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That match was completely insane. I felt so bad for Dennis!!

What's disrespectful about that? I've heard OSU referred to by a lot more insulting things than "Okie State".

I was super pissed that OU didn't hire Smith as HC when they had the chance.

Didn't he have 6 falls at NCAAs one year? He pinned 3 guys and got pinned by 3 guys. Fun for the fans, but I bet his coach gets ulcers.

To whom are you referring?

Too bad injuries wrecked his career. That kid should've been a 4 timer.

It's because of workout partners. Do you think mini-mite Brands boys are going hands on with 197 pounders like Glazier?

He doesn't have any decent workout partners pushing him.

I dropped 22 pounds in one week. We lost in the 3rd round of the football playoffs and my first wrestling dual was the following Thursday. I dropped from 190 to 168 to wrestle a state champ who obliged me by whipping me 21-0, this was before techfalls were a thing. He wasn't THAT much better than I was, but after starving myself for a week I was as weak as a kitten and he just tossed me around like a gorilla does a suitcase. It took me a couple weeks to get back to feeling decent again, pulling big weight sucks balls.

I'd say the best matches I've seen were the Dake/Taylor matches at the Scuffle and NCAA finals, and the Mark Schultz battle against Ed Banach in 1982.

Where is Cassioppi wrestling? I thought he was done?

Nobody wants to get stuck under a guy 50-100 pounds heavier than he is. I think they should bring back unlimited HWT, but with a caveat: it's still limited, but to 350 pounds. That would allow nearly all the fat boys who are great HS HWTs to continue wrestling in college without giving up on football.

Hamiti still looks skinny as a rail. He could pack on another 10 pounds and not look thick at 184.

It wasn't 100% joke. I was super bored watching Lee do the same old thing, over and over again, and nobody being smart enough to figure out how to prevent it. Until Ramos.

It wouldn't be much of a super fight. Both of those tournaments were weak this year.

My Fr year in HS there wasn't even a 190 pound weight class, it went straight from 178 to unlimited HWT. I saw guys who weighed around 180 pounds wrestling guys who weighed well over 300 pounds. There was a kid from Coweta who weighed 440 pounds.

Yeah, an entire squad of Olympic golds.

You guys are lightweights if David Taylor grosses you out. Remember Les Miles, the football coach at OSU and LSU? He ate a booger on national TV.

My bad. I thought he was a HS kid last year.

Not only that, but I bet he's a lot more excited at the prospect of wrestling for DT than Grandpa "Get off my Lawn" Smith.

But couldn't either of those guys still redshirt at this point? If Ferrari is better I'd start him and RS Arnold just out of greed for NCAA team points if I was Tom Brands.

I'd love to see Starocci wrestle KOT! For the record, I think KOT is better.

That graph is so deceptive. The vast majority of OSU's success was pre-1970s. Iowa has mostly dominated OSU since 1970. It reminds me of an article I read a couple days ago that listed the colleges with the most national titles in football. Minnesota, shockingly, came in with 6 NCAA football titles (they were ranked 10th overall, or something like that). They haven't won an NCAA title since 1960. The saddest part of that graph is the fact that at one time OU was a legitimate powerhouse in constant contention for national titles and now they are "bleh".

I can imagine an entire squad of one trick ponies doing Lee's armbar, over and over and over again. I suppose that's an improvement over locking up and pushing. Naw, Iowa needs to hire somebody else. I hear John Smith is looking for a gig.