JimmyCinnabon

Do you think PSU is going to have any tougher time in duals in conference with this team?

Did the kid throw his headgear? If he threw his headgear what difference does it make where the ref went to school?

Have I ever tried to re-create a billiion dollar sports drink in my house? No.

Here is a simple way I determine, without fail, who is ducking an opponent and who isn't. There are only two steps. 1. Does the guy wrestle for my favorite team? If yes, he's not ducking. He's sick. 2. Does he wrestle for Iowa? If yes, he's the duckiest ducker that ever ducked. He should wrestle for Oregon if he's so scared.

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I can buy that. Davis probably believes he can win the spot outright from Nagao. I think he probably could.

I don't think Davis has much of a choice with Nagao injured. I think Nagao is in for a medical RS this year leaving Davis as the only viable 133lber. If he gets injured my guess is they bump Kurt McHenry up to 133. Outside of Davis and Nagao we are looking at: Gary Steen - He seemed undersized at 125lbs. He didn't have a ton of offense at 125lbs either. Cael Nasdeo - He wrestled at 141lbs against Drexel and lost. He was the only guy to lose. He is listed on the roster as 133lbs though so maybe he was just undersized against the Drexel kid but he didn't instill a ton of confidence. I know they like this kid and he trained at the NLWC his senior year so maybe he was an option at 133lbs? Kyison Garcia - I know nothing about this kid. His bio says he was a 3x Utah state champ. This seems like one of Cael's classic kids from Utah that he always has on the roster but never sees anything other than maybe a courtesy start on senior day or possibly when they rest a guy. Timothy Levine - He's a room guy. He is an upperclassman and not a candidate to start. I don't think Davis really has the option to RS this year even if he wanted to with Nagao out.

Because it's super easy to dislike him. I am as big a PSU fan as they come and I cannot stand Bo. He is not overrated and sadly I doubt I'll ever get to see someone punch his ***ducking** lights out. ***duck** Bo Nickal.

Well thank you. I didn't think you noticed.

You think there are reasonable people on the internet? On this board?

You cannot be serious. He would never tell them to drop dead. In person. He Tweeted at them to drop dead.

You are correct. At this point I'd say there is no right or wrong way to built a roster. Traditional recruiting and the portal are both assets to programs but I think relying to heavily on the portal is never going to be good enough at this point to truly compete on a consistent basis. I think the best programs will still rely on recruiting the majority of the time to build their lineup while supplementing any holes with pieces from the portal. The problem I see for Iowa is that they have been the opposite over the last however many years. They are building the backbone of their team through the portal and using their recruiting to fill in the holes. They are still the clear number two program in the country but other programs are knocking on the door and if they want to claw their way back to the top they are going to have to do a heck of a lot better job recruiting guys.

While I have not brought this up on this board I have on other sports message boards and I think it's an interesting thought about athletes being allowed to come back to college to compete if they had eligibility left when they left school. The whole point of losing eligibility by going to the NFL, for example, was because only amateur athletes could compete in an NCAA sport. Well what the hell does that even mean anymore? It means nothing at this point. Kids are being paid by everyone now, including the school, to play a sport. Why can't a guy "go pro" now and get paid and then come back and finish out their eligibility in college? The entire reasoning for a guy losing all remaining eligibility doesn't even make sense anymore.

I am not sure which country you live in, but the United States isn't even in the same universe as communism. If you think we are close I'd recommend you actually look up what communism is. We couldn't be further from it.

And only an imposter would pay their debts, which I always do.

Maybe the "Skip Bayless hateful hot takes thread?"

Those are also referred to as "hot takes."

Is AJ a Golden God?

Of course not. I don't know the guy personally and even as a PSU fan I am rooting for him to make a comeback. I just think getting shot the way he did is terribly difficult to come back from in general without even adding in wrestling. And wrestling is REALLY hard so that's where my opinion comes from. However, I am just an idiot on a message board so I could certainly be wrong here.

I haven't wanted to give my opinion on this but I honestly do no think he ever wrestles competitively again.

I was talking with someone last Saturday who was telling me that his 17 year old son just got his 5th concussion playing football the day before and that he couldn't even speak English afterwards. He then followed it up with "but it's not that bad." I informed him that it in fact sounds very bad and that his son probably has brain damage. He went on to explain that his kid wasn't really that smart before the concussions so it's no big deal. Father of the year material.

I am with you here. He weighed what he weighed due to having one leg but I have always said he was a 165lb guy wrestling 125lbs guys for all intents and purposes. I cannot believe he only won one title. His senior year it was just laughable watching him dominate everyone. The size difference was cartoonish.

It's quite the take to have on Marinelli who only ever made it to the semis one time I believe and never finished better than 5th at the NCAA tournament. He was a fantastic wrestler but the grind of the NCAA tournament was always too much for him.

This still doesn't mean he isn't redshirting. I am pretty sure that guys who redshirted in the past still competed at this event. He may go at 174lbs this year but this is certainly not the hard evidence for that.