Jason Bryant

Byers is a home-town announcer on radio. He's not a neutral television broadcaster. Penn State puts his feed into their video and that's the easiest thing for them to do. Trying to classify him as something he's not isn't a fair view of what he is. He calls a good event and if you're listening, you know everything that's going on. If you're listening as a Penn State fan, you're really going to know what's going on. Don't go into a match he's calling expecting him to do anything other than what he's paid to do. "That guy sucks at the guitar" "Well, that's because he's playing the cello"

It’s pretty sterile. 10 mats, bleachers don’t get too high so sight lines can be impacted. Too bad the Orleans Arena isn’t an option.

This sounds like the Tezos commercial I saw on FloHockey the other day.

Buddy Lee, 2x AA, Olympian Jody Staylor, NCAA Finalist Ryan Williams, NCAA Finalist Chris Mecate, 2x AA Several "College Division" champions back when the school was relatively formidable in that era before moving to Division I in 1976.

15 years ago, I’d take gold. Not anymore.

Love listening to Mack on the calls. Great dude as it is.

I’ll never speak in the third person to talk about myself and another account. I have no problem with free speech. Never have. Thinking some people are toxic presences and not wanting them to continue to pollute a great community is an opinion I hold. People making this community their own personal litter box might be free speech, but those actions aren’t free of consequences …

How long were they going to let Kerk hold on to that ankle?

It was a medical. Prior to this year, you wrestled attached, the traditional redshirt was done. He was attached. If you get a medical, your results, as I have always understood it, count attached. Pretty sure Burroughs record at Nebraska includes his medical RS where he got hurt. They even cite his loss to Steve Brown that year snapping his win streak. The sport lacks uniformity in record keeping too, something I’ve been desperately trying to rectify. It’s a very slow process though.

Just asking. Wasn’t inferring anything negative or snarky. Just saw the link each time sans any rationale and wondered why.

Any particular reason this reply is on every one of the Pirate's Week in Previews?

One of the pains in the sport - he wrestled attached. I wish I could find the actual "rule" (if there is one) about what matches count and don't, because we are so bass ackwards in how we treat the results sometimes. He lost three matches in Vegas, so he's got those losses on his record, I don't care what tOSU says about it. They aren't the arbiter of official results.

Contacting me via my personal FB profile (and not one of the mediums I have readily available on the web for contact - e-mail, Twitter, IG or the Mat Talk FB page) and then inquiring about being banned on the board while I'm actively working the World Championships is enough for me to never want to interact with him again. I make the mistake of trying to educate when I see a confused question on the board. But then the egg is on my face because I didn't realize it was another alias and when I present facts, my factual evidence is questioned with "if true" - sorry, not sorry he's not here.

The ESPN+ streams are pretty much all in-house productions and sent to ESPN+ servers. They have minimum baselines on all sorts of things. I actually had to send them some clips when the NAIA wanted to use me for their finals stream before I started doing the PA. The in-house graphics crew mostly gets used to football and basketball, but you see wrestling have a few anomalies, such as the nuances we have with riding time, etc. I've seen varying degrees of production from hockey streams this year. It's not the easiest interface to search (like on my Roku TV), but it has that familiarity to it. You also have to get the schools to WANT to do non-revenue sports. You'll see them either get bundled in with the MMR deals or you'll see them just tossed to the site because they're not worth their time - like indoor winter sports venues NOT ticketing or counting attendance (that's another soap box).

... and a fair amount of money. No way all that should be done for free (the staff, production, talent)

... and I'm still disappointed to wake up and see no presser on it from ASU. I'm real curious the attendance (which I'll get when I start pilfering around the web for it).

Brown-McGee was one I felt too many people were just checking in McGee's favor. His style tends to clog up McGee, in fact, the two met when they were at other schools (Brown at SDSU, McGee at that place in Norfolk) and Brown beat him. So I wasn't incredibly surprised this one was that close.

One of my karaoke jams back in the day.

Streaming seems to really be suffering. That's a brand-new arena that houses the NHL's Coyotes and ASU's hockey team. I guess the non-hockey streaming tech is a bit untested.

Parco wins here and i'll give ASU a little bit of breathing room for what could materialize at 197. Negron has to avoid getting decked, though.

Only choice I made for ASU was going with Norfleet. That was the only OR I got from ASU. More question marks for Mizzou to be honest. Also thought you could view IG without signing in.

Three swings IMO and I'm going with the thought in my picks that Rocky isn't wrestling. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEcNn_pGf6/

Long wasn't an NAIA national champion. He won Midlands at 141, wrestled the season at 149 and was reportedly booted from Grand View for violating the terms of his agreement with the coaches prior to the postseason. Grand View set an NAIA scoring record at that tournament without Long.

One of the more petty things I've done at the old board (Dec. 09-Oct. 12, just to clarify) was to actually put the word on the banned list. Every derivative was ****'ed out. People snuffed that one out immediately. I had to removed d*ck from the banned words list, because the default word kept changing Mike Zadick to Mike Zathingy.

4 of the 5 are affiliated with NLWC. Someone should ask Cael/Varner, et al.