. I just could not break 1:00.0 in the 100 yard freestyle. It was summer so we were swimming long course where the equivalent is 1:08. My coach got an idea. Instead of my normal warm up of 500 - 1,000 meters he wanted me to swim non-stop for the entire hour warm up session. And I was just dumb enough to do it. I swam a 1:06 that day. I was elated until my coach burst that bubble telling me he had just discovered I was a distance swimmer. Dammit. What followed was a series of late Sunday sessions when everyone else had gone home, but I was stuck waiting for the last event, the 1,500 free. Some meets the officials didn't even stick around. They just left the keys on the blocks with a note saying to lock up when I was finished. Many miles, and few accolades later, my shoulders are killing me and my flexibility is shot. But at least I can bring a bit of culture into an uncultured world.

Turms out it is a dumb crypto memecoin thing. I could have left dumb out of that sentence as memecoin already covers that.

@Iwrite

Top Ten Teams Returning Points Hopefully this one is not too tough to read. I attempted to capture both transfers and returning redshirts (and the combination of the two) in a single chart. For example, Oklahoma State: Has three returning scorers from last year's team (orange), And 1 returning from redshirt (black). They also picked up an Iowa State transfer who redshirted last year, And an Arizona State transfer who did not. Note: These totals do not reflect any lineup decisions. For example, PSU has 8 returning scorers of varying vintages, but some of them may not start while being replaced by a wrestler with no tournament scoring history.

And finally a table. Horizontal change represent consolidation in a weight. For example, 184 gained points from both 174 and 197. Vertical change represents dispersion from a weight. For example, 197 gave up points to 174and 285. Reading in both directions shows both sides of the coin. For example, 157 gave up 33.5 points to 165, but received 31 from 149.

Next a Sankey Diagram for the more linear in the crowd.

Pretty Picture Time Speaking of moving around weights, here are two ways to visualize the movement of returning points between weights. First a Chord Diagram. The color of the chord represents the previous weight. The destination weights are listed within the colored sections. The numbers around the outside are the point totals (also represented by the width of the chords).

I know, I know. I already did a returning points thread. But now there is more. This time I am including redshirts. For a returning redshirt I used the points (and weight) scored the last time they wrestled. More data = more fun. So here we go. Returning AA's Lets zig a bit before we zag. This one is about career honors rather than last year's points. 133 returns the most total AA honors with 15 from 12 wrestlers. 197 has the most AA's per wrestler with at least one career AA (1.8). 141 has both quality and quantity with 8 wrestlers who have earned an average of 1.75 AA's per. No weight has more than one returning champ, but 141 is also home to the only 2 time champ in Ohio State's Jesse Mendez. Only 184 and 197 do not have a returning champ. Note: AA honors may have been earned at a different weight than the 2026 weight listed for the wrestler on wrestlestat.

They are back now.

The outrage is coming from his wife, as usual, after he paved over the Rose Garden that she restored.

Off the top of my head I have Rocco Welsh, Ryan Jack, and Jackson Arrington. Who else?

why ya gotta play into Jimmy's hands?

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no

Curious. I thought he was out of eligibility.

I don't think I can pass that test most mornings. But how about the Brazilian woman who tested positive for SIX substances at their Olympic trials ? https://swimswam.com/ncaa-d2-champion-rafaela-raurich-given-four-year-ban-after-testing-positive-for-six-substances/ All that and her best finish was a sixth?

I will make a swimming fan out of you yet.

Sadly for us distance swimmers, Bobby Finke came home with the bronze. A lot of criticism of US Swimming leadership coming off these worlds. The men massively underperformed while the women underperform, but did much better. I should have said the lack of leadership. They have not had a CEO for over a year now. Bad decision making led to a training camp in Thailand where a big chunk of the team got sick, leading to an unprecedented number of scratches and performances well behind their best. It was so bad that Rowdy Gaines, Ryan Lochte, and Michael Phelps had their criticisms. The US did wind up with the most golds and most total medals, but still finished well below expectations.

Loathsome? Or wholesome? In Cael we trust.

You are back to attributing to me things I did not say. Stop keeping on.

No one is really sure.

It is hard for you to argue when you do not know the meanings of the words you are using. I insinuated nothing. I mad a very clear statement.

There is some chatter on HR that he will go JUCO for a year before returning to Iowa. Perhaps just idle speculation about how to handle lineup jams.

That's ok