Leg rider

Big win for my Tar Heels, and huge upset by Moore taking down a top 5 opponent

Big win for UNC in a rebuilding year, understanding that ASU was short handed I still think UNC might be a little better than expected this year (my expectations included, I am high on what coach Koll can do but thought this year was clearly a rebuilding year and expected us to struggle)

While I agree that fans in any sport really often are criticizing well above their own level of achievement, it is sometimes ok to be disappointed with a performance. Who here didn't have a teammate at some level that had tons of natural talent and wasted it? I had a teammate that was an AA as a freshman and had national title contender talent and threw it all away drinking too much (and unfortunately not just wrestling, but got himself kicked out of school as well). Based on this thread there are a lot of us that could look at guys like that and wished we had that talent because we wouldn't have wasted it.

While i understand wanting the announcers to be the best they can, if you told us 10-15 years ago how much college wrestling we would be able to watch now with things like ACCN and BIGTN we would have been thrilled and not that worried about the quality of the announcing

I gotta be honest, in my head I assumed that most of the board was former college guys and that my career wouldn't stack up, looks like D1 backup isn't as far down as I would have thought, also kudos to anyone else that did it, it is a ton of work, and the talent level is so far above high school

Well clearly coaches not stripping down to their underwear in protest of odd scoring rules is what is missing in college wrestling

When I was in college Kolat was one of our assistant coaches, I slammed him hard with a mat return after his stand up, and that is the end of the story as far as I am concerned

I was an invited walk-on on a D1 college wrestling team, my whole time was spent as a back up. I recognized early on that I was skilled enough to be a good workout partner for the guys that started, and ocasionally got a win against a starter in practice, but I was not athletic enough to be the guy.

I understand the argument about not letting yourself get broken down, and trust me I was a leg rider, I would have loved just sitting there holding my opponent down, but the reward for breaking down your opponent when you are on top is not that you can just sit there and have him get hit with a stall. You won the initial action, that doesn't free you from the responsibility to keep wrestling it just means you have given yourself a better position to do so from

I think removing the point for escapes would be incredibly dumb, and the biggest fix for mat wrestling is more stalling calls on top, the last few years I have seen to many guys get on top, ride totally parallel and just hook a leg to keep the bottom guy from working up and then the bottom guy gets hit with a stall call

I feel like things like most effective arm angle and such like have been suggested on here would be tough to really work, way to much fluidity in positioning to make that useful it seems to me

And as an effort to do that, do any of the Ohio people on here have any insight on Mitchell Younger who just committed to UNC?

Intermat forums: come for the wrestling stay for the debates over obscure majors Seriously though can we get back on topic

I was a 112lber my senior year of high school and I was undersized as a 125lber in college and have wished they had 118lbs when I went through

My .02 for what it is worth, for this situation it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of the rule, if you don't like it fight the rule, but as long as it is the rule, you have to follow it, if people got to decide and only follow rules they liked then there are no rules. And I don't care if he missed the meeting, he knew the rule, every athletics department in the country hammers the gambling point, I sat through multiple compliance presentations in college and the fact that the NCAA considers gambling a cardinal sin was hammered into our brains for over an hour every year. The only relevance to him missing the meeting is that it is supposed to be a mandatory meeting and someone will have to answer for that. And no that does not mean LOIC type of for the people pushing that angle.