Interviewed_at_Weehawken

I guess I'm "old school" now, but I can't imagine someone not toeing the line in a dual unless a limb was falling off. Why not wrestle regionals and nationals and no other events? For some of these teams its a race to get a good individual win and then sit their guy for the rest of his tough matches all year. Not a lot of pride involved.

I think there's something to all of that. Meanwhile schools such as MIT, Williams College, Wesleyan, etc. have some of the best academics in the world.

Did you wrestle in college?

Everyone is always hurt! It is college wrestling! Cornell just chose to play the "hurt card" when it was beneficial to them. Everyone knew that Vito and Shapiro were "nicked up" prior to the Nashville trip.

Broadway and independent "sports entertainment" promotions have a lot in common!

Except Foca... who needed a ranked win. He was healthy.

Although I hear the Broadway section of Nashville is quite a bit of fun!

Then why go?

... when you rob the fans of time and money by engaging in PPV "duck-a-thons."

Yes. Since when does "tweaked anything" keep a guy out of a match? Since when are guys expected to be 100% healthy or they don't toe the line? And I think you said it all: "David Carr." I'm sure Ramirez would be good to go if the next dual was against Duke.

No, he did not pay off Cornell. I'm sure he wanted to give his guys a crack against Mike Grey's mallards.

Yeah, I think this just sealed the deal... I'll be flying to Raleigh to see the Wolfpack take on VA Tech and not the "Little Red."

What an incredible coincidence that all of these lingering injuries flared up during the Iowa State dual! But Foca, who has something to gain from a Feldcamp win looked the best he's looked at 184!

Yes, my training partner was grandfathered in.

Yeah... Wikipedia far from the best source of info. Maybe true, but I wouldn't count on it. I was wrestling in the D2 East Region at that time, and no one referred to it as the "Haselrig rule" or even said it was about Haselrig. And we had a qualifier.

How many did Ron Wright from Sacred Heart choke out?

Hobart was a great D3 lax program. St. Lawrence and Union are D3 schools who have competed and won at the D1 level. Has RPI ever won a hockey title? One of my training partners was amongst the last lower division guys to qualify for D1, so at the time it seemed like something that happened all the time in college sports. That may have been why I thought that. (and Haselrig was in our conference)

ESPN with D1 national finals on tape delay with entire periods of matches cut out. Maybe even entire matches?

I had heard that the now- deceased "no reaction time from rear standing" had something to do with a Montell Marion match. Anyone have any details. The death of this rule could be the "Max Dean" because his match vs. Beard was when people started getting upset about the rule.

I agree that it was a great event and I even coached a team in it.

I think this was an "all-sports thing." I'd be curious if it was allowed in other individual sports. I thought it was allowed in lacrosse, but apparently not.

"steroid body"

Very true. When I was a senior in high school, I had a wrestling match against a kid that I later learned was a national level judoka. (there were some very good judo players in my area) I think he tried the sport for about a month. Unfortunately the month he tried it, I ended up up being launched and knocked out cold. I had to be semi-carried to my bench. I had no idea where I was... actually I KNEW EXACTLY where I was... but I was wrong. My coach loved me and was a great coach and person. He had me wrestle the next dual, 90 minutes later. I lost to some shmuck 7-6. My coach was a d2 college all-America nose tackle and a d2 national qualifier. He was old school, and we didn't know any better. This was almost 40 years ago. I don't remember any lasting side effects. I still qualified for MENSA lol. I ended up having a life changing senior year, that was great for me as a person, a wrestler, a student. Many of the best things in my life started with my senior year of high school wrestling. If I were a kid today, I would have been held out for the season and wouldn't have had experienced the tremendous growth that I got from that senior campaign (despite an 0-2 start).

He's pretty tough.

If you were trying to be humorous, maybe you could include an emoji or an /s/? Context and tone often don't come through on message boards.