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I am old enough that I can still remember Marinelli being roasted by the PSU fans for his "Jesus trained " shirt.

Yes. They were in each others weddings, too.

I think he said "God fearing MEN" but they may be "God fearing MEAN: too!

Four transfers starting. Each may be a title contender.

Yes. He is quite effusive in his praise of a lot of people.

Not to mention that they change it from time to time.

Penn State will be amazing. I like how Nagao talks about how he has become a better man for going through with this process and how it was all about God. "God" is how he justifies breaking his commitment to Minnesota. Breaking his commitment and searching for the best offer made him a better man. I am fairly religious, but I would prefer him to be honest with us, and probably himself. "I had a good year. I am a hot commodity. Minnesota is really cold. I am going to leave for a better team, a better training situation, better coaches, slightly better weather, and a bag of cash. Don't hate!"

Likes David Carr just a bit too.

Except Cenzo, Nolf, etc.

Where is TBar?

Paid hater, even! Maybe Nagao pulls the NWO heel turn?

Meanwhile, in real life, he has had multiple high level recruits (top five recruit/age group world champ level) not place at NCAA. Cael is doing the best job of anyone out there, but lets not forget that he has had some "can't miss" studs miss.

PortaYianni

Diakomihalis family if very Greek. "Yianni " is "John" in Greek. His birth name is John, but some relatives called him "Yianni" as a nickname when he was young, and it stuck.

He still has Haines, Starocci, Nolf, Dake all around his weight. I assume that Gomez is still there. Maybe Bekzod? Others?

Hall is in Philly at Penn RTC. Cenzo in Arizona with Sunkist.

I'm not sure about his chances, but will agree that he is a different type of human. I was privileged to be able to watch him train at a workout as the 2000 trials were imminent. He was drilling technique HARD. He had two separate training partners who were rotating in on him, a new guy in his face immediately after he took down the first. This went on and on and on. It seemed like 30-45 minutes, but I wasn't keeping track and it was decades ago. His gas tank and work ethic were incredible. The pace was astounding, especially for such a large human being.

Does Will really have the power to do all these things?

Nolf looked amazing at nationals his senior year after hurting his knee earlier in the season in a dual. The Brands/Brooks match that I am referring to was not freestyle, but was at Big 10, I think. Brooks was clearly hurt but made up a big deficit to win the match. Very impressive. The Downey loss was in freestyle the same year, I believe.

I thought you were talking conditioning after the first minute!

The professional study was deleted when TheMat went down.

Eierman and Cass were both clearly injured in post-season matches that they ended up winning. I'm pretty sure both were hurt in Big 10 semis and forfeited finals. You can visibly see them getting injured. For Eierman, it was an ACL. I don't think he was held together by tape before tearing the ACL. Cass either. Marinelli, I was thinking back to the year before when he injured a rib vs. Griffith. Kem is another story, but still made it out to the mat more than Robbie Howard. Kerk has been wrestling with a torn ACL for years. Starocci needed surgery after the season last year. Brooks "hurt" when Downey teched him at Olympic trials. (Was it his bad ankle that almost cost him the Nelson Brands match) Then you have the whole Nolf knee situation his senior year. How many injury redshirts did Cassar need? Three?

Hmmm. Eierman, Cassioppi, Marinelli during 2022 post-season tournaments. Their injuries were all professionally diagnosed as the result of Iowa style training techniques. RBY, Nolf, Starocci, Brooks, Kerkvliet etc. injuries are due to competing in matches. Interesting.

I guess I'm just pretty amazed that a PSU wrestler was injured. Are they doing 1980s style training?

You know what they say about excuses... "one of the first guys ... with NIL" Really? You don't say?!