FanOfPurdueWrestling

Why is this board sooo dramatic and pessimistic. If the NCAA doesn’t work out there are 100 different avenues that could be explored and implemented. Nothing last forever and wrestling could do itself favors governing itself.

I wasn’t an engineer, no chance I would have survived drinking, wrestling, and doing school. Had to pick two.

Could be, I believe they’re a top engineering school!

Good call out. I dislike Ollie as a guest/host, I do not have anything personal to say about him and he really does seem well liked by the guys. I didn’t mean to be an asshole, but I guess I definitely was.

Hey- this is an Ollie hate thread, not an FRL hate thread. Fall in line buckeroo. One dragon to slay at a time.

Finally people are coming around to what I’ve been saying forever….

Tyler is sick. Sometimes I email FRL to let them know I like Tyler and hate Ollie. How do we get this to them so they can all know? There’s at least 4 of us that share your sentiment and this forum isn’t all that large compared to the FRL audience so it must be a larger portion. @Jon_Kozak are you a flo guy?

Frick, someone make a competing league. “The 1st annual second string NCAA pick-ems memorial to end feeling left out”

I will play and can talk shit with with the best of them. As long as I get dibs on Matt Ramos and Joey Blaze.

There must be something Audrey knows about Lehigh that we don’t. I can’t imagine going to a club team without there being a clear path towards NCAA status and scholarship money, maybe RTCs or a club of Lehighs caliber has NIL money? But also women’s wrestling is a lot different than men’s and RTCs are perfectly acceptable places to train while studying for athletes with Olympic aspirations. There’s no necessity to wrestling in college, look at Amit Elor.

Not this again… this involves change and that scares me. But I also like the idea of wrestling being free and not needing the NCAA calling shots. We could promote and expand our own sport rather than relying on some mega corporation that only cares about profits deciding wrestlings fate and stature.

How prominent is this rule? I know next to nothing about swimming, but if everyone knows is strictly forbidden until the race is finished he deserves it. If it’s sorta obscure and maybe he didn’t know then that’s on the NCAA, coaches. And the student-athlete to make everyone aware. Anything that is an instant DQ should not be toyed with. With all that said I do feel for the kid, he didn’t interfere with anyone and let the accomplishment of a lifetime take over his critical thinking.

What happened to Nick Lee? Was this suppose to go in Gomez’ favor? sorry, haven’t seen much of Gomez but I do know he’s a freestyle guy first and foremost.

When did ohio state join the MAC?

It’s bc they let Ollie on the show. He single handedly causes everyone to lose focus. As soon as I see him I know it’s going to be nothing but Long Island “jokes” and Bs about his personal life. As an Ollie hater, I must admit, the flo guys must like him with how much they feed off his distracting energy. But he make for terrible radio when he’s on bc no one can focus on the show. WRESTLING.

Hey now… no need to get personal. This hits too close to home.

I’m pretty sure he’s not graduating this year. I see no reason why he would transfer, his gf is there as well.

Fingers crossed…. Ramos is putting Purdue wrestling on his back and helping to make us a perennial powerhouse.

I hope to see Joey Blaze beating some folks seeded higher than him.

Last time I’ll quote myself. In 2020 they cut Men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing. I now see wrestling as a far off pipe dream. but Yale…. Let’s get those dweebs wrestling.

I just looked. They sponsor Squash for godsake, some schools are so dumb with the sports they choose and don’t choose to sponsor.

Why’s that? I’m purely talking out my ass, but it would make sense having their own tournament would encourage the others to create a team. It’s not like they don’t have the money.

It’ll still be around and plus then you get another tournament, the battle of the nerds!

That does suck about Lindenwood, but they weren’t D1 yet and appeared to be less than competitive so far. There are much bigger schools that screwed over wrestling for worse reasons imo. It’ll be interesting to see how it all shakes out with conferences. I think being competitive at a conference level is more important (at least until they get better) than on a national level to these smaller teams. Less EIWA teams allows them to share the wealth and the Ivys can have their tournament to get autoqualifiers.

17 schools in the EIWA is nuts. Seems that getting rid of the ivy schools will just share wealth and hopefully encourage Dartmouth and Yale to get on board with wrestling.