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The Big Ten schedule is tough, but competitive balance and conference realignments have changed over time in addition to scheduling practices of the top programs. It was the Big 8 back when Smith wrestled and his first three years the Big Ten was actually a 10 team conference - no PSU, no Nebraska, no Rutgers, and no Maryland neither. OSU wrestled the best team in the Big Ten, Iowa, every year. I don't think he would gain anything from a Big Ten schedule. A similar argument could be made of Sanderson. It was the Big 12 during his career and the Big Ten was the original 10 plus Penn State, but the Big 12 was just as competitive. ISU, OSU, OU, and Nebraska were all top 10 teams at that time. Just as tough as the Big 10 and ISU always wrestled at least Iowa. Comparing the most recent 4xers to the past 4xers you need to look at the difference in scheduling. Today PSU doesn't schedule any in season tournaments for their starters and hasn't participated in the National Duals during the careers of either Aaron Brooks or Carter Starocci. The only time either wrestled in one of the top in-season tournament (CKLV, Midlands, Southern Scuffle) was when they were competing unattached. Brooks DNPed at Midlands his greyshirt year and Starocci won the Scuffle his redshirt year in a rather weak field. They are the only 4xers without a win at one of these tournaments on their official NCAA record. The difference in scheduling also had them wrestling fewer matches overall. Brooks and Starocci have far and away the fewest career matches of the 4xers and they both wrestled 5 official seasons. It's hard to give Brooks and Starocci bonus points for a Big Ten schedule when they also had the easiest tournament schedule and the fewest overall matches. They didn't run the table at their conference tournament either. Brooks won 4/5 times at Big Tens and Starocci only 3/5. All the other 4xers were 4/4 except Dake (3/4).

Perhaps Haselrig won the espior or university national title at Greco Roman in 1985 and freestyle in 1986. These are the only international results I was able to find for Haselrig. I wonder if he wrestled Karelin in 1985.

That makes sense for k-12, but who would administer the FAFSA and associated aid in such a system? Musk had said of the Department of Education that “No such department exists in the federal government” seeming to indicate that the ED wouldn't be around to do that.

How is this relevant? The match took place Maple's senior year. Maybe it's more impressive than beating Maple, but that's not really the point and it's not so much that it is a chack against Starocci as it is a chack for Stieber. Stieber could have wrestled Devin Carter at the All-Star match and maybe retrospectively that would look like a more difficult match, but at the time he chose to go up and challenge the returning national champion. It was a risk to make a match we weren't going to happen otherwise. To me that's a point for Stieber. Sure Keckeisen is a tough match, but it's a match we are expecting to see at NCAAs. Stieber ended up beating Carter in the NCAA final, so there really shouldn't be any regret on him passing on that match at the All Star Classic to challenge Maple. Carter lost to Tony Ramos who was also wrestling up in the 141lb match at the All Star Classic. Stieber was undefeated in his career against Carter, Ramos, and Maple. He took the most challenging/interesting match. To me Ferrari plays into this in that Starocci clearly had the chance to make this match and did not. That's a chack against him in comparison to Stieber who did the opposite when presented with a similar opportunity. Stieber could have stayed at 141 and called out Maple to drop, but even that would have made more sense than what Starocci did. Maple had made 141 less than a year prior. Ferrari last competed at 184lbs never. To just about everyone it is clear why Ferrari didn't take the offer - he could not make 184lbs. I am sure he was not certified to compete at 184 this season. It was a non-offer. I think you're right that Ferrari skipping dates this year was somewhat related to the Starocci-Ferrari all star match not happening. He likely skipped dates because he has trouble making 197lbs!

After sifting through the sites related to the actual DOE (Department of Energy).

Lol to me that was this response If this were referring to the Department of Education, ED, then the conclusion isn't true. A majority of the ED's budget goes to Federal Aid programs for higher education - college grants, loans, work-study funds, ect. The second largest item is grants to K-12 schools. The ED also directly funds a few institutions like Gallaudet University and the NTID. If the ED ceased to exist and all that funding went away many people who teach both at the college and primary/secondary education schools would lose their jobs. The money to pay them would have gone with the ED. Enrollment would drop off at universities across the country as many student could not afford to go. Some Universities would fail and others would have layoffs. You can't really replace the $160 billion the ED puts into colleges and universities with additional tuition. Even if you could at a minimum Gaulladet and the NTID would face massive cuts in staff.

Why don't you try searching for the Department of Education's actual abbreviation, ED?

A distinguishing trait that Dake, Diakomihalis and Smith have over Starocci is winning an NCAA title as a true freshman. Starocci did not do this. Winning the next year as a redshirt freshman over a guy who did not win the previous year is not the same thing.

Top hit is www.energy.gov. Second is the wikipedia page for the Department of Energy. The Department of Education website, www.ed.gov, appears at #4 where the description uses the correct abbreviation, "Learn About the Department of Education. ED is America's education agency."

The Department of Energy, being the older department, had dibs on DOE as their official abbreviation. The Department of Education had to settle for the far less desirable ED as their official abbreviation.

