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As an Indiana guy, it's gotta be Nick Lee I was able to attend a coaching clinic that he was presenting at a few weeks ago and once he starts to coach, dude is gonna be a force. He already gets a lot of the small things

Indiana-born folks on the World Teams Sara Hildebrandt Kayla Miracle Nick Lee Gable Steveson

And you have Jungle Jim's! I drive up from Louisville once a month and hit up Ikea, Jungle Jim's, and then pizza at Adriatico's.

I try not to hate Flo - they employ one of my former HS kids as a contributor (and so does Matscouts) However, the streaming is really subpar... They are past the point of being a startup and their end product is not acceptable at this point I can live with the occasional data error on profiles, but for the streaming issues to be a reoccurring theme, I mean come on... The product at my HS is better

https://kpmg.com/us/en/home/insights/2023/06/tnf-glam-organizations-developing-nil-opportunities-for-student-athletes-generally-will-not-qualify-as-tax-exempt.html https://www.si.com/college/2023/06/10/irs-name-image-likeness-collectives-not-tax-exempt Posting in the college board since this affects a lot of NILs, since a ton of them advertise as tax-exempt donations... I wonder how it will affect some of the smaller NILs

Tailwinds isn’t my cup of tea, but I mean that’s a whole other discussion … I’ve used it on a React ticketing application and can see the pros/cons Im just mentioning it and Angular as they are running a modern stack, not a Wordpress site on a shared server somewhere. That’s it’s a shame they have something relatively modern and letting it down with bad data

I mean they are using Tailwinds for styling and a decently updated version of Angular (14.3) so it's a relatively modern frontend stack...

Unrelated but related, those ugly slugs bother me, work on your pretty routing Flo

They were competitive with Bellarmine this year, coming down to the last match. With both programs transitioning to D1, good measuring stick. I’m a fan of Lindenwood, I went to Lindenwood-Belleville when it was still a thing

To me, the biggest thing is flights and hotels need to be reasonable

Indy would be an amazing host - downtown is built for hosting events and everything is super walkable. The state tournament is held at Gainbridge (where the Pacers play) and in general the area is used to hosting big events (Super Bowl, NBA All Star Weekend, etc..). It's centrally located (two hours from Cincy, Louisville, 3h from Chicago, 3.5h from STL, 4h from Nashville) for folks driving in, and the airport is pretty decent in terms of cheap flights. Tons of hotels downtown and in the surround suburbs as well. Now my ultimate dream would be Louisville hosting it at the YUM Center, but we still have some ways to go in hotels downtown (better than Tulsa, but not as good as Indianapolis)

De'Alcapon Veazy will be a good pickup (currently at 39 on Flo's Big Board) Hasn't had the best luck at state yet, but has really good national results

https://newrestle.com/2021/03/12/uno-wrestling-still-lives-on-10-years-after-the-program-has-been-dropped/ https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6922111-destruction-of-a-dynasty-the-bombshell-that-rocked-uno-wrestling

Totally missed that topic - ignore!

For Puerto Rico, you need to have parents or grandparents that were born in Puerto Rico Some background on that, "in 2018, 64 percent of all Puerto Ricans lived in the 50 states and in the District of Columbia, while the remaining 36 percent lived in Puerto Rico", which leads to other issues about identity... Not sure how other countries' folks see it, but in PR's case I'm all for it

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTNDmKu7JO/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Coach Shuck and Coach Hardy on Stalesmates while at the NCAAs in Tulsa

Countryman stepped down, not sure if Sinkovics was fired or also resigned Countryman later became a coach at an Alabama HS, and as far as I can tell is still listed as the coach (even after the lawsuit was announced). For Sinkovics, I know he came back home to Indiana, not sure if he is doing any coaching but I haven't seen anything recently if he was.

Personal plug, MTC Storm has four athletes competing https://mtcstorm.com/four-storm-athletes-to-compete-in-denmark/

McKendree has been one the last few years (granted Coach Schmitz left) For NAIA, Grandview, Life, Jamestown are some good ones I’ve heard in the rumor mill Bellarmine is trying very hard to start one soon…

I would assume Ramos wouldn't leave Purdue - he has a good thing going with Leroy Vega in his corner and A.J. Schopp to work with in the room (the Vega thing is huge)

Bellarmine picked up wins over teams they lost to last year (VMI, Davidson The Citadel) and won the NCWA national title - even in losses this year, they felt a lot closer. Recruiting is picking up and Coach Shuck is making headways locally with the Knights RTC For a new program, I would say its trending upwards

The state of Indiana gets the HWT titles for D3, D2, and with Mason’s win, D1

I watched Presbyterian's Malcolm Wiley at the Bellarmine/Presbyterian dual the other day - he was super impressive, the best overall wrestler during the dual.