Voice of the Quakers

Fix should've wrestled in the Masters tourney.

I am surprised the judge has pushed back on this. Both plaintiffs and defendants initially agreed to the roster limits with no grandfathering. (The plaintiffs appear to have changed their mind since the April 7 meeting.) If i have learned anything in my nine years working in the DC policy world, it's rare for a a judge or government official to get in the way of a negotiated agreement. Good news for all of those athletes who were told over the past six months to beat it. Bad news for all of those incoming freshmen who are about to be told they have to find a new team.

You were reading my mind. From Front Office Sports: However, not every transfer portal story is as successful as (UCLA WBB player Lauren) Betts’s. AD Advisors and sports analytics firm Timark Partners released a study Friday that indicated 70% of men’s basketball players from power conferences and the Big East who entered the transfer portal were unable to find a new school or transferred down. (The study placed schools in three tiers based on the amount of money spent on their basketball programs, and transferring down meant moving to a program in a lower tier.) Moving to ostensibly smaller programs could still be beneficial for players seeking additional playing time or for other personal reasons. However, the effects of entering the portal—whether positive or negative—vary on a case-by-case basis.

Schools that opt to the House settlement may offer up to 30 full scholarships. Doesn't mean they will. This is the part where we need to remind ourselves that schools opting in to the settlement - the Power 4/5 schools are mandated to accept to the settlement terms - are doing so to push money to their football and basketball players, not to non-revenue sports like wrestling. Looking at the terrain of D1 wrestling, I would be very concerned that MAC and SOCON schools will actually reduce their spending on wrestling to prop up their football and basketball teams.

The Ivy League announced in January it will not opt in to the House settlement. Our men's basketball teams will suffer, but our schools and teams will be much better off on the whole. Godspeed to the small schools opting in to keep up with the Power 4/5 conferences. Many of these schools are already struggling to stay open. I fear paying student athletes will only expedite their financial decline. They would be much better off going to D3 where they most likely belong.

As at Cornell, almost all Penn recruits are now taking a gap year and training at the PRTC before enrolling at school. Gotta keep up with the Joneses both in and out of the Ivy League. Not sure what I would've done if this scenario was presented to me coming out of high school. An extra year of physical maturity would've definitely helped me in my wrestling career. But, I would've been bored out of my mind without classes or work.

NCAA and plaintiffs' attorneys are pushing back on the idea of exempting current athletes from roster caps. Teams have already budgeted for 2025-26, and many athletes in non-revenue sports have already made plans for new teams/schools for the new season. I'm guessing the judge goes along with the latest agreement between the attorneys. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/44679918/roster-limit-changes-not-offered-latest-filing-ncaa-lawsuit-settlement

Short answer: Cornell wouldn't let Koll bring AJ Ferrari to campus. Glad to see these two icons reunited like a Hallmark movie in Chapel Hill.

AJ is going to get three more years because the NCAA is not going to fight any of these requests while it is trying to figure out what a post-House settlement world looks like.

I'd be worried about every PSAC school other than West Chester.

Staying open is Clarion's priority, as it is for all of the PSAC schools right now.

I remember being here in Philly when Molinaro chose down against Dake and the entire arena yelled “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

1987 was a particularly good year for D2 at the D1 tournament. Besides Haselrig, Tim Wright of SIUE (then D2) and Roger Singleton of Grand Valley State both placed at 118 and Darryl Pope and Eric Mittlestead both placed for CSUB (then D2) at 177 and 190, respectively. I was at Penn when the decision to exclude D2 and D3 from all D1 championships was made in the early 1990s. (I believe T&F and other individual athletes were allowed to "compete up".) I remember a lot of hand-wringing about the sanctity of each division's championships. IMO, the quality of D2 and D3 wrestling has declined as a result as high-level athletes who preferred to attend D2 or D3 schools for whatever reason (campus size, proximity to home, academic program, etc.) have been "forced" to compete D1.

My advice: Coat your stomach with a cheesesteak and 4 ibuprofen before you go to bed Friday night/Saturday morning. It's not going to get you up for Session 5, but it should help with the hangover.

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