BuckyBadger

With Ryder to OSU, a big competitor, this looks more like a bad decision by Cael and staff. I guess time will tell.

My money is on Sacred Heart. The Holy Spirit sent him a message.

As a badger fan I hope they do not go after AJ. He is not the way to turn things around.

I agree to an extent but at this level it’s almost like splitting hairs. You might eke out an inch better performance, but if it doesn’t work out you potentially lose on both recruits (one doesn’t perform as expected and the other leaves). There is a certain risk they are taking on for an unclear benefit. Of course, they’re PSU so they’re not going to have a problem stocking up on talent. So it’s not like they’re at risk of dropping to 5th place or something.

I suppose the other possibility is Ryder was already on the way out and that’s why they brought in Welsh.

The get Welsh but lose Ryder. These two seem like a wash to me. Even if Welsh ends up with slightly better results, points wise at NCAAs, there is very little difference. The flip scenario is Ryder is better than Welsh. Then the staff looks pretty short sighted here. Maybe even more important in this what it does to team cohesiveness. Just a few days ago before all this transfer stuff Starocci tweeted something in support of Ryder. That obviously didn’t work out. i get bringing someone in for a weight that underperforms PSUs standards, but recruiting over Ryder seems to have much more potential negatives than positives here.

College wrestling is still fun, but becoming less fun

Not much chatter about him. Freshman NCAA champ who I think was the 50th rated recruit. Most freshman champs would betting their own “Potential 4 timer” threads. I don’t know much about him. I’m sure he was good and maybe a bit under the radar coming in, but surprised there isn’t more discussion about him. Maybe one of those guys that just made leaps once he got to a good college room.

I wondered what happened to Yasguirre. He beat Hardy his redshirt year, I believe. And just didn’t look the same this year.

The scenario you lay out would be great, but like you said, very unlikely. I don’t know how old Messenbrink is, but very rare at that stage in life to take over a DI program. And then of course, where do you find big booster money. But more realistically, find a younger coach that Askren is on good terms with. Brandvold seems like the obvious choice. He’s a UW alum and has recruited AWA guys to Minnesota. If you had a guy like him who could recruit only a quarter of the talent the state produces now, you’d have had a number of AAs and a championship or two the last five years or so.

The state of Wisconsin had 4 finalists, 2 of them champs, I believe none of them ever considered UW for school. Just another data point showing what the program could be if they could be recrui in state.

JB is doing a great job of announcing and doing play by play. But please stop trying to pronounce accents of foreign names. It sounds very forced.

Are the Stouts brothers?

The year Trump came to NCAAs and when they asked Starocci about meeting him he said it was really cool and Trump has a big pair of balls.

What happened with him this year? Last year he looked like he was on the verge of being a title contender. Barring injury, I can’t think of someone that looked so good and then had a complete drop off.