Idaho

Wow.... that was out of the blue (pun intended).

Wow...

Boise State President and AD wanted baseball.... dropped wrestling, added baseball and never competed in even one season of baseball. The president retired, then very soon after became a board member and editorial staff at the local newspaper, which is owns a lot of papers in Idaho. Guess what you never saw in the news after that? WHen the program was dropped, they send an assistant to the wrestling room with recruits on campus to give the news to Mendoza that the program was cut. This was shortly after they brought in a new staff as well. The AD and president refused to have any meeting with the wrestling staff even after they proposed to self fund after two years.

According to a lot of posters, everyone is going to Ok State to wrestle for David Taylor. Now that Wyatt, Gable and Kerk transferring over, it's going to be a great and deep team. Too bad it's not NAIA.

Apparently he has a year left and will be making an annoucnement. Who knew you could get an OLY shirt after the fact. On the MMA hour, his manager says “looking forward to returning to elite level competition” and “looks forward to sharing big news very soon”… “has one year of college eligibility”

I don't recall you specifically, but there were definitely people who thought his policy on no alcohol was overboard , outdated, wouldn't work at OSU, they are adults and so on. It will be interesting to see what the reaction will be if DT in fact puts some strict policies in place and uses the summer to straighten things out. Will it the policies be OK now because it's DT?

Lots of people have... there have been many posts and arguments about this topic and about his coaching style - especially in the context of who would replace Smith. You must have been on sabbatical.

With how weak the NCAA is now, I bet he could wrestle the 1st and 2nd period in one singlet, transfer at the whistle, put the other singlet on, and defeat himself.

Everything I have been reading is that no coaches will remain - DT bringing in a totally new staff, which will most likely include kennedy and Gilman. Some team will end up with a great pick-up in Scott.... you could see the improvement he made at OSUe this season.

After news broke that Schultz went into the portal he tweeted "sell outs." He left it there for a while. Then he deleted it and clarified with "I wasn't talking about my teammates." It just shows that Richie is very concerned about other guys leaving their teams to the portal.

I am sure that Carter will always be PSU loyal, never move out of PA, never coach a kid or program that is not PSU. His coach left ISU to go to PSU...without that, there is no PSU Dynasty Instead of appreciating all of DT's contributions to PSU, a guy who probably had a big part in making him who he is, he takes a big dump on him. Nobody can leave PA without Carter's approval, even it if betters your family and life goals. GET HIM JB!

Good point... Taylor, Smith and whoever comes in would be much more enticing than Iowa. If they brought Taylor in for big bucks, I imagine they are ready to spend on the portal as well.

nope... they will be on a national championship team and from what I heard, Cael is still doing a pretty good job.

Does Jimmy rent the basement from DT? If so, then he is definitely going.

Imagine if David Taylor had taken the Ok State job a month ago... the portal would be interesting.

I only said if Gable is back in the room... I don't think he has another year, but I can see him training for MFS there, which means he will be around to train with.

Agree.... I have to think that it's 1. Michigan 2. Minny 3. Ok State. You can't beat the training partners at Michigan - guys that are actually competing on World teams. The Minny factor could be Gable coming back to the room...but other than Gable some of those heavies are starting to get up there in terms of going hard with a college kid.

This was on the previous page.... but I will say that as far as the portal announcements this Spring, Minnow has been pretty accurate... where he has been off in the past is his declarations of where guys go from the portal. Stay tuned.

Yeah, but this extension took place after the NCAA this year, which means they must have some level of confidence.

So Coleman Scott, who has HC experience becomes digs into the in-room coaching, and 4x World Champ David Taylor , with no head coaching experience, is left with the CEO stuff? This seems very opposite.

Nah...no different than a non-athlete graduating then pursuing a masters at another school that had a better program or even a program at all. Guys leaving a good program early for the money - maybe a sell out. Leaving after you graduate. Nope. Besides, looks like Schultz has decided to stay at ASU now... probably upped their offer so they could get him to stay. Is there a term for that? Threatening to leave to get more money, then getting what you want and staying?

So guys who have put their 4-5 years in, graduated, want to go to another school for a graduate degree, are going to get paid some money to do it, are selling out?

Is that the potato peeling degree with a minor in onion peeling?

Hmmm....seems like a degree is what you use so that you get a decent job...unless of course your degree is in the Renaissance and the Renaissance factory isn't hiring.

I'm convinced his comments were all about his care and concern for other teams and their top guys going to the portal.