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If you told me post 2016 OTT that Zane was going to be the Pan Am games rep (and champ) but Anthony Valencia was going to place 4th for another country after getting rocked by the US backup at a non-oly weight I would have laughed at you. I would have laughed SO. HARD.

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I thought the process was updated to go in front of a waiver approval committee? It's hard keeping track of so many changes in just the past 7 years.

Schunke is attending KState as a preferred walk-on.

I'm pretty certain Svedka is still the all-time wins leader at Indiana

Last one and then done, since you are going after my points but then talk about smaller college towns. Lehigh is like putting a school in Joliet, IL. It is what it is, but it was never a slight regarding location but some of you certainly took it that way without removing the rose-tinted glasses. Glad to see I struck a sore spot with PA folks. Should have just remained logged out on this one and stuck to freestyle & heavyweights. Keep fighting Lehigh and sorry for answering a question honestly with recent anecdotal evidence.

I concede. Done fighting.

1) Illini homer here! Very glad Poeta et al is righting the ship. 2) With regards to proximity, it was a response to @PortaJohn’s reply concerning distance to major cities. 3) Lehigh, unlike the majority of all schools whether tiny D3 or gigantic D1, is an engineering sausage fest. I hope I’m not crossing boundaries too woke for even my libcuck standards by directly inferring what that means.

And so no one thinks I’m biased, university of Illinois is ~90 minutes from Chicago. You know why many IL recruits don’t want to go there? Because “it’s in the middle of nowhere.”

I’ll trust USN&WR for stats such as this. Lehigh is 54% male / 46% female and you can click here for the sauce (that means cited reference for the old heads).

Also please @Husker_Du be sure to enlighten us why *top recruits choose other schools over Lehigh. But since you have your ear to the high school recruiting trail you better be honest in your answer and not only give the part you like but omit the portion you dislike.

Oh cmon we both know that just because you don’t like my opinion doesn’t mean it is anywhere near even the top 50 in the short time of this forum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere southern Illinois. I am what I eat.

As I was saying…

Could be that most dudes aren’t interested in a middle of nowhere sausagefest engineering school if they are going to already make the sacrifices necessary to be a D1 athlete? Ersland has the same problem despite being in the premiere wrestling conference. Sometimes people just want to attend a school with a cool atmosphere if they have multiple choices and can have a say where they get to continue competing. To other people, Lehigh (and Purdue) are the cool place to go. It’s all personal choice.

Kabaddi

I'm just hopeful we see him this season. That torque was nasty and hopefully just stretched the MCL with no ligament tears. Pure guts for gold and if he is healthy, he is taking home the trophy this year. Maybe Schultz would answer the call instead of ducking Kerk again?

I don't know him but I hope he is! I'm only talking about Dana White and the claim from our local baker that Starocci would make bank day zero doing MMA.

He's a professional athlete that can do whatever he decides and I support that, but my point about Starocci was just solidified further. Dana White is a scumbag POS and he does not care whatsoever about his roster, only if his gladiators are available to put on a show and line his pockets deeper. His counterpoint would be succinct and would land something like this, again because he is a terrible human being. "I didn't realize his wife being pregnant has literally anything to do with going to work and doing his job? If she's due Dec 1 what's stopping him from taking on a Nov 1 card? His last fight was July and they are typically 8-12 weeks apart which means his most recent bout should have been this month tracking back from July 8th against Woodburn."

I misread and thought you said the best taco was from Connecticut. I can 100% believe you had an all-timer in Michigan. Midwest immigrants don't play. New Mexico/ hatch food is almost an entirely different species than the rest of the country but good god everything tastes so f'ing good and the scenery is breathtaking. That state overall is 9.1/10.

How did you manage to get not only a response, but a response from the lead customer solutions rep?!

Not only were his knees glued to the mat, but he was also stuck halfway out of bounds. It was an all-time underdog story!

You know how I know you're full of shit? Because no taco on the east coast can sniff a fart compared to literally the rest of the country. This is a hill I am very willing to die on. Hell, I'll get banned by the Senator before I back down from this fisticuffs.

They aren't going to offer him a big contract. Nickal didn't get a big contract and certainly isn't very active because he wanted to go hunting instead of his job with a finite shelf life. What about that would tell Dana White "ya know, I bet this Starocci guy, who is significantly less dominant, would be a sure-fire bet." Unless by big contract you mean their future champions extension option in the standard contract which is like an NFL contract and means absolutely diddley squat because no one is champ after 40 months/8 fights. Try harder next time.

Thomas Gilman doesn't see what the big deal is

My hunch is Starocci qualifies at Senior Nationals (nee US Open this year) for 86kg then will attempt to go for another 174 title which will allow him the opportunity to attempt to make 74kg for OTT. I just don't see the Carl squad letting him try to cut down to 74kg in December and additionally put all his eggs in one basket.