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I believe he has a redshirt as well.

Yep agree..... they had a national champ... .now the next question is...Allirez to the portal?

I'm sure the NCAA is on this.

Seeing that Nickerson is interviewing

Hmmm interesting thought.... lots of posters who went though an identity crisis and changed their names from the old board. A few guys with multiple names. Good to see you are still good ol hammerlock 3 and not like... hammerlock 4 or something.

Not a Penn State or Iowa fan, but.... Penn State develops guys guys and can win national titles without the portal. They would have still won minus Dean and Kerk and with Beard and Nevills. They don't need to add one single guy from the portal for next year to still win. Iowa is using the portal (which is fair game) to hold on to 2nd. So, Is your prediction of "Iowa is coming" "2021 was just the beginning" because you actually think Brands can out recruit, out develop and out coach Penn State from here on out? Or is your prediction based on large donors and 3rd parties making it possible to buy a team that can beat Penn State?

Feel better?

Even the good trollers provide some context and explanation.

Former Oregon State AA and assistant coach Taylor Meeks is from Washington state, but I don't believe they are any relation.

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Washington needs more programs. They have produced some tough kids over the years and not too long ago their schoolboy teams were placing high or winning national duals titles. They have at least 15 kids off the top of my head wrestling D1... and they have had a lot of kids go to lower programs as well. This is a great opportunity for someone.

https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/bigbend/jobs/3992428/head-mens-wrestling-coach?sort=PostingDate|Descending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/bigbend/jobs/3992498/head-womens-wrestling-coach?sort=PostingDate|Descending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Sure it's not a new Jimmy under the same name as the old Jimmy?

Agree.... we may need to add an addendum.

You forgot to mention Iowa. Every transfer conversation on the board has to include PSU, Iowa, OK State and ASU. It's a board rule. It's in section 5 of the handbook.

Pac-12 is currently trying to negotiate a new deal with ESPN and Fox for media rights. They are also discussing a separate deal with CW for games not picked up by ESPN and Fox. The hope is that the new deal will keep Oregon and Washington in the fold. The Pac-12 has shot themselves in the foot so many times they are in a wheelchair. I foresee them becoming the "castaway" conference.

Did Costco forget to put out the samples in 2022-2023?

Good point.... It will be interesting to see how NIL impacts a coach's job the next few years. The direction seems to be that a good marketing/salesman may be have a better program than a coach who knows how to develop talent. I'm wondering if we will see NIL deals for multiple years that are somehow tied to staying at the school... a contract of sorts.

Not necessarily seal the deal so to speak.... but do you really think there aren't conversations going on between the coach and those funding NIL to land transfer portal guys? Edit: I agree it's not part of an official job description or that they broker the deal, but I guarantee you coaches are involved in some way in conversations happening. In that sense, it's become part of the job unfortunately.

Well said.... I wonder if 3rd parties can get an NIL to recruit for NIL?

Landing NIL deals for your wrestlers as part of your job is pretty new to everyone.

In theory.... fans are usually on the complaining side rather than the "constructive criticism" side.

Yet the A's still made a profit last year and COULD have spent more money to field a more competitive team. Remember when @NearFall @Thumper called for Bakersfield to drop their program because it wasn't competitive? How do you expect teams who were barely surviving pre-NIL to survive in post-NIL? Call for their dropping of the program?

The Mets will pay a huge luxury tax on the $270 million they went over. (230 million cap). Part of that luxury tax goes back to the other teams and part of it goes to player benefits. Of course this was all negotiated with a union. This is part of the competitive balance. The A's took in the least amount of revenue last year, but still profited on the bottom line even w/o the revenue sharing. I have no problem with kids transferring... the portal is fine..... the problem is the NIL side... and it has a profound effect on the portal. Scholarship limits were a way to keep a level playing field. They don't matter anymore when you can bring in a guy for 250k which includes all of his schooling. You can have 30 guys on "scholarship" now. Scholarships are now for mid-tier guys. The problem that needs to be dealt with is how to keep a more level playing field with NIL. If this does not happen, we will see mid-low level teams not be able to keep and sustain competitive wrestlers and teams. The end result will not be good for NCAA wrestling. Am I against the portal? No. Am I against kids getting NIL money? No. I am against the free-for-all that is happening with no regulation. It will not be a good end result.

What happened to Jamison this season? I had high hopes for him.