MidwestMan

I'm certainly curious if Elam got a payday, or if he simply felt he couldn't reach his potential via "Tiger Style". Coaching staffs that maximize potential is the difference between blood round and podium steps, and I'm not interested in excuses. NIL dollars can certainly skew the talent pool.

Totally classless. Narcissism with a capital N.

I still wonder how it would have worked out if Otoole took a redshirt his frosh year. Finished 3rd true frosh, natty champ next year.

Damn, I'm clapping. But I expected this from a philosopher. Oh, and I agree. Stomping in the middle of the mat and slinging a headgear is one thing. Tossing to the ground while exiting the mat another. How about wrestlers dropping their straps with a foot out of bounds? Your description was right on the money. Mizzou lost a dual to Minnesota on a headgear issue at the Natty duals. Also cost them some placement cash.

WOW, this is why I come to this forum. Great information and stats, and the ongoing, entertaining, "back and forth" banter. It's like clicking on and catching up with your cousin. Thanks as usual.

Bottom position the disadvantage? BB, you make a good argument about bottom being the position more often chose. But I think I might think twice if I had a Lee on top with a dominant cross wrist or arm bar tilt. There is slick strength, and then there is bully strength. Askren and Lewis were lethal with cradles. How often do you see great leg wrestlers at D1 level these days? The 3 pt takedown changed the strategy, even with the higher pt counts for near falls. Throw in the ongoing evolution of technique. Quad pod was not in my coaching repertoire. We were teaching inside and outside stand ups, sitouts, switch. Hell, I was teaching fat man rolls. Our team picked up the granby series in the 80s via Billy Martin Granby camp. Stevie Martin was a just a kid and Wayne was a technician, as was Jody Staylor. Recently, I've seen a switch or two in matches. Actually saw a kid hit a Gazonni in a match. Your from old stock if you know what a Gazzoni is. As usual, I'm rambling and flying off topic. Top wrestling, when I was in HS, was a chop and 2 minutes of tightwaist. Match scores were low and I had never heard of Wade Schalles, or Grey Simmons. If only we had youtube.

Final score: Mizzou 3 Okie St 33 "Ships passing going in different directions."

I think the Purler twins (Nick and Tony) both wrestled at Okie State, then Tony ended up at Nebraska. Nick AA for OkieSt, Tony was nat champ for Nebraska. This was in the early 90's. BTW, they were co natl Champs in freestyle on yr at Jr. Nats. Missouri had a pretty respectable team that year. Sammy Henson won a natty on the same mat, before the Purlers got their hands raised.

Safe travels and make sure you have extra warm clothes in your vehicle. We're looking at 4 days of negative digit lows in north Missouri.

He was gimping around with what seemed like a foot/ankle issue in his loss to Welsh. Maybe he's dinged.

I'll be sitting this one out. It's a long drive for me and I was in "cranky pants" mode all the way home after this dual 2 years ago, as a result of lineup changes and what I perceived as uninspiring coaching. Tigers are going to get crushed but all I ask is the home boys go out and take the fight to the pokes, win or lose.

Josh Edmonds, be more aggressive!

There not. But spending a bigger boat load of money for the absolute best mercenaries might make it closer in the future. Sad that I'm even typing this.

Great job Coastal, with the match pbp. Nice to see Sneed back. I'll watch the match on YT before going into Pappy mode.

I wish that was the case, and AJ was volunteering at a local animal shelter. As a board member for our local shelter, that kind of help is very much appreciated and a beneficial use of time helping an animal while practicing some character/empathy/value skills. Personally, I like dogs more than people on waaay too many days.

Found out on a post on Huskerboard that it was a warrant for evading police last year. Is turning off a main highway after passing a HP going the opposite direction, maybe 10+ mph over the limit, although not seeing any lights or hearing sirens, evading police? Just asking for a friend that might have done this when they were going through their "risky youth" period of their lives.

Woke up to let my ole lab out to do her business. Scrolling news while waiting and this popped up: "Nebraska wrestler arrested overnight for outstanding Texas warrant!" Guess AJ got pulled over for speeding (90 mph), after their home dual Friday night, and the Nebraska HP pulled up the warrant and arrested him, and according to the article, holding him for extradition to Texas. Don't know the details of the Texas warrant, but will be curious to see how it is handled with Nebraska wrestling.

2nd that. Wishing all these SHOW ME products the best of luck. I've watched several of these kids wrestling since they traded a diaper for a mini singlet.

Would love to see Mizzou back at the Scuffle. Salute was pretty convenient, travel wise.

I'm not exactly Mr. Techie, but you might try the following: Pull up TW in a search engine. Click on classic icon at the top. Click Functions and type in Southern Scuffle under event name, then search. Click 2026 Southern Scuffle Click Viewer, then Viewer (classic). That should open up the old TW format that we are use to. Hope that helps, if you haven't already figured it out. I'm a cheap ass and don't have a flo subscription. I watch a lot of stick man wrestling.

Sneed shouldn't come back until he is 100% healthy, if there is such a thing.

Interested to see how Woodcock from SIUE does at 165. He's a sleeper for sure with that #33 ranking.

Funky Ben Askren

Near arm, far leg (outside fireman)is his bread and butter and what he usually taught at clinics. In our room we taught both options, near leg fireman's, and far leg fireman's (barrel roll), also a Kelly dump from pulling in the arm when the head got stuffed.

Went right over my head, and I remember watching the movie.