Jason Bryant

I’m unsure. Before I was born.

He transferred to UCLA first, then they dropped the program and he and Mark headed to OU.

At its very basic - we're talking about a college sport here. The OP is about wrestlers who won titles as transfers. So "transferring" in the sense of athletics seems to be the basic framework we're working with on the discussion.

So would graduate transfers not count now too? This isn't hard. Guy starts at one school, ends up at another = transfer.

Not an apples to apples comparison, although to your earlier point, a friend commented on FB about Cornell’s guys who went the TC3 route … are THEY transfers? Were they full time then came to Cornell? That I don’t know. Adds another wrinkle to the semantical discussion.

He was enrolled at a two-year post-secondary institution. He then transferred to a four-year post-secondary institution. That description by every definition is a transfer. “Juco transfer” is the often cited parlance.

Transferred from Lassen Community College.

Until we see Division I de-emphasize conference affiliations across the board, any format that fractures a conference-based structure is a death sentence, IMO. That being said, I like where you're going with it @killdozer, providing balance and logic to the topic - which we know isn't something we always like to apply to the sport.

I really loved doing the show with Matt. COVID zapped that … as Rudis had to decide different places to invest its money, mainly with its people. Matt’s had a bad run of health issues since so I really don’t know if we would have continued if there was no shutdown. I liked where Cody Goodwin and I were going, but I need to find the right co-host if I’m going to do a topical show. Matt and Cody were great minds for that.

As stupid as this sounds, from an administrator's point of view, it's Director's Cup points.

Tournament scoring as a whole is just bad to begin with.

There were 69 Previous Placewinners in this year’s field 26 of them DNP (37% of returning placers DNP) Including 3x All-American Brock Mauller 52 returning placers from 2023 15 of them DNP (28% of returning placers from last year alone) Including returning finalist Matt Ramos.

The coaches vote on both the season and tournament coach of the year awards. This is their decision.

Checks in at 258 pages this year. Outside of the cover, back cover, thank you page, table of contents and plugs for longtime shooters Mark Lundy and Tony Rotundo and supporters Resilite and Compound, should be 249 full pages of actual content.

So instead of “All you need is love,” we get a bunch of joker cards people haven’t paid attention to in 20 years … and a bunch of Faygo? Of note: Saw ICP live in 98-99 … real fun show.

The configuration for the Xfinity Center wasn’t at its 18K layout. I’d assume it was maybe 14K available but I was told 12k was sold pre-event.

Another Hint: He’s a current head coach in the NAIA.

I thought it was military service, I'll have to check again. BTW, these questions are great. Even though I have tons of the data at my disposal, some of these questions don't jump out at me and when you post something that I have to look up, it often leads me down a different rabbit hole. Every educational, not just for me, but for everyone. It's important that we share our "pre-internet" history of the sport, because there's a lot of great stories and situations that unfolded in those times.

Interviewed Al last year for Rummy Macias’ 100th birthday. Interesting guy.

Site does a couple stories a week. Recaps, previews, feature. I’ve noticed the main scroll doesn’t always update with the most recent story, but Shannon Scovel does a fine job - remember, that is a general information type of site. Our sport as a whole doesn’t mandate NCAA stats, so we don’t provide a score API like most of the team sports do. I wouldn’t think any fan of any niche sport would go to their site for breaking news - that’s what sites like this are for. I’ll often include the features in my newsletter - but if anyone expects them to provide things our sport doesn’t provide ourselves already, you need to reset your expectations of what their .com is.

@Fadzaev2 I'd recommend looking at 1969 as the start of the modern era, since that's the first year (save '47) freshmen were eligible, so we get to the "four timer" era.

Borrowed my wife's kindle a few years ago for a trip when I was doing through The Hunger Games trilogy and I just blew through those books in weekend. I don't think I'd ever read three books so fast. Granted, I ended up being sick and laying in bed the whole weekend, but the kindle was a pretty good experience.

I’m not dogging audiobooks, but for this resolution, I want to physically turn the pages.

Pick up my annual Preview Guide at wrestlingpreviewguide.com - it’s great for winning and hosting things like this. This year’s won’t be available until Tuesday(ish) before D1s.