Jason Bryant

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?

Speaking of Atari … these were delivered from back home last week. Still gotta spend the time to get the consoles working/plugged in to see if they work.

I flew into Memphis on Friday, then back out Sunday morning. I drove back from Little Rock on Saturday night and stayed in a hotel about 5 miles from the airport. I drove to Little Rock in between. I didn’t see/hear much of anything in my time there, other than what I’d just see pop up on the local news when I returned on Saturday night. I was supposed to have dinner downtown on Friday, but only found out about what was happening when I called Rendezvous (bbq joint) to see if they took reservations. Closed early and I asked “should I look up what’s causing your closure?” Their response about why they were closing early seemed cautious. I got through town without any street blockages or witnessing anything. I did read they blocked one of the main interstates out of the city into Arkansas for a bit long after I’d gotten out of town. Seems like there was limited issues of unrest. Weather was poor, so that may have kept people in. Just a relatively brief first person account of what I did and didn’t experience in Memphis this weekend.

More so than a couple of ACC teams ...

We have so many nuanced rules from one level to the next. It’s one of those IYKYK things and that isn’t always a good thing.

How much context can you drop in a three minute standup? Hardly enough ... jeez people.

Well, it would make so much more sense if WVU was in the ACC for wrestling.

Well, it would make so much more sense if WVU was in the ACC for wrestling.

I asked them and they only have things mic’d up there for NCAA events (and the occasional USAW). They claim the producer could amp up the audio on their end - and they will pass the information through.

You're not wrong, but I want to make it clear that it isn't the fault of USAW or TheMat in this instance. I'll drop a note to their comms office to see if that is even available (which it is, I've seen them do it before, I've held the mic in those pressers before).

Those media days are run by the University of Iowa. USAW has no control over it. HawkeyeSports does the video and provides it to the media.

Kerkvliet beat Cassioppi at the All-Star Classic, hence, InterMat put Kerkvliet ahead of Cassioppi. What's not to get? It's not an official bout, but I won't repeat it again.

Media outlets are well within their rights to pick and choose what events they consider or how they consider things like injury defaults, etc.

Because media outlets are well within their rights to pick and choose what events they consider or how they consider things like injury defaults, etc.

The All-Star Match doesn't influence seedings. Media outlets are well within their rights to pick and choose what events they consider or how they consider things like injury defaults, etc. The only place they officially aren't supposed to influence a ranking would be the NCAA coaches ranking. And yes, I'm taking the bait.

Will be borrowing this for a throw in comment at NCAAs ...

That wasn't the University of Wisconsin, it was the Milwaukee School of Engineering, a D3 school. Speaking of, if you want to help them out: https://together.msoe.edu/project/35597