Major Kong

Yeah, I'm stretching it some - what's the term for words that sound right but make no actual sense in the context? Gibberish?

"trying to free himself from the grapple", "looking to get on the leaderboard", "trying for the all-encompassing escape". Taking about the guy on top: "he wants to show some good defense here". You could make a very funny montage of his malapropisms.

As an NU alum and ex-wrestler, I say with all love that our play-by-play kid is comically bad.

I've got complaint #14,775 about Flo - and this is not a problem that is tech related, just a case of sheer ineptitude. When I want to watch a replay of a match that interests me (in this case at the S Scuffle), I don't want to be be told who won it while attempting to find the replay. Flo commits this inane sin at all the tournaments it carries. As you attempt to find, say, the 157 final you will see a thumbnail for a video with a caption saying something like "Franek talks about toughing out Scuffle victory" right by the thumbnail for the video of the match. Nothing better than seeing the final score before watching the game! They did this at the OTT and every other time I have not watched live but looked forward to watching the matches to see who won. Clueless.

It seems this boils down to: do the NCAA wrestling "powers that be" want to grow the sport and increase or retain the fan base and interest level it currently has, or not? If they do, the season (in some form) becomes important, along with the presentation of matches, meets and tournaments. If not they can just continue the trend and accept it will be a super-niche sport with interest beyond friends, family and wrestling alums confined to 3 days. Kind of like horse racing where the triple crown races are the three days that anyone other than bettors and industry people pay attention (on a much much smaller scale in wrestlings case of course). Beyond the fact that guys sitting out, forfeiting, picking their spots etc. diminishes any interest in the season for the few fans the sport has, this behavior tells everybody very clearly that the coaches, teams and wrestlers feel the season is unimportant. Keep sending that message and the remaining fans will finally receive it and agree, and, with a few exceptions, start tuning out. My two cents.

Wrestlestat has Scharenbrock as redshirting in 2019 and having 1 year left after this season. And he's been waxed twice by Chumbley, who has two years left after this. Think Chumbley has an excellent AA shot this year. Three years in the room with Deakin has paid off!

if Zahid needs a break from wrestling, there's always the next Tarzan movie.

Can someone explain the call in the little Yaz match? The other guy flipped him on his back and then was in control after the roll thru and they gave Yaz 1. Truly bizarre.

Odd, I didn't notice this happening in the other World Cup in Qatar.

Shocking!!!

Definitely. For the large majority of college wrestlers, NIL is no bonanza.

Dake? I thought Nolf was our 74kg.

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Cam Caffey beats Louie DePrez. Love me some Cafe.

What?? I'm paying $200 for this and would hope that I can view the content without having to constantly adjust to Flo's deficiencies. (I know how to change browsers) And that's without mentioning the real issue, which is absolutely dreadful technical and aesthetic production. If there was any actual competition, they'd be OOB very quickly.

Yup. I'm using that exotic Mac/Safari combo.

Nice kid, but if he's #1 you know it's a weak weight.

It's a reference, more broadly, to how bad Flo is for a pay streaming service.

Isn't CKLV one of their showcase events? The production values (and I use the term extremely loosely) are like a high school AV department. And their "Arena" doesn't update, doesn't function and just plain sucks.

As long as you don't care about missing stuff on the edge.

The zoom in zoom out, miss the edges of the mat camera work on the CLKV stream was like some weird film school cinematography project

Hopefully his own.

All I know is he kept Chris Cannon on the Blair bench for two years, so he must be a passably good wrestler.

350 lb.ers on scholarship too expensive to feed for cash strapped programs!

Frankie Tal-Shahar, 141, Northwestern