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Masoumi reminds me of a young Taha Akgul. Significant height advantage, in great shape, fluid technique that makes it look too easy. Carroll reminds me of a young Pillsbury doughboy that just horses people around that aren't as muscularly mature yet. Good thing Uncle John will have him down to 184 by February! He needs to RS to maximize his potential.

If Carroll hangs with Masoumi I will be thoroughly shocked because there are levels and then there are levels. He is good enough to win a senior medal right now and may very well be the starter for Iran at Paris if he follows the same developmental trajectory as Zare. And you can't forget that Ghasempour and/or Goleji may throw their respective hats in at 125 depending on how the 86/97 lineup shakes out. It is very much a JB/Dake/Taylor problem in that room right now.

The criteria would be a high bar, but not any crazier than Demetrius Romero wrestling or Seth Towns playing basketball for eight years when neither utilized an oly RS. I’m just saying don’t be surprised if/when it happens.

We may very well see some creative redshirt usag given the financial support NIL can potentially provide. Mix in a standard RS, Olympic redshirt or two, and an injury RS and bam! Micic’s record is getting swipes for a danger count. Below is a possibility, however wacky it may seem, for NINE years of college wrestling: 20-21 free covid year 21-22 frosh 22-23 soph 23-24 Olympic RS 24-25 junior 25-26 standard RS 26-27 injury RS 27-28 Olympic RS 28-29 senior, 5th year med school rotations

IL had 1 champ and 3 finalists at NCAAs and at least one AA at every weight but 149 (I think). Going beyond college, IL has 3 reps on the senior world team this year. I would call 2023 a very successful campaign by anyone's folkstyle or international standards.

I hear your argument. My counterpoint:

DT couldn’t beat the guy who couldn’t beat Snyder (that would be J’Den Cox the one Rudis series he actually competed)

Fox will likely follow suit soon. Will be interesting as Fox hosts B1G Network. ACC Network is hosted by ESPN. Big 12 is co-hosted by ESPN and Fox so that may get very interesting very quickly from a legal battle perspective over gambling rights. MAC is hosted by HudlTV so there could be a gambling partnership there over the next few years as well as other networks follow ESPN’s lead.

DT called out Sadulaev for all the world to hear. That directly implies that he feels he is better than Snyder, weight class or not. So why doesn’t he go up Chamizo (57,65,74) and Cox (86,92,97) certainly did not back down from the challenge of going up to a third weight class after earning major accolades at the two prior. Those are two good recent comps everyone is familiar with. Additionally, Carl is known to have a keep-what-you-kill lineup but you’re welcome to stay even if you don’t win the spot and that cut is even deeper at the senior level with no team titles on the line. So I don’t feel that my comment was out of left field or (heavily) biased.

ESPN Inks $2B Deal for Gambling Venture With Penn Entertainment Will we see lines for March Matness?

Ahh I completely misread the first part of your tweet. I interpreted it to say "people from the state of Illinois overestimate their prowess."I was like "uhhh Ramos, Cassioppi, McGee, etc" but you are absolutely correct. I wholly agree that U Illinois has missed big time - they finally got rid of Hef but left the cupboard extremely bare. NIU has always been home to the placers and 1x champs that weren't blue chips but certainly too good not to be college athletes, used to compete with EIU back when they had a team for those same kids and it feels like SIU is trying to make suburbs inroads to do the same. I don't think NIU gets much in the way of scholarship support which makes it hard to convince a kid to move to Dekalb so it's back to the vicious circle of NCAA D1 wrestling. All this to say Poeta is doing yeoman's work with the roster, the staff, and the new facility.

They increased the real $ by unlocking a regional economic driver with a supplemental long-term committed athletic revenue driver. Except they can't say profit or revenue because they're all "non-profit organizations" wink wink

@Husker_Du care to comment about Illinois talent?

Oh so he lost to one person other than the world’s PFP king of the mountain? Would you like to hear about the guy perennial world title chaser Brandon Slay beat? Snyder slander will not be respected. Ask Taylor why they don’t wrestle or ask Nickal why he FFT’d.

Profit margin for baseball cleats has to be lower considering the metallurgy required though

Alcohol consumption By appreciated eVent I reckon a sociologist would call it ABV. And ABV drives the numbies.

Only a fool would believe the Big Ten did not approach Stanford and Cal at some point. Only a bigger fool would not follow the money trail which has been very explicitly laid out by @ILLINIWrestlingBlog. Only the biggest fool would not put two and two together by seeing x+y=z x=the big money y=the regional sports money z=zero revenue [I mean cmon folks it’s a bunch of non-profits how dare anyone think this is about “total revenue” because it OBVIOUSLY equals zero out of the graciousness of their hearts]

Back in the day if you saw a dude with a tattoo in hs you knew you were in for a bad time. Then I ran into someone with a tattoo AND a pair of the Illinois special edition Nike shoes. That was most assuredly not a fun time. He was a very, very, very bad man and he bumped up from 189 to prove how bad he was.

I was very much over my “twenty years ago” until I saw a new Mocco running amok and then? Yeah… flashbacks to ‘Nam when Charlie was foot sweeping me to hell. I’ve never been so happy that my kid not only isn’t the same age group but also that he doesn’t like wrestling and the Mocco bad man can’t hurt this family any more. How’s the lawsuit going btw?

Easy son.

They really will let anyone into this place nowadays.

I never thought any of the three is indecent. But, the Gopher thread was nuked at the old place which certainly felt like because an institution's legal and/or PR team reached out very sternly; I only know of one thread nuked here [but I don't keep up with The Zoo] and that was airing some pertinent dirty laundry that took that level of public action to get attention; this one is wholly and legally public. My questions to you, a Journalist (I give you a big J unlike some bums in an illegal non-compete state that try to claim that distinction right up until it doesn't suit them) and as the holder of our keys 'round these parts is this: Why can this stay up? Why did the previous instance at this site not? What is the difference(s) between the two stories that came up on this site? What is the difference of pending legal cases that stays up here versus the old place? Again, ombudsman questions. Nothing more, nothing less. Also, we were stuck entertaining clients last night that were extremely boring. There may have been delicious aperitifs that lent themselves to me playing on my phone, but since I put these posts into the ether now I have to follow through <insert NoRagrets tattoo>

Snyder is the second best wrestler on the planet.

no I outgrew 103 by my senior year and finally made varsity