BruceyB

Keep that python in your pants, Mr. PB.

As someone who has wrangled carts in his life, I didn't mind it. It gave me something to do, I got to get outside, and it changed the pace. But do not lie to yourself and act like you're doing anyone a service by being lazy and self serving by ditching your cart wherever is convenient for yourself. It's not something that would ruin my day, but every time I grabbed a cart from somewhere it didn't belong, I thought the person who left it there was a lazy a**hole. You know that old adage; grocery carts are the greatest litmus test of whether people are capable of self-governing. Everyone knows the correct thing to do, and there is no penalty if you choose to break the societal rule. You can convince yourself of whatever justification for breaking the rule you want, you're still breaking the rule because you're a lazy a**hole.

This just isn't true. My birthday is in mid-September, my cousin's birthday is August 30th. I started kindergarten in 1996, and he started kindergarten in 1995 because he turned 5 before the school year started. He was among the youngest in his grade and I was the among the oldest. Summer birthdays (like Bo has) make things more ambiguous when it comes to the proper start year. You're saying that my cousin would be a "hold-back" if he started kindergarten the same year as me despite us being two-weeks apart in age? Bo is 1 year and 1 month older than what would be considered a normal high school age. If he was born in September, then he would be a traditional 1 year hold back that just happened to be old for his grade.

I don't know that I'd necessarily count him out against Ech or Paniro. He didn't lost to a single non AA last season and seems to be getting better and better.

PSU athletes wrestle 20 matches a year without a modified schedule.. One would think a modified schedule would be easiest to make happen at PSU. @The Kid just can't help but find a way to have a cynical opinion about any and every topic.

Barr is 21 as a RS freshman. Most redshirt freshman are 20. Oh no, he's a year older than normal for his grade.

Until the last line I thought you were suggesting that could be their potential line-up.

My parents didn't feel that my youngest brother was emotionally mature enough to start kindergarten when he was 5, so he started school a year later than most. The same happened with one of my closest friends. Also, high school wrestling was the most fun I ever had as an athlete. My child would likely be undersized for 106 as a freshman seeing as I was very undersized for 103. I would strongly consider starting them a year late in school so they have a chance to enjoy 4 years of high school sports. And if I didn't start them late, and going into 9th grade my child was undersized and wanted to repeat a grade to maximize their high school wrestling experience, I would gladly let them.

I have no problem with a 1 year hold back. There are reasons for it that I agree with. I do agree with you that double holdbacks and PG years that aren't a "greyshirt" are ridiculous.

Name one wrestler that graduated high school at 21. You're exaggerating what is taking place in high school sports. Bo Bassett is the most criticized hold-back and he will be 19 when he graduates high school, and turn 20 in August as he begins his true freshman year. He is one year older than typical for his grade. People create way too much drama around a kid being a year old for his grade. Who cares. Once you get to college you have guys in the 6th and 7th years now with RS, Olympic RS, free medical RS. Being 1 year older than your peers entering college has literally never mattered less than it does now.

Worst team in a while? 2024 2025 57kg Spencer Lee (silver) Spencer Lee 61kg Vito Arujau (silver) Vito/Forrest 65kg Zain Retherford (no medal) Real Woods 70kg James Green (no medal) PJ Duke 74kg Kyle Dake (bronze) David Carr 79kg Jordan Burroughs (no medal) Levi Haines 86kg Aaron Brooks (bronze) Zahid Valencia 92kg David Taylor (bronze) Trent Hidlay 97kg Kyle Snyder (no medal) Kyle Snyder 125kg Parris (no medal) Hendrickson Last year we had 0 golds, and 5 total medals. This team may not have the big names of last years team, but I'd argue this team brings home more hardware than last year's.

wut?

WHAT?!

They're coming up now.

Same amount of team members this year as national champions since 2017. Coincidentally, one of each was a grad transfer that spent most of their career somewhere else, leaving Spencer Lee the lone homegrown bright spot.

He did not look good at the end of match two.. I'll be curious what he has left after a short turnaround.

lol Burroughs throwing strays at TnT saying most of their wrestlers have a knee brace or shoulder brace because they train too hard.

This aged well.

Iowa fans taking credit for Real Woods who spent 2 of his 6 years in college at Iowa and then leaving to train in Michigan is so classic.

In nearly ever match wrestled, regardless of style, both wrestlers go to the middle, and the ref raises the winning wrestler's hand. Again, I'm not going to make it into a bigger deal than it is, but I'm also not going to make an excuse for Barr running off the mat when he should have went to the middle and taken his loss.

A light handslap after the match isn't how wrestling works and Barr knows that.. especially in freestyle where you also shake the refs hand before and after. It's not that big of a deal, but it was poor sport behavior.

Like you said about Haines.. Hillger realistically is probably behind Steveson, Parris, Gwiz, and Kerkvliet on the US ladder if they were all active? Although, after match one, it's possible that Wyatt came out expecting a fairly easy win and had trouble adjusting when all of the sudden he was in a dog fight.

I don't know the backstory for this one, but have seen it mentioned several times now.