Jason Bryant

Just let me enjoy my childhood franchise (and its tangentially connected mouse spinoffs) in peace!

I’ve said this over and over, and I’ll say it again. You kill funding for 90-95% of countries with wrestling if it’s no longer an Olympic sport. Olympic committees and the governments that fund them don’t spend resources on non-olympic sports (there’s a handful of outliers). Your suggestion is sport suicide. Hard pass.

One-off entries/events are what they are. Metzger was much more active in 2012 in the run-up to the 2012 Trials than he was his one day wrestling at the Open in 2014.

DJT's name was on the bracket at the 1962 National Prep championships for NY Military Academy and the weight was won by future HOF Distinguished Member Bill Harlow. That bracket was displayed at the New York Athletic Club for a period of time. He's not everyone's cup of tea by any stretch, but we've embraced people as wrestlers for far less.

Seppuku with a hat is a new one. Real Ultimate Power used a frisbee.

Lindenwood dropping killed any chance of the Ohio Valley Conference picking up the sport and taking the stragglers as affiliates.

Last two were books often cited in wrestling - Ben Askren's book Funky was pretty interesting to get a deeper backstory into a guy I know fairly decently - and then Chop Wood, Carry Water, which is one that seems to get referenced a lot. I go back to wrestling this coming time with Mat Return, a book sent to me by a fan via instagram. There's a lot of the wrestlers writing books thing I need to revisit, if nothing else, to broaden my knowledge on specific subjects.

99%PI is one of my favorite listens - it's not anything I have any background in, but I find how Roman and his staff sets things up are great. Been a longtime listener to that podcast.

Yawn is right. Don't worry, I won't waste my words or goodwill to educate and inform you any further.

You used a term that's incorrect on how they are classified. You said FGCU was D2. They aren't. You said "since D2 and D3 combined" referencing why there's no D2 men's ice hockey. That isn't correct either. I then explained the differences and what the current world of college hockey looks like. Your follow-up explanation of what you "already knew" isn't close to how these schools compete or classified. Their level of performance is immaterial. If everyone call NAIA schools "D2 schools" - then "everyone' is not correct. Categorizing a level with incorrect terms is exactly what it is - incorrect. You used an incorrect term to describe a level of competition that doesn't exist in NCAA hockey. Also, games against club programs or junior colleges aren't countable competition in the NAIA bylaws, so if they're playing those games, they're counted as exhibition games on their schedules. FCGU isn't D3 in anything. They're D1 in their varsity sports and everything else is club. That isn't D3. It's not hard to call them the right things and classify them per their proper organizations. For example: The ACHA D2 college hockey champion is not a D3 champion. Have a good weekend.

No. Basically look at the D2 schools in two groups. There's 19 Division II schools with varsity men's hockey programs - 13 of them play Division I. Alaska, Alaska-Anchorage, American International, Augustana (S.D.), Bemidji State, Bentley, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech, Minnesota State, Minnesota-Duluth, Northern Michigan, St. Cloud State. The remaining six are in the Northeast-10 conference and they play pretty much D3 schedules but aren't eligible for the D3 postseason. I am almost 100% certain they don't offer athletic aid for hockey (I'm actually checking on this for confirmation) Assumption, Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Michael's, Saint Anselm and Southern New Hampshire. The college hockey fans would like the NE-10 schools to move to Division I to create an opportunity for a new conference up there. The women's varsity programs at those same schools compete for NCAA championships - since there's a "National Collegiate" Division (commonly, but not accurately called D1). They don't play D3 schedules like their men's programs do. Oddly, two NE-10 schools - American International and Bentley - play D1 men's hockey. There's also six Division III schools that play D1 men's hockey: Clarkson, Colorado College, RIT, RPI, St. Lawrence and Union. Tennessee State, an HBCU with the backing of the NHL's Nashville Predators, has announce its starting a Division I program in 2025-26. They will compete as a club team this coming season. The future for college wrestling isn't quite as similar. D2 and D3 are growing. D1 is trickling smaller.

They don't have varsity hockey. There is no "D2" NCAA hockey to begin with.

Florida Gulf Coast is not D2. It's a Division I school that has a club team in the ACHA. The ACHA (their version of the NCWA of sorts) has a couple divisions within their club structure.

This … is the best we have to choose from? i still can’t fathom how we got here. This debate is an argument about who’s the skinniest kid at fat camp.

That borders on child abuse. Back to Bluey.

My 7-year-old just looked at the screen and said “they both sound the same”

Colorado is 100% a hockey state. As far as the Elbo Room, that’s an iconic dive. Nothing surprises me about who walks in there.

Acting president - he stepped in for the outgoing president who left early - until he takes over as president at D3 Blackburn next month.

Newbomb Turk Chris Knight Det. Pep Streebeck Ted Striker

I’m not averse to hoops, but the faux outrage about CC not making the Olympic team is amusing. I’m not averse to Ban either …

This place might be slightly ahead of Twitter in its women’s hoops knowledge. Who here cared before … how many here have actually been to a WNBA game?

You might want to research and understand how USA Basketball works and how teams are selected. Here’s a pretty sound explanation of why: https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40304807/usa-basketball-caitlin-clark-paris-olympics-roster-national-team Those are the opinions of people who spend (and have spent) years covering women’s hoops, including my former newspaper colleague Voepel. CC is has been a boon to women’s hoops but find a guard to displace to put her on the squad based on how the teams typically get selected. To give a popularity collegiate comparison from back in the day - Shaq was the most popular college player in 92 when they formed the Dream Team - they were already flush with centers.

Dessert was awesome.

This isn't just as simple as getting an AirBNB for a few days and calling it done. I live near a hub (MSP) and my direct flight to Paris is approximately $800 on Delta/Air France. That's pretty decent. Since he's been in the news lately (and I talked to him about this at the HOF) Coleman Scott had over 75 people in London watching. That's a large family and may be on the high end. So let's be conservative here, say it's 20 people that's part of the family who wants to go - it's the Olympics, I doubt he's just talking about just his immediate family - Just 20 people MINIMUM is like $16,000 in airfare alone. If you're going hotels, the Olympics typically have minimums for lodging. You aren't just going to go in for one day, get a room for two days and peace out. We've got thousands and thousands of people trying to do the same thing. So even if RBY had a big NIL payout and has a decent check coming in, I don't know how many people can just drop 50K down at the drop of a hat, especially wrestlers fresh off their college career.