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Wow didnt know that... should one take that to mean they couldn't afford getting a coach with a more extensive resume at the college level given the dire financial straights the university is in?

Crazy how fast edinboro bombed after Flynn left...

Honestly I was yelling at him through my tv just like I do to our high school wrestlers when they pull stuff like that... it's maddening when he has to know that wasn't going to work and instead of bailing out he just goes to his back... I forget who it was yesterday but one wrestler was interviewed after overtime and he just said "Ive learned things like a good sprawl can win matches" it's so true but people still go for these crowd pleasers sometimes when it doesn't take anything outside of the basics to win... I say this as I lay on my couch nursing a sore neck from sleeping on it wrong...

This is a Skip Bayless type of take trying to go so far one way with a circumstance without leaving any room for an intelligent and nuanced conversation. maybe you should apply to be on their show as the wrestling guest commentator to throw out some incendiary opinions to get the people talking!

I watched it on Flo under 'brackets' and went to the specific match

Looked like his left knee got torqued underneathe crookham. Really hoping it was more of a scare than a serious injury but this could be huge with Olympic Trials around the corner. If I'm not mistaken he has a bye into the challenge tournament semi finals... wonder if he would consider sitting out the NCAA tournament to be ready for OTTs. Then again, a lot of these guys are just on a different level and compete with all kinds of injuries.

I think watching the match between Vito and Leete you can see how it's one where the whole time Vito was taken out of his normal style based on the visually impaired start. He couldn't level change or fake from space to set anything up and the guy he was wrestling just wanted to tie Vito up and headbutt him the whole time... don't think the kid from American took a shot the whole match and was honestly wrestling like an ass at the end of the match in my opinion lunging with his head into Vito's...

So does this mean Nick Lee didn't qualify us the spot at 65kg? I literally just read an article for the Pan Am championships said it was qualified and now Flo saying it isn't qualified and now we are looking as last chance qualifier as our only hope? If so, who will be in Turkey at last chance that would stand in our way at placing top 3 at 65kg? Can't believe Lee let up on the gas pedal like that against Gomez, just seems like he stopped wrestling after getting his lead...

Boggles my mind how people hold onto the whole 'Cornell lawyer' arguement from close to 5 years ago as a reason to not like Cornell by a coach that isn't even there anymore ... Feels like the same kind of people that are mad when they show Taylor Swift on tv during a football game for 3 seconds.... Anyway, I thought the film was great and hard not to like the guys that are all in it, all seemingly real and genuine human beings that care for each other. Love them in Greys' parents' basement before final x working out and shooting the shit which reminds me of my days with teammates in high school... last but not least, I love what a family feel our sport has and how deep the relationships between coaches and athletes run.

I don't know if I'd agree with that... Not long before Stutzman got there Biechner had the team at almost a top 25 level in 05/06. Biechner certainly had some difficulties recruiting in a similar way Stutzman probably does but I've heard a lot about Stutzman being more of an old timey coach that hasn't evolved with the times. Also- I think he had almost 10 wrestlers hit the transfer portal last year which may be up there with some of the highest out going transfers from any team.... I for one would like to see newer younger blood in Buffalo to get more energy back into the program.

US running the table in the lower weights.... Micic, Vito, maybe Seabass, Zain, hopefully Dake next...

Is this the queue for someone to start the thread - "David Taylor the best 2 time NCAA champ ever?"

Well if you take into consideration an initial redshirt year... 4 standard years of eligibility, throw in an Olympic redshirt (or two), a possible medical redshirt, not including a free eligibility year... you could potentially wrestle on the same team in college as your future son...

Just like I full on jumped on the Colorado Buffaloes wagon, I am getting a Puerto Rican flag Rush delivered to my house to wave during his finals tomorrow in my living room in NY...

And the Tasmanian Devil wasn't going to beat the Russian Tank...

Would anyone have guessed that Rivera could be the one to break the Gold Medal drought at 65kg for the US?? I mean, Puerto Rico is a territory of the US and only a matter of time before it becomes a state...

I know this is a stretch on using the transitive property and blatant homerism as well as disregard for the butterfly effect..... but one could assume that if Yianni was our rep he would have had the 2 seed and had a walk into the semis and basically the finals to set up a rematch with Iran who he has continually gained ground on from their previous two matches... oh so close and I know one has to get out of the US first... That being said, Iran was absolutely gassed at the end of the Lee match and Lee looked like he walked away with a moral victory from that one.

I'm really pumped, this is my first Final X/WTT event I've been too.

The BTS exec director said they are rolling lightest to heaviest across all 3 mats.

Tickets going on sale for general public in 1 minute!

Ok what do you think? Is Gable just too big for him? Is Saduleav the best ever and he'd take it to Gable? Would they need to meet at a catch weigh to make it interesting???

Just wild Zahid is at this level and has a gas tank like that... does he really not train hard enough or is he biologically cursed?

It was his back side run at OTT... everyone came out of the woodwork for him after that and since then he hasn't been all that impressive in my opinion.

I know this is early but I saw Olympic Trial ticket information would be coming out soon. I'm dead set on going and wanted to see who had experience with the process/getting tickets and the trials experience in general ? Is it hard to get tickets to the event? How early should you book hotels and all that jazz... just want to make sure I do things right!

Did anyone message you for these yet? Do you have the section # you can share as well?