Hoyt Matthews

Wonder what the plan there is like who goes 49 and who gets to 57?

Per Willie’s show with Basch he is taking a Director Position, so not the HC. I am sure he will be involved but the position is for a director. Wonder what kind of staff they get. Interesting for sure. Also noted Willie said they would not be NFHS model so wonder if it’s more of the Valiant College Prep model.

Lehigh doing really good things per usual. They don’t miss on many kids. I agree great get.

Mineo reported Ballard to Lehigh.

That would be a huge haul for them for sure.

Melvin Miller released top 4 as well: VT, Nebraska, Okie State, PSU.

Tyler Perry, you are gonna make me feel good about myself for a minute here. Please note something way off base next post so I can ride the yin and the yang a bit. TIA

Big get for UNI as some monsters were on Hayden, I get the family thing but he’s a great pick up for sure and he chose UNI over others who are pretty huge programs. Good for him and good for UNI. Wonder when things start to really pop off, usually one big recruit kind of opens it and others follow. In UNI’s case they had a few big recruiting weekends in the past few weeks. But this is just more in general, and not a specific UNI look. you kind of see these things explode when they start, so wonder when c/o 2027 really takes off, my guess is post S32, but hey what do I know. Either way love this stuff and excited to see where folks end up eventually.

Similar to Okie State situation. I get kids need to go compete and earn their way in and that not every kid will make it (injuries, life etc) but man some of these room battles are crazy and are 3 legit AA threats deep. Increased Scholarship limits plus NIL have definitely changed things. When teams had 9.9 and no roster cap along with no NIL, kids getting one hundred percent scholarship was like almost never a thing. Now it’s seems in some way to be the standard for the highly touted kids. Also, for kids no harm no foul, they can always portal quicker if they cannot make the lineup etc much easier than the past. Different times for sure. Who knows where it goes or if and when rules change again.

Just kind of thinking of this and I know we have a pay system already set, not sure exactly what it is, but would adding more money to that, be feasible? Help promote wrestling? I know this is all contingent on funding but it seems of late USAW has added a few positions and card sales are increasing yearly it seems. So wondering if this would be possible bc revenue seems to be increasing. Proposed Olympic Pay Gold- 350k Silver- 200k Bronze- 100k Worlds Pay Sr Level Gold- 100k Silver- 60K Bronze- 30k I would add in a few things here which it will put numbers to below. Would like to see U20/U23 paid out as well along with a few other things. I have no money to fund it, sadly but just was wondering if this helps keep wrestlers wrestling at all. Would be payouts for U20 Gold- 30k Silver- 20k Bronze- 10k U23 Gold- 20k Silver- 10k Bronze- 5K Would also advocate for Sr Pan Am Champs to receive 5K if they win Pan Ams. Additionally, for the individual wrestler that scores the most ranking series points in a calendar year (one for each style) would earn a 10k bonus check. Again, not sure how that would be funded or if it can be done, but would love to see those wrestlers be able to earn a little better. Any thoughts on this? It feels like this is a lot, but just wanted to see some thoughts on it.

Didn’t make weight in Vegas 134 second day, that had to be a brutal cut for him. Looked plenty big and good at 138 this summer. Sr year and RS year who knows if he can get to 57 or not. Always feel like that’s tough to say. with roster caps I feel like the idea is to have 3/weight more or less but I think recruiting that 41-57 range is really hard to do and maybe look at some of those guys floating between weight classes. Idk. Congrats to KW, super tough competitor for sure.

UNI had a big recruiting weekend with Hayden, Landers, Youngblutt, Vandermark, Luke Hayden, and Rugg. got this from IAWrestle on Rokfin, which again well worth the price and follow, they do a great job. was also noted that Dhabolt and Anderson will be visiting in October.

2000 Blair had Cooperman, Esposito, Backes, and Mocco…..pretty good group. 2001 same group and add Robbie Preston. Blair early 2000s was ridiculous. 2009 had Grey, Villalonga, and Ruth. All really good groups.

Steibers, tessari, and Phillips went to Monroeville not Ed’s.

Truzz - small world. Attended 98-02.