Idaho

149 or 157 Log jam

McComas missed weight as well, but wrestled at 65kg and got hammered.

Not sure about McComas, but Hughes did. So did Kasak at 70kg.

Looks like Hughes might be going 141 now. That will be a fun wrestle-off with Jamison.

Coast to Coast

Yep - pulled an upset and finished 8th in 2018.

He had a pretty decent year with a couple good wins -but he was never in the national title or AA picture IMO. Maybe next year or if he redshirts then his last year. He also had a decent amount of D1 results as well to be able to gauge where he was in comparison. The days are not the same of why guys went JC as to why they do it now. Much easier to get guys into D1 schools than it was back in the 80's and 90's. There will always be exceptions, but we wont see as many hammers as we used to.

I'm not a Valencia fan and agree... but I am also not sold on an NJCAA champ with no D1 matches making a huge splash at the D1 level.

Yeah, that's been awhile as I said. Perhaps you haven't been watching the landscape of NJCAA wrestling lately. More recently, Isaiah Crosby was a 2x champ at Oregon State. He couldn't break the lineup his first year. WHen he did he was a decent starter but never qualified for the NCAA.

Interesting … It’s been awhile since an NJCAA champ has done really well at the D1 level. Not sure he can beat out Valencia. Does he have a redshirt?

Heeg to Northern Colorado was very fast.

Someone's brand just took a hit.

He entered it officially....then announced officially that he is staying at ASU.

Probably since he will be done wrestling.... BTW Cowboy Homer - Good for Bakersfield for landing someone in the portal.

Ahhhh.... Okay that makes sense. I hadn't thought about the interim coach title.

True... he could just come in at the end for a best 2-3 wrestle-off.

Sure.... Still doesn't change that cutting another 6 pounds for an entire season is different.

Still different to weight in all season at 197 versus getting down for a tournament to 202.8. Almost 6 pounds more for the entire season.

Interesting article on Dake today about turning down a massive offer to coach. He will be the next big name head coach next Spring. Appears this is the final ride. As a side note - Read that it was Ok State before Smith decided to come back for one more year. However, I need to find where that was said. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/24/us-olympian-turned-down-massive-job-to-pursue-gold-medal-dream.html

Not many teams making a significant amount of money to be able to pay out to athletes....most teams making very little, none or in the negative.

It is.... it's been long over.

Hmmmm....interesting. How does that play out that the portal is closed and it's beyond the 30 day coaching change?

Almost every athletic program does NOT bring in enough money to even cover the operating costs let alone have money to give athletes. But, let's pretend they do......Of all the sports teams, both men's and women's teams, how does the school decide which athletes get money and how much? As @ionel pointed out, there will be equity issues. Is football, basketball and any other big program at a school willing to share all their profits to pay out everyone? Is it straight across the board money? Lot's of problems.

Most athletic programs operate at a loss. The NIL will still be the main thing that lures wrestlers. The schools themselves don't have extra money to be giving out 100k to athletes. The schools that do have huge football programs that make their money, and even then, I think we are going to see inner battles to sharing that pot to cover operating costs of other programs. Alabama rakes in money, but they don't even have wrestling. LSU, Texas, Georgia, etc. all make a lot of money to cover the short fall of programs and then some, but they don't have wrestling. This is going to end up being more about football and basketball, which of course is what is driving this whole mess. On another note, the wrestling programs that do have money in their actual program budget are the same teams that have big donors for NIL. The rich get richer with this in one sense, but in another it's just the same programs, with the same big donors. Overall, I agree, and I have always said that this is bad for wrestling in the long run.

Have you heard much on Walters? He didn't wrestle a match in his redshirt. I am guessing injury. I agree - probably going to be heavyweight by committee between mostly Jenkins, Walters, Sak to see who goes to the BIG