Jason Bryant

More of a myth than reality. The conference only sponsored for 9 years and Georgia and Alabama never had an All-American, while LSU and Tennessee saw their best years actually post-SEC sponsorship. Auburn had the longest history, but as a whole, the conference as a conference wasn’t very good. I can’t get at the stats right now but I looked at them a few days ago.

Not possible. Whole institution is D1 now. Never. ever. Accept dropping a program. It’s more than just winning, too. They’re in a bad spot but it’s not impossible to dig out. Not in wrestling’s culture to just quit on something when it’s hard. I won’t accept that as an option. None of us should.

Poquoson. We were in the Top 25 from 97-99. Only missed four Virginia Duals since 1995 (08, 09, 22, 23). So I was there updating the old version of Mat Talk Online.

I was pretty awful, but didn’t step on the mat until I was 16. You don’t get a lot of mat time as a first-year kid on a nationally ranked team. “On the team” for a short spell was how I best describe it. I wrestled more in the offseason than I did for the HS team (never started, zero varsity matches).

Where’d you go to HS?

Bader does a great job with these.

I won't be calculating bonus wins that way in my Preview Guide this year. If you're 50-50 on the season and you have 50 pins, your bonus rate is 50%, not 100%.

Maybe the guys at WS can explain their calculation? To my knowledge, it only counts bouts against D1 competition (excluding teammates), who are eligible and rostered, at the weight class. So if any single matches are counted incorrectly (either way) it would create a discrepancy.

Concordia-Moorhead .. actually announced Swanson on Saturday

Wonder if saying “Farmers Only” will trigger any ads for that to show up?

No, another one. I also wouldn’t call that other guy a politician.

One of my “driving” albums. I can just press play and go.

I don’t see any ads. I use the paid version of the TapaTalk app - and use the brave browser on the web.

Pretty sure it's two weeks from now. Allocations will be determined then as well.

It isn’t DT’s idea, it’s been recycled for a while. I don’t remember when I first heard it, but I recall writing about that concept no less than 15 years ago.

Was over at the Immel's the other day, Richard said "I cannot believe monitoring a message board was part of my actual job."

This is one of those things where you have to have an idea of a group of wrestlers first rather than data just showing you something. I can pull up the hometowns of every single placewinner in college wrestling (save the NCWA) history, so that can probably get closer. I don't (yet) have a database of state champions and placers to cross reference.

User experience has gone down the shitter. I use(d) Blue because I don’t want to fat-finger a stat because, you know, phones/autocorrect/etc. and that won’t even work. Locked into a stuck profile because I changed my image - which used to take seconds. They’ve gone and effed it all up.

I’d take 100 JC’s over one half NJD.

I’ve been really struggling this season with developing college content on Short Time. i have over 200 hats … I wear many at the same time.

Carr was the OW as a 16-year-old high schooler.

Only 107 duals have drawn 10,000 fans or more ever … list is on my almanac site. So WKN can pull the data if he so wishes.

We also need to understand our ceiling - since the 1940s, we’ve had (at last count) 105 duals ever draw five figures in attendance and the vast majority of those in Iowa City, Ames or University Park (State College doesn’t get the dateline anymore for some reason). The 2000+ at the ballpark is a decent crowd for college wrestling duals - but Oklahoma State’s largest crowd this year was just north of 4100.

Just something to be aware of. There was a poster who would go on TheMat, BWI, HR and the wrestling boards who would try to slide into these ticket threads and scam the hell out of people. Ol' Bob is just reminding folks, since it's that time of year.

Old Dominion had 8 wrestlers of color in their starting lineup when the AD dropped the sport. One of which is now at ASU. Some people can get uptight talking about diversity and always "making race a topic," but when college presidents want to beat the drum about first generation college students and their acceptance of all types, then they cut the most racially diverse team on a campus, you can best bet they don't want to hear about that. ODU's president has yet to reply to me about his predecessor allowing that to happen. Wrestling is for everyone. All shapes, all sizes, all colors. We really do embrace that in a lot of ways. There's still some stereotypes and tropes that exist in the sport that get repeated too often, mainly out of laziness. There are still groups looking to do things no one who looks like them have ever done, or most recently, like Tamyra Mensah-Stock, became the first to do. Our differences make us unique. Our differences also bond us. No matter how good or bad we were, we are wrestlers, right?