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Was it the one about $500k? Didn’t Willie say that too?

@ionel thinks they will never get “Buchannon”

His dad was the one that said it

It worked for Sarah Hildebrandt training with her brother

John Stutzman named Associate HC at Davidson, and Alan Clothier as assistant coach. Rumors seem to be Kemerer likely to be head coach at Bloomsburg

How much money do you think they paid him? Not sure about Mesenbrink, and this is pure speculation, but I would bet Nagao and Truax got over $100k last year.

But in freestyle, a neutral exposure unless feet to back is only 2 points. One thing I don’t like about freestyle is I feel like it’s not uncommon for someone to get crotch lifted or chest wrapped for 2, but then end up on top so it’s 2-2. In this scenario it’d be 4-3 (assuming we’re still doing 3 pt TD’s). But again, kudos for this idea. It seems feasible, unlike switching the entire country to folkstyle.

I kinda like it. Would it still be based on who “initiated the move”? I think you would see more throws, but probably less leg attacks. Which may be a good thing for entertainment value.

I’ve seen people argue (I think @Husker_Du was one of them), that it’s not good that the Olympics is the pinnacle, but I thought that argument was more saying we should hope to be like golf or tennis where the annual events outside of the Olympics are bigger. But by saying things like freestyle is an “inferior style,” are you implying that there shouldn’t be a focus on freestyle at all, or just the Olympics?

No idea, but I read somewhere that they could enter when it opens back up and be eligible for spring semester?

That is some serious weight cutting

So wrestling freestyle his whole life must not have been why he made such a jump in less than a year…

So no 2 pts for exposure after you’re on top, just from neutral?

lol how did Micah Jordan do at junior worlds?

Silver is the new gold

So that would include Olympic refs then? There were many challenges that resulted in overturned calls (challenge WONNN!) including multiple that went from 4 for one guy to 4 for the other guy.

No, you may be new here. Jimmy Cinnabon is a troll. Although on a serious note, the HWC website has no female athletes, I believe the women’s RTC is separate, the “Iowa Women’s Wrestling Club,” with no mention of either Brands on their website. https://iowawomenswrestlingclub.com/about-us/meet-the-team/

Welp, not anymore. Both Steveson brothers gone now

Is Russia any good at soccer? According to Wikipedia: “Wrestling is the most accessible and played out sport for boys and young adults in Russia especially in the Caucasus Republics and regions (Chechnya, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, North-Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia)”

I think we should be as good or better than Iran, but worse than Russia. I think the performance was a slight underperformance. I’ve seen people say if you go person by person it’s about what should have been expected which is fair, but I would say the fact that no one won gold was disappointing because they pretty much all had a chance to (except for maybe Zain). You could make the argument that “the US should be the best!” for pretty much every sport. I think the answer for why we shouldn’t is earnings potential of the athletes. Let’s be honest, the top overall athletes are going to play football, basketball or baseball because they can make millions. Whereas in Russia it seems some of the country’s best athletes are wrestlers.

I obviously don’t know what our guys weight training looks like and I’m no expert, but I think weight training can certainly be beneficial for wrestling. Spencer Lee seemingly has picked up his weight training and IMO it appears to have helped him. Snyder and Zain didn’t appear to really use their strength much, and if anything Brooks maybe could have benefitted from a little more weight training.

I think a Happy Medium is best, but I’m not sure a “lack of attention” has anything to do with any perceived underperformance by the NLWC, except for maybe whoever forgot to tell RBY how par terre works. I know their guys downplay it but I can’t imagine it’s ideal to be in the room everyday with guys you’re competing against to make the world team. It’d be great IMO to have like 4 evenly matched RTC’s, and then hey maybe they could wrestle a couple matches against each other which might help build some fans.

I believe Cormier didn’t start wrestling until high school. And I hear that guy he lost to in the NCAA finals was pretty good

Freestyle also encourages a crotch lift/chest wrap which often results in that guy ending up on bottom. Have there been many successful folkstylers who “get in the habit of letting their opponents get to their leg”? I know there are some but don’t think it’s common IMO. And heck Dake seems to do it now in free but didn’t in folk that I can recall.