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Stanich is officially out of redshirt now correct?

McKee and Barnett seem way low here. Barnett’s only losses are to McKee, Stanich, Ramos and Terukina. Wins over Flynn and Smith. McKee’s losses are to Ramos, Ayala x2, Peterson, and Jordan. Wins over Barnett and Smith. If I’m not mistaken they are the only 2x AA’s at the weight. I think they’re a good bet for the podium and possibly winning it all.

But people don’t subscribe because of FRL

That’s possible. I’m not sure the economics of FRL. I wouldn’t imagine it’s a big revenue generator considering it’s free to watch, but then again they just got that fancy new studio…

What’s the over/under on AA’s from the Big 10? They have 8 title threats IMO (Ramos, Ayala, Davis, McKee, Barnett, DeAugustino, Smith, Peterson - yes I know McCrone beat Peterson but I don’t think he’s a title threat), but I can’t imagine they get more than like 5 AA’s in total.

Not like they haven’t wrestled multiple times and all ended in the same result. Honestly Hidlay seems like a different wrestler against Brooks though. Hopefully Hidlay stops being so tentative next time they wrestle

Beau is great but if Kasak can go back to 141 it’s not looking like it’d be much of a dropoff

Yeah Basch and Willie discussed this. They seem to think if he wins NCAA’s he might not come back. IIRC they said he is getting married soon and his fiancé is no longer in school.

The only real concern with him is if he makes a stupid political comment or something. But he has a great resume as a coach. A team of AWA alumni might get 2nd at NCAA’s (Keckeisen, O’Toole, Mesenbrink, Peyton Mocco, Matty Bianchi, Greyson Clark, and that’s with Clayton Whiting and Noah Mulvaney on the bench). He just needs to work on developing lower weights — maybe he would be a good fit for Iowa after all .

Agreed, I’m more saying FRL seems like it’s easy money for him, he just goes down to his basement to talk about wrestling a few times a week. I don’t see why he’d stop unless there’s going to be a significant change with his other job(s).

I wondered this as well and it may be true but it’s not like FRL is really interrupting his current coaching. IIRC he gets paid by Flo north of $100k/year and works what, 5 hours a week? Unless maybe they are expanding AWA further

It doesn’t seem like he wants to move. I can’t imagine he goes anywhere but Wisconsin, if anywhere

Yes

I can’t remember the whole story now. I don’t think the tweet was really why he left, but it may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. But yeah, pretty sure that particular tweet was pretty much just saying that Ohio State wasn’t wrestling well

Not exactly quick, but covering “the Willie trials” are kinda what put Stalemates on the map. Looks like Day 5 is when CP took the stand, IIRC he didn’t really come off so badly. The whole trial was on YouTube thanks to Covid, and if you really have a lot of time a Penn State forum poster /lawyer uploaded them to YouTube (search Scottpilutik), but Stalemates did a good job recapping

Haven’t finished watching yet but I’ve been enjoying it. Gotta give credit to Tyler, he was doing a great job multitasking by pulling clips, getting guests ready (and telling them their time was up), plus contributing to the conversation.

I remember watching the episode (and his Stalemates interview) but don’t recall the specifics. I thought he claimed he didn’t technically do anything against the rules but may be misremembering.

Correct, and it also resulted in the rule changes about matches against teammates and that injury defaults had to have “actual wrestling,” although the latter one still seems up for interpretation. But while 2020 was certainly shady, I’m not sure if there were any rules violations that could be easily proven. The best argument was probably for match fixing, but would be hard to prove unless someone admitted it. Even the seeding I don’t believe would have been against the rules if all the coaches agreed to them.

2020 was the bad year. It was a legit tournament in 2022 and 2023. In both years there was only one MFF in the finals and last year it was because it was 2 teammates. There were also some solid redshirts and a few top HS guys that attended as well. 2022 149 looks to be the strongest bracket and had 5 guys that are or would be ranked this year: Caleb Rathjen (champ), Paniro Johnson, Tagen Jamison, Drew Roberts and Blaine Brenner

Definitely should have used AJ for this one, especially with the “drive” pun

The last discussion on HR looks to be about his attending the Purdue dual on 1/19. There seemed to be quite a few still convinced he was hoping to join the team next year. @Hammerlock3 If I had to guess, I think he’s still in Iowa. @nhs67 probably not happy about this, but Brennan Swafford (who is still listed on the Iowa roster btw) has been in several of his recent posts, and also posted some of his own including posting a photo of them training MMA at Iowa Wesleyan on the same day AJ did. So if the pics are old Swafford would have to be in on it.

How many qualifiers is Lehigh projected to get?

Yeah, but that doesn’t really matter if there are D1 schools, namely Iowa, that are in fact not ignoring him. Which is what the OP seems to be trying to find out. I really have no idea.

Just needs to shoot more

If you’re referring to Brands, I think he just held it up and didn’t throw it