Department of Energy? Why would they?

Winning 4 is pretty unique it will be hard for a wrestler to win 4 in a way that is head and shoulders above all other 4xers. Especially given that one has done it undefeated. Undefeated without a redshirt is pretty much the only route. Diakomihalis, Smith and Dake all won as true freshman. Starocci didn't compete as a true freshman and it would be a stretch to hand him the title that year given how close he was with Kemmerer a year later. Diakomihalis and Stieber had returning NCAAs at their weight their freshman year at NCAAs. Diakomihalis defeated 2x champ Dean Heil and Stieber bested returning champ Jordan Oliver. Both are better than the average NCAA champ. Others had more freestyle success in college than Starocci. Diakomihalis probably leads the way here. He made a world team and won a world silver in college. He also lost in the trials finals one other time. Stieber had a junior world silver. Aaron Brooks had a junior world silver and a U23 gold. He also lost to Taylor in the trials finals for the senior world spot. Starocci's biggest freestyle accomplishment to date is a U23 bronze. He also finished 3rd at the trials 3x and had some nice wins along the way (Nolf, Dieringer, Marsteller, Downey, ect.). Dake, Brooks, and Stieber all won Hodge trophies. It is still possible for Starocci to accomplish this. Logan Stieber had won NCAAs at 133 in 2013 then moved up to 141 for the 2013-2014 season. Kendrick Maple had won NCAAs in 2013 at 141 and had moved up to 149 for the 2013-2014 season. With little to no smack talk preceding the event Stieber went up to 149 and beat Maple at the 2013 NWCA All Star classic. Conversely, Starocci ran his mouth in the direction of AJ Ferrari for the better part of a year initially saying he was moving up to beat him/piss on his grave/whatever before pivoting to try and get him to cut weight and wrestle him at weight lower than Ferrari has wrestled in college at the 2024 NWCA All Star Classic. Ultimately Ferrari didn't cut to the weight that I am sure he wasn't even certified to make and Starocci defeated Parker Keckeisen at the 2024 NWCA All Star Classic.

Do we have it backwards though? Owings cut weight to face Gable, right?

Larry Owings.

It will take some time to understand the significance of those matches. The two freshman haven't been beaten by anyone else. Wins over them could enhance his already impressive resume. Logan Stieber lost to a true freshman his senior year. That freshman went on to win 3 NCAA titles and two Hoge awards.

I wouldn't say that. There are certainly bad implementations and situations where it is inappropriate, but I think it serves a valuable purpose in some instances. For example in the criminal justice system there is a concept of being judge by a jury of ones peers. I think getting a jury that matches the demographics of the community is seen as important to a lot of people from both political parties for good reason. The problem with pork is that it comes from Congress which will mean that DOGE will have limited ability to stop it. It's also practiced by both parties so Trump will face backlash from some Republicans by trimming it. USAID spends big money buying food grown on US farms to send as aid to other countries. Eliminating it will hurt a lot of farmers is red parts of the country. I can't imagine anyone complaining if DOGE was able to figure out where the DOD's money was going. It just wouldn't make sense for anyone to complain about the DOD finally completing an audit. What would the complaint be? We were better off not knowing? That wouldn't make sense. Maybe that it wasn't worth the cost if DOGE runs up huge bills to get it done, but at the same time it's a huge task that's never been done before.

The only Truck featured in the commercial was the Cyber Truck. That is eligible for the $7500 tax credit, but It costs like $80k. I doubt you'd be able to find an off the shelf stock rack for it. You could build a custom one. Might have better luck with either a Ford F150 lightning or the Rivian R1T if you're looking for an electric pickup. They are mode tradition pickup shapes so possibly more stock rack options.

Not sure I like the strategy. DEI spending is likely a small fraction of overall waste. Doesn't it often manifest in hiring decisions rather than an outlay of cash to be cut? Eliminating that doesn't seem like it would address the deficit in a meaningful way. I would think that getting the DOD to pass an audit would have bipartisan support. They also have the largest budget of any agency so you might make some meaningful progress in trimming the deficit. A success there could improve DOGEs approval and give them more rope to work with either to fight the DEI culture war or address SSA and Medicare spending.

That is only possible if no frivolous fraud exists in the military. How can anyone be sure of that when the DOD cannot pass an audit?

It's the Tesla Model 3. It costs $42,490 but after a $7500 tax credit you can get it for $34,990. https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview

Did you miss the ad filmed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? I hear you can buy a Tesla as low as $35,000 after government incentives.

Did you factor in the savings from the credit cards? Can't spend money without the credit cards!

You're ignoring the revenue from the new tariffs.

Not really. After DOGE cuts $2 Trillion is waste, fraud, and abuse from the budget there will be a surplus. Then after money from these new tariffs starts to roll in there will be a super surplus.

You wrote post season not NCAA championship "A wrestler may compete in 5 post seasons if one of those were the 2021 championships unless they competed in the 2020 championships." The conference tournament is part of the post season.