MadMardigain

Hard to throw multiple events together with his body is banged up but not healing quick enough. Sadly he’s at the point where it’s hard to get enough practices together to compete at the Big10 level and mentally that’s got to be draining too. I’m not going to prey to get any immediate knowledge but his body was telling him it was time to hang things up post college anyway.

My guess would be with Sterlings wrestling heavy background he was hoping from the feet takedown would help him advance to back control or at least side control better vs. his skilled BJJ opponent. I haven’t watched the entire fight but guessing he wasn’t having much success passing that guys guard or finding any real submission attempts so wanted to change his attack position. I’ve seen guys with wrestling backgrounds do this a lot in grappling competitions. BJJ guys often then resort to the ground tactic seen in the video to neutralize some of that. Its worth noting that Sterling does have a solid level of BJJ under his belt as his MMA fights have shown, but when going against a high level almost completely BJJ grappler you may not get far and want to look for a different attack style to get in.

For some of the contest yes. In most rule sets official does have the discretion to stand the opponent up if they are just sitting on the ground and not trying to engage too. But as long as you are moving cleared and attempting to make contact with your opponent that position is allows and the standing opponent would be the one who could be penalized if they are constantly disengaging and moving away.

Yes, BJJ in general doesn’t make for good general audience TV if it’s MMA or not. But wrestling in general doesn’t either. Both are highlight reel sports at best for the average sports fan since they didn’t grow up with them. But almost all sports are like that for a person or culture if you didn’t grow up with an invested interest in it. Take soccer interest in the U.S. vs soccer in Europe or South America. Or pick about any other sport for that matter in one area of the world vs another.

I’ve been stretching like crazy the last few days but I’m not sure I’ll be limber enough to bring it into my middle school classroom routine anytime this year.

Now why you gotta bring the Jets into this. We all know they still have some work to do. “Trusting the process since 1969”

I missed this. Did the official even call some type of unsportsmanlike penalty for his actions? Not that it changes the end of match results much but if something is officially noted the book and pointed against the wrestler or team the NCAA would have documentation to push coaches/ADs more to make sure it’s wrangled in more.

My understanding was this was a set up as a grappling match through Fury’s Grappling Division, which for the most part is a BJJ competition, not MMA where striking is allowed and takedowns by themselves hold value.

Just to help everyone out, in the BJJ grappling world Sterling would actually be the one “stalling” by backing away and purposely disengaging from his opponent. The butt scoot offense is annoying to some traditional stand up guys but is allowed in BJJ as long as you are moving forward with an attempt to make contact. The point of the BJJ grappling competition is to have contact which results in a grappling hold and eventual submission victory, so the “neutral” position only expected to be a small part of the opening second of the match. Judges are scoring the match based on passing the opponents guard and making legitimate submission attempts but not just for a “takedown.” Without striking being an option in a grappling competition your only real option for scoring is to engage your opponent and gain control. Wrestlers who transition into BJJ tend to want to gain their advantage for ground control and submission through the neutral battle and a takedown to back control. Where as many natural BJJ guys are perfectly comfortable gaining their submission from starting on the ground with their back exposed (no back point obviously) and causing their opponent to engage them into their guard position. Sterling did agree to a grappling competition so he has to adapt to their rules. Just like a Chess master would have to adjust to playing in a checkers championship. Its a different world with some similarities but strategies that need adjusted none the less.

Sounds like a trip to the Jerry Springer or Maury Povich Show would be in order.

Iowa Style?!?!?????

They have Bo on the slow built path. I’d like to see him get a Top 15 guy by the end 2024. But it may even be early 2025 at this rate. With a likely Top 10 fight not occurring until the mid to late 2025. Top 5 with talks of a title shot sometime 2026. That is if he doesn’t get caught on the rise up.

If it’s not helping you to avoid a #1 you would have to wrestle 2 of 3 I’m not seeing the benefit in it. Facing the 2 out of 3 final obsticle is a significant different game plan than the rest of the 1 out of 1 field.

Gremlins. It teaches you the valuable lesson of properly taking care of your presents.

If NCAA college didnt keep a death grip on their main sports I believe we would already would have moved on the European club model of athletics with college tuition being tied into the contracts. Sadly that would also be the death of many second tier sports bring on the national stage. But financially for both the programs and athletes we are currently trending towards that system.

But be honest play by play isn’t all equal. And it sure doesn’t need to call every single motion that occurs. Nor do most wrestling broadcast have a team or designated roles. Heck most two person broadcast groups are screaming play by play over each other. Key moves are all you need to point out not every movement, fake, touch, and motion.. The equivalent of some of this wrestling play by play would be similar too a play by play guy doing this: Basketball: Plater 1 is dribbling, dribbling more, still dribbling, he looks left, dribbles some more, stands and dribbles, dribbles, looks at defender, dribbles, dribbles, fakes left, passes, now Player 2 catches the ball, he now dribbles, still dribbles, continues to dribble, looks at defender, dribbles, jumps off his left foot, stretches out with his right hand, flicks the ball off his index fingers, the ball flies 3 feet, bounces off the left side of the glass, now bounces off the rim, the ball goes in the basket, now the balls falling to the court, still falling, now it bouncers off the court, now a player walks over to it…… Football equivalent: Hes running, running, running more, shifts left, running, looks at defender, running, fakes right, rolls left, running, he’s tackled from behind, now he’s laying there, still on ground, now he stands up, walks back to huddle, he’s walking, walking, walking and he reaches the huddle, now they are standing and talking, players seem to be bunched up, still huddling, now they clap, players jog to their position, the running back bends over 90 degrees with his hands on his knees, he looks up at the offensive line, still looking, he moves 3 feet off center, he looks right at his guard, he’s waiting for the snap, …..I think you get it. ut maybe they have to dumb down football some to accommodate for half the audience being drunk and 10% of them now being Taylor Swift fans.

Hope you have someone born before 1990 running that operation. Not sure to many people younger than that could figure it out.

Been saying this about many video based wrestling commentary for years. Those watching know the basics of the sport. We don’t need the play by play especially when much of it doesn’t even end in a point. I’d prefer more wrestler background info, keys to the match for each wrestler, and strategy adjustments as the points go up with the occasional move hype when a big point shift occurs.

Just get me $4 and a can of spray paint per trophy and I got you guys covered.

Maybe emphasize Mike Mena more and I think you have something there.

I would like to see an improvement in recruiting with the Indiana program but that’s hard to do until the staff can prove they can developed multiple guts into NCAA qualifier that are getting a shot to AA. Recruit want to know they have guys in the room who can get them to that same level and coaches that have a track record for getting the none blue chips guys to another level. Once the in room guys can get there we will see how good Escobedo and companies recruiting skill really are. To me there a few more years on Escobedo’s progress clock before you can really start questioning if he’s getting enough out of the room and able to pull in solid recruits. Sure asking for IU to be a Top 10 national program anytime soon is a stretch, but the expectation should at least be consistently be in the middle of the Big10 with a a few AAs each year shouldn’t be.

WWE still hoping he developed his mic ability.

Riders not a bad team and ranked in a few weights that match up with some of Indiana’s better guys. But since I haven’t looked yet did Indiana mix in some backups for this early dual or is this their main roster?

The odds seem to be in favor of that occurring.

Rare but it’s happened a few times. It was freestyle but I recall the High School version of Jason Tsirtsis beating recent NCAA champ Darion Caldwell at Olympic trials.