swoopdown

The 184 walkout song

As a PSU fan I don't want Caliendo again due to the blind squirrel principle.

Messenbrink just lost the hodge by not pinning

Amazing how Van Ness gets back points while not doing anything on top. Must be Jedi mind tricks.

Horrible turn of events

Duke ruining PSUs streak of close, ugly wins.

Manning asks for independent review of officials review. Ruled takedown again. Probably complaining about the biased Cleveland officials and lobbying for a third level review based off-site in Nebraska.

It's my understanding that Blaze and Duke are sitting Van Ness down for a maintain-your-stance-did-you-not-know-the-other-guy-can-shoot? intervention. Like everyone on the team can't be messenbrinkish Shane. Maybe if you wear shoes that blend in with the color of the mat it wouldn't present such a target. There are times you remind us of an Iranian ballistic missile launcher dude.

The refs comment to both wrestlers after the push was to "stop wrestling after the whistle". Could be that from his perspective Minto continued to hold on to Haines and Haines pushed Minto for separation and not of malicious intent. But ... It would have taken an unlikely lack of situational of awareness for Haines to not realize that any push would endanger Minto. A DQ would have been the consistent with the notion that a wrestler bears some responsibility for not injuring their opponent regardless of the action or intent. DQ would have been a correct call.

A Synonym Bun?

Italics mine I found this interesting Dbeshada posted this on X "Some crazy Iowa stats from the CyHawk Dual - 1. Caliendo scored about 40% of Iowa’s total points - 20 of 52. Setting Caliendo aside - 2. In 9 matches, Iowa scored a total of 32 points. That averages to about a takedown worth of points per match. 3. In their other 3 wins, they scored 1 takedown (Peterson). 4. In those 9 matches, they had 3 total takedowns (Peterson, Drake, Kennedy had 1 each). 5. The only other “offensive” points they scored were a 2 point reversal for Williams. I do realize that Iowa State has a lot of very good, highly ranked wrestlers. But, still, if you want to look at where Iowa is seemingly going wrong, I think the analysis needs to start here." So are ISU defensive behemoths, are the hawkeyes offensively limited, or what?

Nagao + 3 TD < Nagao + 2 pt TD. Don't know if any wrestler was more adversely impacted by the scoring change.

True. In Minnesota you never have to put ice on your injuries. Just walk outside and you're good to go.

Good question. Waiting for the police or DA to take the initiative? Anticipating a civil action?

Since the Sandusky crimes, PSU admin has been hyper-reactive to allegations of athletic department related crimes. They would throw anyone under the bus guilty or not to protect themselves. For the Sandusky crimes, the three PSU administrators were legally culpable not because they believed or knew Sandusky to be a pedophile, but instead because they had a responsibility to refer a reported incident to police regardless of what they believed or didn't believe. Negligence was proven not malice or conspiracy. Would any PSU administrator risk negligence accusations again? I'm guessing Carter allegations were thoroughly reported and investigated and evidence to convict did not exist. So the answer for many PSU fans is once again, we don't know who's guilty, innocent or victim with certainty and never will. Internet warriors will convict as they see fit. Deja vu all over again.