Jason Bryant

Wood Selig.

I hadn’t watched them really ever. Wife suggested it and boom. I can’t think of a time where I enjoyed an awards show as much - except maybe the first ESPYs and the 92 and 93 VMAs. I keep watching Fast Car over and over.

Because he's a play-by-play guy, he's not an analyst. They are two different roles. The color commentator goes into the weeds with technique, nuance. That's not what the lead broadcaster's role is. Shane's knowledge on the sport is more than the basic "down and distance" type of thing, but he's also not going to throw things at you that drown out the important things - the action on the mat. I will whole-heartedly agree with you on one point though - we aren't the target market. Hell, I'm fortunate enough to be a voice at the NCAA championships and I know most of the fans in the building know more about the sport from a technical point of view than I do - but my role isn't to explain the sport to people. It's "down and distance" with a sprinkling of stats, history and nuggets of information. I live in the weeds with the stats and records, but I don't with the technical parts of the sport. Those of us on the boards usually fall under the umbrella of "we already know about what we're watching" so you're right there. We aren't the target demo. I've spent a lot of time on the broadcast side for a number of sports - the guy leading the broadcast is going to focus on leading the broadcast and setting up the analyst. Too much inside baseball for a niche sport like wrestling would turn more viewers away than it would bring them in. We'd still watch, but that's about it.

Shane isn’t there because he’s a hype guy - he’s there because he works his butt off and earned the right to be the lead guy. He’s always “on” and his hype isn’t a schtick. Hype guys don’t do research and appreciate action like Shane does. He’s excitable and has a nearly unmatched passion for the sport.

I rarely wager, but when I do, it's usually $1 or a local beverage of choice. I mean, as of this posting, I have 653 posts on the new board - MOST of them are replies to threads started by other folks. I haven't started 653 threads. Cinnabon might have, though.

For the sake of not getting into Jimmy-isms. I'll then ask you this - Do you or have you ever read/use/browse X (formerly known as Twitter)? You posted it four minutes after I posted the answer, quoting a Basch tweet.

You clearly just saw me post this on X/Twitter and came here to ask the question, already knowing the answer.

That particular dual was small schools in Southwest Virginia ... which I was told it was actually three separate team-point deductions. I remember the situation because it made it as an item in my old wrestling column when I worked at the paper.

Negative points in a dual happens at least once a year across all levels of men’s collegiate wrestling. The victims are usually then underfunded or non-scholarship types of programs at the D1 level. I haven’t seen anything below -1 in recent memory. I saw a -3 about 20 years ago in a HS dual.

Sandy Son Norman?

Cael's middle name is Norman.

They have in the past. Not sure if that's changed in recent years.

None of the wrestling scenes in The Last Champion were shot in slow motion either.

Dark matches are matches that are live, but not televised. Events that are live, but not televised are called “house shows.” There might be a handful of dark matches tonight before the Royal Rumble, for example.

You don’t get buried in house shows, that is where you actually have development. That Indian sports website is also trash.

There is another video showing a view of the kid on top sinking in a choke and quickly pulling an arm under an arm, but I can’t seem to post it here from my phone. It was quick and the ref was on top of the position, before Brunson jumped in. So the discussion calling it a merkle isn’t fully accurate but no way do you put your hands on another kid. here’s the FB link to that post though … He shouldn’t be allowed to coach anyone’s kid, let alone his own if this is how he reacts to that quick of a position. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/gqjhkSUU2iHXkEL5/?mibextid=K8Wfd2

Yeah, I never saw it. I did some voice work for the background scenes, got an IMDB credit for it, but never saw this ever released.

Pretty sure anything after Jay passed, the format differs. I believe Jay did most of it in Access. I know I've been throwing AI at the Big Ten PDFs for about a week and they just won't read the data correctly. When I convert them to read it, they'll not pull the right lines because the way the PDFs are generated are from an era where the PDF wasn't the standard format and wasn't really a native document type. Now, you can't seem to go a day without opening multiple PDFs.

He’s gotta win the spot first, then navigate through the conference to hit a qualifying spot. Beating the Purdue heavy, who is 3-15 this year, isn’t exactly a litmus test for the NCAA tournament.

Some of these movies are flat out awful.

Marcus wrestled his true freshman year at Minnesota - where he redshirted.

He was committed, but never enrolled and never on the roster.

"AC Slater did in fact get a scholarship to wrestle at Iowa!! " You don't actually "get" the scholarship if you don't enroll there. But this is semantics over a fictional situation, so in keeping with the theme - Thanks Preppy

Stove Pipe (RIP) once called him Lawrence in a post. Thought that was amusing.