jchapman

The newest episode has Rich Bender as the guest. @LJB do you have an opinion on him? Have you met him?

I agree 100%

Cass and Model are now listed as Assistant Coach on the uwbadgers website.

I apologize for being petty, but Gable is not a defending Olympic Gold Medalist. Geno won 125 KG in the most recent Olympics so he is the defending Olympic champ.

He is 0-2 when trying to complete a full semester of competition at the D1 level. Is the third time a charm? He definitely has the talent, hopefully LR is the right fit.

Do you think that STEM majors tend to find careers in STEM areas?

I agree it is great. I'm in my 50s and these guests and the host are all from the era when I was a young wrestler. I grew up knowing these guys and viewing them as wrestling heroes. It has come out of the gate strong with big time names like Lewboo, Alger, Ironside, Kemp, Gable... These are all guys the host knows personally from his Hawkeye days (except Kemp, but they both know all the same guys) and he knows how to get all the stories out of them because he was there too. I could listen to these guests all day long, the time just flies by hearing these stories. Each guest could come back again and keep telling more stories and I would love it. I wonder if it can be sustained long term with a wide audience. I am rooting for it.

I wonder how well he's done at it.

Minkle left MSU to become a pirate.

I know, I keep catching myself too!

Did you mean to say FCS?

Jon Reader was making $156,117 at Wisconsin.

Check the date

Here's a story about a wrestling coach inspiring me. I was a football player who wrestled during wrestling season. That was my mentality. The head wrestling coach was an assistant football coach who was biding his time until he got the head football job. (He did go on to become the head FB coach, win multiple state championships, and get inducted in to the state FB coaches HOF). I was a sophomore wrestling 160 and my practice partner was a junior wrestling 171. He was bigger, older, stronger, and better than me. I would lose to him every day. It made sense to me for the reasons just stated. One day the head coach wasn't at practice and the assistant coach was in charge. We were doing situational wrestling, going live from different positions. Whoever won the position got to watch the other guy do 20 pushups. The assistant came over to watch me and my partner. I kept losing every position. I was waiting for the whole thing to end soon, getting tired of the pushups. He just kept going position after position with no end in sight. I got pissed and actually starting winning positions. It never occurred to me before that I could beat this guy, it just wasn't on my radar. The assistant coach showed me that he knew I could, and then let me prove it to myself. I became a wrestler, not just a football player on the wrestling team. I saw him many years later and told him about this moment and what an impact it had on me. He had no recollection of it.

Is he gonna wrestle himself? Self pin? Del fino?

MSU is one of only six B1G teams to win a team NCAA championship. Do they hang that banner in the junior high gym that host's their home meets?

God forbid any amount of hail falls withing 50 miles of my house... For about 8 weeks I get bombarded with calls, people knocking on my door, literature left on my porch telling me how they will put a new roof on my house for $0 out of pocket.

Dick Hauser and Lowell Lange

What about Steveson? He was an Olympic Champ while competing in college.

Go with the Tbilisi champion’s cape

Rock is calling the action like it’s radio. We can see what is happening.

It’s like a JV version of the B1G belt

JB just doesn’t stop talking.

Perhaps having a 2X NC at 165 for a head coach helped with his development.