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He actually had pretty good results this year. Wins over Sotelo, Terukina, Joyce, Kilkeary. Only losses were to Ungar, Miller & Lujan. I also listed him last

I don’t know if they’ll finish 2nd, but Cornell should have a solid squad next year with Shapiro, Ramirez, Foca, Cornella, Fernandez, Ungar, Greg D.

I don’t really disagree with you about Askey, but Smith was pretty much the same guy as last year, just had a better tournament. Prior to this year he had wins over Cronin, McKee, Poulin, Ventresca, etc.

But an assistant leaving Penn wouldn’t start a coaching carousel right? I would be surprised, but not shocked to see Tanelli take one of the open jobs. I’m guessing the Harvard coach is retiring. I would be shocked if Grey went somewhere else. I do agree as I said above that I’d be surprised to see Tanelli to Buffalo. They did fire the coach though which is rare in wrestling, maybe they have some money to throw around?

In order to “start a coaching carousel,” it would have to be a HC leaving right? If that’s the case, slim chance it’s at Cornell, Penn, Princeton, or Brown. My guess would be either Harvard coach to retire (he’s been there 30 years), or Tanelli to Buffalo?

Whoops meant to put on college board, oh well

I don’t personally believe that, but you gotta admit the number of elite athletes/coaches saying this indicates that their belief is helping them. Also gotta give credit to Cael that he’s not outspoken about it, as I do think there could be some legal gray areas if a coach is pushing religion while being employed by a state school (and yes I know PSU is a “public-private partnership” or whatever). I would bet Cael is not actually pushing anything. Dawn Staley on the other hand, I’m not so sure. I know this is a hit piece but it raises some relevant points - https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-carolina-womens-basketball-coach-dawn-staley-might-be-violating-her-players-religious-freedom

This.

Surprised they asked him about his Burroughs comments. Supposedly “guys actually in the wrestling community agreed with him, it was mostly just fans that didn’t”

I like Pyles. But his solo videos are unbearable. But, they are pretty easy to ignore.

Of your list, I think only Pat Pop would really be an upgrade over Scott. Pendleton maybe a wash. But I think they should certainly reach out to Pop if they haven’t already. But we had this discussion when Scott was first hired. He’s probably making a comparable salary, living in a lower COL area, and has more family nearby. And even if he wasn’t promised anything he knew he’d have a shot at taking over. It wouldn’t have been completely crazy for him to take that job without a promise to be the HC. That said, given the initial reporting saying that which was then retracted, I’m guessing he probably was.

Not double knee surgery, but I thought the story was that he was banged up before the season?

So kinda like Spencer Lee then?

Do we think he could have made the cut if he didn’t wrestle the NCAA season? Will there be any blame towards Cornell/Mike Grey for “wasting” him in the NCAA like there was for Tom Brands and Spencer Lee?

I assume Parris making the R12 was not considered “significant points”?

I agree the tiers talk is boring, but there’s not really much to talk about…

He got this injury before the NCAA season right? Also, I wonder if one of he or Yianni switches RTC’s if they’ll both be at 65 for 2028?

Did they ask him if he wanted a demotion first too?

VT not a small school. If we see Stephen Little or Peyten Keller go in the portal then maybe.

But you’re not seeing where Ryan said that?

Coach left

Agree to disagree, at least for wrestling (I’ve heard there’s much more craziness in football and basketball). I don’t think kids (which most are when they commit) should be forced to lose 25% of their eligibility if they don’t like the school, or even if they can’t make the lineup. Especially when coaches aren’t held to the same standard. It will be interesting to see how many less transfers there are after the Covid year guys are gone. And even outside of grad transfers, I think most big name transfers have spent 3 postseasons at their original school. Outside of circumstances like your coach leaving or your program getting cut, I may be forgetting someone but I literally can’t think of one guy that was at a small school, had a breakout year in the NCAA as a freshman or sophomore and then portaled. Closest would be Mesenbrink but his breakout wasn’t in the NCAA and IIRC it really started before he was even a student at Cal Baptist. Some may say Nagao but Minnesota isn’t a small school.

But again, the original comment Pyles was responding to was talking about “buying” guys. I think it’s fair to interpret that as being what the conversation as a whole was referring to. Ryan wanted to make clear he hadn’t “bought” any transfers (even though he’s tried to, and has also “bought” recruits).

To my earlier point, this seems like more of an argument against (the current version of) NIL than the portal. IMO, it’s moreso the money that is causing guys to jump ship and I think we’d see less transfers without that (and yes I know the free Covid year has also caused a surge in grad transfers that wouldn’t have transferred if not for the free year). Also as has been pointed out, there has been a pretty good number of guys use the portal to go from bigger schools to smaller ones.